MindsEye, from former Rockstar developers, wants to revive the tight, linear, cinematic blockbuster game

There's a infinitesimal successful the latest MindsEye trailer, released contiguous alongside the quality of its midsummer merchandise date, that feels distinctly familiar. As immoderate wonderfully billowy explosions roar, musculus cars teardrop done postulation and instrumentality guns thunder on, a chopper drops debased implicit the action, prima mounting melodramatically successful the background. And the reflection of a city, searingly crisp supra much racing cars and scorched tarmac, shines disconnected the broadside of its ultra-polished fuselage. This is the aboriginal of video games, that reflection astir seems to declare. Only, it's the aboriginal arsenic imagined by 2013, wherever the tallness of the trade remains a consciousness of bombast, polish, and ultra-fidelity - and crucially, a question of however accurately it tin recreate another craft, successful cinema. In different words: a satellite wherever the aboriginal looked similar Grand Theft Auto.

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