Quantum Break diskutabelt ett av de mer intressanta Xbox One-exklusiva spelen vi har att se fram emot. Det är under utveckling hemma hos finska Remedy, studion bakom klassikern Max Payne och 2010 års Alan Wake, och med detta spelet försöker man stifta äktenskap mellan TV-spel och TV-serier sett till hur berättelsen presenteras.
Tanken är som bekant att man ska spela en episod i själva spelet för att låsa upp en episod av serien och så fortsätter det. I ett samtal med Develop har Remedys Oskari Hakkinen pratat mer om tankegången bakom de val man gjort med spelet. Vi får också en fingervisning om hur långt spelet kommer vara, mer information om integrationen mellan spelet och serien och en hel del annat.
"It was during that time that the big series started to come out with HBO and whatnot, Lost for instance was one where people were buying the boxsets, and then watching the episodes at their own pace. Some are binging through it, some are watching one a day, some are watching one every other day or once a week, but all at their own pace."
"The great thing about it was each episode had its own three act structure and ended on a cliffhanger, which kind of prodded you on to see what happened next. Sam got the idea from that, that this would be a fantastic fit for a video game, especially a video game that has very strong narrative, because we're telling the story over ten plus hours."
Han fortsätter: "The game and the show are designed to be built as one experience, to be experienced as one package. So you play an episode of the game, then you can unlock an episode of the show, play another episode of the game, and unlock another episode of the show, and so on.
"Without telling too much, you'll be looking at two different sides of the coin from a story perspective. In the game you'll be following the story of one theme, in the show you'll be following the story of another theme. These are meshing together to form the whole experience."
Samtidigt erkänner han att alla inte kommer vara sugna på att börja titta på en serie mitt i deras spelsession.
"Obviously we are not naive to the fact that some people may not necessarily want to watch some linear media when they slot out their gaming time. So once it is unlocked, it's unlocked for you to jump in or experience whenever you then so choose. So it could be you catch up on it through your tablet device or your mobile device on the bus to work, and then you get home and you're ready for the next experience."
Hakkinen passar på att prata lite om tekniken som driver Quantum Break också. Han menar att studions nya teknologi tillsammans med kraften från Xbox One ger dem möjlighet att skapa "digitala kopior" av live action-seriens skådespelare.
"When I say we can tell better stories with the new hardware it means better facial animation, better, more realistic characters. In fact we're actually using digital doubles," berättar Hakkinen.
"That's the future of what we have right now. The characters look exactly like the actor. Every performance and every nuance is now captured from motion capture and translated on screen directly. So we're really capturing everything in the facial movements."
Ambitionen och tekniken tycks finnas där för Remedy. Vi hoppas på att spelet kommer bli något alldeles extra. Vad tror Gamereactors läsare om Quantum Break?
