Developers confirmed the Quantum Break release date is set for 2015, but teasers offered as early as last year's E3 reveal a different gameplay experience.
Quantum Break is an Xbox One exclusive, and will integrate live-action sequences with cinematic gameplay. The title has players feel their part of a graphic novel, with the consequences of their choices played out in extended scenes.
The title is scheduled for a full launch this August 14-17 at Gamescom in Cologne Germany. Anticipation for the release has been brewing as early as 2013, prior to last year's E3 launch.
Developer Remedy Entertainment is keeping gamers at bay with screenshots and teasers prior to the Quantum Break release date (dualshockers.com). Gameplay video was recently released to showcase the title's gameplay dynamics.
Sam Lake, head of the creative team behind the game, explains it is equal parts "cinematic action game" and "top-of-the-line action show." The narrative is an integration of these two mediums, offering players a unified experience (ign.com).
Actual gameplay will involve half-hour episodes of televised scenes, the mechanics of which are yet to be disclosed. In effect, the halves of the game represent two sides of the same story: "The game is about heroes. The show is about villains."
Lake also revealed plenty of details as teaser to the Quantum Break release date: "In the game, you play Jack Joyce in a desperate fight to stop the fracture that threatens to cause the end of time. In the show, in the style of an edgy modern TV series, you follow the schemes and power play inside Monarch, the corporation that's Jack's main enemy."
Set in the fictional Northeastern U.S. Riverport University, Quantum Break follows the efforts of two characters attempting to fix a time travel experiment gone wrong, facing opposition from the corporation responsible for the mishap. Gameplay reminds of movies like "Inception," where characters exercise control over time and events (polygon.com).
The official Quantum Break release date is expected to be announced at the August Gamescom event.
