Dispatch, the upcoming workplace superhero comedy adventure game with a strategy layer from a group of ex-Telltale developers, is coming to PC and PS5 on October 22. It will be released episodically over the course of four weeks, with two episodes dropping each week starting on October 22. It's priced at $30 for the full season, or $40 for deluxe version of the full season that includes a digital artbook and four digital comics. Watch the new release date trailer/PS5 announcement trailer above.
Dispatch's cast is headlined by Aaron Paul, Jeffrey Wright, and Laura Bailey and is a narrative adventure game where you'll not just make dialogue choices, but also manage which superhero is deployed to which crisis as the calls come in your character, Robert Robertson (voiced by Paul). It's up to you to manage the relationships with each superhero and get the most out of your team. Dispatch is developed by AdHoc, a new studio comprised of a number of former Telltale developers.
“We think the release format is an underrated part of the player experience,” AdHoc co-founder and Dispath creative director Nick Herman said. “Episodic is a format that makes the story easy to slip into, easy to keep up with, and easy to share with friends. We want the launch of Dispatch to be ‘appointment gaming’ but with the weekly cadence of a TV show, as opposed to asking people to wait months between each release.”
Wishlist it and/or check out the playable demo right now on Steam. I did recently and had a blast with it. It plays like a game Telltale would've made if it had survived and evolved (and left behind its poorly-aging Telltale Engine).
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