Deadlight

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Chris Watters journeys through the post-apocalyptic Northwest in this video review for Deadlight. Deadlight First Released Aug 1, released. Convinced that his family is at the Safe Point, he is accompanied by fellow park ranger, Ben.

After arriving in the city, they joined with a group of three other people; a police officer named Sam, and twin sisters, Stella and Karla. As the game begins, Wayne has just shot Karla in the head, as she had been bitten and was about to turn into a Shadow. As Ben, Sam and Stella return to the warehouse in which they are sheltering, the building is attacked by Shadows, drawn by the gunfire.

The trio flee through a skylight , but the ladder breaks before Wayne can follow, and he tells them to head to the Safe Point, where he will meet them. Wayne leaves the warehouse and sets out across the city. He soon learns of a violent militia group calling itself the "New Law", who kill anyone who won't join them.

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After finding Sam's van crashed, Wayne finds Sam in a nearby shop, seriously wounded, and bleeding to death. He tells Wayne the Safe Point is actually a trap set up by the New Law, hoping to lure in survivors, so they can kill them and take any supplies they may have. After Sam dies, Wayne sets out, determined to rescue his family and friends from the New Law. As he heads towards the Safe Point, he is cornered by a herd of Shadows.

However, before they can attack him, a hand reaches up from a manhole and drags him down into the sewers. Wayne is knocked unconscious, and experiences flashbacks of his life before the outbreak, mingled with vague memories of returning to his home upon the onset of the Shadows. Waking up in the sewers, he meets the "Rat"; an old man who has turned the sewer system into an elaborate series of booby traps to protect himself from both Shadows and the New Law. The Rat tells Wayne if he can make it through the traps, he will help him find his friends.

When Wayne does so, the Rat tells him that his teenage son is missing, and asks Wayne to find him, promising him that if he does so, the Rat will search for information on Wayne's family and friends. Wayne agrees and sets out to search for the boy, although he continues to have distracting visions of his daughter.

After crashing a van, Wayne is contacted via radio by an unknown person, who guides him to safety on the rooftop of a nearby building. The person is the Rat's son, who was looking for food when he was attacked by the New Law. As Wayne and the boy talk, a New Law helicopter appears, opening fire on them.

However, he was unable to find any information on Wayne's family. Wayne heads to the stadium, where he finds Ben being tortured by the New Law, who leave a Shadow to kill him. After acquiring medical supplies for Ben, they head to the Safe Point via a stolen New Law helicopter. However, en route, Ben loses consciousness and the helicopter crashes. Ben is killed, but Wayne survives, and, after another confusing memory of the last day he saw his family, makes it to the Safe Point.

After rescuing Stella, in order to cover their escape, Wayne turns off the power generator , allowing the Shadows to penetrate the facility. In the chaos, Wayne and Stella escape to a dock , but are cornered by a group of Shadows.

Stella pleads with Wayne to kill her, causing him to recall a repressed memory ; upon returning to his home after the outbreak, he found he had only two bullets in his gun. With the house under siege from Shadows, Shannon pleaded with him to kill her and Lydia. With great reluctance, Wayne did so. Having remembered the incident, he refuses to repeat it by killing Stella, instead telling her she must survive and never give up hope. He breaks the wood of the dock, allowing Stella to make it to a nearby sailboat and drift away.

Wayne apologizes to his deceased daughter, who appears in front of him, as he laments he should have died with her. However, he is happy they will be together again soon. As the Shadows race towards him, Wayne accepts his fate. In a PC-exclusive alternate ending, unlockable by completing "Nightmare" mode, it is revealed Wayne is a deranged murderer. As he and Stella attempt to board the boat, Stella recognises Wayne is wearing Karla's necklace. She pushes him away, and he falls, smashing his head against a post.

He remembers he killed Karla even though she wasn't bitten, he smothered Sam upon finding him uninjured in the shop, and he choked Ben in the helicopter, causing it to crash. As he lies bleeding to death, he has a vision of Lydia before blacking out. Deadlight was first announced on January 18, as an Xbox Live Arcade exclusive, set for release during the annual Summer of Arcade period.

Microsoft Studios revealed they would publish the game, which was being developed by Tequila Works. Deadlight is like a game from the 80s in many ways, not only in the way it's played, but in its story, its look. This type of dystopian tale of doom and gloom is typical of the period at the end of the 70s and early 80s, typified by the work of comic book artists such as Richard Corben ; the solitary figure that wanders the road living his own personal drama. If you combine that with the typical 80s backdrop, the storyline, the analogical aspects, the gray weather, the feeling of loneliness, with this genre, often seen in the 80s and 90s, like Prince of Persia , Another World , Flashback , cinematic platformers in which the world is a character itself, you achieve something original, a return to the 80s, not just at a narrative or aesthetic level, but at the level of the gameplay itself.

Initially we did the same, recording ourselves on video. For this type of retro game, it was important that the animation was smooth. Characters needed to be dynamic, so we used key frame. If we had used motion capture , the game would have lost that 80s feel. Of the game's graphical style in general, the developers state. All the main game area is harsh-shadow 2D , but the landscape and the background is very detailed, because that's how Randall sees his world; all the characters are shadows of their former selves.

Randall himself is living in a dying world, but this world will keep going without him, so the graphics represent how Randall sees what's happening to him. In relation to the game's artistic style, artist Abel Oroz Vincente states "The artistic aspect of Deadlight is the foundation upon which the game is largely built.

The game is its atmosphere, and the atmosphere is achieved largely thanks to the visuals. The key is in the hyperrealism and the overexposed lighting , which is not hyperrealistic, but we use it as a stylizing tool. So the visual style was inspired by movies from the 80s such as First Blood.

Randall Wayne was named after a character in J. Ballard 's novel Hello America ; the stowaway Wayne. He's just a normal guy with his own problems, weaknesses and fears. The Windows version would feature improved graphics, and a new nightmare difficulty mode, where the player's progress is not saved — they must complete the game in one go, and if they die at any point, they must return to the start.

Published by Deep Silver , the new version features enhanced controls, new animations, and full p resolution. A new gameplay mode, the "Survival Arena", is also included. Deadlight received mixed reviews, with the much less widely reviewed PC version generally seen as superior to the Xbox version. On Metacritic , the Xbox version has an aggregate score of 68 out of , based on seventy-nine reviews, [25] while the PC version has a score of 78 out of , based on seven reviews.

Official Xbox Magazine ' s Francesca Reyes also scored it 8. And that's Deadlight ' s strongest suit: The resulting cocktail is potent.