Peaky Blinders: Mastermind  (PS4)

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Peaky Blinders: Mastermind is a puzzle-adventure game, based on the multi-award-winning BBC and Netflix TV show. Become the Mastermind as you control key characters and pull off perfectly synchronized plans. When asked what Graham's role will be, he said: "I've already got it and I'm not going to tell you!" Speaking previously to Digital Spy about the relationship between Linda and Arthur, Kate said: "I definitely feel like there's a lot of unfinished business there. They share a child together. There's definitely no chance Arthur would let Linda get away with Billy, so they're tied together, with the family connection, and obviously family is a big connection in Peaky Blinders. THE RISE OF TOMMY: When a Peaky Blinder is implicated in the murder of a Chinese opium dealer, Tommy embarks on a mission to find out the truth, slowly growing into the true Peaky Blinders’ Mastermind.

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The controls are nice and straight forward, allowing you to interact with people and use your abilities, as well as rewind and forward time as you operate each of the characters. There’s even a safety mechanism so you don’t accidentally alter someone’s timeline – you have to hold a button for a few seconds before you break the pre-recorded cycle. You see, if you’ve ‘programmed’ a string of events then rewind and move that character at any point before they end them, you’ve effectively erased their future, so this ‘are you sure’ mechanic is great for clumsy people like me! Not [as] Al Capone – I didn't want to go west because it's a minefield once you go into Chicago gangsters," Knight said during an episode of the Obsessed With... Peaky Blinders podcast. "I referred to him last series, but I didn't want to go into that." The mechanics within Peaky Blinders: Mastermind are amazing, everyone has to work together whilst you plan their events independently. You’ll also often come across ‘puzzles’ which involves you using certain people to clear the way so others can progress further. Sadly, the game is held together by non-voiced still images in the place of animated and voiced cutscenes. This took me out of the immersion a little as I feel the narrative and experience would have been greatly enhanced if either one of those elements were present. I understand that the developer and publisher aren’t that big, so probably couldn’t get the original TV show cast to step in and voice their digital doppelgangers, but they could have just hired any voice actors in my opinion. However, as I’m not a fan of the show, the possibility of different voices doesn’t bother me, but fans of the show may have had an issue with this – which is probably why they went with “official voices or none” and settled with ‘none’.THE RISE OF TOMMY - When a Peaky Blinder is implicated in the murder of a Chinese opium dealer, Tommy embarks on a mission to find out the truth, slowly growing into the true Peaky Blinders' Mastermind.

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It's like if you've been to the dentist and the novocaine is wearing off. His previous method was shutting everything down and just going from moment to moment with the only thing being 'more power, more money'. As the painkiller wears off, he starts to feel things and starts to remember things and as a consequence of that, he is in trouble. MANIPULATE TIME: Each character’s actions are automatically logged in a timeline which you can freely reset, fast-forward and rewind, until the plan is perfectly adjusted. Jim Carrey once mistook Sam for Johnny Cash, and John Carpenter told him to ‘Keep up the good work.’ He promises to try his best.

Yasmine Hubbard

Peaky Blinders: Mastermind is set right before the first season of the TV show, you take control of the Shelby clan as you play out the rise of Tommy through ten missions. What starts out innocent enough, well, innocent for a criminal gang, soon turns nasty when you discover a sinister plot to put the family out of business – forcing Tommy to stand up and become the Mastermind behind stopping these events and getting revenge on those involved. If there was one criticism I’d make of the plot it’s that because it’s a prequel, it’s a little too easy to guess what happens to those named characters who don’t appear in the TV show. We also know that every playable character in the game survives, which removes some of the threat to those characters. But that’s kind of the point to Peaky Blinders: Mastermind. It’s not about surviving a Small Heath gang war. It’s about doing it in the style and synchronicity that’s so prevalent in the TV series.