Sexy Naked Renegade Robot Cowboys is
kind of a mouthful, which probably explains why HBO decided to stick with the title of the 1973 Michael Crichton movie upon which its new series Westworld is based.
For those perhaps not familiar with the jargon
of the Martian astronaut community, crew selection protocols are what you use before a trip to Mars to determine what
kind of person is going to make a staunch and reliable crew member, as opposed to the
kind liable to — as we say in astropsychology — fall victim to Space Madness, sell his soul to the onboard master computer, disembowel his crewmates somewhere deep in the black, unaccountable void, eventually landing on Mars only to scamper briefly across its surface, forgetting his helmet in a self - made diaper
of hydraulic cabling, and finally collapsing with a
mouthful of red dirt, advancing human understanding
of the Red Planet millimetrically, if at all.
If you're the
kind of gamer that likes to tackle an open world in small
mouthfuls, section - by - section, playing for a few hours at a time, then maybe this is the game for you.