1979 Revolution: Black Friday
1979 Revolution, the action/adventure game, immerses players into the gritty, euphoric streets of revolution – where the choices you make may betray you. Set in the actual events of 1979 Iran. 1979…
1979 Revolution: Black Friday is an adventure developed by iNK Stories, released 4 April 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Android. The main story takes about 2.1 hrs to finish.
What 1979 Revolution: Black Friday is
1979 Revolution: Black Friday is an adventure game developed by iNK Stories and released in 2016. It was published by Digerati Distribution. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
1979 Revolution’s story is told through the main character Reza, a young photojournalist in Tehran, during the electrifying early days of the revolution in 1978. Without political or religious motivation, Reza begins his heart of darkness journey into social upheaval. Surrounded by a group of impassioned key figures involved in overthrowing the regime – Reza’s engagement becomes a high stakes chess match of decision making – whereby everything is at risk.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, drama, educational and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 39 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
1979 Revolution: Black Friday holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 41% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 2.1 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.0 GHz Dual Core or Equivalent, 2 GB RAM and ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
1979 Revolution: Black Friday launched on 4 April 2016, within three weeks of Dark Souls III, Ratchet & Clank, Don't Starve Together and Quantum Break. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dark Souls III, Ratchet & Clank, Don't Starve Together, Quantum Break.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for 1979 Revolution: Black Friday yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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