(Image credit: AdHoc Studio)

Game publishers rarely let you behind the curtain to see exactly how a game was made. So I’m quite taken with the fact that AdHoc Studio marked Dispatch’s first anniversary by letting you play through the whole thing using its original storyboard animatics. This means all those slick, TV-style superhero workplace scenes get swapped back for the rough drawings they started out as, timed against the dialogue, with all the awkward pauses and unfinished staging that implies.

It’s one half of a free update for Dispatch Deluxe Edition owners, out now on PC (Steam), PS5, Nintendo Switch / Switch 2 , and Xbox Series X/S, and the other half is Commentary Mode, with more than 16 hours of cast and crew talking you through the episodes.

What’s in the Dispatch anniversary update?

The commentaries include two tracks, one for the cast and one for the crew, with different choices unlocking different commentary, and you can switch it on over the top of Storyboard Mode.

So you can sit and…