How The Quarry's Movie mode puts a better focus on its interactive story
The Quarry will continue Supermassive Games' tryst with interactive horror when it launches later in June 2022. The game will have a new timeline of events, but it is set to retain a few features from the developer's other games.
What will surely delight fans is the introduction of a new Movie mode. It also seems to be a better fit for the type of interactive-horror experience that the developers want to provide.
The Quarry will put players in control of nine teenagers who will have to survive a night at Hatchett Quarry. Playing from a third-person perspective, players will have to make critical decisions to survive.
It has been claimed by some that the summer release will be a spiritual successor to the 2015 hit Until Dawn. While it is expected that certain features from Until Dawn will be retained, the Movie mode seems to be a very innovative addition at first glance.
Supermassive Games have built a reputation for interactive horror-themed games. The studio has made games such as Until Dawn and the Dark Pictures anthology. The Quarry is set to stand out with its Movie mode, which will offer a much more linear experience.
As the name suggests, players will become viewers as they watch the game's story presented as a movie. Unlike the main story, there will be minimal interaction, other than in the Director's Chair mode.
Players will have to set specific modifiers in this mode before playing the story. It will result in inevitable consequences for the fate of the characters. Overall, players will be passive watchers. There are two other modes, and their names indicate what the outcome will be: Everyone Lives, and Everyone Dies.
While Supermassive Games is known for its ability to enable players to seamlessly interact with the
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