As the cops, you’ll be able to switch between various formations, arrest instigators, use smoke grenades to clear out areas, or resort to more brutal and overkill methods.
The tutorial then automatically switched to a police operation to clear out a building. That part of the tutorial lasted around a couple of minutes before my units were driven away by police. Rioters need to occupy areas, switching between peaceful and aggressively violent stances, boosting one another’s morale via “choirs” (or chants), calling in the press for sympathetic coverage, and erecting barricades.
Still, these do not change the fact that the core mechanics are poorly executed.įor instance, I started with the game’s tutorial which offered only a barebones look at the mechanics. Riot: Civil Unrest is, at first glance, a well-meaning look into the often volatile sparks that happen during these incidents. I can, no doubt, tell that Menchiari’s heart is in the right place. He decided to capture these factors in a game. Menchiari became curious about inflamed and impassioned emotions in clashes between rioters and police. Riot: Civil Unrest is the brainchild of Leonard Menchiari, a developer who experienced first-hand the tumultuous events that transpired during the No TAV protests in Italy a few years ago.
Short introduction scenes depicting Riot: Civil Unrest’s events are its high point.
