Overplay your hand violently and while you may win the objective, you will lose the support of onlookers and social media, which leaves you at a disadvantage when the next round comes by. Violent actions often gain you better and quicker results in a mission, however there is a political favour meter to consider also. Every action you take is watched by a meter above the action which blips from Passive to violent depending on how you play. There are a few ways to achieve this goal and this is by far the strength of Riot: Civil Unrest in this mode. Other events take you around the globe to europe, where you can take part in protests against illegal construction sites and poorly thought out railway projects. One particular scenario takes you through scenarios based around the Arab Spring protests of 2011, seeing you take part in events such as the Friday of Anger. These objectives are also based on aforementioned real world events.
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To progress in this mode, you must complete a series of objectives, one at a time in the form of chapters, these can range from destroying an objective held by the opposing side, getting your crowd or team to occupy an area while not letting the other side in or by protecting your side against an onslaught of the mob or police as they try to charge in (among other objectives). Of the bunch, Global Mode is the most interesting, as actions tend to have more consequence over the campaign than in any other mode and this is the case for either taking the police or rebel side. Story mode which is a basic episodic experience where you can select certain campaigns as they progress over five chapters each with similar gameplay to global and multiplayer which pits two to four players as they control both sides of the conflict, as the rioters or law enforcement which is called in to deal with them. Gameplay wise, there are three modes, Global mode, which sees you embark on a campaign where the actions of your previous plays have an effect over the next. I’m sure that trying to take a fence sitting standpoint on the idea of riots is difficult, but is “rebels” the best term you can come up with for the discontent? The choice of language to depict both sides of the conflict is telling also. It’s almost as if the small team at Ivan Venturi Productions are trying to showcase Riot: Civil Unrest as a think piece, but it’s hard to argue this when the concept of high scores and the blood red lettering of the logo become a large focus of the proceedings. It’s so stark in the immediate contrast that it is somewhat baffling. Beyond the initial splash screen detailing that the game is based on real events and that players should consider researching to garner their own opinion, the gamification appears almost immediately after with its pixel art graphics and rocking soundtrack. For some time now, the likes of Bat tlefield, Call of Duty and others have walked a fine line between entertainment and reality, often leaning to the former, but what happens when you need to make something like Riot: Civil Unrest, a title that seeks to explore some very real scenarios with mechanics that reflect the event, yet still acts as a game?Īs it turns out, that balance is incredibly difficult. It can be considered a relatively common practise for the likes of war scenarios however, the balance comes in when you must consider the amount of relevance and respect that needs to be given to the subject matter. There must be a difficult balance to strike when deciding to build gaming experiences out of real-life events.
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Februin PS4 / Reviews tagged baffling / game / Protest / ps4 / review / Riot: Civil Unrest / simulator / uncontrollable by Grizz
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