14 DAY TRIAL // The upcoming Unreal Engine 4-powered PlayStation 4 exclusive title Without Memory, coming from Russian development studio Dinosaurum Games, has just received an official electronic home in the form of a brand new website.
Even though the Without Memory website is currently only available in Russian, the devs stated that an English update is scheduled to arrive shortly.
Until it does, here's the scoop: the project is described as a third-person interactive thriller, which the developers openly admit is heavily influenced by the works of French studio Quantic Dream. The game has currently left the concept phase and entered active development a week ago, and Dinosaurum Games is looking at a Q2 2016 prospective release date.
The title will feature modern, realistic graphics with detailed facial animations, with photorealistic imagery and a unique interactive storyline with multiple endings. Without Memory will be focused on investigations and narrative, with lots of puzzles to solve and tasks to accomplish, and is designed as a single-player only experience.
The developer further informed that Without Memory's gameplay will be divided between the exploration of the world, interactive sequences featuring quick time events implemented in a unique and novel way, and branching dialogue and puzzle-solving.
The main strength of the upcoming title will be its interactive storyline, with the focus being on player choice and the ability of gamers to radically influence the course of events by actions taken (such as being detected or not during stealth sequences) and choices made in dialogue trees.
Dinosaurum Games now numbers over 50 developers, most of which experienced PC games developers, and also features a motion capture studio with state of the art Vicon cameras, which will be used to create the upcoming game's animations.
The studio has only released a couple of concept art pieces so far, specifying that they are just that, and not representative of the final quality of the game and graphics direction taken, as Without Memory aims to deliver a photorealistic experience.
The first screenshots from the actual game will be released sometime during the summer, and the first teaser trailer is scheduled to arrive at GDC Europe, in August.
Heavy Rain received universal acclaim when it came out, being regarded as a remarkable achievement in experimental gaming, its thrilling interactive experiences being praised as very emotionally engaging, which is considered the main reason why the game's completion rate among buyers stands much higher than the global industry average.
Hopefully, Dinosaurum Game will rise to the challenge and provide similarly engaging experience.
