The Complex
- Apr 18, 2021
- 2 min read
Updated: 4 days ago
"I THOUGHT
'HUNKY DUDES' WOULD
JUST PULL UP SOME
SEXY FIREMEN!"
Rick, Flux, and Topsy subject themselves to The Complex, an interactive sci-fi thriller where the fate of humanity hangs in the balance... provided you're willing to occasionally press a button.
Trapped inside a high-security laboratory after a biological attack, Dr. Amy Tenant must unravel a conspiracy, make life-or-death decisions, and navigate some extremely complicated relationships. The game expects us to approach this situation with gravity, intelligence, and careful moral consideration.
The guys do none of those things.
Instead, the gang immediately decides Amy's primary objective is finding herself a boyfriend, transforming a deadly scientific crisis into the world's most inappropriate dating simulator. Every meaningful glance becomes romantic intrigue. Every handsome scientist becomes a candidate. Every serious decision is evaluated according to criteria that would make an HR department burst into flames.
Meanwhile, The Complex continues the grand tradition of interactive movies insisting they're video games, giving Rick, Flux, and Topsy plenty of opportunities to roast its limited gameplay, dramatic performances, and increasingly questionable choices.
Then Rick makes the catastrophic mistake of Googling "hunky dudes" for a Cogger. What appeared on the stream has been mercifully removed from this edit. The aftermath has not.
It's science! It's romance! It's biotechnology! It's three idiots desperately trying to turn an interactive movie into something considerably less respectable. GAME BIO:
The Complex is a 2020 interactive science-fiction thriller developed by Wales Interactive, Good Gate Media and Little Jade Productions. After a biological attack on London, scientist Dr. Amy Tenant becomes trapped inside a secure laboratory and must make decisions that alter her relationships and determine which of the story's multiple endings the player receives. Presented primarily through live-action footage, The Complex combines branching narrative choices with the structure of an interactive movie.
