Viewed top-down and contained almost entirely within those few square metres of a city shoebox, the characters rarely reveal their faces. McAvoy and Ridley play a loved-up couple whose tiny apartment is gatecrashed by violent cop Dafoe throwing punches and accusations of murder around like confetti. Without them, Twelve Minutes might have been an also-ran, an interesting experiment amid a glut of games with a timeloop, which seems to be the novelty du jour. Sure, the paycheque probably helped but here are three A-listers putting in persuasive performances that carry the project. The rollcall stretches to Hollywood stars such as Steven Spielberg, Martin Sheen, Liam Neeson, Elliot Page, Mark Hamill, Aidan Gillen and Hayden Panettiere.Īll of this explains why Willem Dafoe, James McAvoy and Daisy Ridley now feel comfortable lending their voices to the characters in new timeloop thriller Twelve Minutes, just released for Xbox and PC. And the best way to kill a game’s credibility is for the marketing drones to sell it as an “interactive movie”.īut the crossover between the two media is accelerating rapidly, from special-effects technology to music composers to acting and directing talent.
Honourable examples going the other way are thin on the ground. There’s arguably never been a decent film spun off a game franchise.
Games have historically struggled with an inferiority complex when it comes to comparisons with cinema.
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