Beyond: Two Souls Review - The Digital Fix

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Beyond: Two Souls Review - The Digital Fix

Added: 02.11.2013 16:21 | 2 views | 0 comments

David Cage is gamings auteur. The term was common in Hollywood in the 1970s, with many filmmakers garnering description as such, until Michael Ciminos Heavens Gate took a studio down in its wake. From that point on the auteur was a remnant of the past, with studios and executives wresting some control at least from the directors hands - no matter how successful they were. With Heavy Rain Cage produced his Deer Hunter. This gave him free rein to tackle Beyond: Two Souls creation with complete responsibility resting on his shoulders alone, not the giant shoulders of Sony. Whilst the end result is not akin to that coming from the Heavens Gate disaster, it does lend weight to those who argue against one persons vision, the auteur-like production and more again who will dismiss the assertion that an interactive drama has a place in modern video gaming. The truth is much less black and white than this would suggest but what we have here is a backwards step after 2010s stunning pr...