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POSTED 5/4/16
QUANTUM BREAK
Remedy Entertainment/Microsoft Studios
   
I’ve got to get to you first, it’s just a question of - BZZTDT!
...keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ - BZZTDT! You may have broken
a watch, you may have broken a clock, but it’s a reasonable
certainty that you’ve never broken - BZZTDT!
...is on my side -
BZZTDT!
Quantum Break, the latest
from the Alan Wake people who aren’t actually Alan Wake,
and couldn’t be anyway as he’s a fictional entity, is an on-rails
sci-fi combination of seek ’em up adventure and third-person shooter.
Imagine if latter day Lara Croft shagged Nathan Drake and their baby
plopped out in TV’s Fringe and you’ll have an inkling as to
what kind of - BZZTDT!
When you can’t find the music to get
down and boogie, all you can do is step back in - BZZTDT!
That
description back there – or possibly forwards - BZZTDT!
...is
running out, you can’t push it underground, you can’t stop it
screaming out - BZZTDT!
...is apt, especially as Quantum
Break stars TV people you’ve actually seen before, be they
Shawn Ashmore (The Following), as the main protagonist Jack
Joyce, Dominic Monaghan (Lost) as his brother, Aidan Gillen
(Game of Thrones) as a briefly controllable interlude
baddie bloke
or Lance Reddick (The Wire). You play a section, you get a
20 or so minute TV episode that varies depending upon your
in-game choices, then get playing again and again and again and aga-
BZZTDT!
Outbreaks of shooting, which use standard weaponry as
well as various bendings of - BZZTDT!
...you challenge
me for a reason - BZZTDT!
...are slick and intuitive as
you battle corporate arseholedom. But balancing is uneven throughout
– none worse than in the final confrontation, where difficulty
suddenly spikes ridiculously in a miasma of utter WTFiniess -
BZZTDT!
...and I know that I’m the most inept that ever slept
- BZZTDT!
This patchiness diminishes Quantum
Break’s impact as an otherwise quite spectacular experience.
In - BZZTDT!
...we could have been so much more, but - BZZTDT!
  
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