Attractio Ps4 Review

[Mr.TaLaL]

Attractio is a new first-person puzzle game from Mexican developer GameCoder Studios. For anyone with even a passing familiarity with the Portal series from Valve, you will likely feel right at home, as this title is very much in that same ballpark. However, unlike with Portal, we came away from this experience with a lot left to be desired.
The biggest issue is that the game just doesn't make a very good first impression. While we absolutely feel that graphics aren't the only thing to pay attention to, there's a line where you can't help but complain about it. Attractio crosses that line with flying colours, as, at best, this title looks like an early PlayStation 3 release. This isn't limited to just the textures either, as the animations are also not great – in fact, we'd go so far as to call them bad. What's more, in conjunction with these visually lacking characteristics, the game delivers truly painful voice work. While we usually find ourselves in favour of voiceovers if the opportunity arises, this game might have been better off only using text scrawls, as the performances just aren't good.
Be the first to change gravity and solve hard deadly puzzles in Attractio! Control the 3 contestants: Dalek, Mia and Keir, who compete to win the controversial reality show. You will need dexterity and cleverness to pass throughout the challenging levels. Are you up for the challenge?

We might have been able to overlook all of this if the story offered some quality writing, or at the very least functioned as an interesting framing device, but the release unfortunately does neither of these things. The premise of the game is that candidates compete in a variety of "trials" on a reality show – called Attractio – in order to win a hand-selected prize. These range from things like a monetary payout to freedom, as one of the contestants is actually a prisoner. You assume control of all three characters in the game – Mia, Keir, and Dalek – and each has to solve different conundrums.
This brings us to one of the better aspects of the title: the puzzles. Gravity-based puzzles aren't exactly revelatory when it comes to games these days, as quite a few releases have pulled this off to varying degrees, but Attractio deftly delivers some fun head scratchers. Dividing the types of puzzles between the characters also helps mix up the variety as you progress through the game's several hour run time.