About This Game Based on real events and eyewitness testimonies.In this authentic, historically accurate, stunningly engaging experience -- you must decide who to trust and what you stand for -- as the world is set ablaze around you.**Winner of Grand Jury Prize at IndieCade ‘16, Official Selection of The PAX 10, Game of the Year Finalist by TIGA, BEST OF E3 Nominee by IGN, People’s Choice Finalist by FoST, Medal Winner at Serious Play Awards.**Key FeaturesCRITICAL CHOICES - The choices you make will shape your experience in the Revolution, and the fates of those around you -- both in the present and the future.CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE - Branching cinematic story told through motion captured animation and voice over performances. Discover the rarely seen world of Tehran in the 1970’s, through a striking visual style. EXPLORATION - Explore the world of the collapsing city under martial law: covert headquarters, rioting protests, bustling city streets and more.PHOTOGRAPHY - Take photos of the period accurate in-game world and compare them to the original archival photos captured by celebrated photojournalists.UNIQUE GAMEPLAY - Including urban triage, interactive action scenes and photo processing. KEY COLLECTABLES - Discover and unlock more than 80+ unique stories that color and enhance your experience of the Iranian Revolution: including primary sources like archival videos, home movies, graffiti, photographs and more.BASED ON TRUE EVENTS - Based on real first hand testimonies of freedom fighters, witnesses and casualties of the revolution which helped define the 21st Century, as well as those who were imprisoned in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison.Featuring Performances ByNavid Negahban (Homeland, American Sniper)Farshad Farahat (House of Cards, Argo, 300: Rise of an Empire, State of Affairs)Omid Abtahi (Damien, Hunger Games, Better Call Saul, Argo)Bobby Naderi (Fear the Walking Dead, Under The Shadow)Mozhan Marno (The Blacklist, House of Cards, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night)Nicholas Guilak (Of Gods and Kings, 24)Ray Haratian (Argo, Under The Shadow)Mary Apick (Homeland, Beneath The Veil)Fariborz David Diaan (The Brink, Stoning of Soraya, Weeds) 6d5b4406ea Title: 1979 Revolution: Black FridayGenre: Adventure, IndieDeveloper:iNK Stories, N-Fusion InteractivePublisher:iNK StoriesRelease Date: 4 Apr, 2016 1979 Revolution: Black Friday Download] [hack] Great game, but a little expensive for its brevity. Superb use of language, history, and culture to create a very rich experience, I truly admire the developers for what they've done. I would say definitely pick it up, albeit during a sale.. From my perspective, I viewed this rendition of history as heavily pro-Tudeh (the Communist Party of Iran) and though it touches on the application of fiqh to Communists from the religious characters within in the game, "1979 Revolution: Black Friday" communicates its narrative as the Arab Spring in another lacquer. And that's a shame really. There is no equivalency to be drawn between the current Sunni revolutionary movements and the Iranian Revolution proper.The developers did their homework for sure, but I couldn't get my character to become a Shia fundamentalist or lead him to become a basiji so what's the point of player driven actions or agency? Though Reza (the protagonist) is clearly Westernized, it didn't permit me the option of having a developing narrative drive a connection towards increasing his faith.As an honest assessment, this game's presentation falls into this terrible milquetoast middle ground that simultaneously would♥♥♥♥♥♥off Shah loyalist expats and a contemporary Shia as the Tudeh are portrayed as harmless, albeit naive, saints. They're only critiqued as hypocritical, or worst of all, taken for the fools that they were. Aside from those notes, the game is a "rah rah go student revolutionary movements" within a general context and retelling that Pahlavi was a pretty bad leader (I agree only in part to this sentiment) and that the SAVAK weren't a friendly bunch. The game does highlight what Iranian life was like from 1953 on as it modernized and, though there are some shoutouts to Mohammad Mosaddegh's overthrow courtesy of MI6 and the CIA through Operation Ajax, this only serves to reaffirm the developer's bias to the effect of -- "Wow, isn't it such a shame that Iran became an Islamic Republic."To illustrate better, I'll draw my thoughts from another angle: imagine if the insufferable coming of age movie "Garden State" (2004) were combined with a youth political drama. Yeah, I can feel your excitement building already.Another, different, and probably more substantive critique I could provide for those unaware of the political, social, or historical components within the game is that it could've been more expansive with a branching plot. You, Reza, the player, are permanently stuck as a dumb collaborator with naive revolutionaries. In this way, "1979 Revolution" truly sticks to history as it occurred.Welp, those are my thoughts about this adventure game from a self-anointed, self-styled, and perhaps in this case, immodest scholar of the Middle East.. An interesting informative and historical 'experience' which comes across as a sort of documentry- game. 1979 Revolution: Black Friday has adopted Telltales successful storytelling methods as well as some quick time events, but at a mediocre level.You play as a photographer in Iran, documenting the 1979 revolution through his camera, but he gets caught up in both sides and finds himself in trouble. Based on real historical events, this game proved most interesting for learning about the past and hearing from both sides. Although, it stopped impressing me shortly after I became happily accustomed to this 'new' documentry-game mechanics. Now for the bad:The quick time events matched with clunky controls and an extremely short amount of time to contemplate pivotal decisions lets it down and almost seemed silly, they didnt really need to even be in the game. Sometimes there is not enough time to read all of the options, let alone to make an educated decision.As many other reviewers said, the ending is beyond disappointing, it reaches the climatic moment and THE END. And lastly, the game was over in 2-3 hours.Although I do recommend this game, the graphics are nice, voice acting is great, story line is thrilling, choices matter and you can see the consequences of these choices. However, with the short game length, irrelevant quick time events, and clunky controls I could only recommend to buy this on a sale, especially if you'd like to learn a bit of history from a different perspective, in an interactive manner.. I was very young when the events of 1979 Revolution: Black Friday took place. And, true, we had a taste of this from the 2012 movie Argo. However, unless you go out of the way to find out the details, you probably know little as to what happened beyond the America hostage crisis. First off, this game doesn't touch that hostage crisis. Instead, the game opens with the ominous words, "During the Summer of 1978, thousands of Iranians flooded the streets and fought for change despite their class, religious beliefs, and political allegiance. The protests erupted into a bloody uprising against Iran's self appointed King - the Shah. What you are about to experience is based upon real stories, real events, and real people." The game starts with you as the protagonist and aspiring photojournalist Reza Shirazi in 1980 who is ambushed at his hideout and taken to the dreaded Evin prison and interrogated. The game then goes back two years to September, 1978 and the events leading up to this.Anyone who is has played a Telltale game such as Tales Of The Borderlands or similar game Life Is Strange will recognize the structure. You get to shape your story based upon the responses you make, and there are two action sequences which rely on just good timing along the lines of Dragon's Lair. Being that this is an independent production rather than a AAA title, it shows in the graphics quality. This isn't the game to show off the capabilities of your newest graphics card. Use Doom instead. Because of limitations of the Unity engine, you see repeats of the same NPCs, and I even caught one walking through a phone booth. (Whoops). In one scene, I saw the protagonist open up a cabinet, and his right hand was some distance away. (It must be those psychic Iranian powers!)But, this isn't a graphics game. This is a story game based upon what actually happened almost forty years ago. As a photojournalist, you take pictures of what happens, and those pictures that you take during the game are then matched up with the actual real pictures of what actually happened along with the actual background information. I came away from this game with more knowledge than I had going in, and learned something. That says something. It didn't change my mind that the Shah wasn't a good leader and the resulting government was a bad, oppressive government, but it was replaced with something worse. Gameplay, however, is short. I played through this game twice, once as I normally would, and once as a jerk, and sure enough, I got two different endings. That gameplay, however, added up to less than four hours. Would I recommend the game? Heck, I would recommend the game AND the soundtrack, but with caveats. Because of what happens in the game, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone less than a high school student.. To be honest, I'm quite surprised by this game and the almost unbiased picture it tries to paint; a picture of a part of history that seems to be almost lost within the fog of time - one that is not only crucial to fathom parts of the modern past of the middle-east, but of the whole world back then... and now. You'll see the events of the Iranian revolution unfold through the eyes of aspiring photographer Reza Shirazi, who just returned to Iran, amidst the growing chaos and confusion in which he'll have to find his place and finally put his convictions into action. You do so mainly by interacting with the environment, NPC's and in particular by taking pictures with a camera Reza always carries with him and by which you'll be provided with additional information regarding the people of Iran and key players/events of that time. Despite its short playtime and thus limited information on some subjects, 1979 Revolution: Black Friday largely succeeds at storytelling and neither needs to hide itself from or even avoid its competitors - on the contrary, the weight of the subject matter and how they handled it is elevating videogames in general to a level where their relevance in today's society and how they have matured truly has to be recognized - but before I lose myself puffing it up too much, it unfortunately doesn't do that well in the gameplay department. Minor bugs and things like a sometimes too small and narrow window, in which you have to react and decide in which manner you want to handle situations presented to you, tend to pull you out of the otherwise great immersion this game creates and hinders one at reflecting over the moral ambiguity such conflicts often inherit. Nonetheless, 1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a game I can wholeheartedly recommend, not only to those particularly interested in the subject at hand, but to anyone that likes to question why the world spins like it does... and what better way is there to start while playing a videogame? If this game in the end fully accomplishes what it wants though, or fails due to the complexity of the topic, is nothing I wanna judge over and since there's never an easy answer, no simple black or white, I wanna end on a quote that buzzed through my head while playing this truly unique presentation of these somehow almost seemingly forgotten historical events:"Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship." - George Orwell. However short 1979 is, it tells an interesting, memorable tale in a setting that games haven't even considered going in; I think it's at least checking out on a sale for that reason. Bought it for 6.49 CDN and no regrets here. Pros:- Interesting and unique environment and story- Phenomenal acting for every plot significant character- highly informative and true to historical events if you are into that Cons;- Unity jankiness- low poly characters are too obvious- 2-3 hours in lengthNote: Plays like a modern telltale game, so if you are familar with that gameplay formula, there should be no surprises from the game mechanically.. 1979 Revolution is a important game that teaches us about the Iranian Revolution. Must play for everyone. Make choices and bear the consequences of your actions.Great game that raises the consciousness of people. There's no good guy or bad guy in this game, it's all perspective.
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