Tag: Wales Interactive
Mini Review The Isle Tide Hotel (PS5) - A Criminally Tedious FMV Thriller
Hotel Hell
The Isle Tide Hotel's biggest crime is that it's not even so bad it's funny. It's just bad bad. Bad bad bad bad bad. There's no reason to play this game other than sheer morbid curiosity, and no reason to recommend this game to anybody for anything other than spite. But first, the formalities, so we can all get out of here. The Isle Tide...
Mini Review Ten Dates (PS4) - A Much Improved Rom-Com Sequel
Seven out of ten dates
Has humanity ever had a worse idea than speed dating? Once you forget all the obviously terrible stuff like biological weapons and motion controls, speed dating must be right up there. Five minutes of pish banter with a person who isn't laughing at any of your killer jokes before you half-heartedly ask for contact information...
News The FMV Revolution Continues with The Isle Tide Hotel on PS5, PS4
Join the cult
Wales Interactive loves a good FMV thriller, and it’ll return next year with The Isle Tide Hotel, which is being developed in collaboration with Interflix Media. The official blurb reads: “An absent father must rescue his teenage daughter from an eclectic cult before their final night at the Isle Tide Hotel. Players investigate the...
News Squid Game Meets Its FMV Match in Bloodshore, Out Next Month
Talk about timing
Despite the fact Midnight Mass is sitting right there, Squid Game is the only Netflix show anyone will willingly talk about at the moment (seriously, watch Midnight Mass). The Korean TV series has taken the streaming service by storm, and perfectly timed alongside the show is Wales Interactive with a somewhat similar take on the...
News Bloodshore Is an FMV Take on The Hunger Games, Coming to PS4
Launches in November
Interested in another FMV game on PlayStation 4? Of course you are. Bloodshore is the next title from full-motion video masters Wales Interactive, and it's essentially The Hunger Games on a bigger scale. 50 participants are dropped onto an island and tasked with surviving by any means necessary, while people watch the event on...
Mini Review Night Book (PS4) - Interactive Horror Is More Funny Than Scary
Booking hell
Uh oh, Dad's possessed. What rotten luck! Here you are, heavily pregnant and living in a crummy apartment in Croydon, and your fiancé Pearce has inexplicably decided to jet off to the other side world on business when you need him most. Never mind, Pearce has a plan. He's installed security cameras all over the apartment so the police...
News Interpret Occult FMV Thriller Night Book on PS5, PS4 This Month
Fright night
Wales Interactive, the current kings and queens of FMV experiences, is back with another interactive thriller shot during lockdown: Night Book. This psychological horror leverages a similar trick to romantic comedy Five Dates, meaning that it’s composed of pandemic friendly webcam footage rather than actors on a set. There are some...
News Welsh Horror Game Maid of Sker Gets PS5 Upgrade Next Week
Free upgrade for PS4 owners
Not very good Welsh horror game Maid of Sker is receiving a native PlayStation 5 version next week that brings with it lots of new modes, enemies, and weapons. There will be support for the PS5 DualSense controller and 10 new Trophies to unlock, while load times are said to have been reduced to just one second and a 4K...
Mini Review I Saw Black Clouds - Interactive Thriller Won't Be Winning Any Oscars
Thank you for supporting interactive drama
I Saw Black Clouds begins with a warning that tells you that the game features graphic depictions of suicide and then about four seconds later someone commits suicide. The deceased is a troubled girl named Emily and we move swiftly on to her funeral where we're introduced to Kristina and Charlotte who are...
News Psychological FMV Thriller I Saw Black Clouds Casts PS4 Release Date
Cloudy with a chance of supernatural
Wales Interactive is riding the FMV gravy train until it runs out of rail, and its next project – psychological thriller I Saw Black Clouds, created with Ghost Dog Films – now has a PlayStation 4 release date: 30th March. The game will be playable on the PS5 courtesy of backwards compatibility, although a...
News FMV's Renaissance Continues with I Saw Black Clouds on PS5, PS4
Psychological thriller incoming
Wales Interactive has not just dipped its toe into FMV’s renaissance: it’s dunked its collective head in. Fresh from the release of lockdown dating drama Five Dates, it’s announced something a touch darker: I Saw Black Clouds. Described as a psychological thriller, the story will follow the events of Kristina...
Mini Review Five Dates (PS4) - Interactive Romantic Comedy So Bad It's Almost Good
Daters gonna date
"I've got a surprise for you," says Vinny to his friend Callum over a video call: "I've joined a dating app!" Callum reacts with such glee, one would be forgiven for thinking that Vinny had just announced the reformation of The Beatles. Surely everyone uses dating apps in 2020? Who wants to awkwardly wander up to someone in a bar...
News Five Dates Is an Interactive RomCom for the Zoom Era
Set against a pandemic backdrop
FMV fans will no doubt be thankful for Wales Interactive single-handedly keeping the genre alive. Following the conspicuous cancellation (?) of Gamer Girl, the publisher is back with a slightly less controversial romantic comedy named Five Dates, in which self-professed millennial Vinny joins a dating app during...
News Controversial FMV Title Gamer Girl Remains Silent on September Launch
Offline stream
Last month, you may remember a lot of controversy upon the announcement of FMV title Gamer Girl from Wales Interactive. The internet felt that the experience was attempting to capitalize on the abuse that female streamers receive in real life, while the portrayal from Abicakes99 was deemed harmful and stereotypical. Every official...
Review Maid of Sker - Welsh Horror Fails to Inspire
Mae'n iawn
Maid of Sker represents a change of pace for Wales Interactive. After helping to spearhead a bit of an FMV renaissance over the past couple of years with The Bunker, Late Shift, and The Shapeshifting Detective, the publisher has returned to a genre it dipped its toes into back in 2017. Don't Knock Twice fell well short of expectations...
News Gamer Girl Dev Removes Announcement Trailer and Marketing Following Backlash
Stream killer
Last week, publisher Wales Interactive unveiled Gamer Girl -- an FMV title in which you play as a livestream chat moderator. You're tasked with "guiding" the choices of up and coming streamer Abicakes99 while uncovering the identity of an "anonymous predator" who lurks in the chat. It sounds like a unique premise if nothing else, but...
News Gamer Girl Is an FMV Game All About the Life of a Streamer
How much is a sub?
Come on, it's time to own up. Who doesn't want to be a Gamer Girl? If the trailer above is anything to go by, you get to sit in one of those cosy gaming chairs all day, have cash thrown at you from men sat alone in their basement, and occasionally play a game or two on a site that definitely isn't Twitch. That sounds like the sort...
News Maid of Sker Brings Welsh Horror to PS4 Later This Month
Calon Lân
The survival horror experience Maid of Sker from Wales Interactive now finally has a confirmed PlayStation 4 release date. The title, which is based on folklore from the publisher's home country, will be available on the PlayStation Store from 21st July 2020 with a physical version following a week later. What's more, we've also got a new...
News Maid of Sker Proves There Are Scary Things in Wales
Diolch yn fawr
Update: The original version of this article included jokes which were deemed inappropriate. We apologise for any offence caused. Original Story: Maid of Sker is an upcoming PlayStation 4 survival horror inspired by Welsh folklore. It’s been penned by some of the people behind Don’t Knock Twice and SOMA, so there’s pedigree...
Review The Complex - Live Action Sci-Fi Story Should Have Stayed in Quarantine
Nano hell
Full-motion video, or FMV as it’s more commonly known, is enjoying a renaissance. Despite dying a premature death on early CD-based systems such as the SEGA CD and Panasonic 3DO, games like Erica and Late Shift have ushered a new era for live action, story-driven escapades. The Complex is the latest attempt from Wales Interactive, and...
News The Complex Is the Next PS4 FMV Foray from Late Shift, The Bunker Publisher
Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?
Oh, we do love a good FMV interactive movie here at Push Square Towers. Fortunately, publisher Wales Interactive has been keeping us well stocked with these kinds of titles all generation, and The Complex looks like its best effort yet. It’s a branching story which deals with the aftermath of a...
Mini Review Simulacra - FMV Chat Logs Worthy of a Phone Contract
Find My iPhone
Losing a mobile phone has to be one of the biggest first-world problems, but it becomes an entirely different ball game when its owner also disappears off the face of the planet. Anna's smartphone has just been delivered to your door, and in Simulacra, you'll need to work out what has happened to her. Taking place entirely on the...
News Simulacra Is a Horror-Based Mystery Taking Place Entirely on a Mobile Phone
3rd December on PS4
FMV genre masterminds Wales Interactive, who have put out the likes of The Bunker and Late Shift, is back once again with another odd experience that takes advantage of full-motion video. Simulacra is a title which takes place entirely on a woman's mobile phone. The lady, named Anna, has gone missing but you've managed to...
Review Headspun - A Buggy FMV Adventure with a Decent Story and Little Else
Inside nout
The brain is a complex thing; vast, mysterious, and packed full of drones in ties controlling our thoughts. Or, so says Headspun, a disappointing FMV/management hybrid that has you rebuilding the functions of a man’s mind following an accident. It’s a neat concept, but one marred by glitches, outdated mini-games, and irritatingly...
Review The Shapeshifting Detective - An Odd Yet Intriguing FMV Murder Mystery
Colonel Mustard, in the study, with the DualShock 4
The Shapeshifting Detective is a new FMV (Full Motion Video) game from Wales Interactive. It’s a curious game that pretty much does what it says on the tin. You take on the role of the titular detective and have the ability to take on the likeness of anybody you come into contact with, like a...
Let's not do the time warp again
If there was one flaw you could leverage at PlayStation VR upon its launch and the months that followed it, it was that a few too many experiences and titles designed themselves around obliterating enemies from a singular position in a wave-based manner. In the year leading up to today we thought we had ridden...
News FMV Murder Mystery The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker Quizzes PS4 Next Year
Lovecraftian murder mystery
Hands up if you’re enjoying the renaissance of FMV games? With the likes of The Bunker already available on the PlayStation Store, and the fascinating Erica on the way, the genre is enjoying something of a revival right now. And Wales Interactive is playing a big part in that, announcing a collaboration with D’Avekki...
Minimum wage
Towards the back end of last year, we were pleasantly surprised by a full-motion video game named The Bunker. The first of its kind on PlayStation 4, its story, characters, and acting performances were the driving factors in what was a short but sweet experience. Publisher Wales Interactive is now back with a second foray into the FMV...
News Interactive FMV Title Late Shift Comes to PS4 Next Month
Over 180 decisions and seven endings
Wales Interactive has announced its next title that will dip its toes into the full-motion video genre. Late Shift is described as "a cinematic FMV crime thriller" and it's scheduled to release next month. Written by Michael R. Johnson of the 2009 Sherlock Holmes, the game sees you play as Matt as he tries to...
Solitary confinement
The FMV genre has had a bit of a renaissance lately. Her Story and Contradiction: Spot The Liar both released to a positive amount of fanfare over on the PC, and now it's time for the PlayStation 4 to get its own full motion adventure. The Bunker marks quite a change in scenery for developer Wales Interactive, a studio that's...
Soul sacrificed
Frictional Games' SOMA, last year's sci-fi horror follow-up to Amnesia: The Dark Descent, explored the idea of creating a copy of a human being and downloading it into a virtual "ark", thereby preserving mankind in case of global disaster. It proved to be an engaging central conceit, which touched on ideas of identity, morality, and...
Six feet under
We'll be straight with you on this one: Coffin Dodgers is not a good kart racer. Sadly, all it really has going for it is a darkly amusing premise. Sunny Pines retirement village is where the Grim Reaper himself has decided to hang up his scythe after a lengthy career of soul collecting – but not before claiming a few more from his...
First Impressions Scratching Our Heads Through Soul Axiom on PS4
Axiom verge
What do you get when you mix Tron with BioShock Infinite and Antichamber – and sprinkle a helping of Indiana Jones on top? The answer is, er, Soul Axiom. At least, that's the vibe that we got during a hands-on session with an early build of the game. The follow-up title from Master Reboot developer Wales Interactive, this is shaping up...
News Soul Axiom Peers Through the Peephole to PS4
Soul searcher
Indie games often get a lot of stick for employing dated gameplay mechanics or old-school visual styles, but Wales Interactive's forthcoming PlayStation 4 adventure Soul Axiom looks every inch a BioShock rival. A first-person sci-fi adventure, the title promises to take you on a journey through the "deepest, darkest recesses of your...
Review Gravity Badgers (PlayStation Vita)
Honey badger don't care
Don't let the incomprehensible combination of words that make up Gravity Badgers' title fool you. Taking more than its share of inspiration from the bird-tossing behemoth that is Angry Birds, does this flick-to-throw clone do enough to stand on its own four paws in a genre that's quite literally overflowing with trash? To...
Review Master Reboot (PlayStation 3)
On and off
An intriguing narrative and a clever setting can go a long way in a sci-fi adventure game, but it’s a difficult thing to pull off. As such, Master Reboot – a Myst-esque excursion by BAFTA Cymru award winning developer Wales Interactive – struggles to combine its great ideas into a compelling whole. The title comes close at times,...
