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Windows Windows. Most Popular. Package info. View Community Hub. About This Game Freedom is threatened yet again and only Minute Man and his heroic Freedom Force can save the day in the follow up to one of the most critically acclaimed games of In this title, the league of heroes must travel back in time to defeat Blitzkrieg, defender of the Reich and his homicidal henchmen.
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No minimum to No maximum. Off-topic Review Activity. When enabled, off-topic review activity will be filtered out. One's an artist who works with piss, the other's a piss You get the idea. That's the trouble with comedy you see, it's all about context.
And timing. Timing and context. And delivery. But mostly timing and context. Reputation plays a part. As does taste. Audience judgement can help and you shouldn't underestimate the value of shock. But eight out of ten comedians, when queried for the sake of this poll, agreed that for the most part context and timing were the most important ingredients for successful gag execution.
For instance. Do you know who Andres Serrano is? A quick Googling will enlighten not for the easily offended though , but without some sort of knowledge of the infamous Piss Christ the above jokelet most likely falls as flat as a pancake trodden on by a passing elephant parade. And that's the main issue surrounding whether you'll get any joy, pleasure and fulfilment from playing Freedom Force Vs The 3rd Reich. Namely, just how well do you know and cherish American super-hero comic books of the '50s and '60s?
Fans of the original Freedom Force will be right at home with this sequel as, on the face of it, nothing's changed. Slightly better graphics, as you'd expect, and a more polished, robust presentational style.
But thematically we're ploughing a very similar furrow here, with all the exaggerated parody of old school comic book heroes intact as you work through a timetravelling plot involving communists, Nazis, Romans, aliens and just about everything else you can think of. We say parody, but here's the nub of why Freedom Force doesn't quite live up to the reputation it's attempting to build. It's something we here at call the Look Around You effect. You see, for all the loving homage and painstakingly faithful recreation of the period material, we can't quite agree on whether or not the TV programme is, you know, funny.
Sure the voice-acting is over the top communist soldiers screaming, I fall for the people! But it's all played very straight, with none of the knowing comic winks or ironic touches that separate an entertaining parody fibm a straight out simulation. So here we have to go back to whether you get' the source material or not. I'm hazarding a guess that the majority of gamers in this country at least are more attuned with the more modern, realistic, dare I say darker take on the world of superheroes.
I certainly am, although disapproving muttering and scowling looks coming from the Will Porter camp opposite my desk would suggest that not everyone is left as cold by all this old-school stuff as I am.
Though obviously remaining faithful to the material of the time, some of the portrayals of non-Americans in this game leave a vaguely unsettling taste in the mouth especially the Middle-Eastern and Asian characters , although I certainly wouldn't go as far as using the R word.
It does raise the question of whether outdated attitudes are acceptable when used in context though. In passive entertainment you can get away with this, but when you're actively taking part in things, is it right to simply assume that cultural differences such as arranged marriages are bad", just because they're not in keeping with '50s American values? This forms the backstory for one of the main heroes, incidentally, a young Arabic woman who finds escape from a stereotyped mad mullah' father by being transformed into a kooky, fun-loving westernised' girl.
Culturally offensive? Contextually acceptable? You tell me. The arguments about this sort of thing could fill volumes I suspect, and while this hasn't affected the score, I think it's worth making the point.
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