Firewatch - PS4

ESRB Rating: M (Mature)
Release Date: 2-9-2016
Moby Score (1-10): 7.4
Genre(s): Adventure, 1st-person, Direct control, North America
Media Type(s): Physical

Reviews

“Firewatch is a rare and beautiful creation, that expands the possibilities for how a narrative game can be presented, without bombast or gimmick.”

Rock, Paper, Shotgun

“Firewatch, then – on the strength of its gripping story, brilliant branching script, wholly convincing voice-acting performances, and stunning art direction – is easily one of my favorite and most memorable game experiences of this decade.”

9.3 – IGN

“Gorgeous and clever, Campo Santo's debut is a triumph of craft.”

Eurogamer

Ãœber dieses Spiel

Wir schreiben das Jahr 1989. Sie sind ein Mann namens Henry, der sich aus seinem chaotischen Leben zurückgezogen hat, um als Brandwächter in der Wildnis Wyomings tätig zu sein. Hoch oben auf einem Berg stationiert, ist es Ihre Aufgabe, nach Rauch Ausschau zu halten und für die Sicherheit der Wildnis zu sorgen. Ein besonders heißer und trockener Sommer führt allerorts zu Besorgnis. Ihr Supervisor, eine Frau namens Delilah, steht Ihnen über ein kleines Handfunkgerät jederzeit zur Verfügung—Ihr einziger Kontakt zu der Welt, die Sie hinter sich gelassen haben. Als Sie etwas Seltsames aus Ihrem Aussichtsturm lockt, eröffnet sich Ihnen eine wilde und unbekannte Welt, die Sie vor viele Fragen und Entscheidungen stellt, die Ihre einzig sinnvolle Beziehung aufbauen oder zerstören kann.

Ein Hinweis: Firewatch is a video game about adults having adult conversations about adult things. If you plan on playing with a younger gamer, that might be good to know going in.

Beinhaltet

• Eine atemberaubend schöne Wildnisumwelt, die sich mit jedem Schritt, den Sie tun, ausweitet.
• Eine maßgeschneiderte Storyline: Jede Ihrer Entscheidungen beeinflusst die Geschichte und Ihre Beziehungen.
• Ein spannungsgeladenes Mysterium.
• Geheimnisse und Entdeckungen, die hinter jedem neuen Hügel auf Sie warten.

Merkmale

• Lebendige, atmende Figuren, zum Leben erweckt durch Cissy Jones (The Walking Dead: Season 1) und Rich Sommer (Mad Men)
• Eine spektakuläre Wildnisumwelt von Olly Moss (Illustrator) und Jane Ng (The Cave, Brutal Legend)
• Eine Geschichte und ein Drehbuch voller Spannung von Sean Vanaman und Jake Rodkin (The Walking Dead: Season 1, Poker Night at the Inventory)
• Ein mitreißender Originalsoundtrack von Chris Remo (Gone Home, Spacebase DF-9)
• Fließende Animationen aus der Ich-Perspektive von James Benson (Ori & the Blind Forest)
• Gameplay-Script- und Designarbeit von Patrick Ewing (Twitter) und Nels Anderson (Mark of the Ninja)
• Programmierung von Will Armstrong (Bioshock II) und Ben Burbank (Costume Quest 2, Spacebase DF-9)

„Firewatch“ ist ein Markenzeichen und Copyright von Campo Santo 2016.

Firewatch is a narrative-driven game played from a first-person perspective and set in 1989. The protagonist is Henry, a man in his forties, who takes on the solitary job of manning a firewatch lookout in the secluded wilderness of Two Forks Lookout Area in Wyoming. However, the game starts fourteen years earlier, in Boulder, Colorado, in 1975. The first minutes of the game are largely text-based and explain how Henry met his wife Julia and what led him to the job on his own many years later. The player can choose between different responses to help shape Henry's background.

The game takes place over the course of about 79 days, but only a small amount of days are an actual part of the game. The Two Forks Lookout is Henry's home and the place where most days start. Almost all conversations in the game are done using a portable radio with his supervisor Delilah who is also in a tower, Thorofare Lookout, a mountain over. When she talks to Henry, there are often multiple answers to choose from that shape their relationship. The player chooses to have Henry divulge much of his personal life and react affectionately towards her, or keeps it neutral. The choices often influence how she will react in the future. At the same time, not replying or using silence is almost always an option and also leads to a different effect. A small vertical bar shows the amount of time left before 'silence' is chosen as an option. In return, almost any object or event can be used as a basis to talk to Delilah through a radio icon, but it always up to the player to initiate such a conversation or to have Henry keep it to himself.

Almost right away the entire game world can be explored freely. Henry carries a map that shows his current position, along with the important paths and locations, and he also uses a compass. There are several cache boxes with items and smaller maps that can be used to update Henry's map. Many items, in the tower and outside, are interactive. Even though there is no inventory or puzzles to solve, except for locating certain people or items using the map, many things can be picked up and examined closely, or be thrown away. It is also possible to zoom, both using the map and in the game world. Henry can run, remove certain overgrowth to clear a path, move over obstacles, jump down, and use ropes to rappel. Even though there is free exploration, the game itself is entirely linear based on a series of tasks and sudden occurrences. Henry can nevertheless handle them or react to them in many different ways, shaping his character. Delilah generally steers Henry in the right direction, but there are also often audiovisual clues in the environment. Smaller interactive elements are most often not indicated and it is up to the player to discover them. Most of the gameplay is based on exploration and the conversations with Delilah.

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