Posted on: October 10, 2018
ErnestoAlvarez
Владелец игрыИгр: 192 Отзывов: 9
Flawed execution
I found this game when looking for highly rated political style games. I saw some comparisons to Floor 13 and I decided to give it a try and I was very disappointed. The game is flawed on many levels, which I'll try to describe below. First, the game asks for your email address, apparently with the intention of registering you to a mailing list. This step is optional, but considering this game is called Orwell for a reason, I find it a bit disturbing. I consider this "game" to have been developed in the wrong medium. This could have worked as a class B book, but as a game it lacks choice. You're just on rails, no choice and no chance of losing (that I know of). The game puts you in the role of some sort of Internet snoop who gets into sites and devices and has to collect snippets of data and make profiles. However, this ends up being a chore, as there is little you can do but to add snippets, and whenever there is choice the game shows that clearly bu marking a "conflict". This conflict mechanism seems artificial: most conflicts are resolved by a judicious selection of information and are really not conflicts at all (just one snippet is not up to date, or it's a minor issue). Worse, the game will sometimes have a conflict with "unknown" data, which makes me wonder how the system knows and why it doesn't just tell me what the unknown data is, The investigation is also bizarre. The system is all-seeing, provided the "all" is just electronic devices and web pages. In real life there would be more reasonable mechanisms, but in this game you cannot even do a public records search. Moreover, the story is kickstarted by an all-seeing camera system, which if you could use, the case would be solve in no time. Worse, the initial suspect is actually someone with a police record but actually unrelated to the case. The feeling it leaves is that the case was solved by luck and grinding. Overall 1 1/2 stars.
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