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Sony Attempting to Remove Ellen Page Nude Images from Beyond: Two Souls from the Internet
Well, here’s a headline that I never thought that I’d write but that’s the Streisand Effect for you.
A number of websites are reporting that they’ve been contacted by Sony Computer Entertainment PR to remove images of Ellen Page’s character nude during a shower scene from the recently released Beyond: Two Souls.
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Building (Critical) Consensus: Beyond: Two Souls
I’m not a big fan of release day review embargoes. That leaves people without an opportunity to cancel a pre-order if the game ends up being terrible. Not only did Quantic Dream and Sony Computer Entertainment set a review embargo on release date for Beyond: Two Souls but the embargo lifted at 11:00 AM EST. That meant that my local EB Games had been open for 90 minutes before the first review came out. That’s just underhanded by the folks making the game and setting the embargo.
The reviews for the latest David Cage creation, Beyond: Two Souls, are definitely mixed. The reviews on Metacritic run from as high as 100% down to a low score of 40% with scores falling everywhere in between. While generally everyone agrees that the facial visuals and animations are fantastic looking (they better be when you hire Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page), there’s disagreement on just about everything else. If you have a reviewer whose tastes are similar to yours, I’d read their review. There is no consensus from the critics on this one. From the looks of it, you’ll either love it or hate it. There doesn’t seem to be any middle ground.
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Beyond: Two Souls Gets the Tribeca Film Festival Treatment
Video games aren’t universally accepted as an artistic medium but don’t tell the organizers of the Tribeca Film Festival. The prestigious film festival gave the upcoming Quantic Dream game Beyond: Two Souls a two-hour screening at the festival over last weekend.
At Tribeca, Beyond got a new trailer and debuted a 35-minute section of the game starring Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe. We have both videos for you but be warned that there are spoilers in that longer video.
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