Is an adventure game in which a great emphasis is placed on player choices and their consequences. For the creation, it corresponds to the iNK Stories studio, founded by Iranian Navid Khonsariego, a former Rockstar studio employee who previously co-created titles such as Grand Theft Auto III and Red Dead Revolver. Background The story of the game is the Islamic revolution in Iran in the late 70's and 80's of the last century, when social discontent led to governments supported by the United States by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi leading to street protests and eventual the seizure of power by the supporters of the Ayatollah Khomeini. Production iNK Stories particularly focused on the September 8, 1978 episode entitled Black Friday, when the army shot dead 89 protesters. The player takes on the role of Reza, a young photographer who connects the resistance movement and tries to capture the abuse of power in their photos. The conflict becomes more serious, however, and the hero must choose which side to tell.
Production iNK stories are kept in a not entirely realistic, a little comic style, which contrasts curiously with the brutality of the events presented. The audio lamp is strongly inspired by the culture of Iran: the radio flies rustic songs and broadcasts, and the characters throw his opinion a single Persian words. 1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a game interesting also because of the process of formation. In the first assumptions Navid Khonsari wanted to create an adventure game but embedded in an open world along the lines of the Grand Theft Auto series. Later the project evolved into the production of episodic, in which great importance had the player's decisions to play. Eventually the story was divided into sections and the game released as a whole. The 1979 revolution also met with criticism from the Iranian government, which held stories production iNK for Western propaganda aiming to slander the Islamic revolution.
OS: Windows 7 SP1.
CPU: 2.0 GHz Dual Core or Equivalent.
RAM: 2 GB RAM.
GPU: ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM.
HDD: 5 GB
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1979 Revolution Black Friday tells the story of Reza, a photographer involved in the Iranian revolution. By interacting with different camps of protesters as well as conflicting family members, players must decide whether to make peaceful or violent moves throughout the narrative and shape the consequences that form later. Again derived from the Telltale Games formula, which is almost a subgenre of its own at this point, 1979 Revolution Black Friday reminds me of the first season of The Walking Dead. In 2018, compared to Telltale's most recent release, their final TWD season, this two-year-old port is showing its age quite clearly. 1979 Revolution Black Friday also features a similar scrapbooking system to Ubisoft's WW1 game Valiant Hearts, a mechanic that enlightens you about the story and sets pivotal moments in the storyline as fully interactive set pieces. As you stroll between Tehran's protests, you'll not only learn about the historical oppression the Shah faced at the time, but also interesting tidbits about Iranian culture, all accessible in an on-demand archive. Not that it isn't interesting enough already, but the game does a good job of engaging the player by making the discoveries almost collectible. 1979 Revolution Black Friday has a decent range of dialogue options, but it can feel redundant when the game wants you to react a certain way, with your choices in a scene literally killing you and forcing you to try again. 1979 Revolution Black Friday Using diplomacy and restraint to get you through a situation where you have to speak your mind at all times is an interesting departure, but isn't agency the point of these narrative games? The final screen showcases some of your biggest decisions in history, but without going into spoilers, most of them have no payouts or consequences, and perhaps that's because the game is singular rather than episodic, as it seems to end suddenly. Performance is also an issue of Switch hardware. The frame rate was very choppy, especially in the crowded crowd scenes, and the graphics felt dull and muddy compared to the last season of The Walking Dead.
