
Release Date: October 13, 2016
A horror adventure game developed for virtual reality sets by a small developer Tangentleman in cooperation with Sony Santa Monica. Here They Lie is a dark, psychedelic experience that takes the player to a terrifying and slightly surrealistic world filled with various dangers. In contrast to other classic survival horrors, the game focuses on dark atmosphere and on fueling player's fear.
Here They Lie is one of the titles available for PS4 which uses PlayStation VR goggles. The title was created by a small studio Tangentlemen founded by Cory Davis, Toby Gard, Rich Smith and John Garcia-Shelton, who previously worked on such series like Tomb Raider, Medal of Honor and Call of Duty. Santa Monica Studio also helped in production of Here They Lie. They are known as the creators of such titles like God of War and The Unfinished Swan, which was created in cooperation with Giant Sparrow.
Here They Lie for PS4 can be most easily described as a dark, psychedelic experience which takes the player to a terrifying, surrealistic world filled with various dangers. In difference to other survival horrors, Tangentlemen’s production focuses mostly on narration and increasing the fear with more sophisticated methods than classic jump scares. The title creates fear in the mind with various visions and unordinary characters encountered in the game world. The feel of danger and scare are additionally multiplied by the use of PlayStation VR thanks to which player feels as if he was actually inside the game.
Platforms:
PlayStation 4
Developer: Tangentlemen
Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment
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Game Ratings for Here They Lie Video Game.
Game Informer: 8 / 10 by Suriel Vazquez
You’ll want to see everything the game has to offer, then show your friends to justify the new PlayStation VR you just bought
Metro GameCentral: 6 / 10
Daring and provocative, but also poorly written and technically inept. PlayStation VR will no doubt get much better horror games in the future, but this is still a notable first step.
The Jimquisition: 1 / 10 by James Stephanie Sterling
Here They Lie smacks of cynicism – a game designed with the knowledge that horror works really well in VR, without anybody involved knowing how VR games should operate. It’s distinctly unpleasant to play, and I fear it’ll be only one of many horror games that pull the same stunt as virtual reality continues to hold sway.
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