Project Algo

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Project Algo is a major police project that was active during Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. It was used to predict crime in New Amsterdam, in particular to track and arrest writers. However, due to certain decisions with how it was set up, the project has an unintended yet significant effect on the whole city.
==Role in the Story==
The project is first mentioned in Chapter 2. Berlage is going over information on Faux. An officer suggesting that Faux could be the best candidate for the project, give his knowledge of the city's graffiti scene and his apparently hostile attitude towards other writers. Although Rietveld rejects the idea of using Faux as part of Project Algo, Berlage simply states that her objection has been "noted", and instructs the other officer to continue setting up the project.
At the start of Chapter 3, Escher reports on his encounter with the Bomb Rush Crew at Brink Terminal. Despite the less that optimal result from Escher's point of view, Berlage insists that this means the "field test" was a success. He then leads Escher into the control room for the project, referring to the project overall as a "breakthrough in crime prediction". He has Escher interface with the core subject of the project directly, allowing him to know how to track BRC down again. However, his eyes ominously turn red during the process.
Later on in Chapter 3, at Millennium Mall, it is shown that the eyes of regular police officers can also turn red, which seems indicate that they are being more directly influenced by Project Algo itself. From that point on, some of these red-eyed officers will appear while the heat meter is active, and shoot their guns at the player instead of using their batons. They can still be defeated in the same was as regular officers, but the player will have to be careful about avoiding their bullets.
At the beginning of Chapter 4, Red is shot point blank by Escher, who is still under the influence of Project Algo. Thankfully Escher is stopped with a skateboard to the head from Vinyl, but the damage done to Red leads to an important reveal about his identity. Towards the end of Chapter 4, once more info about Red's true identity is discovered, DJ Cyber explains to him and the rest of BRC what really happened to Faux's head. They had assumed the DJ had it, but in reality the police managed to obtain it and hook the head up to Project Algo, in order to use Faux's knowledde as a writer to track and arrest writers.
In doing so, Faux told the police what he knew about the city's graffiti scene, gaining their trust in the process. Unfortunately, Faux eventually started to take advantage of that by feeding the police misinformation to have them take out other writers for him. He was already successful in taking out the leader of DOT EXE at the end of the previous chapter, and DJ Cyber states that Faux will not be stopping there.
Just before Chapter 5 begins, it is shown that Rietveld and some of her fellow officers manage to break into the Project Algo control room. There they find Berlage dead, and Rietveld tries to question Faux about what happened. Instead, Faux takes control of the officers that followed her there, making them point their guns at her as the cutscene abruptly ends.
At the end of Chapter 5, Faux pilots a walking tank at the main plaza of Mataan, having seemingly used Project Algo's systems in order to do so. Once he's defeated in that, he comes back in a much more monstrous mech, with the rest of Project's Algo's core visible within the mech's head. Despite this, Felix still manages to defeat him again, and with the help of DJ Cyber and the rest of BRC, manages to finish Faux off for good. This results in Faux and his mech falling into the depths of Mataan, presumably destroying what's left of Project Algo's core systems.
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
* Even after the end of the game, there will still be officers with red eyes using guns to attack the player. According to some dialog from Rietveld in the postgame, this may be indicative of Project Algo still influencing the force into continuing to take extreme measures, even with Faux defeated.
* "Algo" might be short for algorithm, i.e. a set of instructions use to solve a problem, make some sort of calculation, or process data in a certain way. There are various algorithms that are actually used for crime prediction in real life,Article on crime prediction algorithms and police bias, from the University of Chicago (Archive link) such as random forest and naïve Bayes.Article on the use of artificial intelligence in crime prediction, from Science Direct (Archive link)
Category:Terminology
Category:New Amsterdam Police