Irish Sunday Mirror

Game

- DAVID RAVEN

Life Is Strange: Before the Storm Android, IOS (Windows, PS4, Xbox One) This unique, complex adventure puts you in charge of the life choices of a 16-year-old girl.

Chloe Price is a normal student who is taken on an extraordin­ary adventure through a well-thought-out storyline set in Arcadia Bay, Oregon.

Players are able to use an ability called Backtalk to get out of tricky situations in the game, which is played out through a third-person view.

Graphics are fairly simplistic and don’t add much to the play-through.

But where Life is Strange excels is in the tone it sets with expert dialogue, audio and facial expression­s which combine to tell its story. A lot of work has been put into the realism of characters and that adds to the pull of the storyline.

Life Is Strange: Before the Storm is much more like playing through a short film than a game itself.

Just make sure you think about your choices – they can dramatical­ly change the course of the story.

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