You are a US OSS agent disguised as a German officer during the Battle of Berlin trying to keep the NKVD from stealing the atomic bomb plans from the Nazis. So you are killing both Soviets and Nazis as you sneak around Berlin.
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Geopolitical Simulator
Its basically just a simulation of neoliberal development and liberal democracy. You can lower food prices, nationalize sectors of the economy, raise wages, make international deals to meet needs, built high speed rail etc BUT your fucking inflation will then explode and international organizations will be up your ass and you CAN’T nationalize banks.
Still its fun to try to make it work. You can play as cool places like the DPRK but its always the classic “dictatorship” line. Similar with China. It’s weird because it seems to say dictatorships are bad but they are way better to play as.
It’s a fun game but honestly sucks if you play as a democracy at all because everything is about pleasing your party and certain interest groups. The way this game is structured its basically impossible to do anything when you have to campaign to be reelected every 4 years.
I’d say it’s a critique of liberalism but it is mostly a fascist one if anything.
Sniper Elite is a good one. I’ve only played the sequels, those took place elsewhere (i.e. fourth was in Italy). And while the gameplay is pretty enjoyable and it’s great to just pop Nazis and watch them run around like headless chickens, the plot is quite liberal, as you’ve pointed out.
The collaboration between the protagonist (and his masters in OSS) and the Mafia is shown to be an unfortunate, but necessary tactic - ignoring the anti-communist nature of it.
Plenty of “great man theory” all around - i.e. there’s a DLC mission where you need to infiltrate some secret facility and it turns out Hitler (or more likely his body double) is visiting. The protag goes “Dang, I can end the war in one swift action!”. Yeah.
Plus the game goes hard to "humanise " the Nazis. When you search the killed soldiers, you can find “letters home”. Some are indeed the kind you’d expect from the Nazis, ala “Haha we killed like twenty partisans today, cool stuff”. Others are “Me so sad dis war suk I want home boohoo” types.
Sniper Elite
You are a US OSS agent disguised as a German officer during the Battle of Berlin trying to keep the NKVD from stealing the atomic bomb plans from the Nazis. So you are killing both Soviets and Nazis as you sneak around Berlin.
Edit:
Geopolitical Simulator
Its basically just a simulation of neoliberal development and liberal democracy. You can lower food prices, nationalize sectors of the economy, raise wages, make international deals to meet needs, built high speed rail etc BUT your fucking inflation will then explode and international organizations will be up your ass and you CAN’T nationalize banks.
Still its fun to try to make it work. You can play as cool places like the DPRK but its always the classic “dictatorship” line. Similar with China. It’s weird because it seems to say dictatorships are bad but they are way better to play as.
It’s a fun game but honestly sucks if you play as a democracy at all because everything is about pleasing your party and certain interest groups. The way this game is structured its basically impossible to do anything when you have to campaign to be reelected every 4 years.
I’d say it’s a critique of liberalism but it is mostly a fascist one if anything.
Sniper Elite is a good one. I’ve only played the sequels, those took place elsewhere (i.e. fourth was in Italy). And while the gameplay is pretty enjoyable and it’s great to just pop Nazis and watch them run around like headless chickens, the plot is quite liberal, as you’ve pointed out.
The collaboration between the protagonist (and his masters in OSS) and the Mafia is shown to be an unfortunate, but necessary tactic - ignoring the anti-communist nature of it.
Plenty of “great man theory” all around - i.e. there’s a DLC mission where you need to infiltrate some secret facility and it turns out Hitler (or more likely his body double) is visiting. The protag goes “Dang, I can end the war in one swift action!”. Yeah.
Plus the game goes hard to "humanise " the Nazis. When you search the killed soldiers, you can find “letters home”. Some are indeed the kind you’d expect from the Nazis, ala “Haha we killed like twenty partisans today, cool stuff”. Others are “Me so sad dis war suk I want home boohoo” types.
So yeah, excellent choice, comrade
Perfect bourgeoise democracy simulator in that regard.