We. the revolution game series#

The Revolution, however, the player character Alexis Fidèle, a revolutionary tribunal judge, is decidedly not in control of events. Emancipation and radical land distribution for Jean-François Papillon! I had the pleasure of being the overpowering player during a beta test of the Haitian Revolution game at last year’s French Colonial Historical Society meeting. Those familiar with Mario Kart will note that those well ahead of the pack will likely be blown up by a blue shell while someone can transform into a speeding bullet. There is nothing built into the game to launch those at the bottom to the top or vice versa. knowledge of the historical time period, familiarity with the RTTP format-can tilt the game in their direction in a “rich get richer” manner that the game mechanisms do not self-correct. If there’s one critique I have of RTTP, it’s that a participant who has advantages at the beginning of the game-i.e. What I found is that while RTTP emphasizes enshrining ideology into law, We is about contingency and survival this difference between the two games manifests itself in the game structure in various ways. But We’s interface was intuitive, and the narrative of the game is generally gripping. I am also decidedly not an expert on video games – Mario Kart Wii, the Civilization series, and Sim City are my typical wheelhouse. hereafter) reflective of the ways Reacting to the Past (see Meghan Robert’s post here on Rousseau, Burke, and Revolution in France, 1791 – written as “ RTTP” from this point forward) is used in classes on the French Revolution, including my own.

We. the revolution game series#

This is the third and final of a three-part series of reviews of We.