Move over, Nick Valentine, there’s another synthetic sleuth in town. Revealed at this week’s Xbox Partner Preview, Artificial Detective is a new action adventure game from neophyte studio Vivix, composed of former developers of games like Dead Space, Control, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
Artificial Detective sees you play as a robotic gumshoe in a futuristic metropolis where humanity has disappeared. With the world controlled by robots and prowled by animals infected with a strange nanotechnological disease, you take it upon yourself to discover what happened to all those quivering meatbags, and how the world came to be as it is.
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My guess is Artificial Detective will play like the newer God of War games in structure, technically open-ended, but heavily directed in practice. One thing I didn’t see in the reveal trailer is a whole lot of detective work. Which isn’t necessarily a problem. Glossy action adventures are few and far between at present, so I’ll take whatever’s being offered. That said, given how detective games are an established genre now, that may lead to certain expectations for a game called Artificial Detective which did not exist previously.
But maybe there’s more sleuthing in the final game than is evident from the initial trailer. Either way, I’m excited to see how Artificial Detective shapes up when it releases sometime next year.
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