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 n...
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
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