There will be snap decisions to make, and quick-time events to test your reflexes.Īs well as those, in The Quarry, you have moments where you will have to hold your breath. You have the mechanics you expect, exploring areas and choosing dialogue options. The Quarry takes the formula and moves it forward, with some expanded mechanics that bring a bit more game into this video game.
Which one of these is the danger you need to fear? You will have to play on to find out. The intro has a creepy cop, weird goings-on in the woods, a potential ghost/witch, and some hunters who don’t seem like they are hunting for animals. You know you’re playing a horror game, but Supermassive will be damned if they let you know early on what exactly you should be afraid of. Without spoiling anything (nothing in this review will show or mention anything beyond the first chapter), The Quarry likes to keep you guessing about what kind of calamity is coming. There are enough similarities to call The Quarry somewhat of a spiritual sequel to Until Dawn.Īnother similarity they share is the setup.
Both games have a very similar structure, multiple chapters in which you jump from playing one character to the next, and in between chapters there is a fourth-wall-breaking framing device in which a character addresses the player directly, giving clues for what could be ahead. There’s ample eye candy in the form of bikini-wearing women, glamorous Miami settings and sleek sports cars, including a breathtaking baby-blue Jaguar.The Quarry has a lot of parallels with Until Dawn, beyond the basic gameplay and genre. Since this is a buddy-cop movie, it wouldn’t be complete without car chases and explosions, and the fancy rides and fireworks in “Ride Along 2” reflect the film’s larger budget. Munn gets in on the action scenes and performs a sultry dance with Bratt, but Sumpter is given little to do. He eats up the camera in every scene.Įverything else is a side dish, though Jeong amuses as a sex-crazed hacker nebbish and Sherri Shepherd is over the top as an obsessive wedding planner. Cube is predictably tough and snarly, making Hart seem even more smiley and animated by contrast.
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The actors deliver, just like in the last movie and others where they play similar roles. It’s just about setting up ever more elaborate situations for Hart to be a goofball to Cube’s straight man. The plot is too complicated to explain (there’s government corruption and shipping fraud involved), but it doesn’t even really matter. This prompts a local homicide detective, Maya (Olivia Munn), to join the investigation. AJ is linked to a case James is working in Atlanta, but he’s also connected to a major Miami drug lord, Antonio Pope (Benjamin Bratt), who has been masquerading as a philanthropist. He’s still trying to impress her brother, James, who still can’t stand him.Īt Angela’s urging, James reluctantly agrees to bring Ben on a police mission from Atlanta to Miami, where James is on the hunt for a suspicious hacker, AJ (Ken Jeong). This time around, Ben is a fresh graduate of the police academy a week away from his wedding to Angela (Tika Sumpter). Producers reprise the formula and return to many of the original film’s artists for the sequel, including screenwriters Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi and director Tim Story. Hart is goofy and slapstick Cube is stern and annoyed. It focused on Ben (Kevin Hart), an excitable video-game junkie and wannabe cop, and his attempts to impress his disinterested future brother-in-law, James (Ice Cube), a hard-nosed police detective. The original “Ride Along” topped the box office for three straight weeks when it opened in January 2014, collecting $150 million returns on its modest $25 million budget. With the same brand of silliness and a bit more creativity than the original, “Ride Along 2” doesn’t pretend to be anything more than what it is: a sequel designed to offer a second helping of exactly what worked the first time around.
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