The next big title from Supermassive Games isn’t going to be strictly solo movie-styled adventure according to their latest announcement. In their multiplayer announcement trailer for The Dark Pictures Anthology - Man of Medan, they mentioned a couple new ways we can play this horror adventure with some friends. I’ll let the trailer speak for itself:
This is very unexpected but incredibly welcomed as well! Finding a way to let more people in on a choice based adventure like this is sure to make the game more fun and add replayability to it. As a recap for the two multiplayer modes:
Shared Story Mode
Share the story simultaneously with a friend in two-player online co-op
Both players explore the world, make choices and perform actions that affect the outcome of the story and the fate of their respective characters
Traverse scenes through a different perspective from the single-player experience—sometimes together, sometimes apart—in totally separate scenes revealing new information, locations and scares
Movie Night Mode
Play locally in a group of up to five players with one controller, with each player taking charge of the movement, decisions and choices of one of the five main characters
Players can choose between saving themselves, or trying to keep their friends’ characters alive
At the end of each playthrough, actions and impacts will be judged – with achievements & rewards for each player
I was already excited to play through Man of Medan the same way I played through their previous title, Until Dawn. Knowing that I can bring my friends in on the fun and end up having some curve balls thrown at me during the journey only builds the hype! How do you feel about a choice-based game becoming a multiplayer party game?
