You get it all in this game, white phosphorous, lynchings, gunning down protestors, etc. The only positive of this game is that you get to gun down American troops in a video game with no pretense of doing this in real life(In Minecraft).

The worst part about this game is that war crimes are framed as inevitable. I literally can't progress in the game without gunning down civilians or shooting white phosphorous at the troops™

Like, this game would be good if there was once an anti-war message sprinkled in there. The fact that this producer can spread war crime porn is disgusting.

This game was marketed as the tough choices horror show of games, and boy did it fuck that up.

As an addendum: the campaign is kind of fun to play

  • bigbologna [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    The war crimes are as inevitable in SOTL as they are in any other military FPS, except instead of patting you on the back for being a cool gamer sergeant supreme soldier or grimly going "we had to do this in order to save america freedom", SOTL makes you acknowledge the horror intrinsic to it.