It utilizes the Crytek engine, so naturally the game will look very nice. Graphically, Rapture looks fairly pleasing. As The Chinese Room has stated before, they do not think lowly of gamers, and feel that we are capable of picking up on subtle messages within the game’s subtext, such as an unstated feeling of loneliness by at least one character, or the neverending love between a couple who have been split for a few years. Going off just audio cues and little else, the player is tasked with experiencing the story of a dozen or so people during their last few moments on this planet. I wouldn’t hesitate to say that Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture is a game that you play to see if your imagination is as good as you think it is. You can tell immediately when any character is happy, sad, angry, or scared.ĭo not go into this Rapture game expecting to see any epic, apocalyptic set pieces there are none. I don’t think the range of emotions experienced in this story could have been any better produced.
Thankfully, the voice acting in Rapture is immaculate. When you play as what is effectively just an observer to a scene, your mind has to fill in some details such as how a person feels based solely on their voice.
While this may be partially due to the fact that The Chinese Room is a smaller developer, I believe it is a genuinely artistic choice done for dramatic effect.
One of the most unique aspects to Rapture is that the in-game characters are never actually seen. Some people may even be jealous by the way that this world ended, because humans have seemingly moved on to something far greater than themselves, while here in the real world humanity’s greater purpose may never be revealed to us. Humanity, and indeed all sentient life, appears to have fused with this entity that is at the center of the story. The story can be seen as one of transcendence. Yet, The Chinese Room did an excellent job at crafting a story that can be interpreted in multiple ways depending on which way you approach it.įor example (okay, some spoilers ahead in this paragraph!), although the world becoming devoid of all but plant life can seem bleak at first glance, there is more to it than that. The entire reason the end of life on Earth is brought about is due to one character’s increasing loneliness. However, I will say that if you don’t hold others in high regard when faced with a crisis situation, then you will probably not like this story very much. Obviously, I will not go into major plot points here, as the story is best when discovered by the gamer themselves.
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