Quantum Breakrepresents the next evolution of the Finnish studio’s philosophy, an Xbox One exclusive action shooter that blends in a live-action component that is influenced by player choices throughout the game. Many of the finer details remain murky at this point, but we walked awa...
terrifying enormity of Paul’s plan present themselves gradually through cutscenes, found documents and video, the rather intrusive voiceover narrative, and the live-action show. The game doesn’t quite stick the landing
While Quantum Break largely looks gorgeous – its clean, glossy design and refracted time-effects make for an effervescent visual ride – it does stumble. I discovered one particularly unpleasant lighting bug along the way that delivered a long-term, full-screen strobe effect that rendered chunks ...
Quantum Break is a unique videogame/live-action TV show hybrid that features dazzling visual effects and presentation. Even though its gameplay falls a bit short the whole package is probably worth experiencing -- just maybe not at full price.
GREG LOUDEN (senior narrative designer): During pre-production onQuantum Breakthere was a goal to create this key set-piece action sequence with a ship crashing into a lift-bridge that would then freeze during a stutter in time, forcing the player to navigate the scene and escape. The premis...
While it's true that gunplay isn't the star of the show in Quantum Break, it deserves better treatment than it's received. When you aren't engaged in combat, you're usually exploring environments that offer narrative clues like documents and emails. These offer a wealth of supplementary inf...
Quantum computers will transform cybersecurity, being able to break the safeguards that secure our credit-card information when we order food via Grubhub. Yet most consumers don’t know what safeguards are protecting us. We simply trust that safeguards exist. How they look under the hood will ch...
The second quantum revolution, which may lead to a major technological breakthrough in science and technology with the creation of quantum computers, was the term coined by the French physicist Alain Aspect to describe changes in physics, the beginnings of which date back to the 1960s. To ...
It’s the narrative equivalent of the uncanny valley. The more real you to try to make the presentation, the clearer the inconsistencies become. Nonetheless, I went into Quantum Break not quite sure how it worked, and not all that interested in another time travel yarn. But I’d forgotten...
” Like with all the other categories, the answer is that we should recognize the fan work that was the most popular in a given year. Yes, platform will effect that a lot. Money will effect that a lot. But unless we’re going to seek to correct for wealth, access, and privilege ...