MindsEye, from former Rockstar developers, wants to revive the tight, linear, cinematic blockbuster game
There’s a moment in the latest MindsEye trailer, released today alongside the news of its midsummer release date, that feels distinctly familiar. As some wonderfully billowy explosions roar, muscle cars tear through traffic and machine guns thunder on, a helicopter drops low over the action, sun setting melodramatically in the background. And the reflection of a city, searingly sharp above more racing cars and scorched tarmac, shines off the side of its ultra-polished fuselage. This is the future of video games, that reflection almost seems to declare. Only, it’s the future as imagined by 2013, where the height of the craft remains a sense of bombast, polish, and ultra-fidelity – and crucially, a question of how accurately it can recreate another craft, in cinema. In other words: a world where the future looked like Grand Theft Auto.
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Source: Eurogamer.net
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