#WarGames - Season 1 - Eko

Liberal propaganda.

Second game from creator of Her Story, Sam Barlow. This is an Episodic affair which has been right royally abandoned. Devs [eko], who Mr Barlow was apparently employed with, take the lazy approach to acknowledge broken game. Also, seems this is available, for free on YT, so why sell it on Steam? Currently there is zero information regarding Season 2, since Mr Barlow has upped sticks and proceeded to make a new fmv, Telling Lies with annapurina. So yeah, Thanks Sam, milking FMV all the way.

I normally try to review games and tell people why they should or should not be playing them. It’s mostly a subjective task and I can't make a single review for 100 percent of the people. At least most of the time. As for #WarGames, I can say, this review works for every single person. The fact is, #WarGames is only being mentioned here because it’s so horrendous. I wanted to take a look at a few games similar to Her Story, and about a month ago, I picked up #WarGames in a sale for 3 bucks because Sam Barlow, who is known for Her Story, also worked on it. To me, 3 bucks isn’t that much money. If a game can keep my attention for 60 minutes, it’s done its job and 3 bucks is a fair price. #WarGames lasted less than 10 minutes. Why? Because #WarGames is broken, and I don’t mean “I don’t like it” or “Something is wrong.” But it is flat out broken on Steam. I downloaded the game, I opened it and the main page has no episodes to play, with everything locked. What’s worse is the developer Eko seems to have disappeared. People are saying the game is free to play on their site, which it appears to be but after spending money on it and getting a broken game, I struggle to find the desire to try again. So what is the most important rule of making a game? Make sure it works, Eko hasn’t done that, and for that, I am forced to give it the obvious score. 1/10 It’s broken 2 years after it’s launch, there’s no reason to buy it, and while you can check it out on their website, personally… I’m over it. Plus when trying to quickly play the game on the website, you’re now streaming video instead of playing it off your hard drive and that experience is about what you would expect. Sorry, there are better choices out there. If you enjoyed this review and want to see more from me, including more in-depth reviews of select games, check out my youtube channel at youtube.com/c/KinglinkReviews.

Every time over two days I try to play episode one, I get the loading screen, then at about 45% load it pauses a long time then says "we've experienced an issue while playing the episode." No clues are given what the error could be, nor an error code.

An interactive movie were a clan of misfit hackers transform from pranksters to international hacker celebrities. + Good acting + The streams you watch change the story + Idea - Passive interactive

#WarGames is a FMV game created by Eko, a website dedicated to making interactive movies and shows, in conjunction with Sam Barlow, creator Her Story. It’s a spiritual adaptation of the 1983 movie WarGames, which starred a pre-Bueller Matthew Broderick. #WarGames updates the original movie’s premise of Cold War era Mutually Assured Destruction to cyberwarfare, fake news, and the modern American military industrial complex. The protagonist is Kelly, a military brat and experienced hacker living in Alexandria, Virginia with her boyfriend, Rafiel. Kelly is a part of small group of hackers who she treats as close friends, though after her mother’s death fighting overseas in Afghanistan she’s gotten out of the hacking game for several months. She changes her mind after her mother is slandered as a traitor by a Fox News expy and she enlists her hacker pals to embarrass the news channel and show the truth. Eventually Kelly and Friends start making a name for themselves under #WarGames but as they get more involved in activist causes they may be starting to bite off more than they can chew… Unlike Her Story, where you actively had to search for videos using keywords, #WarGames has the videos play out like a TV show would, though said videos are separated into different screens focusing on different characters or areas, you can fully view only one video screen at a time, the rest will be playing on around you in smaller, but still visible screens. The biggest thing that makes #WarGames a game is that it actually tracks what screens you are focusing on and changes how the story plays out accordingly. The main plot beats are pretty much the same, but Kelly’s personality, her relationships with other characters, and how events play out are all determinant on what you focus on. Just as an example of how many different ways things can resolve, I completed the game and I only got 38% of the achievements. The writing is mostly quite good and the characters are mainly fun, though it does sometimes dive into “How do you do fellow kids?” territory which I felt fellow hacker activist game Watch_Dogs 2 managed to successfully avoid. The acting is also overall solid. Also as the title of today indicates this is pretty much Season 1 of the game, the ending is a cliffhanger, though not a total one, so keep that in mind going in. The only real complaint I have writing-wise is that it doesn’t really dwell on its own themes as much as it should, sort of jumping around a little bit too quickly before it can really flesh them out, i.e. it brushes only a little with how truly heinous the right-wing propaganda machine is before moving on after the first act and even then its more couched in “They lied about Kelly’s mom!” instead of “They’re outright indoctrinating people with utter falsehoods.” As a whole, #WarGames is a fine game with a good deal of further potential. Season 1 leaves you with some big possible decisions that hopefully get realized in Season 2.

do you like having absolutely no impact on a interactive video game. This product is for you.