After being announced a few months ago, Kid A Mnesia, a video game jointly created by British group Radiohead and Epic Games, has finally been released.
But Kid A Mnesia Gallery isn’t a video game per se, and if anyone has been expecting an action adventure that controls the band members, they’re halfway wrong. Because it’s actually a virtual art gallery, which celebrates 21 years since the release of Kid A and Amnesiac’s albums.
Comme l’explique le chanteur Thom Yorke sur le blog officiel de la PlayStation, l’idée initiale du groupe était de créer une performance physique dans un lieu ou un musée de Londres, mais ces projets ont été abandonnés pour diversified coronavirusesé raisons (p Away).
The Kid A Mnesia exhibition is a kind of first-person virtual tour of the various artworks that Thom Yorke and his collaborators created for the release of the two albums. The project was developed over two years during which the group worked with studios Arbitrarily Good Productions and [namethemachina]While Epic Games took care of the editing.
“In a way everything we’ve done for this game comes straight from two decades ago,” according to Yorke.
Kid A Mnesia is now available on PlayStation 5, PC, and Mac through the Epic Games Store. Fans of the band will probably already have it in their library, but the fact that it’s free may open the door to these albums for people who haven’t heard of it before.
