Chances are, plenty of players experimented with holding down every button on their PlayStation 4 controllers to try to boost movement, but few would think to accelerate speed in a first person game as you would a racing title. But the most important thing is that we get the word out to players, so here we go.'Īdmittedly, a slowly building sense of speed is an odd design choice. 'That was a bad call, and we've paid for it in the reviews. It's in the online manual, but not at the start of the game.' 'We probably should have announced the run button before launch, but we didn't,' Pinchbeck admits.

'The controller icon in the options menu was missing the sprint instruction, and it hadn't been localised. 'Suddenly launch was right on top of us, and something had been missed,' Pinchbeck says. It hadn't, but the added time demand brought the team right up to release date, before anyone realised the user interface hadn't been updated to tell players how to launch into a sprint.

The Chinese Room then switched to the 'hold R2' method, which then required another round of play-testing to make sure the late addition to controls didn't break the game. 'It didn't matter about the speed, it was the psychology, the choice,' says Pinchbeck. However, play testers were demanding a way to trigger faster movement themselves. THE DEADLY TOWER OF MONSTERS - 'When Dick Starspeed crash lands his rocket on the planet of Gravoria, he’ll have to fight through dinosaurs, nukular ants, and other skilled, costumed stuntmen to make it up the deadly tower of monsters.Originally, the game featured autosprint - that is, keep moving with the L thumbstick and you'd gain speed. You remain behind in this deserted world, slowly piecing together the mystery of the apocalypse through the memory fragments of those who lost their lives.' 'Strange voices haunt the airwaves as uncollected washing hangs listlessly on the line. 'Children’s toys lie forgotten in the playground the wind blows quarantine leaflets around the silent churchyard. Nestled away in the idyllic English countryside, the village of Yaughton, Shropshire, stands empty. 'Five days, four hours and 30 minutes since the Primary Event. The time is 6:37am on Wednesday, 6 June, 1984. EVERYBODY'S GONE TO THE RAPTURE - 'Our story begins at the end of the world.

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