Flashback
Flashback is a science fiction platform video game remake of the original 1992 Flashback. The game was developed by the original game designer, Paul Cuisset, with his studio, VectorCell, and published by…
Flashback is an adventure developed by VectorCell, released 21 August 2013 on Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Flashback is
Flashback is an adventure game developed by VectorCell and released in 2013. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game begins with the protagonist, who tried to escape from Cyborgs using a jetbike. Unfortunately his vehicle got severely damaged and crashes in a jungle of Titan. He wakes up after a while, finds a gun and retrieves a holocube later on. His own hologram tells he is Conrad B. Hart, and he has to go find Ian in New Washington, telling he's not safe. After a little journey in the jungle, he meets Bolton, and asks to find his teleporter for medical assistance. After retrieving the teleporter, he teleports as he leaves his own ID card. After venturing for a while, Conrad meets Joe, he tells that New Washington is down the hole behind him, but an Anti-Gravity Belt is needed. To have it, he…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Flashback holds a critic score of 49 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 21 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Core 2 Duo E4400 2.0GHz or Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4200+, 1 GB RAM and 256 MB DirectX® 9 / Radeon HD 2600XT or GeForce 7600 GS. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Flashback launched on 21 August 2013, within three weeks of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Rayman Legends and Saints Row IV. All of them reviewed better. It was a Xbox One launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Papers, Please, Rayman Legends, Saints Row IV.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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