Detroit: Become Human

This game takes me back to those days of the c"choose your own adventure" books, where you were given the option of making specific decisions which would alter the outcome of the story.

These where my favorite kind of books, and if you made a decision you were prompted to turn to a specific page and carry on reading. One book could have multiple endings and all depending on what decisions you made, this game basically follows in the spirit of those books, only here it's much more intense. Based on your choices in the game, you can change the character's personalities and the tone of their individual stories. This really does give the entire game longevity allowing you to play this over a few times, each time with a different out come as long at you make different choices.

The backbone of Detroit’s story is probably more of a philosophical question, is artificial intelligence actually alive, can they really think for themselves, are they even able to think or even dream, or is it just programing doing what it was meant to do? There is a constant tug of war between what is essentially right and wrong, giving you moral choices to make which then hugely influences the character arc and eventually what choices will be available to the character.

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Our story begins in a miserable, dark version of a future Detroit, where androids have become like the latest must have iPhone.

They have become so much part of our daily lives that it's almost impossible to imagine living without them, and just like mobile phones, there's a new model almost every week and you can buy them every where. Our adventure begins with one of the three main characters Markus, who is a caretaker android and as he returns home with his owner they notice what looks like an attempted burglary and he immediately alerts the police. He ends up confronting the perpetrator, but in doing so Markus bypasses his programming in order to save the life of his owner, thereby becoming a deviant android with full autonomy. When the police arrive they end up shooting Markus due to his programing anomaly, as this is apparently a far greater threat. Markus wakes up some time later in a landfill of broken androids and, after escaping, discovers Jericho, which is a wrecked ship and safe haven for deviant androids. Markus becomes inspired and realizes he needs to fight for the rights of fellow androids, and then rallies others who help him perform several acts of civil disobedience. This eventually causes the FBI to takes action and they attack the Jericho.

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"One error and I came to life. I stepped out of the darkness and I opened my eyes. First there was the fear, the light, the noise, the cold, and the fear again. I could feel my hands shaking, my heart pounding in my chest, life running into my veins. I wanted to live. I fought for that. " - Kara

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If you have been reading my game blogs for a while, well firstly thank you for taking the time to come back, I greatly appreciate it.

Secondly you would know how much value I place in the story when it comes to games, or any other forms of media. You can have the most expensive special effects, biggest budgets in the world, but when you don't have a captivating story, then none of it matters at the end of the day, just look at the last season of Game of Thrones or The Last Jedi. A great story is the driving force behind this game, not every alternate choice leads to a drastically different story, it might lead to the same result, but by a surprising new means. Sometimes it might change a relationship with another character and unlock a complete different path that wasn’t there before. There's a famous quote about life, it's not about the destination, it's more about the journey, and the easily sums up Detroit: Become Human.

All in all this is wonderful interactive sci-fi drama where your decisions impact events to a greater and more satisfying degree than in does in most games of this kind. Unfortunately it does lack in some areas, especially if you're more into non-stop action sort of games, but Detroit does offer a multitude of transparent branching paths which will entice further playthroughs, adding to the longevity of the game.

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Detroit: Become Human is an adventure game developed by the good folks at Quantic Dream and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

These are the same people who brought us Heavy Rain in 210 as well as the 2013 game Beyond: Two Souls, both which I have reviewed here. This game was released in May 2018 exclusively for the PlayStation 4, which is the same style game play as their previous two tiles I just mentioned. Become Human follows more in the line of Heavy Rain where the story revolves around three androids, namely Kara, Connor and Markus, and they all some how intertwine. The writer and director David Cage, consulted with experts in the field of artificial intelligence and this over two years to complete. Quantic Dream then built a brand new engine to complement the game and cast hundreds of actors before commencing the process of shooting and animation. The game was also Quantic Dream's most successful launch title, with sales exceeding two million. Because this is just past that one year mark, be sure to look out for this title at your local game store, as this is more or less the time when tiles get a bit of a reduced price.

I'm giving Detroit: Become Human a rating of 6.5/10

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In case you missed it, here is the previous game review

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