Until Dawn

Game: Until Dawn

Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment (it's a PlayStation 4 exclusive)

Console/Platform Played On: PlayStation 4

Rachel's Rating: 3 stars

     Until Dawn is a very story based game. The story features 8 teenagers (including one played by Hayden Panettiere from the tv show, Heroes). These 8 teenagers return to a cabin up in the woods to spend the night a year after one of they lost two of their close friends at the same location. The friends start off all flirty, goofy, and friendly when they first arrive, but as this horror story unravels you begin to see the characters turn on one another. The group of friends must survive the night "until dawn" while they are playing their own pranks on one another, as well as a few not so innocent pranks played by a crazy "psychopath". 

     The reason why this game caught my attention was because everything about the game is based on your choices. Similar to one of my favorite games of all time, Mass Effect, every choice you make in Until Dawn will effect the entire outcome of the game. Even something as small as to throw a snowball or not can change the entire ending of the game. There are multiple endings to Until Dawn, and you can always go back once you have completed a chapter; if you're interested in seeing another outcome of the game. 

      Overall, I was kinda not impressed with Until Dawn. The game was one of the main reasons why I even bought a PlayStation 4 (sorry, I've always been a hardcore Xbox fangirl), and of course I was going to play other games and I have a lot of friends on my PS4, but I definitely got my hopes up for this game, only to be disappointed. A large portion of the game is all about quick time events (you have to make a decision in less than 10 seconds for a majority of the game). Although there wasn't much gameplay to Until Dawn, I did enjoy the story, and the characters were quite intriguing. I even found myself trying to purposefully kill off a few of the teenagers because I just found their character to be so incredibly annoying, hahaha! 

     If you're looking for a game with a lot of story, one that you can kinda just sit back and enjoy without too much action, I would definitely recommend Until Dawn, otherwise though, you might want to try a different PlayStation exclusive (Last Of Us, anyone?).