14 DAY TRIAL // Hayden Panettiere might be the most recognizable face in Until Dawn although the recent success of Mr. Robot means that Rami Malek is also a known actor, and Brett Dalton from Agent of SHIELD is also a comic book fan favorite.
The rest of the core cast is made up of Peter Stormare, Meaghan Martin, Nichole Bloom, Jordan Fisher, Galadriel Stineman (real name), and Noah Fleiss.
One of the best ideas that the development team at Supermassive Games and publisher Sony had when creating Until Dawn was to get some solid young actors and to then use very good facial and motion capture tech in order to integrate them into the world of the horror game.
There are many similarities between Until Dawn and the series that Telltale Game is creating, especially when it comes to choices, but the focus on realism makes the PS4 game more engaging and immersive.
I actually saw the choices that I was making as important and I was trying to use the limited time the game offered to decide which of the offered decisions is more suited to the general outlook of the characters.
Over-the-top violence feels a little out of place
With the developers at Supermassive Games so in love with classic horror tropes, it's inevitable that at some point Until Dawn will deliver scenes that deliver over-the-top violence and a very close look at dead human bodies.
This is where the cast no longer serves the game in any interesting way because there's no time for them to further develop their characters and to deliver emotion when the player needs to deal with action scenes and QTEs.
I really wanted to see the various actors express themselves, especially as a group, because this is the side of Until Dawn that feels like a sign of what the future of the horror game might look like on the PlayStation 4.
Rami Malek is the only one of the cast who gets some interesting (although mostly predictable) twists as the game progresses, but even the Mr. Robot star does not have the space to do anything truly innovative with his character.