Quantic Dream's latest is Detroit Become Human

The Paris Game Week is happening right now, which means plenty of new announcements and footage for upcoming games. And here's one we're very excited about - Detroit: Become Human.

It's the latest from Quantic Dream, the developers behind cinematic titles Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls. As with their previous titles, Detroit is taking inspiration from an earlier tech demo, in this case Kara which told a poignant short tale of a humanoid robot being brought to life. Here's Kara, starring actress Valorie Curry.

Now three years on, Quantic Dream and lead creative sort David Cage are back, and they're taking this original idea and examining what might happen if Kara managed to leave the factory and go out into this future world where androids are part of the world. It's also the first game from the developer to be made from scratch for the PS4 so it looks absolutely stunning.

Here's the first video promo for Detroit Become Human.

It's great to hear that the writing has improved, especially since the time of Heavy Rain, and it's reasonable to assume that this will be another cinematic story with branching moments and some amazing performance capture. That said, Quantic Dream never had any problem making great trailers and Beyond Two Souls in particular suffered from a muddy story and dull mechanics. Still we're cautiously optimistic at this point.

There's no release date yet for Detroit but based on the release model of Quantic in the past we wouldn't expect it to releease until the end of 2016 or early 2017.