Post 3: Book Project 1: 11/22/63 Video Game

11/22/63

                Now that you have read the book, it’s time that you live through it. Coming to X-box One, Playstation 4 and PC is the new 11/22/63 action RPG video game. Create your own personal character and take part in an alternate time line were Jake trains people to go back in time to change history, for better or for worse. Play through many events such as WWI to stop Hitler for good, or even stop the death of Abraham Lincoln. However not all of your choices will make the future better, some might cause WWIII or even another great flood. If you don’t like you’re out come you can also go back into the portal and try again. However you should only use this sparingly, doing it too much will start to damage time itself, causing strange happenings to occur. Fight many types of foes like soldiers, mobsters, or even time police.

                The discovery of the first time portal was made by Al Templeton when he opened his dinner called “Al’s Dinner”. According to Al every time you go back into the time portal you start at the exact same time, September 9, 1985 at 11:58 A.M. “And when you go down the steps, it’s always 11:58 A.M. on the morning of September ninth, 1958.” Due to Al’s failing health he wants Jake to finish something he never had a chance to do. He wants Jake to go back, wait until the year of 1963 and prevent the death of John. F. Kennedy. “You can change history, Jake. Do you understand that? John Kennedy can live.” Jake is hesitant at first but does eventually agrees to Al’s last request to go back and stop Lee Harvey Oswald from killing JFK.  Since Jake has to wait a while until he gets a chance to save JFK he decides to make a new life for himself. Throughout his new life he falls in love with a Sadie Dunhill, who eventually helps Jake with stopping Oswald. Jake does end up saving JFK’s life but at the cost of Sadie’s, so he decides to go back to the portal and see how his decision changed the future. Before he goes back in, a man with a green card stops to talk to him. He tells him that is part of a group that watches time portals like the one if Al’s dinner. He tells Jake that Al’s belief that every time someone steps back into the portal is a complete reset was somewhat wrong. Instead it creates separate timelines were events are changed a little or hugely effected. “Each trip creates its own string, and when you have enough strings, they always get snarled.” Jake decides to go into the portal and see how his action changed the future. When he returns he finds out that America was ravaged by a nuclear apocalypse due to the Civil Rights act never being signed. Jake decides to go back into the portal and reset the future back to its original state. In the end he meets up with Sadie as an old woman, and share in one final dance together. Now the reason the timeline your character starts in exists is because it’s one of the many timelines Al or Jake created as they traveled in through the time portal. Also there are many different types of time portals, so you don’t just go back to 1958.

                Fans of 11/22/63 will really enjoy this video game because it expands upon the idea of time travel Stephen King created in the novel. In order to give the book attention as well, the video game will feature a lot of the characters from the book. You will be able to interact with them by asking them questions, doing tasks for them, or getting to know them better. Plus that’s not all, Stephen King himself will be writing a lot of the quests and dialogue you will hear and go on throughout the game. If you love 11/22/63 and want to continue the experience, then buy the video game! Release date 11/22/2016.