non-player characters, as Arkane recognized the choice of killing or subduing enemies had weighed down players in Dishonored. These stealth abilities can still be chained together with other abilities to make Colt fight like John Wick, according to Bakaba. The Julianna character has a similar range of abilities, many of these closer to the Prey abilities such as being able to mimic any character in the game, including Colt, and thus interfere through activities such as drawing the player away from the real target with her mimicry or by posing as a duplicate Colt in front of one of the targets to cause confusion that way. The game's setting of Blackreef is based on the Faroe Islands and the Scottish Highlands as seen in Skyfall, and inspired by the styles of the Swinging Sixties and the approach used to depict the era in Guy Ritchie's The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. To avoid making the game's visuals appear too close to that of Dishonored, they took cues from color use in films like High Plains Drifter and Point Blank, using bright colors and designs to give the island an endless party atmosphere. Billboards in the game that reveal secrets about the island were drawn from the film They Live. Besides time travel and time loop files like Groundhog Day, Edge of Tomorrow and the Back to the Future trilogy, the game was influenced by the French comedy La Colle and the film The Fourth Dimension. Films like The Running Man, The Warriors, The Wicker Man, Under the Volcano, and Dark City were used to draw inspiration for the game's plot of a solitary man working to solve a mystery in an isolated location while being hunted down by others. Colt's appearance drew heavily from Denzel Washington's character in The Book of Eli, while his motives were based around the Snake Plissken character from Escape from New York along with array of gadgets inspired by the James Bond series. The dialog was based around the films of Quentin Tarantino, particularly the interactions between Colt and Julianna. Deathloop uses Arkane's Void Engine, previously used in Dishonored 2, based on the id Tech engine. Deathloop was revealed at E3 2019. It was further showcased during Sony's PlayStation 5 event in June 2020, confirming that the game will see release as a timed console exclusive on the PlayStation 5 in late 2020 alongside a Windows release.