Directive 8020 review

Stop me if you've heard this one (or something like it) before: the Earth is dying, and humanity's last hope is a lone inhabitable planet, light years from home. A crack crew of humanity's finest is assembled for an eight-year space mission to survey the planet, but when they finally awaken from their four-year cryoslumber, an unknown organism has infiltrated their ship, turning their voyage of hope into a paranoid nightmare. And does the mega-corporation funding this whole endeavour know more than it's letting on? Of course it does. Directive 8020 builds its story like a sci-fi horror best-of that only feels marginally less derivative the longer it goes, and while it also marks a welcome advancement for developer Supermassive's Dark Pictures Anthology formula in certain respects, it sadly never quite comes into its own. Read more

Stop me if you've heard this one (or something like it) before: the Earth is dying, and humanity's last hope is a lone inhabitable planet, light years from home. A crack crew of humanity's finest is assembled for an eight-year space mission to survey the planet, but when they finally awaken from their four-year cryoslumber,…

Stop me if you've heard this one (or something like it) before: the Earth is dying, and humanity's last hope is a lone inhabitable planet, light years from home. A crack crew of humanity's finest is assembled for an eight-year space mission to survey the planet, but when they finally awaken from their four-year cryoslumber, an unknown organism has infiltrated their ship, turning their voyage of hope into a paranoid nightmare. And does the mega-corporation funding this whole endeavour know more than it's letting on?…