Bethesda Softworks and Arkane Lyon are the companies responsible for developing and publishing the first-person shooter video game Deathloop. The video game was made available for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 5 on September 14, 2021, and on September 20, 2022, it was made available on Xbox Series X/S. The game’s art design and gameplay both garnered appreciation from reviewers, who gave it relatively positive scores overall. At The Game Awards 2021, Deathloop took home both the award for Best Game Direction as well as the award for Best Art Direction.
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Death Loop Gameplay
In Deathloop, the player assumes the role of Colt, an assassin who is trapped in a time loop and has been tasked with eliminating eight targets known as Visionaries across the island of Blackreef before midnight. Leaving even one Visionary alive will cause the time loop to reset, undoing everything the player has accomplished so far in the game.
In the event that Colt passes away before eliminating all eight targets, he will be resurrected at the beginning of the cycle. The player navigates the game world by employing a variety of methods, including stealth, parkour, attack skills, firearms, gadgets, and powers, just like they did in Arkane’s previous titles Dishonored and Prey. They have to evade or remove the guards, find out the patterns of Colt’s targets, and determine the proper order to eliminate those targets using guns, close-quarters combat, or other environmental means.
In Deathloop, the time loop is not rigorously timed, and its purpose is to give players more time and freedom to eliminate these eight targets inside a single time loop.
Moving from one of the island’s four districts (Updaam, Karl’s Bay, Fristad Rock, and The Complex) causes time to advance, and each day is broken up into four distinct parts: morning, noon, afternoon, and evening. It makes a difference when the time of day the player reaches a certain district since the routines of the people in that district change, and the player’s actions in one area can have an effect on the routines in the other districts.
The game has a multiplayer component in which the player can alternately play the part of Julianna, an agent who has been entrusted with eliminating Colt and defending the time loop from harm. When the player assumes this role, they will enter the game of a random player and may cause disruptions to how that player is playing. The multiplayer component is not required, and players have the ability to block other players from assuming the position of Julianna in their game. Instead, they can delegate this mission to a computer-controlled adversary who will attempt to stop Colt.
Death Loop Characters
The nine Visionaries serve as the story’s primary protagonists and antagonists.
- Colt Vahn, formerly the head of security for the AEON Program, is currently working toward the goal of breaking the loop and escaping Blackreef. His voice is provided by Jason E. Kelley.
- Julianna Blake, AEON’s archivist and new head of security, is played by Ozioma Akagha. She is obsessed with locating Colt and is always looking for him.
- Egor Serling, also known as a self-proclaimed “pseudoscientist,” is the person who established the AEON Program and is portrayed by Josh Zuckerman.
- Dr. Wenjie Evans is AEON’s head scientist and the creator of the loop machine that is responsible for generating the time loop. Erika Ishii provides voice-acting services.
- Marcela Lentz-Pope lends her voice to the character of Harriet Morse, who is the leader of the Eternalists cult.
- The voice of Ramblin’ Frank Spicer was provided by Andrew Lewis Caldwell. He is a former gangster who is now aiming to be a rock star and hosts the only radio show in Blackreef.
- Charlie Montague is a clever yet sadistic game creator, and he is AEON’s Head of Entertainment. Khoi Dao lends his voice to this character.
- Cherami Leigh lends her voice to the character of Fia Zborowska, an experimental artist and junkie who has a passion for explosives.
- AEON’s hard-partying financial backer is known as Aleksis “The Wolf” Dorsey (whose voice was provided by H. Michael Croner).
Death Loop Plot
Colt Vahn abruptly wakes up hungover on a beach without any recollections of who he is or where he is after having a dream in which he is killed by a mysterious woman. He has no idea where he is or who he is. He is given instructions on how to escape the perpetual cycle of time in which he finds himself by meeting with and receiving communications from other versions of himself. In order for him to achieve this goal, he must to eliminate all eight Visionaries before the end of the day, when time begins to loop.
Julianna Blake adds a layer of complication to the situation by alerting the Visionaries and their followers, the Eternalists, about Colt’s intentions and demanding that he be pursued by law enforcement. Julianna teases Colt in an effort to get him to break the loop, even as she is working to prevent him from doing so. Colt discovers that, in contrast to the other people who lived on the island, he has developed the capacity to keep his memories intact throughout loops.
This provides him with the opportunity to strategize and get ready for his ultimate objective of escaping the loop. He finds out that Julianna appears to keep her memory even after traveling through multiple loops.
Julianna continues to be the most evasive of the Visionaries despite the fact that Colt is able to devise a strategy for eliminating seven of them. Julianna has chosen to conceal herself within the Loop, which is the structure that is responsible for Blackreef’s temporal cycles. Colt realizes that the only way to get to the Loop is to use a decommissioned rocket jet that the military left behind on the island, so he starts exploring all of the old bunkers that are scattered over the island.
He finds out that he was a participant in Operation Horizon, the first military trip to Blackreef many years ago, but that he was mistakenly sent into the future as the result of a botched experiment. Colt enrolled in the AEON Program in the anticipation that he would one day discover a means to time travel and meet up with his ex-girlfriend Lila in the past. He learns this information as a direct result of being transported to the future, when he realizes that Julianna is, in fact, his daughter.
Colt is successful in activating the rocket plane and making it to the Loop, where he has a direct confrontation with Julianna. Julianna alleges that things began to go in a negative direction when Colt, who had begun to have second thoughts about the AEON Program, began to murder her in each loop in an effort to liberate her from the influence of the program.
Julianna later developed a deep-seated hatred for Colt and started taking revenge, which culminated in her beginning to seek him across all of the loops. Julianna gives Colt the option of either sparing her in order to continue living endlessly through the loops or killing her in order to break the loop and suffer whatever unclear destiny follows afterward.
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If Colt makes the decision to kill Julianna and then kills himself in order to break the loop, he will wake up on the beach (which has been transformed into a bizarre post-apocalyptic scene) with Julianna holding a gun to his head. She makes the decision to spare him and then leaves, abandoning him to face the unknowable future by himself.
This conclusion is expanded upon in the Goldenloop update, which adds a cutscene depicting all of the visionaries and eternalists waking up to find that the loop has been broken. It is seen in this scene that Colt, along with a few other eternalists, is exploring the desolate countryside.
In the event that Colt makes the decision to murder Julianna but does not take his own life, the loop will continue as usual. In the event that Colt decides to spare Julianna, the two of them are able to make amends with one another and work together to enjoyably hunt the other people who live in Blackreef.
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