Quantic Dream is back with
Detroit: Become Human, a video game which asks whether an android can become human. Right off the bat, this should illicit thoughts of
Blade Runner and the book that film is based on, Phillip K. Dick's
Do Android's Dream Of Electric Sheep? As the gamer, you control several characters and navigate through various choices to determine whether you survive or perish as androids begin to rebel and humanity's response is to make androids to track down the "deviants".
The third-person, neo-noir thriller first started life as Quantic's 2012 PS3 demo,
Kara. The PS4 exclusive is still in development and is currently without a release date.
Detroit is the site of a new industrial revolution in Detroit: Become Human, a game about life -- human life, artificial life, and everything in between -- from Quantic Dream, the makers of Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls.
This project was originally shown to the world as a demo referred to as "KARA", which presents a futuristic encounter with an android character who is brought to life before your eyes. The original technical demonstration (which at the time ran on PlayStation 3 hardware; the full game project has been commenced instead on PlayStation 4 consoles) used Quantic Dream's advanced motion capture, animation and lighting technology.