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A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead review - a forgettable waste of a license
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead takes some very usable source material and fails to do much with it. Eurogamer's review.
Watch on YouTube So far, so good, especially as Alex's story is further complicated by interpersonal drama, an unplanned pregnancy, a love of music and singing - a pastime that's essentially a death sentence here, of course - and her chronic health condition that's exacerbated by dust, exertion, and stress. A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead approaches its opening hour with admirable constraint, and whilst the endless tutorials and dollops of red and yellow paint may irk, you can turn off the more unsubtle aspects of its hand-holding in the settings. Image credit: Sabre Interactive I wouldn't mind if these sequences were used sparingly, but they're endless, and at some points it feels as though the monsters intentionally rubberband the player in a way that's not challenging but simply annoying, especially with level design so linear, you have to wade through water, or step on glass, to progress.
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