Iraq
This game seems like the Iraq war in reverse, where America is USSR and the insurgency would be the freedom fighters.
share[deleted]
No comparison whatsoever.
shareI made the same observation on another board and have got a similar, if less offensive reaction. I saw the game as a satire on the Iraq war asking the question: 'How would you feel if a similar thing happened to your country?'. However a lot of people seemed unable to differentiate between saying two things are similar and saying that things are the same. I have received a lot of posts pointing out little differences between the real war and what happens in the game, all from people who seem to be more hung up on the details and are unable to see the satirical nature of the simple role-reversal plot of the game.
On this board, as on the other, I would like to point out that I'm not making any statements or giving any of my own opinions on the Iraq war, I am just pointing out what I think the game developers were trying to get at.
"You said it man. Nobody *beep* with the Jesus."
This game was put into development before the 2003 Iraq war started, so there is no possible way it could be a commentary on Iraq, at least not an intentional one. It has about as much to do with Iraq as Star Wars: Episode III.
You're reading things that just aren't there. This game is based more on Red Dawn, which owes its heritage to a WWII era John Steinbeck novel. Oddly enough, neither one of those are about Iraq.
I have also observed the same thing. The game has a lot of similarities with the situation in Iraq. Even if the game's production date was too soon to do that on purpose, it is probably criticising the concept of having a single world power that interfers in other countries' lives, with the excuse of "creating a better world" based on its own political system.
What caught my attention the most to this similarity is when the soviet general described the resistance as terrorists. This is when I started to notice all the other similarities between the game and the real world.
In the game, do the Freedom Fighters cut off the heads of non-combatants? Do they launch attacks on civilians who don't support them?
This is more than a year old, but I felt the need to write the obvious response to that because I frankly have nothing better to do right this moment:
Obviously, no, they don't decapitate enemies or take prisoners to torture them later. In this game, the local rebel forces are portrayed as the moral superiors, and as such are presented in situations where they only do JUST what is necessary as far as killing is concerned, and the Soviet reports on their "terrorist" attacks are used to display the typical propaganda machine approach to making whoever you're fighting out to be the worst people in the world. Needless to say, if this game had been produced by, say, Rockstar, the American resistance probably WOULD have done some pretty terrible things to Soviet captives, because the target demo would have been slightly higher, catering to an audience that understands the reality of a similar scenario.
I see a couple of similarities. Nothing more.
share[deleted]