Event[0] review: An ambitious 2001: A Space Odyssey-tinged adventure you can talk to
I'm aboard the Nautilus, a derelict vessel in orbit around Jupiter's frozen moon of Europa, and the only thing I've come in contact with so far is the ship's artificial intelligence. It even has a friendly name--Kaizen, which translated into English means "Change for better." Kaizen's waiting for me to respond, there in the friendly blink of a command prompt on a terminal straight out of the 1970s. But I've seen plenty of science fiction films, and so I still hold my breath as I ask Kaizen to open the airlock doors, prepared for an "I can't do that, Dave," and the slow strains of "The Blue Danube" to accompany my floating corpse into the blackness of space. Kubrick's classic science fiction film is a clear inspiration, seen in everything from the pseudo-'70s retrofuturism of the Nautilus to its all-seeing security cameras--black, with a cherry dot in the center.
Sep-14-2016, 13:41:39 GMT