At the beginning of Detroit: Become Human, a video game about American androids fighting for equal rights, a character looks out from the television screen and says, directly to the player, Remember: This is not just a story. This is our future.
Its a bold claim. As Detroits story unfolds, the game switches between three different androids: household servant turned revolutionary leader Markus; Kara, a robot fleeing from government persecution with the abused child she rescued from her former boss; and Connor, an agent of the delightfully named megacorp CyberLife who hunts down deviant androids disobeying their programming. Through their perspectives, were meant to observe a technological future the game wants us to believe is, in fact, soon to come. Connors character may sound familiar. Thats because hes essentially a recast of Rick Deckard, the titular Blade Runner from Ridley Scotts 1982 sci-fi classic. In each case, Deckard and Connor are hunting aberrant robots, ca…
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