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Disasters can kill your character sometimes, the player needing to move out of the way of falling objects or keep moving during the more energetic action scenes, but there are a lot of cases where you’re walking along and something breaks away in an area it couldn’t have impacted you.

Invisible triggers in the environment need to be tripped to tell the game to cause something to happen such as a road crumbling or a building falling over, and it’s hard to get immersed in the fear of the moment when it’s done a bit blatantly. The game is focused on its plot to its detriment at times, that mostly manifesting in that every disaster needs to happen in a very particular manner. A lot of the unvoiced dialogue can be a bit corny since a lot of it is on the nose statements delivered flatly, but while this is easy to forgive, the way disasters happen is a lot harder to swallow. After someone just barely survives something perilous, you’re more likely to be told by that character in a text box later that they were very shocked and worried rather than see that expressed in any way.

#Ps2 roadblock game full#

Characters have completely still faces meaning they can’t properly show emotion at any time, and while they do have voiced lines during scenes, the game doesn’t use the voice acting to its full effect. Unfortunately, the story is held back in more than a few ways. The good news is that neither path is so different that it feels like you’re missing out for taking the other, so it really is a matter of personal preference. Kelly’s path has the more interesting disaster setpieces as well before it becomes identical to Karen’s, favoring the flooding of unique locations over the crumbling buildings Karen’s takes you near that are more common in the game in general, but Karen does have closer personal ties to the overarching plot. Karen and Greg’s paths merge after a short while, but Greg’s is perhaps the more interesting of the two, Keith heading off to an amusement park and meeting Kelly who has a more meaningful motivation for staying on the island in trying to find her brother. The game does have multiple endings based on a few factors like your choice here, although many of them are just the sort of abrupt kind that don’t wrap up the story elements but instead exist as novelties before it throws you back in and asks you to make the other choice. There’s even a point where the story can split briefly, Keith asked either to go with a young woman named Karen to find her dog or with another reporter named Greg who is trying to unravel why Stiver is going under so badly as well. In many ways this plot feels like a faithful transition of the ideas of big disaster movies into game form, the chaos having a deeper meaning, Keith eventually meeting characters with their own agendas, and him finding other survivors who will join him on his journey. As he looks for a way off Stiver Island, Keith gradually learns more and more about the truth behind why the island is falling apart so terribly. Keith must now escape an island he just arrived on, but rescue won’t be so easy as parts of the island crumble away, the city atop it has its skyscrapers falling, and the island is being slowly submerged into the ocean.

The day Keith arrives though is a fateful one, as an enormous earthquake hits the island, and despite the island supposedly being constructed to handle such disasters, the whole place begins to fall apart. While I would have personally loved for things to line up to give us a Disaster Report on Disaster Report, it just wasn’t meant to be.ĭisaster Report, the game that is, begins with a reporter named Keith arriving on Stiver Island, a city artificially constructed out at sea that, despite the concept behind it, still looks and feels very much like a regular large urban area rather than a science fiction civilization. Back when I first took an in-depth look at an exceptionally bad video game with my Disaster Report review style, it didn’t occur to me that one day I would be looking at a game actually called Disaster Report.