Microids and Pendulo Games have announced a new game during Guerrilla Collective, and it is an interpretation of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. The game is similarly named with it being called Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo. The game has been confirmed for PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and Switch. A release is due nearer the end of this year. You can watch the reveal trailer for Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo below.
Josué Monchan, Narrative Designer at Pendulo Studios, said: “Of course, Alfred Hitchcock’s movie was a major inspiration source, whether it’s about the game’s themes, its narration, or even the visual techniques we used that clearly mirror Hitchcock’s recurrent cinematographic techniques. Vertigo is not our only frame of reference. For instance, the fact that therapy is at the core of the narrative echoes Spellbound, and some characters resemble protagonists from Rebecca, Psycho, and many more.”
The story follows the writer Ed Miller and the events following a car crash. After the initial crash only Ed is found with the wreckage, but Ed insists his wife and child were in the car with him. With no other proof of this Ed undertakes therapy and through here the truth of the day is gradually uncovered. The features for Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo include:
- An exclusive, original story about obsession, memory, manipulation and madness, freely inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, Vertigo
- Live a powerful narrative experience paying tribute to the visual and storytelling techniques of the thriller genre
- Investigate through the vision of three characters: everyone has a different story to tell
- Explore several timelines to cross-check the events and separate reality from deceptive memories
Source: Microids
