Beyond Two Souls Review

Beyond Two Souls Review

 

Beyond Two Souls is an interactive drama action-adventure game developed by Quantic Dream a French developer. The actors in the game are Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe, it was first released on the 8^th October 2013 in North America, and the game was only for PlayStation. Also Beyond Two Souls sold 160,000 copies in the first week of its release.

 

Beyond Two Souls is very enjoyable to play but most of the game is made up of cut scenes. Also players can choose when to use the souls in side Jodie (the main character) that is called Aiden, which can control people, kill people or can move objects. I still think that the game is very like a movie; they could of added in more gameplay to make it more like a game instead of a movie. However I like the way payers can choose what directions to go in, they could choose one way which would take them in one direction or choose another way which would take them in another.

 

The story in this game is about Jodie the main character and the player goes back and forth though her lifetime. Jodie has a sprit in side of her, which she cannot control at first but Nathan and Cole the two doctors teach her and help her to control the sprit. She wants break the chain between her and the sprit. Jodie get taken to got and work with the CIA to use her powers to help them do missions that normal people cannot do, but she finds out that she has been lied to and runs away. The CIA give Jodie an offer to do one last job for them and she will be let free to do what ever she wants. After the job the player chooses whether Jodie's new life is alone, with her homeless friends, with the Native Americans, or with Ryan.

 

I found that there is not very much gameplay in this game it is made up of small scene. I found this made the game more like a movie then a game. The parts that were gameplay were really fun by being able to control Aiden that could kill, control people and nock over objects and also being able to use Jodie. The bad thing about the gameplay is that there was not enough of but when there was gameplay it was very enjoyable.

 

The graphics on this game are fantastic they look so realistic. The game uses Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe’s face features in the game to make the characters look like the actors as much as possible and they look just like them. The graphical style is photo-realistic. I think the graphics in this game are amazing the game has got to be one of the best for graphics. There is not really a bad point bout the graphics because they are that good.

 

The sounds in the game come from the background music, which fits in perfectly with the surrounding areas, the sounds effects when danger is close or when using Aiden and when using the powers that Aiden can use make a cool sound effect to show that the player is using the powers. I think the sounds used in this game are really good I don’t think that there could be any improvements.

 

For the replayability in this game there are four different ending, so this will encourage players to play again to complete each different ending. Also there is different object that can be looked and different paths that will send players in different directions to when they played before. This is the same with speaking to people as well, by saying something different will change what happens next. I think this game is really good with the replayability from being able to do four different endings, but players may find the game boring because it is a lot like a movie with the amount of cut scene in it.

 

Overall the game was good fun to play I would definitely play the game again, I found the game to be very interesting and enjoyable to watch and play. The positives in this game are being able to choose different paths to go on, which make it a good game for replayability. The negatives for this game are that it is very like a movie, players are constantly watching the game instead of playing it.