Even at the $19.99 non-sale price point, it’s hard to recommend this one. However, it does lead to Googling some or all of the protests mentioned within the game, which is fascinating.

The game isn’t fun or exciting to play, and honestly doesn’t really feel like a game. Riot: Civil Unrest ends up being a classic case of a great idea, but lackluster execution. There’s no tutorial, no controller map during the loading screen, and very little instruction during gameplay. It frequently snaps incorrectly and incoherently. The same can be said about the menu navigation. It’s done in a jagged style, but comes across as sloppy and unpolished. Riot: Civil Unrest - PS4 Based on real events from Italy (not AV movement), Greece (battle of keta tea), Spain (indignados movement), Egypt (tahrir Revolution). The massive blob of people on the screen look like pixelated stick figures on an old tube TV. The art style in Riot is difficult to digest. Riot: Civil Unrest has the look and feel a good RTS with entertaining yet challenging gameplay sections, but it all feels a bit weird when considering a) these sections are based on real events, and b) that the gameplay is fun and entertaining, but really only when you play as the protesters. Unfortunately, that’s where the pros end. Pure PlayStation: I love the idea of Riot: Civil Unrest and the true-to-life stories behind it, but the game mechanics let it down. It leads to questions about which side one should be on when it comes to a protest? How are both sides affected? Riot is a game that definitely promotes political awareness. The concept is the best part of the game. During the battle, there were a series of tweets or texts that told us things like someone had been hurt, or that it was getting too frantic, but we had no idea where these things were happening.

Now it’s made its way to consoles, but should you pick it up? It led us to the assessment that RIOT: Civil Unrest is probably best played with a mouse and a keyboard than it was a controller (we reviewed the game on PS4). After securing funding from a successful Indiegogo campaign back in 2014, Riot released on Steam in December of 2017. The inspiration for this idea came from the game’s creator, Leonard Menchiari, who partook in some of the No TAV protests in Italy. The premise is that you can control either the protestors or the police in a series of real-life mass confrontations. Riot: Civil Unrest, from IVP Productions, is an interesting concept for a video game.

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