Late Shift blurs the lines between the movie and the videogame, offering you an interactive story whose plot you can partially control
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To call Late Shift a videogame would not be completely accurate, nor can you call it a movie. The developers of Late Shift have shot hours of video and compiled an interactive story where your choices change the outcome of the plot. The story interestingly is about a mathematics student called Matt, who is inadvertently caught up in a heist at the London auction house and gets mixed up with the Triad.
The game is interestingly done; the developer CtrlMovie, has sort to keep the interface minimalistic so as to not impede the movie experience. However, the most interesting aspect is the AI taking decisions for you — if you can't make one. This is interesting because it creates a sort of urgency that happens in real life, when you have to make split second decisions.
The acting is fairly decent and the cinematography gives it an actual movie feel — there is supposedly four hours of total video time that can be explored by changing your decisions.
It is a game that is begging to be replayed, but Late Shift doesn't make this easy. You cannot skip scenes you have already watched nor can you start off at different chapters. The second problem is that some decisions don't really change the output of the story — it still moves through its interactions and Matt gets into the situation regardless of what you choose.
The developers could have pushed things, but considering it is their first offering, it wasn't too bad. But, is it worth getting? For something that is this unique and blurs the lines between a movie and a game, it is an experience you definitely have to try. This is compounded by the fact that the game is cheap. It costs as much as a ticket for a movie, in some cases even less, depending on the device you choose to play it on.
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