This promising mystery game gets a new trailer focused on the main characters.
Update 1 - 09.15.16
A new trailer for Virginia was released today that highlights the game's two main characters: Agent Anne Tarver and Agent Maria Halperin. Despite the two staying mute throughout the trailer, much as they will in the final game, they shockingly display more personality in this brief preview than some characters do with hundreds of lines of dialog.
Original Story - 08.26.16
If you're an X-Files fan who has found the quality of that franchise's video game adaptations to be...err...let's go with "underwhelming," then you might want to start paying attention to developer Variable State's upcoming first-person adventure game Virginia.
Actually, you can start doing just that by checking out the game's trailer below:
Set in 1992, Virginia tells the story of a young FBI agent named Anne Tarver, who, along with her partner Maria Halperin, has been called in to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a child in the small town of Kingdom, Virginia. Immediately, our agents begin to realize that their outsider presence in this tight community is not making them any friends. Eventually, they also begin to discover that this town may be hiding a lot more than just the vanished young boy.
Billed as an "original detective noir story in the tradition of Twin Peaks, Fargo, and True Detective,"Virginia attempts to capture not only the quality of those stories, but use the unique interactive elements of gaming to tell the kind of mystery that can be only be told when the player is asked to dictate the course of the investigation. While the developers are clearly fans of the cinematic tradition of great movie and television mysteries, Virginia also showcases a surprising level of understanding in terms the balance between gameplay and storytelling.
As for the story the game is telling, it's hard to tell from the trailer, but Virginia's free demo makes it clear that there is something otherworldly lurking beneath the surface of the seemingly normal investigation. More than anything, it's that implication of something not quite of this Earth behind everything that has been going on that lends Virginia much of the intrigue it is currently attracting.
Virginia is set to release on September 22nd, for PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
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