Remember Me

To be an artist is to be constantly open to the world. Pablo Picasso, the internationally renowned founder of the cubist movement, understood that. He lived his life as a painter, designer, ceramicist, printmaker, and sculptor. The man's been heralded as...

Don't get me wrong, Remember Me isn't a bad game, it's not a particularly good one either. What it is, is a perfect example of mediocrity, a game that is obssessed with style and innovation, but fails to execute almost everything it sets out to do. There...

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With an appealing theme, lovely art and an ambitious DIY combo system, Remember Me's boldly trying to do all kinds of things, but seems to run out of steam on almost all of them.Tags:GamesBest prices todayRetailer Price Delivery  Price comparision...

In today’s world of Facebook status updates and incessant tweeting, we are going down a dangerous path. One that, if continued, could lead directly to the dystopian future that has been very effectively portrayed in Capcom’s newest IP - Remember Me....

Remember Me is a third-person action-adventure teenager. It tries to act insouciant, and tells its story with the breathless zeal of a youngster flushed with first love. But ironically for a game that requires you to build ‘Focus’ in order to achieve great things, it feels greatly lacking in that department.

Nilin is the best reason to make this game a future memory: she's resolute, conflicted, and all too human, making her a terrific escort through this beautiful and underutilized world. Remember Me is a good game loaded with intriguing ideas; here's hoping that its sequel, should we ever have one, rides these ideas to greatness.

The result is a game that a small number of people will rightly love and cherish, but overall it's an uneven experience - one that feels like it knows what it wants to be, but has resigned itself to existing in a world where it can't quite get away with it.

The anxiety over homogenous AAA games is only growing, making us latch on to the odd ones that dial down the shooting and make way for smart heroines. If only that alone was enough to deliver excellence, and not just the kind of game that ought to be remembered for trying.

Remember Me is nothing more than an entirely forgettable tour de farce of archaic game design. Its horrific dialogue, sickening camera and regressive combat are major blips in a title that poses one major question: was this game worth releasing? ‘Dontnod’ is arguably the right answer.

Remember Me eyes trouble the most pointedly when it falls prey to overused video game conventions. But Remember Me's fiction and world-building make it more than just another running, jumping and climbing-oriented beat-'em-up — they make it a future worth exploring.

If the world were expanded, the Combo Lab fleshed out and a few more memory remixes thrown in for good measure, Remember Me’s visionary world could have been transcendent. Let’s just hope this risky gamble proves successful enough for DONTNOD to venture into Neo-Paris once again.

The environmental climbing sequences offer some simple fun, but the linear paths diminish any sense of exploration this otherwise would have achieved. Combat is filled with fresh ideas, but that creativity inhibits your capability in combat. Hopefully Dontnod doesn’t forget any of the lessons it learned this time around, because a sequel could be truly memorable.

Despite some misgivings about the combat and camera movement, the action always progressed at a fair clip. Remember Me’s unique take on user-influenced combat and a scary futuristic dystopia managed to make a lasting impression, one that everyone should consider adding to their memory bank.