Other changes for the next gen version, which is currently only available digitally, are limited to the ability to play the story in chronological order from the start and Telltale Games style chapter endings where you get to see what other players chose to do. Although the higher resolution can exacerbate the uncanny valley effect, where it sometimes feels like you’re watching the Madame Tussauds versions of the actors rather than the real thing. The result is impressive even by the standards of games made for the PlayStation 4 from the ground up. The PlayStation 4 version increases the native resolution to 1080p, and improves the lighting and other effects. Page is helped by the equally phenomenal graphics, which were amongst the best of the last generation – both in terms of the facial animation and the varied backdrops.
It really is an astonishing example of performance capture and elevates the material well beyond its worth. There are four main time periods: Jodie as an eight-year-old girl being looked after by foster parents and a government scientist played by William Dafoe, Jodie’s teenage years at the same facility, her inexplicably bizarre recruitment by the CIA to work as an astral-projecting assassin, and her time on the run from her former employees.Īctually, there may be far more than that but you’ll probably never notice thanks to the impressively committed performance from Ellen Page as Jodie. The game’s story is told in flashback, but not in chronological order as Jodie tries to piece back her memories after the main events of the game. You play both roles though, controlling Aiden from a first person view where he can effortlessly float through walls and interact with highlighted objects – but only within a short distance of Jodie. Jodie doesn’t know who or what ‘Aiden’ is and, it’s implied, neither does Aiden. She has a mysterious poltergeist-like companion who’s been with her since birth and is fiercely, and jealously, protective of her. Now available for the PlayStation 4, with even better graphics, the basic premise of the story involves a troubled young woman named Jodie.
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