Detroit: Become Human is a cinematic masterpiece, and easily the best work to date from developer Quantic Dreams. It's gorgeous, sounds beautiful, and the choices made here are impactful and introspective.

Among the best visuals on any platform to date; Gorgeous and moving score; Writing and decisions are insightful and impactful; Multiple playthroughs are encouraged; though the story is self-contained; Over a dozen hours per story run

Small bit of mip-mapping and the occasional framerate hitch; but not impactful for either; Dialogue choices are occasionally counter intuitive

As it stands, this won’t be the interactive story experience that converts avid readers or film buffs to video games, particularly as it’s so light on actual gameplay. It's a valiant effort, for sure, and it's good that mainstream, big-budget games are beginning to tackle tougher issues.

This is a transhumanism story for the android set. I devoured every chapter of these artificial intelligences shedding their artifice. And I learned that being human is filled with daily acts of self-sacrifice.

Upon reaching Detroit's end credits for the first time you’ll likely wonder: would that have been a more effective and engaging experience if concentrated into a considerably shorter motion picture? Almost certainly, yes, it would. Cage has had a few cracks at this kind of cinematic adventure game now, and that this latest effort shows no significant progress (visuals aside) from his past two suggests he may have hit an underwhelming creative ceiling. It could be that he rises up, like Markus here, and tries again to merge two pretty distinct mediums. But as a fair few outcomes of Detroit make clear, that doesn’t guarantee a happy ending.

Brilliant voice acting performances; Stunning visuals;

Cliched story; Pacing issues; Limited player control ;

Our verdict on Quantic Dream's latest wildly ambitious interactive drama.