From creators of Dear Esther, and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, The Chinese Room is dead set on creating yet another first person art video game, but this time it will incorporate elements from all of their previous games.
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture will be available exclusively for the PlayStation 4 – and most surely they will take advantage of Sony’s architecture to create a beautiful world to get lost in.
Players have the task of discovering where everybody in this little quirky village has disappeared – it’s like they vanished from existence all together. Where did they go? How did they leave this world? And more importantly why?
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture was revealed back in 2013 at Sony’s Gamescom presentation, and the trailer made us think of a post-apocalyptic scenario – goose bumps were all present on our arms. You can also feel the brooding sense of terror that comes paired with the unknown right here.
A new trailer has arisen on YouTube yesterday. It’s not as haunting as the launch one, but it still transports you into a unsettling state. It starts in a children’s class room, where you can see signs of fighting. This trailer is not for those who scare easily – more so, if you it gets stuck in your brain the whole day, you’ll probably go insane obsessing about what is really going on.
Dan Pinchbeck, creative art director in charge of the game, has hinted that it will feel somehow like Bill Murray’s Groundhog Day – ” Imagine reading a novel and you’re really into it, and 30 pages before the end someone comes up and takes it out of your hand and goes, ‘I’m afraid that’s it. Your time’s up.’ “, he said ” It’s an artificial conceit that doesn’t necessarily produce a good player experience.”. After playing an hour in the game, the player will be transported back to the beginning, having a limited time to explore the world and find out a way to solve this mystery.
Dan Pinchbeck has also went out of his way proclaiming the soundtrack to be – “[…] one of the best game soundtracks ever created.”. To be honest, the little track that spans 1 minute and 39 seconds that is available on Soundcloud is just heartbreaking. You can feel it immerse you in the terrifying world of uncertainty. And with their huge success with Dear Esther – the exceptional soundtrack created by Jessica Curry, and the magnificent world you are set in – I have no worries that the guys and girl at The Chinese Room will deliver an extraordinary game.
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is set to be released this Summer, but, as I said before, only for the PlayStation 4. Hopefully we’ll see a port soon for other consoles, and PC.
