Warning: This article contains some vague spoilers for Alan Wake 2, but you might consider them spoilers nonetheless. There are also a bunch of spoilers for Quantum Break. I admit to being a Quantum Break Enjoyer, despite Remedy's time travel-slash-TV show action game receiving a mixed reaction from just about everyone else on its release (GameSpot awarded it a 6 at the time). Flawed though it might be, Quantum Break still delivers on the things I like about Remedy in general. It's a game with a lot of ambition, expanding on the transmedia ideas of the Max Payne and Alan Wake games, and it's one that puts a serious emphasis on its twisting, obviously well-planned story. As a writer of time travel stories myself, I appreciate it most for the amount of research on display, and the pains of care and accuracy taken to tell a smart sci-fi story with characters who make sense in that framework. I guess I care about Quantum Break because it's clear to me that Remedy did, too. Continue Reading at GameSpot
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