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Human words fail to express the absolute
butthurt I feel that we're never going to see a sequel or at least a remake. This game was unironic art. The story was plain and simple and thus worked: You were basically a high-test chad version of Luigi from the Mario brothers in a setting where the Soviet Union has literally conquered the entire world and your goal is to free everyone from communism in what is - let's face it - a pretty hopeless fight. At the end of the game you have
liberated New York, but you learn that the Soviets are coming back with an even greater force to retake it. It was relatively simple, what you'd expect from an action movie or an early to mid 2000s action game. No pretentiousness, but something that works. It's pretty much the closest thing to a video game adaptation of
Red Dawn (the original one from 1984 with the late Patrick Swayze of course because we don't talk about the other one).
The gameplay was fun. On lower difficulties you could try (and often fail) to reenact
Rambo III, but on normal or higher ones you have to be big brained and always keep in mind that you and your friends are fighting as a
team if you want to just survive, let alone win.
The soundtrack was just a beautiful thing to behold.
Hearing this theme after the "YEAH!" sound was, especially in the later missions, such a borderline orgasmic relief given how intense the battles could get because the Soviets were not fucking around.
Speaking of which, the theme of the Soviet Union
amazing.
I'd recommend reading the lyrics' translation in one of the YouTube comments.
See Druckmann, this is how you make art.
