>observer_ will haunt your memories
In a future, not so far…
Get ready. I will write some shiny words about how the technology took our lives from us, how our memories diminish one after another and get uploaded into cloud-based albums, how computers are filling job positions meant for human beings, et cetera. But not today. Today we celebrate neural hacking, tech-noir and cyberpunk; today we celebate the news about a great new title, Observer.
Observer is a new title from the indie studio Bloober Team. These good people are responsible for the pants you’ve changed while playing Layers of Fear. That was quite the experience. Anyway, the new game will be in a cyberpunk setting, in the year 2084; and we will take the role of the “elite neural detective” Daniel Lazarski. You feel the Blade Runner vibe? I do, especially after watching the trailer:
And that vibe is a good thing. See, we don’t have a lot of options when its about cyberpunk genre. Deus Ex is a great franchise, but sometimes the cyber heart desires more neon lights, more colors and more characters with more noir in them. I think that’s why we crave Cyberpunk 2077 this much. Observer, meanwhile, seemingly have a lot of potential for telling us a great story based on an uneasy and dark setting:
The year is 2084. If you somehow survived the Nanophage, odds are you were killed in the War. Those who live have turned to drugs, VR, neural implants— anything to distract themselves from this new reality. You are Daniel Lazarski, an elite neural detective known as an Observer, and part of a corporate-funded police unit whose purpose is to hack and invade suspects’ minds. In this future, anything you think, feel, or remember can be used against you in a court of law.
I said it is uneasy. A darkly Psychonauts, maybe, heh. In any case, and from the experience we’ve had in Layers of Fear, we are nearly certain that we’ll listen to a great story. Along with great visuals. Here:
Observer, in which we’ll strike into the deepest fears of our subjects, will be out on August 15, this year. For PC, PS4 and Xbox One users, it will be an astounding horror experience, our guts tell us.
Stay cyber!
