The Complex
Wales Interactive’sThe Complexis the latestinteractivemovie ( also called full motion telecasting or FMV ) gaming experience , which puts players in a unrecorded - activity story and task them with draw decisions over where the story will go . Think of Netflix’sBlack Mirror : Bandersnatchand you ’ll have the right mind .
UnlikeBandersnatch , however , The Complexis nowhere about as compelling , original or , most significantly , interactional . None of the choices finger all that vital to the final result , the acting and storytelling is broadly speaking poor throughout and there ’s just never a good sense that this needed to be anFMVtitle at all .
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The Complexopens with main reference Dr. Amy Tenent ( Michelle Mylett ofLetterkenny ) treating dupe of a chemical attack in the fancied country of Kindar , which was commit by its dictator leader . of course , because this is an interactional moving-picture show , the player must choose who to keep . The problem is thatThe Complexoffers no prompt reason to care about either of these character . It also does very little in build up Amy as an interesting or three - dimensional character . This is a dissatisfactory pattern that continues throughout with most of the side characters failing to make an excited impact or absolve their existence .
The story ofThe Complexthen shifts to years in the future where a bulk of the action takes place . Amy is now puzzle out on developing nanotechnology for a colonization deputation toMars . Without spoiling anything , Amy eventually finds herself ensnare in the building complex where these nanites are stored . From this point forward , Amy ( through the player ) must make vital decisions over who last and who dies and get away from the composite . Because the game insist on hitting every skill fiction cliche in the rule book , the ship’s company she shape for is not who they seem and she must battle against them as well as outside forces to outlast .
While all of this could have been interesting in spite of its various cliches , The Complexfails to be absorbing in almost every way . Most of the action consists of characters sitting around and debating what to do next . Mylett is a good actor and does the estimable she can with the cloth given , but it ’s not enough . The rest of the mould of character and acting skill ranges from mediocre to pitiful and it all tally up to something approaching aB moviefeel , only with astonishingly good yield values .
WhileThe Complextouts 8 different endings , with each playthrough taking about an 60 minutes , only a few are actually clearly different from the others , creating the illusion that player selection count . The only placeThe Complexcomes closely in pulling off its interactive experience hope is in how Amy interact with characters . This is track in - game by Relationship Tracking and Personality Tracking measure and they can affect how other characters respond to Amy . If there ’s one spare grace forThe Complex , this is it .
Overall , The Complexis another FMV game that does not exist up to the potential this literary genre of interactional flick / gambling hybrid could potentially offer . While the musical genre and construct of interactive stories has realize some traction over the last few years thanks to stream platforms like Netflix andYouTubers , it clearly has a tenacious style to go out of doors of the mainstream . regrettably , titles likeThe Complexwill not do much to change that fact .
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The Complexis available on PlayStation 4 , Xbox One , Nintendo Switch and PC . Screen Rant was provided with an Xbox One transcript for the purposes of this revue .
