The HAL Effect
- May 12, 2019
- J. Douglas Patterson
In The HAL Effect, the player plays as a middle-aged systems engineer, Noland Dent, who is charged by his employer, AstroTech Mining, to fix a faulty AI system on one of their remote asteroid mining installations. That sounds all wonderful and boring until Noland is informed of the faulty AI that controls the facility’s security system is now convinced that every person who steps foot on the base…