![]() An environment that is devoid of any human life. ![]() Your control is limited to moving, looking, and a single "action" button that can switch on radios, answer phones, and open doors and gates around the rural Shropshire setting, an almost-too gorgeous rendering of the British countryside that could only have been built by a domestic team that understands the small details: the empty pint glass on the pub garden bench the claustrophobic interior of a holiday park's stationary caravan the predictably puerile marker pen graffiti of an English country bus shelter. You, the player, are as much a viewer as an active participant. "So, you just walk around, and open doors?" There's slightly more to it than that, but, essentially, yes: if you played one of The Chinese Room's previous games, Dear Esther, you'll know all about the restricted interactivity of the experience Rapture offers. And yet, Rapture is one of those releases that has some gamers asking-arguing- Is this really a game at all? For the first hour or so of its bucolic embrace, my wife sits beside me.
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