Left Behind 2: The New Batch
Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, a first-person exploration game fromDear Estherdeveloper The Chinese Room, will be coming to PlayStation 4 on August 11, according to creative director Dan Pinchbeck.
“We look back now at the number of story-driven, exploration-driven games that have been produced since and that’s an incredible thing to be part of. We stand alongside studios and developers who are committed to pushing at the boundaries of what games can be, and that’s being part of a tradition as old as gaming itself,” Pinchbeck wrote in aPlayStation Blog articleearlier today.
“This medium has always been about those boundaries, that pushing out, that bending and breaking of rules to do new things, and we hopeEverybody’s Gone to the Rapturewill earn its place in that.” The blog post also came witha new trailerthat shows off the title’s impressive visuals.
This game reminds me a lot ofTherefore, Repent; a weird graphic novel that (supposedly) deals with many of the same concepts. It can get a little too smug at times, but it was really interesting, especially to a guy that loves exploring Christian theology in unorthodox ways. From the pulp ofSupernaturalto the debates ofTrue Detective, I love it all.
Even ifEverybody’s Gone to the Raptureis disappointing, I’ll still getsomethingout of it.
