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2019 horror video game

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2019 video game

The Night Pictures Anthology: Human of Medan
Cover art Man of Medan.png

Box art featuring Conrad, i of the game'southward five protagonists
Developer(southward) Supermassive Games
Publisher(s) Bandai Namco Entertainment
Manager(s) Tom Heaton
Producer(s) Dan McDonald
Writer(southward)
  • Larry Fessenden
  • Graham Reznick
Composer(southward) Jason Graves
Series The Dark Pictures Anthology
Engine Unreal Engine four[1]
Platform(s)
  • Microsoft Windows
  • PlayStation 4
  • Xbox Ane
Release 30 August 2019
Genre(s) Interactive drama
Mode(due south) Single-role player, multiplayer

The Night Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan , also known simply as Man of Medan , is a 2019 interactive drama survival horror video game developed by Supermassive Games and published past Bandai Namco Amusement. It is the first out of eight planned installments in The Dark Pictures Anthology,[two] a series of standalone horror video games made and published past the same companies. Taking place in the middle of the S Pacific Ocean near French Polynesia, Man of Medan focuses on four college students and the captain of the boat Duke of Milan who commence on a diving trip in pursuit of the remains of a WWII-era plane. Later on a hostile see with a group of modern day pirates, the five protagonists are forced by said pirates to sail the seas and search for something called the "Manchurian Gold", subsequently coming across what seems to be a ghost transport where they encounter visions of phantom creatures. Shawn Ashmore stars as the game's leading histrion, playing one of the diving team's members named Conrad.

Man of Medan was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation iv, and Xbox One on thirty August 2019. A second game in the anthology, Niggling Hope, was released on 30 October 2020, and its successor Firm of Ashes was released on 22 October 2021.

Gameplay [edit]

A screenshot of Man of Medan's premonitions mechanic. The player character walks into a room, where a black-framed picture hangs on a wall. A button prompt with a green "A" on the centre appears beside the picture to indicate that the player can interact with it. Once the button is pressed, the game shows a vision of a character, Conrad, getting away from the other characters using a speedboat.

Interacting with collectable pictures, such as a black-framed one that a character named Fliss finds in a boat, triggers a premonition of what may happen afterwards in the game. Whether or non the vision comes true depends on player actions.

The Dark Pictures Album: Man of Medan is a horror themed video game played from a third-person perspective in which single or multiple players assume command of five dissimilar characters that become trapped on board a ghost ship.[3] Players are required to make decisions based on their graphic symbol'due south "head" or their "heart", or tin choose for them to practice nothing, while selecting between dissimilar options when interacting with other characters. The selection of options are stylised equally a compass, which is both representative of the characters' "moral compass" and reflective of the game's nautical themes. The narrative changes and adapts to the choices that the players make, thus making it possible for players to keep all playable characters live or to take some (or all) of them dice. Choices also affect the characters' personality traits (which affects subsequent cutscenes and dialogue options), too as their relationships with each other. The game can be played multiple times, as at that place are multiple endings and multiple scenarios based on the decisions that the players make. Action sequences mainly characteristic quick time events, most of which, if missed, can pb to dire consequences for the characters. As players explore the ghost transport, they can detect dissimilar "Dark Pictures" that gives them premonitions of what may happen in the future.[4] Players can also uncover the mystery surrounding the tragedy that occurred on the ship in the by, which tin can assistance save their character'south lives in the nowadays.

Inspired by the popularity of their 2015 game Until Dawn 's streaming, and the number of people playing the game with their friends by sharing the controls, Supermassive Games introduced two dissimilar multiplayer modes in The Nighttime Pictures Anthology: Human being of Medan titled "Shared Story" and "Flick Dark".[v] "Shared Story" allows ii players to play co-operatively online. "Movie Nighttime" allows up to 5 players to select their own characters and prompts them to laissez passer the controller at each plough.

Plot [edit]

Human being of Medan is presented as an unfinished story in the possession of the omnipresent Curator (Pip Torrens), who requests the player's assistance in completing it.

A prologue, prepare subsequently Earth War II, details an American warship in Manchuria being overrun by ghostly apparitions, causing the death of the crew.

In the present mean solar day, brothers Alex (Kareem Alleyne) and Brad (Chris Sandiford) are preparing for a diving expedition into the Due south Pacific Ocean alongside Alex's girlfriend, Julia (Arielle Palik), Julia's blood brother, Conrad (Shawn Ashmore), and the ship'southward skipper, Fliss (Ayisha Issa). Alex and Julia seek out to detect a Globe War Two wreck plane rumoured to take crashed. Meanwhile, a group of fishermen crash into Fliss' boat, the Duke of Milan. After the expedition group celebrate, the fishermen, led by Olson (Kwasi Songui), deadfall the boat and take the protagonists earnest; Brad may optionally remain in hiding. Conrad attempts to steal the fishermen's speedboat, which he tin can either successfully do so and flee, remain captured, or be killed in the attempt. Olson discovers the coordinates of a seemingly hidden treasure named Manchurian Golden and seeks out to find information technology with the Duke coiffure in his captivity.

The Knuckles crashes into the SS Ourang Medan, the freighter featured in the prologue, which the fishermen lath, taking the Duke of Milan's benefactor cap to prevent the crew from fleeing. The protagonists immediately plan to regain the distributor cap and escape. The grouping is split up after Fliss is recaptured and Brad is either too captured or leaves the Duke and re-joins her, while the others secretly follow. Both groups begin to witness unknown threats, optionally resulting in deaths: Fliss searches the ship'due south lower deck, potentially aslope Brad, and locates the Manchurian Gold, a leaking chemical substance; Conrad, if he remained captured, pursues Fliss and is pursued in turn by a female nurse; and Alex and Julia are attacked by Olson and a hallucinogenic version of Alex.

The surviving protagonists regroup and head towards the radio room to request extraction. They contact the military, optionally revealing their co-ordinates and the ship name. The group and then once again splits, with one team heading further into the generator room and the other remaining with the radio. The team heading to the engine room successfully reactivate the ability and surmise that Manchurian Golden was actually a hallucinogenic bioweapon adult during Earth State of war II to induce hallucinations on victims.

Equally Olson pursues, one of the protagonists at the radio decides to investigate after hearing a gunshot. If Alex stayed behind, he goes downwardly with whomever is with him and finds Olson dead before beingness attacked by rats and optionally destroying the distributor cap and/or dying. If Alex did non stay in the radio room, but one protagonist will investigate. This protagonist is forced into a fight with Olson, with the distributor cap either being recovered or destroyed in the onslaught. If at least one of the generator protagonists survived, they sally and send a cargo door crashing downwardly on Olson to kill him, with the other protagonist either escaping or being crushed also. Otherwise, Olson kills the radio protagonist before succumbing to a eye attack.

The surviving group members reunite on the outer deck of the send, with the overall effect depending on the fate of the group via player choice, whether the Duke of Milan'south benefactor cap was saved or destroyed, and whether the military was called for assistance alongside whether the ship name was disclosed.

Development [edit]

Shawn Ashmore voiced and supplied the motility capture for diving team fellow member Conrad, 1 of the game's five playable characters.

The Night Pictures Anthology: Human of Medan was developed by Supermassive Games. After favourable reception of their 2015 title Until Dawn, the team realized that there was a market place for interactive drama horror games, and wanted to expand the concept to a larger audience.[6] Thus, The Dark Pictures Anthology series was created, with Man of Medan beingness the first of eight[two] planned installments in the serial. Supermassive Games stated that they plan on releasing the subsequent seven games every six months in the anthology, with each game based on a horror trope that will feature a unique story with no correlation to the other entries in the series.

Man of Medan was inspired[7] by the urban legend of the SS Ourang Medan, which is almost a ghost ship that had allegedly go a shipwreck in Dutch Eastward Indies waters in the late 1940s. Its entire crew was plant deceased under mysterious circumstances, with their faces twisted into horrified expressions, which seemed to bespeak that they were terrified and had suffered before passing, despite having no visible signs of injury to their bodies and the ship existence seemingly unscathed. An endeavor was fabricated to bring the SS Ourang Medan back to port, only before it could be transported, the ship exploded and sunk underwater. Theories of how the crew died vary, ranging from the rational to the paranormal. The story is well-nigh likely fictional, as there is no evidence of the ship having existed at all.[8] The word Ourang is Indonesian or Malay for "human being" or "person", while Medan is the largest city on the Indonesian island of Sumatra; giving an approximate translation of "Man from Medan".

Supermassive and publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment officially announced the title on 21 August 2018.[9] The game'due south cast includes Shawn Ashmore as one of the playable characters and Pip Torrens as the Curator, an omniscient individual who observes the events of the game and communicates directly with the player.[10] Information technology was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 30 August 2019.[11]

Reception [edit]

The Night Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan received "generally favorable reviews" for the Windows version, while the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions were met with "mixed or average reviews", according to review aggregator Metacritic.[12] [13] [14]

The Dark Pictures Album: Man of Medan was the third best-selling game in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland in its week of release, behind Astral Chain and Wreckfest. During its offset week on sale, 81% of the game'due south retail copies were sold on PlayStation 4, versus 19% on Xbox Ane. However, Homo of Medan didn't achieve the aforementioned level of physical sales in comparing to Supermassive's 2015 title Until Dawn, selling 61% fewer physical copies at launch than the PlayStation iv exclusive.[29]

Awards [edit]

Twelvemonth Award Category Issue Ref
2019 The Independent Game Developers' Association Awards Best Activity and Adventure Game Won [30]
Best Audio Design Nominated
Creativity Award Nominated
Best Social Game Won
2019 Gilded Joystick Awards Best Multiplayer Game Nominated [31]
2020 NAVGTR Awards Animation, Technical Nominated [32]
Camera Direction in a Game Engine Nominated
Direction in a Game Cinema Nominated
Lighting/Texturing Nominated
MCV/Develop Awards Visual Innovation of the Year Nominated [33] [34]
Narrative Innovation of the Year Won
16th British University Games Awards Performer in a Supporting Function (Ayisha Issa) Nominated [35]

Sequels [edit]

The second installment in the Night Pictures Anthology series, Little Hope, was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation iv, and Xbox One on 30 Oct 2020.[36] [37] The next installment, House of Ashes, was released for the already-mentioned platforms, as well as PlayStation v and Xbox Serial Ten/S, on 22 October 2021.[38]

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External links [edit]

  • Official website

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Pictures_Anthology:_Man_of_Medan

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