Your first friend-in-need is a coworker, Stephanie. She needs help finding her frail stepmother. As the city collapses around you, you'll encounter all sorts of obstacles that will require skillful control manipulation as well as some deep thinking in order to solve puzzles.
You'll have to climb walls, jump chasms, shimmy on ledges, cross makeshift bridges, as well as outrun gushing waters and avoid falling structures. One of the playable characters is in handcuffs, which make it difficult to perform such moves, but the challenge increases as she's being hunted by the law.
While playing as a cab driver, you'll drive the vehicle around town as you meet an assortment of characters. The vehicle is responsive, which is a good thing since you'll have to maneuver it around obstacles and other dangerous surprises. It provides a nice break from the playable characters. There is a good assortment of gameplay variety, but under the surface you'll find that the gameplay is very linear. You don't get a lot of opportunity to experiment with moves and techniques.
Often, there is only one path to lead you to safety and on to the next mission. All you have to do is find it, but that can prove frustrating. To extend the replay value, the storyline is dynamic. The decisions that you make will affect the outcome of your relationship with other characters.
You can even cause some of them to die, although you can't really tell what effect your actions will have in the future. You can't anticipate the results, only experience them. This may lead you to replay the game and do things differently.
It just wasn't much of an incentive for me since this cause-and-effect element just seems random. You'll have to keep your characters warm and dry. They will lose precious health through the loss of body heat. A wet character is a cold character, and a cold character is potentially a dead character. In order to keep your character alive, you'll have to search out heat sources such as old radiators in old buildings and fires in barrels. Use these fires to warm yourself up, and at the same time, cook a meal that will help replenish your strength.
These heat sources and fires are relatively plentiful. They also serve as checkpoints so that you can start the next mission with a good boost of energy. Raw Danger is just not a good looking game. While Raw Danger doesn't look much better than Disaster Report, it's a much bigger game with a wide cast of playable characters and an overarching story that crisscrosses in an almost Robert Altman-style fashion.
It's got a heap of problems, including some really lousy graphics, stilted voice acting, and gameplay that can be just as contrived and awkward as it can be suspenseful, but the way it weaves its story can still make for a fascinating experience. There are plenty of movies that can't handle a serpentine narrative as well as Raw Danger. Rather than presenting a single, persistent narrative, Raw Danger actually consists of several interconnected vignettes that all take place during a massive, cataclysmic Christmas Eve flood that hits the idyllic island metropolis alternately referred to as Geo City and Del Ray.
You'll start the game playing as Joshua Harwell, a college student working as a waiter at a high-toned and fancy to-do when the flood first starts wreaking havoc on the city. Joshua's story is pretty straightforward and revolves around juggling his own survival as the waters rise and the city crumbles beneath his feet, while helping fellow waitperson Stephanie McMurrough find her estranged, ailing stepmother.
Things start to get more interesting during the second story, when you play as Amber Brazil, a young woman wrongly imprisoned for the murder of her brother. It's during this story that you begin to learn about a conspiracy concerning NorCal Pharmaceuticals and Gavin Goldstein, the city's mayor. This is also when the interconnected nature of the individual stories begins to develop, and you see how a decision you made when playing as Joshua Harwell impacts how the story unfolds when playing as Amber Brazil.
Some of the choices that you make are superficial, affecting the type of dialogue you hear more than the actual course of the story, though at several points your decisions can affect whether a character will live or die. For better or for worse, it's rarely apparent what the impact of certain decisions will be further down the road.
On the one hand, it can make the narrative feel more organic, though on the other, it can be frustrating if you want to see an ideal outcome to the whole story. You'll play through the disaster as a money-conscious cab driver who lands an intermittently obnoxious journalist as a fare, an insecure schoolgirl, an amnesiac, and, if you play your cards right, reporter Keith Helm, the protagonist from Disaster Report.
As you progress, the NorCal conspiracy takes greater prominence, and the crossing of paths becomes more apparent. A throwaway walk-on character from one story will prove central to another, and a seemingly random occurrence will gain meaning when viewed from another character's perspective.
Though the actual dialogue can be downright lousy and many of the characterizations ring hollow, it can be a joy to watch the interlocking vignettes unfold from one revelation to the next. It's just too bad that the gameplay doesn't quite match the quality of Raw Danger's story structure.
To its credit, the nature of the gameplay can change pretty radically from character to character. Game Info Raw Danger! GameSpot Reviews. Player Reviews. Average Player Score Based on ratings. Please Sign In to rate Raw Danger! Score Breakdown Based on ratings. Rating: 8. Raw Danger is a great game!! What Gamespot Users have to say about Raw Danger!
Rating: 5. Rating: Raw Danger is a very unique and addicting game. Rating: 7. Hypothermia, raging flood currents and loose electric cables are your main enemies in your struggle to survive.
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