Always wanted to build your own marijuana empire? Then developer Little Chicken Game Company (yes, that’s the actual name of the studio) created the perfect game for you: Blaze Revolutions. I myself had never heard of this tycoon hybrid-like game before, but when I started the game and was presented with the first cut scenes, I knew one thing for sure: this game is interesting. The question is, how interesting? Let’s find out! Here is my Blaze Revolutions review on PC.
SOMA IS IN CONTROL
The story of Blaze Revolutions is not necessarily in-depth, but it has received some attention. In any case, it goes deeper than the usual trading simulator games, which you may have played in the past. Blaze Revolutions is set in a dystopian future where an immense company called SomaCorp is in full control.
The company distributes VR headsets among the population, in order to keep the population calm through propaganda. Every city in the region is under the company’s regime; everything and everyone is being watched by patrolling police cars and drones.
In addition, they determine who has and who does not have access to the digital world of the internet. A small minority do not agree with the city. You can probably fill it in already: you as a player belong to that minority. It is up to you to work with the partners in crime of the Blaze family to bring the population to their senses and start a revolution.
The father of the Blaze family is the patriarch of the rebel movement, but at the beginning of the story he turns out to be imprisoned. This makes it more than an almost impossible political challenge to start the revolution. The story is central to this game and almost every stage has multiple interactions and dialogues between characters.
Although ‘interactions’ may be too heavy of a word. The characters discuss the game’s plot as it unfolds. There is no real interactive interaction. The dialogues seem to have been written thoughtfully, because there are enough ‘laughs’ in between.
STEALTH AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN ONE
As a player, you control a handful of heroes, who drive around in distinctive cars with unique abilities. One hero has weapons available to take out patrols and server buildings, where the other hero can invade dangerous areas with more subtle skills such as stealth. You carry out assignments within the areas strictly controlled by SomaCorp.
The gameplay in this weed game takes place entirely from the car; the characters you control cannot get out. The aim of the game is to take over areas on the large map and get the population on your side, in order to gain more support for a revolution. An interesting aspect is that SomaCorp can rebuild your people.
In the towns of SomaCorp, players must covertly avoid patrols by fleeing or hiding in buildings. When you as a player are noticed by a patrol, you can count on action and problems. In no time at all, they will chase you all over the city. Just like in Grand Theft Auto, the only way to regain peace is to find enough distance between you and the police.
One point of criticism is that it is relatively easy to get rid of your ‘wanted level’. By driving into buildings and hiding there, you can easily get rid of the police. The game’s challenge is to organize the weed parties, in areas where SomaCorp is prominent. Those weed parties cost you cannabis resources as a player, but its organization is necessary to get the population on your side.
Transforming purple map areas of Soma into green ‘safe’ areas is one of the principal objectives that you you want to achieve. But in addition to the stealth- like gameplay, you have the other side: resource management. The cultivation of hemp, in order to exert more influence within the region, is essential for the basis of the revolution.
THE AESTHETICS FINISH IT OFF
Blaze Revolutions looks goofy, urban, and a bit gloomy at the same time. The art styles the developer has chosen fits well with the theme of the game and even makes it very stylish. The graphics, characters, and user interface look good and neat.
The art style is low-poly and really colorful, with impressive lighting effects. Even if you zoom in on the map, the game continues to come out of the test well. The consistent sixty frames per second are also nice. This makes the gameplay extra nice and is also fun for the eye.
The game’s music is fairly simple, but on-point. It does what it should do: add extra experience to the whole. The same goes for the FX sounds you will hear every now and then. The game’s plot and premise may be fairly simple, but that doesn’t matter in this case.
The game, as I said before, is interesting. Little Chicken Game Company has created a solid foundation for lots of fun. As it stands, Blaze Revolutions only includes a campaign mode. I wouldn’t be surprised if they added more game modes to this, as the resources and creativity are basically already there.
CONCLUSION
Little Chicken Game Company’s Blaze Revolutions combines stealth-like gameplay with resource management, which makes the game an interesting concept. Combine this again with great art and aesthetics for a great experience.
An important point of feedback is the game’s so-called ‘difficulty graph’. It takes a little too long for the game to become really challenging, and it looks like the developer has held back here. In addition, it would also have been nice if you could get out of the car with the character.
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The Review
Blaze Revolutions
Blaze Revolutions is a fun, refreshing and also accessible game that does not ask much of a player. Sometimes it can be too easy, however, for a Steam game, which also costs less than twenty dollars, I can definitely recommend this game!
PROS
- Graphically very neat
- Great aesthetics
- Nice accessible story
- Music on-point
CONS
- Too easy
- Cannot get out of the car
