Until Dawn (2015)

Gameplay

The game employs third-person perspective, whereas gameplay resembles what we have seen in Quantic Dream’s Heavy Rain. As you play you take part in story-driven sequences and make various choices as to how to behave: hide or run, attack or sneak past the enemy, etc. Each decision has an impact on how the game progresses, and from time to time the game faces you with big dilemmas that affect the whole story. These moments are signified with a butterfly icon and thus called the Butterfly Effect.

Until Dawn does not forgive mistakes – your choices are always final. If you make a wrong one, resulting in death of one of your characters, there is no way of turning that around. It is even possible to have all of the heroes killed. This results in dozens of different endings, although completing the game once takes about 9 hours.

Technology

Until Dawn for PS4 is powered by the same technology that was used in Killzone: Shadow Fall, hence featuring high quality visuals.

Other information

It is also noteworthy that the story was written in cooperation with two horror movie screenwriters: Larry Fassenden (The Last Winter, Habit) and Graham Reznick (Stake Land, I Can See You). On the other hand, the protagonists were starred by such actors as Rami Malek (Need for Speed, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2), Brett Dalton (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Killing Lincoln), Hayden Panettiere (Heroes, I Love You, Beth Cooper).