Well, this sure sounds fascinating. Ether One developer White Paper Games has announced its next project The Occupation, and it's set in the North-West of England during the late 80s – a testing time in British history due to Margaret Thatcher's spell as Prime Minister. The title will see you play as a whistleblowing journalist, and your decisions in the aftermath of a terrorist attack will shape the future of the nation.
"Events happen in real-time and you must make decisions based on the evidence surrounding you," the blurb explains. "Is the cost of an extreme action outweighed by the cause of the greater good? You are the reporter. You decide the narrative." Blimey.
There are no platforms attached to the game just yet, but it's probably safe to assume that it will wind up on the PlayStation 4 just like Ether One before it. Hopefully it launches in a more polished state than that game, because the mental health adventure also had an interesting premise but was plagued by bugs at launch.
[source occupation-game.com]
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The 80s were 'testing' because of Thatcher? Had my teenage years in that decade, and that's not how I remember it. A great decade, with great music.
@Paranoimia I wouldn't know, I was just a baby. Haha, but everyone always talks about how dire life in 80s Britain was under Thatcher, right?
Isn't like the entirety of The Smiths' catalogue based upon Morrissey's miserable Manchester life?
@get2sammyb Well, it was Manchester, so... ;-p
I grew up in a council flat in Hackney, before moving to Northamptonshire in 86. Most of my memories of the 80s are pretty favourable.
@Paranoimia I was young at the time, but being in Liverpool I remember that the city looked like a war zone in places. Huge unemployment, riots, decay, incredible poverty, and a seemingly unending hatred by the Tories towards my city. That's even before the cover up of 96 innocent people's deaths at Hillsborough, and the resulting media smear campaign.
There were parties here when the vile old witch finally died.
Obviously This isn't the same for the whole country, but in large parts of it, Thatcher is seen as a poison which nearly killed off many parts of the UK.
@THRILLHOU I've never understood riots, wherever they occur. Anger, yes... but if your area is deprived, the local residents smashing it up and looting local homes and businesses is the last thing it needs.
I know Thatcher was no saint, and did some awful things. But in my personal opinion, love her or hate her, she was at the very least the last PM we had with anything resembling a backbone. I can at least admire her for that, if nothing else.
Ah the 80s C.C.T.V. was in its infancy footie hooligans were Uniting and getting ready to take on the world taping things of the telly top of the pops.
As a kid meself i remember long summer days an air of uncertainy was around the corner People still vote the Socialist Labour party because of Thatcher and the Mining fiasco.
Liverpool supporters would never buy the Sun newspaper because of the Hillsborough lies.
The Ironic thing about The Smiths' catalogue based upon Morrissey's miserable Manchester life is Tatu (all the things she said) did a remake of "How Soon Is Now" The Ukraine is a reason to be miserable and not Davyhulme, Lancashire, in a working-class family.
Bring back Spangles. http://www.vintageadds.co.uk/uploads/8/2/2/8/8228112/6756226_orig.jpg
@Paranoimia well in that I think we will have to agree to disagree. The woman was scum as far as I'm concerned.
@SkanetWasTaken I liked the look of that myself, but it didn't seem to have a story. Shame as it had a great premise.
Looks really cool.
@SkanetWasTaken Is it even coming to the PS4?
@THRILLHOU Couldn't agree more. A Scouser myself, life here was pretty bad. No work, Thatcher stripping my city bare, riots and neglect.
When The Witch died was a fantastic time and I actually bought the single 'Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead' to try and get it to Number One.
She was evil personified.
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