Beyond: Two Souls

Beyond is both better and worse than its illustrious predecessor Heavy Rain. It features more varied gameplay, a better story, talented Hollywood actors and outstanding graphics... but it also lacks something: the ability to make truly decisive choices throughout the adventure. Significant changes you can make story-wise are actually concentrated at the end. However, games of this type and this quality are still too rare to deny yourself the pleasure.

The story is a little slow throughout, and it often feels like an interactive cutscene, but the graphics are good, the choices are interesting, the acting is great, and overall I feel the journey is more than worth the price of entry.

Beyond: Two Souls is back on PlayStation 4 with an enhanced graphic and the same interesting and emotional story, representing a great opportunity for those who didn’t play it two years ago on PS3.

Beyond Two Souls in PS4 offers an immersive plot and awesome graphics, but it's basically the same game of PS3. A good opportunity for those who did not play on this platform.

Beyond: Two Souls is a great interactive action-adventure game that I really should have played sooner. It does feel like you do a bit less actually playing than Quantic Dream’s other title, Heavy Rain (which I am a huge fan of), but I never got to a point that it annoyed me.

Beyond: Two Souls is still an intriguing piece of digital narrative. It has some plot flaws, but living Jodie's story in the new straight order is refreshing, and some of the improved visual effects are mesmerizing.

There's nothing really new to see here apart from a rather uninteresting DLC. So if you own it on your PS3 you don't have to by the PS4 version. On the other hand, Beyond is a great example of "cinematic gaming" that will offer newcomers a great experience.

Beyond remains a unique experience, even as the tools implemented in its creation have become commonplace. It's filled with concepts that are immediately odd and illogical, but if you accept them on their own terms, they add up to a fascinating if unconventional tale. Beyond remains an imperfect experience but is still compelling for what it accomplishes.

At the reasonable price of $29.99 CAD, Beyond is well worth picking up even with all the other triple-A fare competing for your attention and dollars this holiday.

Beyond: Two Souls is one of the most intense gaming experiences one can imagine. Simply a wonderful piece of art. It has better and worse parts than its predecessor Heavy Rain. But still, it's a must-play for every gamer out there.

Sadly this remaster of Beyond Two Souls doesn't bring much to the game. The graphics improvement is minimal, and the lack of 60 fps framerate is quite unfortunate. Beyond Two Souls stays one of the best narrative games of the last few years.

Beyond: Two Souls would've fared a lot better if it had even more visual detail, other control options and extra content to make it more like a director's cut. As it stands, though, it's a great conversion of a pretty good Quantic Dream development, mind its storytelling issues and quick-time event gameplay. Plus, it won't kill your wallet being priced for only $30. That's something even invisible deities can appreciate.

There are too many remasters and Beyond: Two Souls is conservative. It doesn't integrate many changes. However, the game by Quantic Dream can now reach lots of people who didn't have the PS3. It also incorporates interesting tools, stats of decisions, improved control and Full HD. Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe look better in 1080p.

Beyond: Two souls is an impressive as audiovisual interactive movie, but it suffers from some story weaknesses and its very simple gameplay.

Beyond has its ups and downs, and this version doesn't really improve that. The visuals get slightly better and the whole experience gets tweaked, but nothing relevant if you already played it.

Beyond: Two Souls is an emotional and amazing movie-like trip. Good if you didn't play it on PS3.