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Directive 8020 is a notable upgrade to the Dark Pictures Anthology's formula
When Supermassive Games' Directive 8020 arrives in 2025, it will have been three years since the studio's horror anthol…
But Directive 8020 has also been given visual and gameplay upgrades, to enable it to better stand up as a convincing survival horror - one with definite shades of Dead Space and Alien Isolation - as you face a roaming predator on an infected spaceship. Watch on YouTube In the section I saw, James Bond and Marvel star Lashana Lynch - another coup for Supermassive's casting department - explored areas of her crashed colony ship, after an incident sees the vessel wrecked and its surviving crew scattered after being brought out of hypersleep early. You have a scanner, able to spot the game's creepy alien that is able to mimic the appearance of crew members - something that enables some intriguing psychological horror - as well as a Sonic Screwdriver-like remote to activate nearby electronics to distract enemies.
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