BEHOLDER 2 PC GAME PLUS
The pre-order price is excellent at around $20 for PS Plus members and $25 for non-members.
If you love unique graphics, Orwellian or Soviet-era literature, dark comedy, and torturing your co-workers, then Beholder Two will keep you entertained for a good 10-15 hours. You constantly feel pressure to pay bills, buy items, and have spare cash to bribe officials when you are caught being devious. It just didn’t seem smooth enough as I tried to interact with other characters and navigate my way throughout the games rooms and buildings.įor all intent and purposes, Warm Lamp games have done a fantastic job with reinventing and upgrading Beholder 2 compared to its prequel. My only other complaint would be the sticky controls on the PS4. The game can feel slow-paced, although the story does move on reasonably quickly. Civil rights are none existent, everybody is out for themselves, and you’ll meet plenty of interesting and mean characters as you climb the corporate ladder.Īlthough I found the story interesting, I found the workplace tasks repetitive and annoying at times. In a state where employees that fail to perform are launched into a paper shredder, merely stamping a letter in a certain way can see Evan send a citizen to face the firing squad. Will you become a responsible and respected officer decorated by the Wise Leader himself? Or perhaps an irresponsible careerist hard set on destroying anyone who stands in your way? Or maybe you’ll stir the pot throughout the game, mentally torturing as many competitors as possible? If your inner-sociopath is smiling now, I would head straight over to the Playstation Store and pre-order this title at its pre-launch rate. You can do this by acting as cruel as you like to his comrades, competitors, allies, and enemies as you make a multitude of choices throughout this ten-hour narrative. It’s your job to help him climb the ladder as quickly as possible. It reminded me that although the western world is far from perfect at the minute, there are still places in society where people have very little freedom, and must spy on one another to remain socially, financially, and physically secure.Īn ominous ‘Great Leader rules the fictitious state that Beholder 2 takes place in.’ Censorship, executions, shortages, and the threat of war are part of the daily grind for Evan. The gameplay is quirky there are plenty of twists and turns. The dialogue is witty, dark, and depressing, with oppression, jealousy, and the backstabbing that you’d expect was around in the Soviet-era all prominent throughout the game.Įvan is a bland and generic character that trudges through life at your command. Your first day at work sees you dealing with people’s complaints and processing them on your computer terminal, ensuring that they reach the right factions and ministry officials. But in a bleak dystopian world of shadows, lies, and deceit… Who can you trust? As the first scenes unravel, it becomes apparent that your father was a prominent government official, and his death was no accident. This game is beautiful, the artwork is breathtaking, the narrative is satirical and humorous, and the ominous soundtrack sets the atmosphere well for a dark and unnerving narrative-noir platform adventure.Īs the game begins, you find yourself in the shoes of Evan Redgrave, recently employed by a shadowy communist ministry in the wake of your father’s death. Having never played Beholder One, I was instantly awestruck by the unique and wonderful graphics and art style of Beholder Two.
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