David Cage took center stage at Sony’s E3 press conference tonight to announce Beyond, Quantic Dream‘s latest project.
Beyond follows the story of Jodie Holmes, played by academy award nominee Ellen Page.
A real-time scene from the game was shown during the press conference, where we see a shaved Jodie sitting in front of a Lietenant Sherman at a police station after he found her on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. Sherman asks Jodie if there was an accident or if someone tried to hurt her, trying to help her, but she doesn’t respond. He continues to question her in a subtle, polite matter, but she continues to avoid answering him. All of a sudden, the coffee on the table starts to shake, but then stops. She still doesn’t speak.
“If you can’t help me, I can’t help you,” he tells her before noticing a scar on the back of her head. And then, in a flash, the coffee cup flies off the table and breaks against the wall. Something out of Supernatural, it was.
The cop walks outside to check the missing persons list. Jodie sits alone in the room, talking to herself. “They’re coming,” she says. The SWAT team busts into the police office and approach the door to the room Ellie was left sitting. “Where is she?” they ask. They open the door, and she’s gone, just like that.
The demo ends with a series of different scenes flashing by, Jodie looking to be on the run.
“Tell them to leave me the fuck alone,” she tells a downed SWAT agent. “Because next time, I’ll kill everyone.”
The game’s tagline is “Two Souls.” It will be “emotional, mature, and unique,” according to Quantic Dream boss David Cage. Make the right decisions, he says, and you will maybe discover what lies beyond.