Every time I see this game, I find myself thinking: how is it different from TimeShift? How will it try to make gameplay less repetitive? Judging from the very sparse gameplay footage released so far (bridge and parking lot), most shootouts play out the same: the player gets surprised by a scripted encounter, player freezes time and runs to cover, player either triggers an environmental kill or freezes enemies to stack up some bullets, and repeat from step two.
Story-wise, how is this different from Singularity? Renko was the time-manipulating protagonist trying to undo Demichev's world domination with the help of Barisov who Demichev had killed off in the first timeline to assure his success -- just like our generic protagonist here gained time-manipulation powers and is trying to undo the bad guy's exploitation of time travel which included the elimination of the protagonist's brother who, it would seem, similarly becomes a means for the good guys to win. TimeShift, as I recall, had a similar plot.
So, in my eyes, all Quantum Break seems to be doing is piggybacking off two mediocre and very forgettable games with the added feature of time breaks, which it then trivializes by putting in enemies and generic platforming making it little more than a gimmick. Why is everybody excited about this game again?
