From the towering walls of the Complex, to the hustle and bustle of town centre Updaam, new paths become available and old ones are closed off in turn, proffering yet another reason why Deathloop succeeds as well as it does when wielding time manipulation in a way that’s both easy to grasp and is immensely compelling. The fluctuating weather also directly impacts the geography and traversal possibilities of each location too. Wielding time in a manner that is both entertaining and coherent has long proven to be an almost insurmountable task for films (hey, Terminator movies) and games alike, but in Deathloop developer Arkane does so effortlessly and with complete confidence, as the ability to use time in this way adds layers to an already deep explorative shooter experience. Rather than just hopping from one location to the next in order to drive time forward, you have the option to just wait and advance time that way, meaning that when you return to that same location later and it turns out they’ve succeeded in their task, you can take the loot for yourself. Likewise, you might come across two denizens of Blackreef (or ‘Eternalists’, as they’re called), chipping away at a wall in search of treasure. This means that if in a previous loop you discovered that someone was going to steal an item that you needed in the afternoon, you could travel to that place in the morning and nab it first. You see, each time you die – either by misadventure or when the day ends, and reawaken on that cursed beach, you do so with all of the knowledge that you have accumulated to that point. The kicker here however, is that each time you travel from one location to the next, time moves on and so too does the weather and the events that are taking place throughout the island.Īrkane makes tremendously clever use of this concept as you might expect. Rather than the Hitman and the Dishonored games, Deathloop allows access to different locations or districts as they’re called on the island of Blackreef – allowing players to go to and from each location as they please. However, whereas other games that boast similar concepts such as Hitman and even Arkane’s own Dishonored games merely prescribe a set of alternative routes, in Deathloop the manipulation of time is brought to bear here, adding layers of sophistication and genuinely ingenious design that none of those games could ever hope to match. Also like Dishonored and BioShock before it, Deathloop also provides players with the necessary tools and creative latitude to hack terminals, alarm systems and turn turrets against their masters with Colt’s super handy Hackamjig tool that does exactly what it says on the tin. However, if you die you’ll lose all the gear that you have on your person – until, well, you discover how not to.Ĭertainly fans of Dishonored will find much of Deathloop’s design to be functionally adjacent, in that Colt can traverse the Deathloop’s vertically expansive environments at great speed, leap off walls, sneak through tunnels, stealth-murder at leisure and generally turn the island of Blackreef into your own personal murder, death, kill playground as you see fit. Whether that’s going straight into an encounter all-guns blazing, creeping up on your target via a secret route or somehow convincing their own underlings to kill then, the pleasing array of methods at your disposal for offing each of the Visionaries is broad, creative and staunchly satisfying. Make no mistake, the developers of Deathloop are clever folks and they think you are too. This being an Arkane game of course, the manner in which you go about doing this is not prescribed in the least and it’s up to you to find your own way to kill each mark. The goal, chiefly, is to track down each of the eight ‘Visionaries’ that hold sway over the island, kill them, take their powers and then attempt to break the titular Deathloop.
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The Developers Of Deathloop Are Smart And They Think You Are TooĪs Colt, players begin every day the same – washed up and cussing fire on the Blackreef coast, looking for a way to make sense of everything while also trying to ascertain just how to break the loop and escape. As such, while Blackreef might seem like freedom for everyone else, for Colt it’s his prison and Julianna is his jailer. Julianna, the assassin whose sole purpose is to maintain the status quo of Blackreef, has taken it upon herself to kill Colt at every turn in order to prevent him from acquiring the knowledge needed to break the loop.
As it turns out, this time-looping phenomenon seems to be the exclusive domain of the island of Blackreef, an ultra-hedonistic retreat where decadence is eternal and the inhabitants can literally do whatever they like safe in the knowledge that the day will just restart itself again and all their sins will be erased.
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