Random Video Game Review - Detroit: Become Human

So Quantic Dream are back with their latest game. We've dealt with serial killers, the lose of people, dealing with things that a considered an act of God and other things too. So now David Cage has his take on human like androids which to be fair, isn't as original as someone might think. Most of us know how these stories play out and how they end. Sometimes they work and other times not so much. But I'm willing to give it the benefit of a doubt so let's see how this goes:

So much like with Quantic Dream's other works (two of which have since become all time favourite games of mine despite their problems), players are able to shape the story depending on the choices they make. Although players get to play as three different androids (where for once wooden, weak or robotic acting is allowed), its up to them whether they want these droids to survive or not. So in no particular order, our first android is Conner (played via motion capture by Bryan Dechart) who out of the three androids is the most advanced being able to adapt to human behaviours and works with police lieutenant Hank (played via motion capture by Lex Luthor himself, Clancy Brown) to find and dispose of any androids that go deviant, eventually questioning his functions while also attempting to gain Hank's trust. Our second android is Markus (played via motion capture by Jesse Williams) who is a caretaker android to an artist called Carl Manfred (played via motion capture by Lance Henriksen) who one day manages to break free from his programming, but at the cost of losing his master and tasks himself with finding the android safe zone Jericho in an attempt to free other androids like himself from bondage. And the last android is a housekeeper called Kara (played via motion capture by Valorie Curry) who serves as the housekeeper to a girl and her abusive father who depending on choices that are made, also turns deviant in an attempt to protect the girl from harms way. With each part of the stories that are played out, there's lots to find which helps unlock things like additional dialogue choices and choices that may or may not affect the story. There's also magazines scattered all over that help further establish the world of Detroit.

If I can find one thing that I'm not comfortable with when it comes to this game, its the game being self aware. Self aware to the point where it will make you feel bad if you do a bad choice or played for too long. In addition, I hate anything that makes out that what it shows is what will happen in our future. Now I have had doubts about this before, but given how accurate shows like The Simpsons have been, I still firmly believe that our future is uncertain and that not one thing can say with confidence that what we play or see is what will happen in our future. Sure we are now getting to a point in robotics where robots look like us, but I find it unlikely that we will get a future with human like robots trying to take over without trying. But enough ranting, I think this game of the three Quantic Dream games that I have played is just OK. Visuals are good, the acting is good and gameplay is good also. Its just the story feels like something we've heard a dozen times before and the self aware side of things is both creepy and unrealistic to a point where it wants us to believe that we will get a world that's populated by robots and humans alike. 7/10