Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo - Limited Edition (PS5)

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When fiction writer Ed Miller crashes his car and kills his family by driving them off a bridge, his life is completely shattered. After a failed suicide attempt he’s taken home and the tragic events leave him with the worst case of vertigo that doctors have ever seen. Unable to even get out of bed, a friend of Ed seeks out a professional to help him recover. This is easier said than done though. As well as the digital release next month, a physical version will be hitting retail a couple of months later, on 9th February 2024. The story takes place through multiple timelines, following a slew of characters. At the centre of it all is Ed Miller. Miller awakes in the middle of the road, with his car at the bottom of a cliff; he spots a man he seemingly thinks is his father about to jump off a bridge nearby. Chasing after him, Ed is too late and without hesitance attempts to follow the same fate. He suddenly experiences Vertigo whilst atop the bridge, and before he can jump he’s saved by a passer-by. You might want to put Spider-Man 2 down for just a second because we've somehow stumbled into another month – and this one's got even more games to choose from. Other moments in the game have levels that you can explore at your own pace. You’re normally confined to a room or few, but the varying scope of these explorable parts never felt all too necessary. Like the dialogue, the only way to proceed these parts is to exhaust all options as opposed to choosing your own. Generally, this is fine gameplay wise but the performance stutters – even on performance mode – and the long loading times made going to and from activities a chore. It sometimes felt that it forgot this was a game and sprinkled a little bit of interactivity to make it as such, but I honestly would have been fine with either a deeper emphasis on player urgency or a passive experience. The middling ground Vertigo finds it on, doesn’t make this the best to play despite the experience being worthwhile.

Heritage, Stuart (June 9, 2021). " Vertigo the game: could it delete the horrific history of movie tie-ins?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on June 9, 2021. There are multiple choices you can make in the game as well as different dialogue options, but the main narrative stays the same. The choices you make alter a couple of character details, making it feel more personable. When the cards are all supposedly on the table in the final quarter, there’s less intrigue. After the Fall is a co-op multiplayer, post-apocalyptic, first-person shooter from the developers of Arizona Sunshine, Vertigo Games. Decades after the 1980s apocalypse turned Los Angeles into a frozen wasteland, you join a group of underground survivors becoming what’s known as a Harvest Runner. Tasked with expanding your group’s hold on the city, you must clear vast areas of the undead while also collecting the required resources to provide your base, The Line, with the bare necessities to survive another day in this brutal world. This version of Vertigo portrays women in a way that is seriously difficult to stomach in a post-#MeToo era. Here, women prey on an unsuspecting man using, for instance, sex and hypnosis to lure him in and do him harm. Male trauma is of course absolutely real, but this game doesn’t have the tools to examine it with the required care, and ends up essentially saying #MenToo – and doing a significant disservice to the body of cinematic work that inspires it.

You might reasonably expect that a game named after the film Vertigo would, you know, follow the plot of Vertigo, but no. Everything happens in service of an increasingly ridiculous story, which reduces a film that featured male obsession, the male gaze and the ways in which victims unknowingly facilitate their own abuse, to the vendetta of a psychopath with a seemingly unlimited supply of drugs. If you thought the film was convoluted, try getting your head around this nonsense. It is almost worth playing for the part where an elderly man is, apparently convincingly, impersonated by a 24-year-old woman in a trenchcoat and sunglasses.

You see Ed isn’t particularly impressed by psychiatrists. To say he’s rude and uncooperative would be an understatement, with such classic lines as “Doctor? Doctor of what exactly, Doctor?”. Despite his resistance it’s clear that Ed needs the help, because there’s no record of his family and no sign of them after the accident. With the help of her ability in hypnotherapy, the doctor tries to help Ed overcome the trauma of the incident and his past to try to help him walk again. And as if making a psychological horror movie wouldn't be hard enough, they decided to decorate themselves with one of the biggest names out there.Initially, Vertigo was set to launch across Windows and game consoles in the fourth quarter of 2021. [2] The Windows version was released on December 16, 2021. [9] The console versions were subsequently delayed to 2022, and were launched for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on September 27, 2022 in Europe and October 4, 2022 in North America. [10] [11] Reception [ edit ] Pre-release coverage [ edit ] Perp made the announcement on its socials today: #Vertigo2 launches digitally December 12th on #PSVR2, with physcial copies releasing from February 9th! 💿💥