Apart from the obvious pro-US/anti-DPRK propaganda freight train of wank this game is, I’d only really consider playing this solely because the POV of a citizen militia fighting inside of an occupied zone is pretty swell. I do suppose the silver lining is that this game got me into roleplaying in HL2:DM/GMod, often also a militia fighting an occupying military through the use of guerilla tactics. That and I have played the shit out of Wolfenstein: TNO and Red Faction: Guerilla (the latter where you’re quite overtly setting off a proletariat revolution on Mars against a militarized settler-colonial state). On the flip side, any other games with similiar overtones?
I’m not very familiar with these games, but Red Faction: Guerilla sounds cool! Makes me want to get a PC that can handle video games! HL2 = Half-life 2? What are the politics of that game like? In Fallout 4 you can side with the peasants, and in Metro there is a USSR-like group, but you can’t join them AFAIK and they “both sides” them along with the nazis.
Red Faction is basically = A corporation builds several mines, bases, labs, etc. on Mars in the 2070s, there’s an uprising which leads to the company’s eventual collapse and the Earth Defense Force (soon to be an analogy for the IDF) shows up, seemingly to the aid of the rebels. The EDF builds terraformers and infrastructure to allow humans to live on Mars’ surface without aid. In the 40-50 years after, the EDF is after dat sweet cash and quickly resorts to imprisoning, executing and generally police brutality-ing the masses. Another larger revolution and actual civil war breaks out on Mars and you end up sabotaging the enemy bases, offices, machinery, etc. Oh and you can also gun down a group of CEOs in one of the later missions.