Your Vote Can Help Contradiction Become Available on Steam!

Christian Cawley is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

We’ll start with the basics: Contradiction is an interactive video game, commonly described as an FMV, in which you control a detective as he establishes just who murdered a student in a remote village. It stars Blake’s 7 legend Paul Darrow (who also appeared in Doctor Who on two occasions, The Silurians and Timelash) and John Guilor (regular readers will know John; less regular will recognise his voice from The Day of the Doctor, where he provided new dialogue for the First Doctor, and the DVD reconstruction of Planet of Giants.

You may well have seen considerable coverage of the game – initially available on iPad only – on Kasterborous over the past few months, culminating with my review. The reason for such deep coverage is obvious: it’s a flaming great game, with a strong storyline, strong cast (beyond Darrow and Guilor), great performances, engaging gameplay and wonderful direction.

But you may not own an iPad. Worry not: the game is currently being developed for other platforms, and as you can see here they’re hoping to be able to distribute it through Steam for PC and Mac. In order for this to be successful, a special video has been made, designed to attract votes. Once enough have been cast, the game will be available for desktop computers for the first time

Here’s the pitch on Steam Greenlight:

Contradiction is an murder mystery adventure game that uses live-action video for the entirety of the game play. It’s a brand new take on the concept of an interactive movie and takes the genre to a whole new level of playability.

It features some great performances from the cast and has an intriguing story running through it, which you uncover as you progress. There’s no chance of ‘dying’ and having to restart and everything that happens is controlled by you.

Contradiction is designed to give you complete freedom of movement around the game environment as in a 3D graphics game. You can investigate areas, collect items, collect information and use items you’ve found. You can also interview the characters you meet and question them about the evidence and information you’ve collected. However, the centrepiece of the game is listening to their answers and spotting contradictions in their statements. When you spot a contradiction, they’re forced to admit it and the story moves along.

The game is already available for iPad (Contradiction on iTunes) and has had some great reviews, but the Steam version for Mac & PC will be the ideal format and will feature faster and easier navigation, additional game effects and HD video. The Steam version has also been designed to work with a game controller and will work best plugged into a big TV with good sound!

So if you like the idea, please VOTE YES!

If you hold a Steam account, and want to see the game on your computer (or proto Steambox…) head to the Contradiction page on Steam Greenlight to place your vote!

The post Your Vote Can Help Contradiction Become Available on Steam! appeared first on Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews.