Game of the Month for May 2018: Detroit: Become Human
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Editor in Chief Ed McGlone: I’ve never played a game quite like Detroit: Become Human. It just does so many things that I’ve never seen before. For starters, it’s one of the most beautiful games I’ve ever played, going right up to the uncanny valley, but never crossing it. Despite being a game about androids, which are almost always creepy looking, Kara, Markus, and Connor are much easier on the eyes than the cast of Until Dawn and Final Fantasy XIII for example.
More importantly, it is one of the few games that really shatter the illusion of choice which plagues so many other games in the genre. There are so many ways to approach each chapter, and I never felt like my choices didn’t matter. Some situations are easier than others, and you might need to go out of your way to get a different result, but still, I was impressed every time I saw how many different ways the flow chart could break off and deviate from the route I chose.
Detroit: Become Human is the game that finally proves once and for all that Quantic Dream has the chops to be a big-time developer. Their previous efforts were solid, but at times uneven in quality, but Detroit is the game where they finally put everything together and made a truly excellent game. It’s not perfect, and a little more character development and less cliches would have taken the game to the next level, but none of that takes away from Detroit: Become Human being among the best choice-driven games we’ve seen in years.
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That does it for our May 2018 Game of the Month. Congratulations to Detroit: Become Human! What do you think were the best games from last month? Let us know in the comments.
