Preview Remember Me (PS3/ XBOX360)

A futuristic game of riddles memory Remember Me It attracted my attention last summer, and all this time I wanted to try it yourself. The game is about a girl voruyuschey memories in Paris grim version of the future? It sounds great. And, at a recent press event Capcom in San Francisco, I finally managed to play the demo version, consisting of the first two chapters of the draft of approximately an hour. So, before you are five things you should know about Remember Me.



Action Remember Me It is set in the Neo-Paris, a fantasy world in which everything and everyone are under constant control of the government, and where memory plays a huge role. Although the publisher acts Capcom, The game is created by the French from Dontnod, and eye catches the European style art design.Above each resident of Neo-Paris hovers virtual "node", his appearance reminiscent of augmented reality for transmitting memories.This technological breakthrough has generated a lot of intrigue and manipulation, including through a change in espionage memory. The main character, Nilin, one of these "hunters memory", at the beginning of the game wakes up on the outskirts of the metropolis and, ironically, can not remember how it ended up.



Neo-Paris resembles a collection of science fiction stories - beautiful rich areas are sparkling crystal-clear, and a step away from the slums are located inhabited freaks, who, according to thearound, completely lost his memory. This mixture is similar simultaneously on Fifth Element, Special opinion, and even a bunch of other fiction, but at the same time continues to delight and surprise, especially on the background of gray-brown hopeless future of other video games.

Above each object environment emerges some information and color scheme and overall design creation conciseness reminiscent of austere city of Mirror's Edge.As I wandered through the Neo-Paris, I always wanted to know more about the place, and the music supports this sentiment.This video was recorded by me during the passage, showing an episode in which Nilin first enters from poor neighborhoods in the central regions (since Kotaku does not allow embedding video in a video news given by VG247 - approx. Interpreter).





The most interesting idea in Remember Me it seemed to me that the main character is able to "break" in the wrong memories and rebuild them for their own purposes.In the episode with the change memory, in which I was able to play, bounty hunter / spy / someone there named Olga attacked Nilin, and I had to get to her in thought, to make friendly. These scenes are great in concept, but not so amazing gameplay.

The guys from Capcom would not let me record video, but the guys from VG24 / 7 previously laid his passing this point.These sections play like a Rube Goldberg Machine or old quest - find a solution by trial and error.Quite unusually rewinding the wrong memories back and forth trying to find the right set of modifications, but the game does not allow full play to their imagination. However, I do not know how the situation will change closer to the middle of the campaign.



I rewrote the thought of Olga, so that instead of memories of a sick husband for money for the operation which it has agreed to eliminate Nilin, in her imagination, her husband went mad, attacked doctors andHe kills himself. Immediately I moved back to the present, where Olga in an instant became a man with a different set of memories (of course, remains a mystery how it will behave, if he knew what I did to her).

This idea has great potential for the story - I bet that part of the memories implanted Nilin sure (I would not be surprised if a partner from the beginning of the game turned out to be a villain, becausethat, you know, there is a video game). However, the work memory is something more than an excuse to enter into the history of a couple of unexpected turns and jumps and fights dilute third gameplay mechanics.

In some moments of the game, you can download "ghost" another character to sdela his actions in the past, using the memories.In the episode in which I played Nilin use the memory of another hunter who had already break into the building, you want to get into character.It is a curious idea, but hardly the creators will be able to do something more original than "follow the ghost of the guy that you did not notice." However, again, the scene in which I played was more training. It includes stealth following of "ghost" and some acrobatics.





It is difficult, looking at shaved brutal heroes most ambitious projects, not much to the game about someone thinner prescribed.Nilin is such a case - a smart and strong woman without unrealistic proportions, or too revealing clothing.It is also interesting animation - movement dry and polished, and in general the opportunity to play not for short-haired, dark-haired gloomy pitching is good (although dull replica enemies like"Like pushy girl?" During the battle began to bore me, I hope that Dontnod polish this part of the game before the release).

I hope that history will Nilin equally fascinating how the world around her - and it looks like my hopes not be in vain.In the episode in which I played, she behaved like a confused and aggressive person, lost his memory, because she was confused and aggressive man who lost his memory.It's rare these days to meet the protagonist, which would like to know more, and Nilin - a pleasant exception to the rule.



From all what you can tell, you choose a system upgrade? Five things you remember? Yes, but ... this is because the system upgrades in Remember Me truly remarkable.

When Nilin reaches a new level, it can open new "pressing" for combat.This is a fairly unusual system - we have a few combos Nilin, built on a rhythmic clicking on the X and Y, but you can assign a different color, or "click" buttons.Yellow "press" will increase the health and "red" - increases damage to enemies. Violet "press" adds concentration that allows Nilin perform specific movements.

So, if you are using a combo with red, two yellow, red and purple again modifiers, you will inflict a powerful attack, restore health, struck again, and then concentrateYou make another combo. I was able to record a video of how it works - it's pretty interesting. I do not know how this system develops, in my demo was only two such combo.However, if the authors have enough imagination to interesting improvements boring system upgrades will no longer be such.





Gameplay Remember Me just seems familiar and understandable. Virtually the entire episode, in which I played, composed of acrobatics and fighting.Acrobatics almost exactly to a tee repeating Uncharted - Nilin deftly jump on ledges, pipes and ladders (in fact, the system is more like Enslaved:Odyssey to the West, to be more precise, although that, in turn, looked like a copy of Uncharted on Unreal). Recorded video shows me how the platforming - as I said, is not new mechanics.

The combat system, in turn, borrows a lot of games in the series Arkham: Nilin makes intricate combos and evade attacks just like Batman.Despite the resemblance, I got the impression that the game does not have the zest that made Arkham game series so exciting.Enemies were rather weak and all the bouts were reduced to one and the same method and the constant re-rolling, though the battles lacked the ease and smoothness of the prototype.Not that I was bored, but the games in the series Arkham still made at a different level. But then again, I'm talking about only the first hour of the game, so most of the fights were part of the training. I managed to open a small fraction Nilin ability, and perhaps later the situation will change drastically.

Typically, you give an indication of "destroy the enemies," you listen to a joke bursts of thugs in front and methodically press on a button over and over again until Nilin not make super-movement, which will allowwin. It's still not bad, but a little rustic and quickly bored, at least in those scenes that I saw.



Remember Me It can not be called a revelation in terms of gameplay, but it is still fascinating and beautiful. And, as I mentioned, the more I traveled the world game, the more I wanted to know more details.



In general, Remember MeThe mixture Uncharted and Arkham Asylum in the style Mirror's Edge and with the original idea of ​​a separate opinion. Despite the questions to the individual aspects of the project - in particular, to how the story will evolve and change any combat system, I liked it so much that I want to play - and this is important.

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