The developers of A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead have revealed Microphone Noise Detection, an optional feature that allows the game’s monsters to hear sounds made by players in real life.
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead is a single-player horror video game based on the popular post-apocalyptic series from Paramount Pictures that revolves around blind extraterrestrials with an acute sense of hearing. The first film, starring Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, met with critical and commercial acclaim back in 2018.
Here’s how noise detection works: By activating the microphone, this optional feature allows the game’s deadly creatures to detect every sound you make in real life, bringing the horror “straight to your room.”
Here is the official note:
Capturing the insane terror, unnerving atmosphere and gripping human drama that made the series celebrated, A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead is for fans of film, horror and story-driven adventure alike. With nothing but your wits and the elementary tools you can acquire, you’ll have to overcome the many treacherous challenges and obstacles that await you, all while trying to survive the ever-present dangers that lurk around you.
Experience the harrowing journey of Alex, a teenage student suffering from asthma and struggling to survive the end of the world, with her boyfriend Martin. However, the nightmarish creatures that roam the land are not the only threat she will have to face as she travels through the ruins of civilization in search of a unthreatening haven for herself and her family.
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead was developed by Stormind Games, the Italian studio behind the survival horror series Remothered and the action RPG Batora: Lost Haven, and published by the creator of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, Saber Interactive. Premiere on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S on October 17.
It’s a busy time for the A Quiet Place series. Following the groundbreaking first film in 2018 and its 2020 sequel, prequel A Quiet Place: Day One was released in June, with a third main film expected in 2025.
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