Minka Kelly, Clancy Brown, and Lance Henriksen also lend their voices to this choose-your-own-adventure game.
Life often comes down to the choices we make.
Even the most minute actions can have drastic consequences, ones that we can’t always walk back.
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Directed by Quantic Dream founder David Cage,Detroitsets its world around the titular city in the year 2038.
First there’s Connor (voiced by video game actor Bryan Dechart).
But really CyberLife wants Connor to discreetly handle the situation before rumors of their malfunctioning products become public.
(The unsettling nature of this conceptwasn’t loston gamers and advocates against domestic abuse).
Cage seemed determined to build a fully immersive world.
That determination, while ambitious, can be risky.
The gameplay model doesn’t lend itself to binge-playing, but instead seems better suited for a prolonged experience.
Again, choices have consequences and, like in real life, we don’t always get do-overs.
But this mission becomes more complicated and maybe even a little contradictory, at times as it progresses.
Detroitfeels more like a rich television miniseries with elements ofWestworld,Ex Machina, and neo-noir mysteries mixed in.
But the replay-ability factor is questionable.
The game marks an intriguing experiment for a different kind of gameplay experience.
