The brutal new police ‘bodycam’ shoot ’em up that’s almost indistinguishable from the news
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2023/apr/26/pushing-buttons-unrecord-game
Unrecord puts players in the role of a police officer, and looks every bit like real shootings – so how realistic is too realistic?
It looks like footage from a news report. A cop approaches a graffiti-covered, seemingly abandoned building, the sound of his own footsteps and his uniform brushing the mic and disturbing the silence. Only 30 seconds in does the trailer start to look more like a video game: the exaggerated gun reload, the way the cop effortlessly vaults a barrier. But at a passing glance – even at close examination, on a phone screen – it looks as if it could be real. Even when the cop shoots someone and they crumple immediately to the floor.