Thursday, February 17, 2011

An ex-Rockstar brings the Iranian revolution in video game

A kind of multi-faceted story Navid Khonsari was a member not too much in view of Rockstar, but its contribution to the team as a writer and director from 2001 to 2005 resulted in the creation of Grand Theft Auto as a narrative experience of a certain level and subsequently is devoted, in recent times, the direction of the cutscene of Alan Wake.

After leaving Rockstar, the developer, he founded the label Ink Stories, a multimedia production company based in New York which is dedicated to independent projects of various kinds, including a video game called Motor City, according to the official website. However, the most interesting project, recently revealed in an interview to a Russian magazine, it's definitely 1979: The Game, a game that seems to be based on the revolution in Iran, particularly on the events that led to the American occupation in this country, precisely in the year mentioned in the title.

This is a game about different perspectives, based on 8 or 10 main characters who alternate in the event description: starting from the Iranians but also shows the attempt to free American hostages, in a sort of story at all round of events, first-person view and focused mainly on the plurality of viewpoints.

For this reason the emphasis is on the inconsistencies of the period, the alliance between the U.S., Saddam Hussein and the Taliban, who later became bitter rivals for the whole demonstrate the difficulties impartial analysis of historical events and the diversity of purpose and points of view in a conflict situation.

Obviously, in terms of fun is hard to imagine how the product is structured, we'll keep an eye on this interesting experiment. Source: Joystiq

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