The Dark Pictures Anthology: Directive 8020

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Review: Directive 8020's UE5 Tech Sets A New Visual Standard For Interactive Cinema

A technically ambitious and well-realised game with only minor stumbling blocks. Supermassive Games continues its interactive horror legacy with Directive 8020, shifting the setting to a colony ship in deep space. Players familiar with The Dark Pictures Anthology will recognise the core mechanics, as they guide five crew members through a branching narrative driven by quick-time events and dialogue choices. This latest entry marks a significant technical leap, transitioning to Unreal Engine 5 a

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Directive 8020's new Turning Points system transforms it from a simple sci-fi survival horror into a compelling, gory puzzle

Cheat fate.

PC Gamer / Elie Gould

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Roundup: Here's What The Reviews Say About New Sci-Fi Horror Game Directive 8020

The Dark Pictures heads to space. Ready for some early-year spooks on Xbox? Well, Directive 8020 brings its sci-fi horror experience to Xbox tomorrow, and the reviews are now in for what is Supermassive Games' next entry in the Dark Pictures franchise. We're going to round up some of these reviews, then, so you can get a good picture of what you'd be in for with this latest big-budget horror game on Xbox. Let's get cracking! Read the full article on purexbox.com

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Directive 8020 review: One giant leap for sci-fi body horror

An unmissable adventure for any fan of sci-fi horror.

PC Gamer / Elie Gould

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Directive 8020 Review - Choose Your Own Horror Gets An Upgrade

Directive 8020 does a lot to hype up the horrors of space but I can't stop but feeling like the player is getting told too much. Replayability is easier than ever with the new Turning Point system.

TechRaptor / Andrew Stretch

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The Dark Pictures Anthology's second season is off to a chilling and impressive start.

IGN / Tom Marks

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The Dark Pictures Anthology Has Never Been More Adrift | Directive 8020 Review

In the underappreciated 2008 comedy Role Models, Christopher Mintz-Plasse's character, the exceedingly nerdy Augie, is asked if he likes Coca-Cola. "I like the idea of it more than I actually like it," he answers. I always found it a funny, confusing answer, but this fifth entry in The Dark Pictures horror anthology, with its grating performances, rote stealth sequences, and signs of an aging formula, makes me realize I can relate; I like the idea of this anthology more than I actually like play

GameSpot / Mark Delaney

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Directive 8020 review

Stop me if you've heard this one (or something like it) before: the Earth is dying, and humanity's last hope is a lone inhabitable planet, light years from home. A crack crew of humanity's finest is assembled for an eight-year space mission to survey the planet, but when they finally awaken from their four-year cryoslumber, an unknown organism has infiltrated their ship, turning their voyage of hope into a paranoid nightmare. And does the mega-corporation funding this whole endeavour know more t

Eurogamer / Matt Wales

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Directive 8020 is using an episodic structure straight out of a limited TV series 'to be mindful of people's time'

"We always want to make it feel like you're playing a movie or a TV show."

PC Gamer / Elie Gould

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Directive 8020 feels like the horror game Supermassive Games was born to make

Surviving aboard the Cassiopeia is harder than it looks.

PC Gamer / Elie Gould

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Directive 8020 Promises Test Space Horror, But Has It Moved Too Far From Its Roots?

Directive 8020's latest gameplay preview gives us a chance to dive into the stealth gameplay. While the tension is high and the story is intriguing me I'm a bit worried about the barrier to entry compared to previous Supermassive Games titles

TechRaptor / Andrew Stretch

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After an hour with Directive 8020, I worry the latest Dark Pictures game feels a little flat

Supermassive's "party horror" games, as I like to call them, have become a guilty pleasure of mine. This series famously began with Until Dawn in 2015 and peaked with House of Ashes in 2021, if you ask me. (Although I enjoyed the schlocky Quarry in 2022 as well.) It's a series pitched like an interactive horror movie, where you try to shepherd a group of ill-fated characters through a slasher by making various important choices for them, hoping they don't get shredded as a result.

Eurogamer / Robert Purchese

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7 Reasons to Get Excited for Directive 8020 on Xbox

The post 7 Reasons to Get Excited for Directive 8020 on Xbox appeared first on Xbox Wire.

Xbox Wire / Will Fulton, Xbox Wire Editor

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Elevate your mission in Directive 8020 with PlayStation 5 Pro enhancements, out May 12

Hi everyone, I’m excited to share how we’ve enhanced Directive 8020 for PlayStation 5 Pro, and how these upgrades help deepen the tension, clarity, and emotional impact at the heart of the game. From the very beginning, Directive 8020 was built around cinematic storytelling, player choice, and atmosphere you can feel onboard the deadly mission […]

PlayStation Blog / Will Burdon

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Sci-fi horror adventure Directive 8020 from Supermassive Games arrives in May

Directive 8020 from the creators of The Dark Pictures Anthology and The Quarry has been announced for release on May 12th with a brand new trailer. Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

GamingOnLinux / Liam Dawe

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