PS4 Horror Game Until Dawn Returns With New Trailer

[Sarah LeBoeuf]

PS4 Horror Game Until Dawn Returns With New Trailer


Eight friends. A remote mountain getaway. What could possibly go wrong?

Supermassive Games' Until Dawn has been in development for years, but we haven't seen much about the horror game since 2012. Now a PS4 exclusive, Until Dawn is set for a 2015 release, with a new trailer premiering tonight at The Game Awards.

Here's how Supermassive's website [http://www.supermassivegames.com/games/until-dawn] describes Until Dawn:

In an unpredictable and dynamically adaptive story, crafted in consultation with Until Dawn scriptwriters and indie horror auteurs Larry Fessenden and Graham Reznick, eight friends come together at a remote mountain getaway and embark upon a night of unexpected terror. Through the course of the night, anyone can live, anyone can die, and things aren't always what they seem. Twists and turns will keep you guessing right to the end as you play each of the friends. The decisions you make on their behalf will determine who survives Until Dawn.

I previewed Until Dawn at New York Comic Con 2012 [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/120109-NYCC-Until-Dawn-Preview] and liked what I saw, but that was back when the game was a PlayStation Move-using PS3 title. Since then, it's seemingly disappeared from news and press events, but as we've seen tonight, Until Dawn is alive, well, and ready to hit the PS4 next year.

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[BloodRed Pixel]

Oh, please not more of this 'narrative Game'-QTE 2.0 bullshit.

If they want games to be like movies, then make a frakking movie, for crying out loud!


PS: and what people define as 'Horror' these days is really a disgrace.
All this torture-porn equals of the same bland, tasteless McDonalds shit.

 

[OldNewNewOld]

My first reaction when I read "horror" was "NOPE!". But then I watched the trailer and it isn't even scary.
Seems like it's a narrative driven game that's basically go to room and pick one of the few choices and hope it's the right one without having and clues if it's right to chose it.
I mean, sure, she was stupid for trying to hide under the bed, I mean, seriously? Hide under the bed in the very next room where you were attacked? Could you make an worse choice? But that aside, I didn't see any clues which choice would be the right one.

I don't own a PS4 so either way I couldn't get it but if it doesn't change and improve a lot over what's show, I don't see this becoming an interesting horror game.

 

[chocolate pickles]

"Shit, a deranged killer is after me! What do I do? I mean I could run but fuck it, this bed in the middle of the room with nothing to cover me should do!"

Actually looks pretty interesting, but that's some atrocious writing, even when the 'Oh, you'd panic in this situation' excuse is used.

 

[exobook]

Probably would have worked better as a pulpy mass up of 1980's horror movies rather than a "serious" horror movie.

Throw in some humour, like the character slams a door in the baddie's face and you might have a game that atleast has a good idea going for it.

 

[BayouStalker]

I can tell the vibe they were going for. The writing is intentionally that cheesy (Or I really hope it is.) It doesn't even seem to be meant to be actually scary so much as a homage to the cheesy slasher movies like old Nightmare and Friday the 13th movies. I could even deal with the sheer ridiculousness of it if it weren't that narrative qte thing. That works for story heavy sort of adventure games to an extent (I don't like it but it saves them big time on designing gameplay I would assume), but not for a splatterhouse thing. Color me bemusedly disappointed.