As a cover shooter its at the top of the genre, which isnt saying much, but the game has a nice flow. Auto cover is very natural and responsive unlike its implementation in Operation Raccoon City, and the player has the speed to nimbly move across the map. Enemies frequently flank the player and have the ability to nick the player under cover which further promotes more active play. The biggest flaw with the game gameplay wise then ends up being that the insistence on being a cover shooter limits what the player can actually do. You can't air dash or reach more vertical ground and the player is frequently restricted in their movements by cover. There is a real lack of cool set pieces that play with time in a meaningful way besides say the boat and ship yard segments. Some areas like the monarch HQ look quite well with the time effects but offer little gameplay variety. This is something Remedy's next shooter Control would remedy by basically removing cover mechanics and simply making the game a twitch game of power management. Quantum Break also has smaller gameplay flaws such as the lack of weapon variety and the placement of combat checkpoints right before loading cutscenes.
Storywise quantum break is quite dull. Like Control if suffers from bad writing and a lack of interesting characters. Jack Joyce as a protagonist is Remedy's dullest yet with little personality outside of his plot role. In contrast to Control the supporting cast is more developed then the route exposition dumpers of Control but not especially interesting. The various memos that dot the game are far too long, repetitive, and uninteresting to really justify finding them besides 100% completiontion, while in Control the supplemental material was the story highlight. The four included TV episodes are all quite dull and while i respect the game for trying to fill out its world the live action is not bad enough to be charmingly camp, but also not interesting enough to justify roughly 4 hours of content. They are also streamed which severely limits the games longevity as players will have to turn to piracy to watch the cutscenes should the server's streaming them ever go down. Other wise the actual time travel events are quite cool with there being a constant mystery as to how and why things happen. The ending unfortunately leaves too much open for a sequel but the high concepts here are cool.
Storywise quantum break is quite dull. Like Control if suffers from bad writing and a lack of interesting characters. Jack Joyce as a protagonist is Remedy's dullest yet with little personality outside of his plot role. In contrast to Control the supporting cast is more developed then the route exposition dumpers of Control but not especially interesting. The various memos that dot the game are far too long, repetitive, and uninteresting to really justify finding them besides 100% completiontion, while in Control the supplemental material was the story highlight. The four included TV episodes are all quite dull and while i respect the game for trying to fill out its world the live action is not bad enough to be charmingly camp, but also not interesting enough to justify roughly 4 hours of content. They are also streamed which severely limits the games longevity as players will have to turn to piracy to watch the cutscenes should the server's streaming them ever go down. Other wise the actual time travel events are quite cool with there being a constant mystery as to how and why things happen. The ending unfortunately leaves too much open for a sequel but the high concepts here are cool.