Executing the abilities starts a cooldown period of each until they can be used again, but sometimes certain abilities won’t enable, and I’m unable to figure out why. At the top left, you’ll have your abilities that can be utilized, based on which side your chose, if they are in offensive or defensive stances and other variables. The same goes for playing as the Police, as you need to usually disperse a mob or deny access to an area, but things can turn ugly real quick when protesters start chucking rocks and Molotov’s.Īs for the gameplay, it’s a completely mixed bag of confusion and awkwardness on a controller. For protesters, you’ll need to hold your ground, or occupy a space, though how you do so, peacefully or with violence, is completely up to you.
Each of the main campaign houses 4 separate scenarios where you choose which side to experience. As many conflicts, they start out with good intentions and peaceful protests, but usually the perfect storm occurs and things take a turn for the worse, even to violence. I don’t really want to delve into each of the ‘stories’ backdrop, as they were the most interesting to uncover for myself, especially with the online research I did afterwards on my own, as I found the subject matter quite interesting to learn about. You’ll witness events from around the world, in Italy, Spain, Greece and Egypt, as well as a handful of others as you progress. While there’s no real right vs wrong here, both sides have their own reasons, abilities and playstyles that need to be taken into consideration. What makes RIOT really interesting is that you get to play out these handfuls of conflicts, but can choose from either side, protestors or police. This is a great way to not cater to the protester's, or police, side of the conflicts, and allows you to see where you stand yourself without outside influence. In fact, as you begin, you’re greeted with a message about how RIOT is built from a small group of people and actually suggest you do research yourselves elsewhere to learn more about the conflicts.
Never heard of that world event before? Don’t worry, I’ve not either, nor any of the other scenarios contained within aside from maybe a headline here and there, but RIOT gives you some simple background information on each setting, purposely trying to be as unbiased as possible. The idea came from RIOT – Civil Unrest’s creator, as he himself also experienced firsthand chaos at the NoTAV demonstrations in Italy. It’s an absolutely unique and interesting game idea, as I guess I would categorize it as a ‘simulator’ of sorts, but there really is nothing else quite like it. RIOT will let you experience that in a handful of different scenarios. I can’t even imagine what it would be like for someone to be there willingly at a political protest when things turn south. I can handle that though, and even some of my first initial impressions brought back some of those feelings of chaos. I made it out eventually, but experienced firsthand how quickly chaos can spread with the right conditions, something I hope to never experience again. I wanted to go one way, but the crowd was running the other, and I knew if I fell over, I would have most likely been trampled to death. Simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, I was stuck in a crowd of thousands of people when things starting turning for worse. I’m actually able to speak from experience here, as I was once stuck in the middle of a riot, granted, not a political based one as this game, RIOT – Civil Unrest, portraits.
Riots look like one thing on TV, yet are a completely different world when you’re in the thick of it.
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