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Detroit: Become Human isn’t a sci-fi game

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David Cage’s video games are polarising, to say the least. Sure, they’ve got visuals that most developers would sell their children for if they could harness such graphical power on their games, but at the same time they’re not exactly the best when it comes to proper interaction.

Some are hits, some are misses. And the last game from David Cage and his studio Quantic Dreams, Beyond: Two Souls, was certainly a miss. Which means that he may be due a hit, if the Star Trek theory holds up. Detroit: Become Human is his next title, which currently looks like a real-world remake of AI: Artificial Intelligence. Just don’t call it a sci-fi game.

“There are androids that look, speak and move exactly like human beings. So they’re used to do different tasks,” Cage said in a new video.

We didn’t want to do sci-fi. We didn’t want to invent any technology that doesn’t exist in labs today. We wanted the world to look familiar to the player so we really feel like how “I know this place, this is a real place”.

But at the same time be surprised at each corner.

As Cage explained, Detroit isn’t just a catchy name for the game. It’s also a location, an environment for the story to unfold in. After exploring the actual city of Detroit with his team, Cage was inspired by the city that has been wrecked recently by one big financial crisis after another that has left it perilously close to being a real-world version of the Robocop Detroit.

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“Detroit is really a fascinating place. It’s a great place for industry, but also for creative people, for artists of all kinds and we thought that if one day if an energy industry has to appear somewhere, it should be Detroit,” Cage explained.

It would be a logical place in many ways. We went there and really explored to see inside out. And yes we’ve seen abandoned churches and the abandoned places but at the same time we saw fantastic places, we met fantastic people and we could really feel the energy that was there and that was very inspiring.

Like previous games that Cage worked on, Detroit: Become Human will sport some fancy new software. “Detroit is featuring a brand new 3D engine,” Cage said.

We love to do 100 per game which is a bit crazy but the ideas of course leverage the power of the console and really try to offer a visual experience and a gameplay experience that will be hopefully much better than the previous generation consoles.

And we tried to use the technology to improve the graphics but also to improve the emotion that the player will feel having better facial animation, having better lighting and having larger environments with a lot of life passing by.

It’s still a sci-fi game, I think. Just a sci-fi game, where that genre isn’t constantly in the spotlight.

Last Updated: October 29, 2015

16 Comments

  1. Watched the trailer for this yesterday and I’m seriously intrigued!

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  2. Hammersteyn

    October 29, 2015 at 12:12

    Detroit become human? I disagree. Alex Murphy became something great!

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    • Nikola

      October 29, 2015 at 13:21

      Que Robocop theme song!!

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      • Hammersteyn

        October 29, 2015 at 13:35

        XD

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      • iusedtobe(a)regular

        October 29, 2015 at 15:19

        I guarantee you that every one who read your post (and who will read it), started humming the Robocop theme song.

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        • Nikola

          October 30, 2015 at 09:45

          hahaha of course!

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    • Greylingad[CNFRMD]

      October 29, 2015 at 13:52

      I suppose this will be like playing a Robocop game in reverse…

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  3. Viking Of Science

    October 29, 2015 at 12:22

    Well, obviously it isn’t a game, David Cage hasn’t made a game since Omikron: The Nomad Soul.

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  4. Grand Admiral Chief SpaceNinja

    October 29, 2015 at 12:35

    Well if it is the milk of human kindness, better ask JJ, he is the milk expert…

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  5. oVg

    October 29, 2015 at 12:51

    lol To think I got Detroit and Chicago mixed up for the setting of Watchdogs 😛

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    • Nikola

      October 29, 2015 at 13:33

      Hahaha only you would!

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  6. oVg

    October 29, 2015 at 12:51

    EMOTIONS EMOTIONS EMOTIONS and it gots the 1080 peeees

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  7. Nikola

    October 29, 2015 at 13:22

    Looks really intresting, another PS exclusive:)

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  8. Greylingad[CNFRMD]

    October 29, 2015 at 13:54

    I watched the trailer for this…I hope it’s not like beyond two souls, I really do…

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  9. Darren Peach

    October 29, 2015 at 16:02

    Mmm. A game that is not a game set in a Sci Fi genre that is not really Sci Fi. I may play it but I won’t really.

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  10. konfab

    October 30, 2015 at 06:02

    Does showing robot nudity in the inevitable shower scene count as nudity?

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