Actor Bryan Dechart plays Connor, an android who serveas as a police investigator and negotiator.

Detroit: Become Human review — 3 android tales come together as a powerful AI fable

As we careen toward human-like artificial intelligence in real life, popular fiction is stoking our fears. I was prepared to dismiss Quantic Dream‘s Detroit: Become Human as one more weak entry in this genre of the robots are taking over. But I wound up liking it.

Quantic Dream’s interactive cinema games have been criticized as being “movies with buttons.” It takes a certain kind of person to play titles like the French studio’s latest release, which debuts for the PlayStation 4 on May 25.

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