• Heroes was a big thing back in 2006. A TV show where ordinary people gained superhuman abilities was my very own X-Men TV show. For me this was a new era when it came to series as Heroes showcased some superb visual effects. Effects that mainly characterised sci-fi series only back then. Too bad the quality dropped so much so that I did not finish it - I skipped its last season and the continuation titled Heroes Reborn which was released in 2015.
  
• There is a reason why Gemini has the title of the 2nd tv show in its name: it is meant to be some sort of prequel to it. If you look at the collectibles you can find throughout the game you recognise some of the characters of Heroes. Also, the game makes mention of a terrorist attack that happened in Texas (an important event for the story of Heroes Reborn) and Pinehearts is also there as the facility creating such heroes (referred to as Evos as in Evolved Humans).
  
• We play Cassandra who wishes to find out more as to who she is. She has gaps regarding her parents and with her friend, Alex, they are trespassing company territory to find some clues. As you can guess things do not go so well: Alex is captured while Cassandra manages to escape by triggering some sort of teleportation ability. Moving forward our job will be to locate Alex and, while we are there in the facility, to find answers to our long posed questions.
  
• The game is pretty short. Its 15 chapters can be completed in 3-4 hours. We gradually get stronger and, naturally, we acquire new abilities later. We do not have many, though: we use telekinesis to grab and throw objects (you know you are badass when you can do this to enemies), you can shield yourself from incoming projectiles and you can even slow down time. It is pretty cool when you do this only to grab the rocket an enemy guard just launched at you.
  
• What makes Gemini interesting is the ability for Cassandra to shift between two locations. Consider it a localised time travel where we can always jump back to 2008 from 2014 (present time according to the game). The facility back then was fully operational, therefore, shifting can make us see completely different environments. This gives the puzzle-solving aspect of the game and it is also a means to escape from a heated battle. In fact, the objects we pick up we can take to the future (I mean present).
  
• All this, unfortunately, does not save Gemini from being a mediocre FPS game. As stated above it is also short and just because the creators connect it to the TV show it will still be an average tale to tell. Combat, on the other hand, feels great throughout the game and the shift ability is pretty neat. For these reasons I can recommend the game as it is heaps of fun for a weekend you do not have anything else to do.[/list

Option A: Slow time, catch his bullets mid air, shift to the future, move behind him, shift back wait for him to turn around and propell them back at him

Option B: Run at them, shift through them and attack from behind.

Option C: Strand them in the future or past

This game is soo fun!! Yeah i can sense it had a low budget, but this is a wonderful blend between Mirror's Edge, Singularity, TimeShift and Bioshock. This may be linear but I cant stop playing and messing with all the possibilities. Give this a chance, I guarantee you wont see combat like this anywhere else. I never write reviews but this one deserves attention.

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To explain myself why I'm giving the game a thumbs down but still giving it six stars:

Since I had a game-breaking bug after level 6 that couldn't be solved with anything except deactivating the cloud, deleting all save files and starting the game from the beginning, and I didn't find anything about it on the fly, but it's definitely possible is that others can also get into this situation and I can't rate the game neutrally, I decided to give it a thumbs down.
Even if this should be seen more as a kind of "caution", because the six stars relate purely to the gaming experience and everything that has to do with it.

And yes, I actually managed to complete the game completely and without errors.

As for the bug, the word that came out was that I wasn't able to complete the transition from level 6 to 7 like I should have. I was "teleported" to a spot in level 7 that I can't get away from. No matter what I did, I was put back to where I started, and when I used the ability to toggle time, it completely kicked me off the map.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2873164879
I have to say, even though the TV show Heroes wasn't the best, I kind of enjoyed watching it until it was cancelled. Maybe because it wasn't very demanding, but it was still somehow good. This is also why I was looking forward to playing this game.

But what exactly is the game or the TV show Heroes about?

In short, the game/TV show is about a group of normal people who independently discover their superpowers/supernatural abilities.
Of course, as usual, there are also adversaries who are called "the Company" in the TV show and not only have countless resources, but also helpers with extraordinary powers.
And then there is the "Watchmaker" who preys on the heroes to kill them and take over their powers.
So everything somehow as always. Good ones, adversaries and one who is completely insane….
The story about Gemini: Heroes Reborn is designed large, but especially at the beginning it seems very rushed and you are simply thrown into a story and you have to accept what the story writers have come up with.

A young woman on a voyage of discovery who suddenly finds herself in an abandoned factory and, just in case of luck, just injects something.
Yes, of course, you can just do it, why not, what should happen if you inject yourself with an unknown liquid!?!

In the role of Cassandra who has no memories of her family or anything that happened before she was 12 years old when she had an accident.
Alex, her friend, found references to Cassandra's parents in a computer belonging to a dubious company, which also leads both to an old factory site with numerous ruins. But the ruins are not as abandoned as they appear.
There are security guards patrolling and when Cassandra and Alex are spotted, a brief chase begins, which also coincides with the tutorial for the parkour controls, at the end of which they both fall through a roof, Alex is captured and Cassandra discovers that she is a so-called "Evo " is.
Her ability is to manipulate time by slowing it down or jumping back and forth between the year 2008 and June 16, 2014. However, there is no explanation for exactly this period.

But no matter how crazy that sounds, it makes for a varied, more or less defensive first-person gameplay.

Granted, the story gets better with time.
What initially looks like a small sci-fi action jump 'n run game becomes more and more complex due to the different abilities, the telekinesis that comes later in the game, and the running and jumping passages in the first-person view.

In the end, this makes for an interesting concept that can also be a lot of fun.

However, the game never comes close to similar titles like Mirror's Edge paired with a pinch of Prey, and despite the varied gameplay, the story is never as good as it seems or could have been.

Even if Cassandra is unlikely to succeed in direct combat with armed opponents, her skills still give her a chance.
Telekinesis, coupled with the ability to slow down time, allows you to pick up items and hurl them at enemies. It is also possible to pick up and throw away non-armored opponents. If you don't feel like doing this to an opponent so often that he gives up, you should throw them into rotor blades, electrical switch boxes or chasms. Furthermore, it is advisable to isolate individual opponents as they usually appear in groups. The easiest way to do this is to change the time and explore the whole thing with the "time scout view".
This has the advantage that you can see "whether the coast is clear" or whether it's worth switching back to finish off an opponent.
In the course of the game, elements are added where, for example, you have to switch between the two times during jump passages and one or the other puzzle as well as actions / manipulations that you do in the past in order to change something in the present. But it doesn't get really difficult at any time and also because Cassandra gives tips on how the current puzzle can be solved.
Unfortunately, apart from the tutorial, there are no other sections in which you can completely do without "the fight" because there are often doors that only open when you have eliminated a certain number or enemies.

Furthermore, the AI is a total failure. Not just because they can be taken by surprise too easily. The opponents also give up their search quite quickly, especially when you change the timelines or they just like to stand around with their face to the wall or otherwise stupidly around.

Unreal Engine 4… great but where?

Unfortunately, what is on the package is not always what is in it at the end.
The game basically looks okay and hardly has any technical flaws, but the Unreal Engine 3 would have been quite enough for that.
The facial expressions usually look very wooden and not like precious wood but more like an oak. Also, some textures should have had a higher resolution and the reloading of some textures is also not inconspicuous at times because you look at a washed-out mush for some time. The effects such as the time jump are nice to look at, but there could have been more.

Sure, the game is from 2016 and is therefore already a few days old, but I can think of games that are no less old and still have very good graphics for current conditions.

There are no trading cards, but there are 21 achievements, most of which can be obtained as the game progresses. You can miss a few, but you can catch up on them relatively quickly after completing the story because you can repeat the individual levels. If you want 100% you should take a look at the achievements before the game.

Review date: October 12, 2022

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MY PROS AND CONS:
✅ cool (superhero) skills
✅ interesting time manipulation
✅ Action and jump 'n run
✅ varied gameplay
✅ Good English voice acting
✅ Parkour elements
✅ handsome effects
✅ pretty good controls

❌ many bugs
❌ low playing time
❌ not much replay value
❌ graphically outdated
❌ monotonous and repetitive
❌ boring backdrops
❌ no pure stealth option
❌ terrifying AI

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So final thoughts? Dayum, this is nice. And well worth the price, I must say. It LOOKS good, and it plays in a very unique way for a first person action game. The powers you get are loads of fun, and allows for variety in how you tackle enemy encounters. Certain parts of the platforming remind me a lot of Mirror's Edge, although it's not really quite parkour, at least not as intensive as the one in ME. And this is a small thing, but it's always refreshing in a first person game when you look down and are able to see the rest of your body rather than just empty space where it should be.

I guess my only gripes are that it's really, really short. You can finish it within 3 hours, 2 if you're blitzing it, and the replay value is very little. I'm gonna play through it again to get some of the secrets I missed, sure, but once I've managed to 100% the achievements, that's pretty much it. Another thing is that I wish there were a few more...puzzle-like elements to the game. I feel like it would've been so much better if they mixed some puzzles or at least light puzzle elements into the game. Would have worked well with the powers at your disposal. The most you get is literally just a pressure plate, and that's it. Gurl please.

Also another thing to add is, if you're hoping for some sort of good story with this game, you'd be disappointed. The story is really bland and uninteresting. The characters are all cardboard cutouts, and the dialogue can be very cringeworthy at times. Story-wise it's completely unremarkable, so if you ARE interested in getting this game, that's one thing to note. The gameplay is where you'll get the most out of it.

But all in all I had a real blast with this game. I'd recommend it, but it's not a MUST play by any means.

The thing you have to understand with Gemini: Heroes Reborn is that it contains some truly innovative, intriguing ideas. It combines the gameplay of Mirror's Edge, Singularity, and Psi-Ops to great effect. You can swap between two time periods at will, use telekinesis to throw objects and shield yourself, and you can bring time to a crawl. Unfortunately, these brilliant powers and gameplay ideas are wasted on a buggy, frustrating, limited game with a mediocre story and incredibly short run time.

How short is it? I didn't finish the entire way through, but I was at Chapter 9 in less than two hours. That's... pretty fast. I've seen others take roughly four hours or so.

How mediocre is the story? They devote several minutes in the opening just to establish basic character info that two to three lines of dialogue could summarize. Meanwhile, later on, protagonist Cassandra brushes off suddenly getting super powers like it's as average as finding you have a new pimple.

How buggy and unpolished? I once ran past an in-game trigger without even trying, necessitating I run back the way I came just to activate it properly. Another time, an enemy in my grasp came with me into one time period after I warped out of the other. Getting the game to properly climb objects sometimes seems like a test of will more than anything else.

I hate giving a thumbs down for this one. I really appreciate what the developers were going for, and with a bigger budget and more time, I bet they could have made it happen. As it is... get it on a sale if you're -really- curious. Otherwise, you're better off with other superhero and physics puzzler titles.

Although suffering from a number of quality issues, Gemini: Heroes Reborn has some interesting game play concepts that make it enjoyable for its short play time.

To get the bad out of the way first: The game's graphics looks far more dated than its 2016 release date would imply, the voice acting is nothing much, the plot is pretty dumb and the loading screens are obnoxiously long. Basically, the whole package feels underfunded and/or amateurish.

However, playing the game lets you do some neat stuff with time shifting and telekinesis. Freeze bullets and fling them back, slow time to dodge enemies, mentally throw barrels and desks at bad guys, shift yourself into another time frame to rest up and spy on the guards through a little time rift to plan your return. The game has some cool concepts that could have been better executed but -- for a 4-5hr game -- are still worth taking a spin through.

I'm giving this a "thumbs up" but I couldn't recommend spending the $15 MSRP on it. Pick it up in a bundle or something but it's worth trying once it's in your collection.

What it's got:

• A great story with lots of twists and turns.
• Unique and interesting "Super Powers" like time jump and time scout.
• Lots of environmental interaction to solve combat and navigation challenges.
• Beautiful game for a reasonable price.

It's one of those games that you don't mind dying in, because it gives you another chance at the combat using different techniques . Dying due to a platform style navigation challenge can be a little frustrating, but you always know what you did wrong and how to achieve your goal.

I do not reccomend this game. I don't think this game is terrible. But I simply do not reccomend it. I do not regret playing the game. But this is not a game I would say to someone "yes, you should buy this and spend time playing it".

I bought this game and let's played it on the Geek Remix channel because of the overwhelmingly positive reviews. I cannot understand why everyone loved this game so much. It is just okay.
Pros:

-Cool game mechanics. Interesting use of rendering two environments and switching between them. Some of the puzzles were cool. None of them too challenging.
-If you are the type of person who only cares about gameplay, you might enjoy this. Maybe. But the game is too short.
-Female protagonist who is PoC.


Cons:

-Too short and yet at the same time too long. It's only 2-4 hours depending on how you play. By the end I was just wanting it to be over.

-A lot of bugs. Sometimes cutscenes only start after .....???????? I stood in a room for a while walking around wondering what to do. Then suddenly the cutscene to progress the game started.

-The story is not nearly as good as all the other reviews made it out to be. There were some refferences to the origional heroes series, and to the side projects of the heroes reboot. Nothing too amazing. Everything just felt like one of the weak episodes of a tv show. The whole game feels like a DLC.

-Graphics were on the level of an early xbob 360 game. And yet this still somehow put a bit of a strain on my PC, that has 32 gigs of ram, an i7-4790, and a R9-290. Along with unusually long load screens for what seems like a low graphics game. I was playing on "Epic".

Anyway i feel like i got my points across. It's just an overwhelming sense of "that was okay i guess".

Based on famous TV series Heroes and its sequel, Heroes Reborn. This game is good, and I finished this game in one seat for 6.6 hours. Never though this game is short but fun. At first, I though this game like another FPS game, but I was wrong. Basic gameplay of this game is time travel & time manipulation, you can slowing time and catch enemy bullet and throw bullet back to the enemy. Or you can grab enemy while in the past timeline, bring that enemy to the future and throw to the pit. You can slow time, watch enemy bullet time in front of your face, catch and throw bullet to explosive barrel near him. Time manipulation is not the only power, but telekinesis is the real deal. Almost 80% object in this game can be moved by telekinesis power. So you can create a real messy from a cozy room by throwing everything with telekinesis power.

Pros
-. Combat gameplay is superb
-. Time manipulation is fun and telekinesis too
-. graphics is good for a low budget game
-. unique hud
-. voice acting sometimes is cringeworthy, but overall is good

Cons
-. bland story ... I almost forgot this game has a story
-. characterization is awful
-. linear & very short playthrough, need 3-4 hours to finish.
-. no replayability

Well, I can recommend this game if you want unique gameplay. Because is it very fun !

Had fun playing around with + nice story (never saw the TV series, just knew the name)
+ action and puzzles
+ voice acting

game was good for the cheap price

Really enjoyed throwing off chairs, tables and other stuff on enemies(killing them), it was like my office rage dream come true, and best part is all items were thrown with superpower of telekenesis. (every employee's wet dream)