Through the store description I was led to believe that you can choose your side and fight the rioters. Unfortunately it is only a leftist simulator. Missed chance. Back to Riot: Civil Unrest!
I was 16 back in those days and it was a time where I refused to play the game, because it was way too realistic. Fast forward a year and I wouldn't stop playing this game for months! It is on of those titles which makes you wonder what just happened to Activision as a publisher of great military/shooting themed games into what behemoth it is todays. You can also find alot of concepts and topics which got later reused in Call of Duty 4+. You are John Mullins, a mercenary for "The Shop" which operates world wide. Over the course of the game in which you are hunting down some stolen abombs you come behind a secret society planing for world domination. And of course you move out to save the day (and redeem a personal score to settle ...)! The game is great and even by todays standards a well looking game with a - for its time - revolutionary gore system which devides the body into 26 gore zones and calculates what happens with the body in regard of what weapon (aka velocity) is used by the player. This also brings up "funny" scenes, where you can disarm a punk with an aimed shot into his hand or stop an assaulting Somali with a well placed shot into his nuts with your trustworthy pump action shotgun (which also makes you gringe in your seat seeing his pain ...). The game knows how to impress - even story wise. While it may be a 08/15 story to its core, its twist and personal motivations are something not that commonly seen even today! But be advised to be taken to a tour through anything which was deemed frighten to Americans in the late 90s/early 2000s! Which is hilarious on its own! I am so happy to finally see this game (series) on GoG now. I am excited to a point, which also let me come to pay for the ridiculous bad third part of the series. That's how much I love this single game! Go and give it a try. You won't be disappointed!
