Supermassive Game's space horror, Directive 8020, dropped a new live action trailer at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase Powered by HyperX, highlighting the return of the classic Movie Night mode. This multiplayer way of playing through the game's scares and branching decisions lets up to five players pass the pad and work together as they decide who lives or dies, and who they really trust, while trying to survive.
If you've never played previous Supermassive games before, like Until Dawn or The Quarry, then Directive 8020's intergalactic terror follows a similar theme of branching narratives and high-stakes moral dilemmas. As the survivors of a crashed colony ship on the planet Tau Ceti f are hunted by a shape-changing alien enemy, it's up to you to make the decisions they will literally live and die by.
Movie Night is an offline, couch co-op mode where up to five players can control the action by passing the pad, depending on what characters you control. It lets you and your friends share the tough choices you'll need to make as the crash survivors face a threat that could look like any of them.
While this isn't the first Supermassive game to feature a Movie Night co-op mode, it is the first to use the Turning Point system. This lets you see all the big choices you've made mapped out on an interactive tree showing the story so far. It shows a clear view of how your decisions have shaped things, and lets you and your friends agree, or agree to disagree, to replay any key turning point in the narrative to change how things played out. Although, if you want a hardcore experience Survival Mode means all choices are final - so whatever you do as a group, you'll have live with it however it plays out.
You can pre-order Directive 8020 on PS5 and Xbox Series X right now, with STEAM pre-orders available soon, ahead of its 12th May launch. And, while the Movie Night online multiplayer mode won't be available at immediately launch, it will be added as a free update post launch on all platforms.
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