Kessler Effect
About
“Kessler effect” is the interactive adventure movie in the virtual reality, where the viewer directly interacts with the famous actors. The viewer himself might be one of the main characters and can influence the plot development and the movie ending.
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logline
By the middle of the third millennium, people have colonized space and made the aliens a part of society. But, unfortunately, people still care no respect towards the environment. In the new world, the main characters become members of a garbage collecting space ship team; they face a challenging mission of salvage the humanity. The final decision – whom to save, and who is destined to die – is up to the viewer.
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You Are the Main Character
Starring as autonomous military robot. The crew simply calls you «AURORA».
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Green / Yuriy Kolokolnikov
“Game of Thrones” and “The Americans” series
Movies: “The Transporter”, “Legacy”, “The Duelist”.
Starring as navigating engineer. Green – a giant of an ancient race of Malachite.
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Bertha Brown / Irina Starshenbaum
Starring as ship captain, Bertha Brown.
In the past – the Major of the United Fleet
Movies: “T34”, “Gravity”, “Ice”, “Summer”.
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Reagan Polanski / Nikita Elenev
Starring as chief officer, Reagan Polanski.
In the past – the Captain of the United Fleet.
“Molodezhka” series.
Movies: “23:59”, “Devils”, “Red”, “Summer”.
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KB-12 / Sergey Mezentsev
Starring as alter ego of the robot Aurora.
Appears unexpectedly, gives tips for the viewers
and makes jokes throughout the movie.
Movies: “Graveyard guy”, “Hardcore”.
Blog: “Serezha i microphone”, “DJ Ogurets”
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Steam User 10
Experienced on Windows Mixed Reality
This is a mostly cinematic experience running on the Unreal Engine with some interactions. You can play seated or standing, but you'll probably want to be standing so you can look all around. The interactions are mostly simple, but at one point, you are actually flying around in space on what looks like a space hoverbike. You also have a gravity gun for some reason (I don't think I used it) and the ability to see heat signatures (didn't use it either).
I was surprised by the length of the experience (almost 30 minutes long), along with the quality of the animations. This is top-notch work as far as the 3D models and environment. I think the audio lip-syncing is probably also great ... in the Russian language. However, the lip syncing is off in English. Which is surprising because the VOs in English are actually well done otherwise.
Although the store page description says you can influence the plot ... it's more like you just shake your head no or nod yes. That's how you effect the story. I think I shook wrong because I got a bad ending, but quickly had an option to get back to the story at a good point and, therefore, I got the good ending anyways.
There is this weird bug at the very end where the VOs turn into Chinese (I think). The audio level mix seemed off at the end, but the audio levels had been fine before this point. The experience does end kind of abruptly with the characters still talking, although the story has already come to a close by this point. I enjoyed the story. However, I can't help but think there was more going on. It's like you're put in the middle of a universe without much context for the story told.
In any event, i was pleasantly surprised here. It's a good deal at only $2.59 USD sale price (what I paid). Not the best story ever told, but I think some of that was due to the context being lost in translation. At some point they say to press the joystick when they mean trigger so I know some translations were just wrong.
Sale Price Rating 7/10. This is almost triple A production values here ... if only the characters had been lip-synced to English!
Steam User 0
Got massively motion sick and could not finish the first chapter. (you fly around space and turning was a bit tight)
From what I saw it was focused on the story and had tonnes of chapters, and some decision making to do.
I did however get confused as to what I was doing at times as you are jut observing for the most part, and then suddenly you had to do things. Some where simple. Some had me confused.
Steam User 2
It's a Sci-Fi TV show in VR. On sale it's worth it. Not on sale, it's ok. It has good visuals, but everything else is cheesy including the script, but you won't care.
Steam User 1
Visually stunning. Very short, but the price is right.