Then, you question your defendant and sometimes a witness or two, and after a few answers are given, the jury's opinion will appear on a gauge bracketed with acquittal, prison or death. Each success unlocks a question, but there are red herrings and you only have so many tries. Here, key elements from the case-notes are pulled out alongside possible categorical links - things like 'evidence', 'course of events', 'crime scene' and so on - and you have to link them up. Questions you ask are unlocked via mini-game. They all throw in their opinions as the case unfolds. Case files lie on the Bench before you, with the defendant on the stand facing you, jury to the left, Tribunal guy to the right, public at the back. A typical court scene.ĭays begin in court around which everything revolves. It's challenging, and a lot can happen in a day. The Revolution measures progress in days, and on my first go I lasted just over a dozen - around four hours of game time. It puts you in Paris, in the late 18th century, and stretches you every which way it can. It forces you to plot, scheme and deceive, to sully yourself in self preservation.
It thrusts you into a swirling political maelstrom and onto a burning ladder of advancement on which you have no option but to climb. It has you command battles and address crowds, take territory and build monuments. It takes the action to the streets, to your home, to dingey parlours and gambling dens. The Revolution is not confined to the courthouse. The blade rises slowly, in scraping instalments, after the deed is done. Nothing exists here in isolation, and you will need to keep all elements on your side if you are to survive. Ignore the jury's opinion and lose support in court ignore your family's opinion and lose support at home. Then again, acquit them and the aristocracy will hate you for it. Condemn a commoner for an act against the aristocracy, meanwhile, and the common folk will hate you for it. Be lenient with an enemy of the revolution, whose crimes might be no more than being caught in a regime change, and the revolutionaries will hate you for it.
And not only is the truth elusive but the verdicts come with strings attached. Who lives and who dies? As a judge working in the heart of the French Revolution, you decide. The decision in the hearts and minds of the fevered French public has already been made.
WE . THE REVOLUTION GAMEPLAY TRIAL
He is an enemy of the Revolution and the trial feels like a formality. Standing before me is Citizen Capet, better known as King Louis 16th, the last king of France.
She was found at the crime scene and is the only real suspect, but society loves her and wants her to walk free. Standing before me is a young woman, visibly distraught at having discovered the man she loves dead in his bed. Everyone expects the guillotine, and for him to be decapitated in kind. Her body was found in his woodshed and, frankly, it doesn't look good for him. He's old, dirty and lecherous, and he is accused of murder - of decapitating a young lady and selling her bleached skull to science. Standing before me is the caretaker of a cemetery. The Revolution is a fascinating and provoking descent into a judge's buckled shoes during the French Revolution.
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