This perspective surprised Zhao Lei very much.

Logically speaking, Chen Mo has produced many first-person VR games, including the previously popular "The Unknown Sea".

The first-person perspective has a great effect in enhancing the player's sense of access, and is the choice of most mainstream VR games.

However, "American Doomsday" chose a traditional overshoulder perspective. Is there any profound meaning in it?

At this time, Zhao Lei felt like a non-existent ghost, floating behind the little girl, able to control the little girl's every move, but in the end he could only be considered a bystander.

It seems that there is a director who is controlling his field of vision (camera lens) and experiences the story from multiple angles.

However, after knowing that he is controlling the little girl now, Zhao Lei has a new guess, that is, there is a very likely transition of multiple characters in this game.

Generally, games that use a first-person perspective have a fixed protagonist, such as "Escape" and "PUBG", and players will not experience other characters from beginning to end.

However, if a certain game needs to "soul-walking" back and forth between multiple characters, then the first-person perspective will have some problems.

Sometimes it’s a little girl, sometimes it’s an adult male, sometimes it’s a pretty girl... From a first-person perspective, it’s easy for players to have doubts about their current identity.

Therefore, there should be two considerations for adopting this overshoulder perspective. On the one hand, it is to allow players to experience the story from a purely bystander perspective, and on the other hand, it is to reduce the confusion caused by character transformation on players.

Thinking of this, Zhao Lei felt that choosing the perspective of "The Doomsday of the United States" should be Chen Mo's approach after careful consideration. However, he still wanted to say that this technique is really retro.

After all, now that VR games are popular, designers are generally exploring the "sense of substitution" of the game, and even the script, gameplay, and narrative methods of the entire game are serving "first-person perspective" and "sense of substitution". It is very rare for Chen Mo to sacrifice VR game characteristics for the story.

As the little girl stood up from the bed, Zhao Lei officially gained control of the little girl.

There are relatively simple prompts in your vision, prompting Zhao Lei to control the little girl to walk, open the door, etc.

While walking, the little girl occasionally talks to herself, rubs her eyes, shives, yawns, etc.

After playing Zhao Lei for a while, I realized that this overshoulder perspective is actually quite good in VR games, not as stiff as I imagined. More importantly, I can see the little girl's movements throughout the whole process. Although it lacks a sense of substitution, the storyline of the scene and plot is smoother.

On the table, Zhao Lei found the birthday card the little girl gave to her father.

"Dad: You are often not at home, you hate my favorite music, and you look down on my favorite movies, but the strange thing is that you can still be the best dad every year. How did you do it? Happy birthday, yeah!"

The signature is: Sarah who loves you.

Seeing this, Zhao Lei couldn't help but smile.

He is also a father now, and when he sees this kind of scene, he can't help but feel a sense of warmth in his heart.

The little girl's house has a lot of details, including jerseys, sneakers, computers, music and posters, etc., and she looks like a very ordinary American family. However, this decoration makes Zhao Lei feel a little more time-honored, and it feels like it was several years ago. After all, the technology products here look quite out of date.

Chen Mo did not tell the specific era when the story took place, but obviously there were some hints in the game.

The latest news in the newspapers in the room: the number of hospital admissions surged, the bizarre infection increased by 300%, the Food and Health Department found more contaminated crops, the woman killed her husband and the other three, etc.

Joel is not in the bedroom and there are news about infected patients on TV.

On TV, the reporter was reporting that a gas explosion suddenly occurred, and the signal from the TV was instantly interrupted. At the same time, an explosion sounded out of the window, and a fire lighted up in the dark night sky.

The rustling of the TV and the alarm of vehicles outside the room suddenly made the atmosphere of the whole game become weird.

"So, now is the eve of the virus outbreak?"

While controlling the little girl to look for various elements in the room, Zhao Lei speculated on the current plot. Obviously, "The Doomsday of the United States" tells the story after the outbreak of the zombie virus, and now it is obviously during the outbreak.

When I arrived downstairs, rows of police cars whizzed by.

The dog is barking.

The clock shows that the time is 2:15.

At this moment, the cell phone on the table rang. Uncle Tommy called and was looking for Joel. Zhao Lei continued to manipulate the little girl to search for clues in the room. Suddenly, the dog outside the door suddenly whineed, and there was no sound afterwards.

Continuing to move forward, Joel suddenly ran back, chatting with the little girl panting, while rummaging through the cabinet and putting bullets on the pistol.

A man who had been infected and had lost his mind suddenly broke through the glass door. He was covered in blood and seemed to have been deeply infected and completely lost his mind. Joel stood in front of the little girl, and after warning, he shot the neighbor who broke in without hesitation.

The plot afterwards became natural. Uncle Tommy drove to pick up the father and daughter, and then the three of them drove together to escape.

The little girl sat in the back seat, observing everything outside through the car window glass in horror.

While driving, Tommy and Joel were discussing the outbreak. On the way, a family wanted to take a ride. Tommy wanted to stop, but Joel stopped him.

Traffic jams, zombies everywhere, car accidents, attacked, picked up the little girl and continued running...

The next plot is the standard zombie escape plot, but the atmosphere of the story is great. The panicked pedestrians, screaming, crash into a gas station and exploded vehicles, constantly comforting their daughter's father, and the zombies suddenly ran out... All of this is extremely rich in details, and the scenes and pictures are completely detailed at the same level as "The Uncharted Sea", so they give people a very strong sense of reality.

Finally arrived at the highway, the soldiers in front of them shot and eliminated the zombies they caught up with.

The soldier was asking his superiors: "Sir, there is a little girl here...but...yes, sir."

Joel seemed to understand something and tried to convince the soldier: "Listen, man, we have just escaped from death..."

However, the soldier raised his gun.

He fired!

Joel subconsciously turned his back to the muzzle, hoping to block the bullet for his daughter, and rolled forward violently.

But the soldier holding the gun still came to Joel and pointed the gun at his head.

Just when Joel thought he was dead, a gunshot sounded, Tommy arrived in time and shot the soldier in the head.

But just when Zhao Lei thought that the father and daughter had finally escaped, he found that his daughter was sobbing and she was shot in the abdomen.

The blood spread instantly, and the little girl's voice gradually became lower...

Joel comforted his daughter in vain and covered her wounds, but could only watch the little girl die in constant sobs.

The guitar sounded and sad, and in the quiet insects in the middle of the night, Joel cried in tears while holding his dead daughter.
Chapter completed!