The Turing Test
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| Studio | Bulkhead Interactive | ||
| Publisher | Square Enix | ||
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August 30, 2016 | ||
| platform | Windows , XOne , PS4 , Nintendo Switch , Google Stadia | ||
| Game engine | Unreal Engine 4 | ||
| genre | Puzzle , mind games , escape game | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | Mouse , keyboard , gamepad | ||
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| medium | Download | ||
| language | multilingual | ||
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The Turing test is a Puzzle - Computer game of the British development studio Bulkhead Interactive from the year 2016 for Microsoft Windows , Xbox One and Playstation 4 . A version of the game was released for the Nintendo Switch in February 2020, and it has also been available on Google Stadia since May 2020 .
action
The engineer Ava Turing of the International Space Agency (ISA) has to prove that human intuition and thinking are superior to a computer and has to solve puzzles that her team asked her in several rooms. Ava is in a cryonic sleep while the other members fly to Jupiter's moon Europa and prepare for the studies.
She is woken up and monitored by the artificial intelligence Technical Operations Machine (TOM for short) and the experiment begins, in which he suggests to her that the other members are in danger. He later tells her that some of the members have passed away and realizes that the puzzles require both human and artificial intelligence in combination.
They encounter the remaining crew member Sarah, who directs Ava into a Faraday cage , which frees her from the control of TOM. It turns out that the player was not playing Ava, but TOM, who controlled Ava. Although she is upset about it, TOM manages to convince her of the necessary cooperation that is needed to save the team members and restores control of her body.
However, it turns out that the research team has found a microorganism in the depths of the moon with which the DNA can be regenerated infinitely, whereby immortality is possible for humans but also for bacteria and viruses . When the ISA learns about this, TOM should be used to ensure that the team can never return to Earth by controlling it or letting it die. Since TOM couldn't control them all, he was supposed to carry out his mission through the controls of Ava.
After completing the last test, Sarah frees Ava from her handchip, which ensures that she is controlled by TOM, and they begin to deactivate TOM's database . Both are now trying to flee from Europe and TOM tries to prevent them by all means.
Gameplay
The player takes on the role of the engineer Ava Turing of the International Space Agency (ISA) in first person view , who is located on a research station on Jupiter's moon Europa .
From now on the game has to solve different puzzles in order to progress in the game. These include B. opening doors and activating machines with a limited number of energy balls that can be unloaded and loaded with a kind of rifle, pulling power lines, using ramps and magnets, controlling mobile robots or observing the Station with a surveillance camera.
The game can be assigned to the genres of thinking games , puzzle games and escape games . The level of difficulty increases as the game progresses.
Development and publication
The game is developed by the British development studio Bulkhead Interactive, which was created from a merger of Deco Digital and Bevel Studios and developed Battalion in 1944 , in Unreal Engine 4 and marketed by Square Enix .
The game was first developed for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One on August 30, 2016 . The game was released for the PlayStation 4 on January 23, 2017 . The game is included in Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass PC. The release for Google Stadia took place on May 1, 2020.
reception
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The game received mostly positive reviews for puzzles with Mindfuck factor and other three-dimensional puzzle games such as Portal and The Talos Principle compared.
Spiegel Online writes that the game raises philosophical aspects, such as the question of what is ahead of artificial intelligence and the concept of individual freedom. The title of the game refers to that of Alan Turing developed Turing test , which will determine whether it is the artificial intelligence at the level of human thought.
Similarities in the puzzles and to other science fiction stories are criticized in the game.
The Metascore on Metacritic is 74% for the Windows version, 80% for the Xbox One version and 74% for the PlayStation 4 version.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Carsten Görig: Puzzle game "The Turing Test": Are humans even smarter than machines? In: Spiegel Online . September 10, 2016 ( spiegel.de [accessed July 3, 2019]).
- ↑ Tom Phillips: Pneuma: Breath of Life developer reveals first-person puzzler The Turing Test. In: Eurogamer. March 10, 2016, accessed July 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Robert Purchese: Enigmatic Xbox One, PC puzzler The Turing Test gets release date. In: Eurogamer. August 2, 2016, accessed July 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Tom Phillips: The Turing Test formulates PS4 release this month. In: Eurogamer. January 5, 2017, accessed July 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Bejamnin Danneberg: The Turing Test in the test - just past the Mindfuck. In: GameStar . August 25, 2016, accessed July 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Lukas Schmid: The Turing Test: Philosophically inspired puzzle fun with small quirks. In: PC Games . August 25, 2016, accessed July 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Michael Krosta: The Turing Test - Test, Skill. In: 4Players .de. September 7, 2016, accessed July 3, 2019 .
- ^ The Turing Test for PC Reviews. In: Metacritic . Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
- ^ The Turing Test for Xbox One Reviews. In: Metacritic . Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
- ↑ The Turing Test for PlayStation 4 Reviews. In: Metacritic . Retrieved July 3, 2019 .