Detroit: Become Human Reviews
A great adventure that looks as awesome as it plays with multiple choices that really matter and a compelling history that it's worth your time.
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Detroit: Become Human is a great adventure with multiple choices. Great atmosphere and a story that is all in your hands.
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Try it if you really want to see how hard it is to make branching narrative work on this scale. Otherwise, just catch up on Westworld.
Detroit is the best possible version of itself.
[Detroit: Become Human] is a social revolution simulator, where most of your choices actually matter, the story and characters are engaging and moving and the amount of narrative content is incredibly massive.
A cliche-ridden written story that has some decent ideas throughout, but is so bleak it's hard to grow attached to.
Detroit: Become Human wants to move you. It wants to elicit an emotional response through its story. The thing is, it really doesn't. The flowchart is a nice inclusion and adds some variance, but when the narrative is as cringey and ham-fisted as it is you won't want to play through it multiple times.
Detroit: Become Human is best when it foresees the consequences of our decisions and sets up a clear choice — or a muddy choice. It creates the illusion of the Butterfly Effect, where small actions can lead to big consequences.
Detroit: Become Human takes on complex themes about humanity and technology and is visually stunning, but it's too heavy-handed in its storytelling and has lackluster acting.
Detroit is a perfect game to livestream, or play with three mates and half a bottle of tequila – but if you tell me you genuinely think the story is well done, I will immediately be sus that you, yourself, are an android poorly trying to replicate human behaviour.
David Cage's latest is a thoughtful and gripping tale of androids achieving sentience in a society with a grim history of denying freedom
Detroit: Become Human may not be perfect, but it's Quantic Dream's masterpiece.
'Detroit: Become Human' is the best adventure game from Quantic Dream yet
Like quality junk food, the game was not exactly fulfilling but it was a bingeable experience.
Some games allow us to escape reality, and some force us to take a long hard look at it. Detroit: Become Human is one of those games that straddles the border between entertainment and reality.
Detroit: Become Human is a cinematic masterpiece, and easily the best work to date from developer Quantic Dreams. It's gorgeous, sounds beautiful, and the choices made here are impactful and introspective. Better still, the exposed underpinnings encourage repeat playthroughs just to see where all of the rabbit holes go. Come for the storyline, stay for the thought provoking look at a potential near future for mankind, and where AI might fit within it.
The human v android setup is hackneyed, but this choose-your-own-adventure-style descent into a near-future Detroit is served up with spellbinding artistry