Sam Barlow, as soon as lead designer on the Silent Hill collection, has now made his identify exploring the traces between movie and gaming with 2015’s Her Story. While we’re nonetheless ready for that video games’ non secular sequel, Telling Lies, he’s simply introduced the discharge date for #WarGames, an interactive six-part programme the place the viewer controls the video feeds, which is able to, apparently, affect your expertise of the collection because it goes on.
It’s described as a “live action interactive series that puts viewers in the middle of a tale about hactivism, modern-day espionage and military intrigue.” Which all must be reminding you of the 1983 Matthew Broderick movie, Wargames. Which this formally licenses.
This time nevertheless we’re seeing it from the attitude of a younger lady known as Kelly, an “ex-military brat” and now a hacktivist. Teaming up with different hackers world wide, she’s trying to deliver peace in an escalating story of who is aware of what, however it certain does appear to be escalating.
Framed as “The series that watches you”, fairly how that may work nonetheless isn’t clear. We know that we are able to select which feeds we’ll watch, and that it’s going to “learn” from this. The “learn” scarequotes their very own, used all through the press launch, simply in case we had been frightened that as some kind of meta-game the collection itself was going to kind right into a sentient AI that tries to deliver concerning the singularity and destroy the world. Although that’d be fairly cool. Quite what this “learning” will do, and the way it will have an effect on the present as an individual watches it, we should discover out come March the 14th, when this all begins.
You’ll be capable to watch it by way of Steam, which is the way you’ll do it, however they’ve additionally arrange offers with Vudu.com, and Barlow’s personal Eko.
Don’t go considering that is an unique thought although, as a result of I for one keep in mind 1988’s What’s Your Story with Sylvester McCoy. Except in that one, center class kids managed the story.
PS. Wargames, the unique movie, was a bit garbage truly.
