It's satire. It's very satire. Your helldiver runs around yelling "HOW ABOUT A NICE CUP OF LIBER-TEA!". Each of the enemy factions is a different fascist brainworm - the cyborgs are a slave revolt, the bugs get ground up for oil, and the aliens are foreigners. You are very explicitly the bad guys and the game constantly makes fun about it. You can't really satirize fascism, but the game tries and it's inherently slapstick nature, where you're constantly killing your own teammates with drop pods or bad grenade throws or whatever, highlights that your helldiver is a dumbass being ground up by the fascist machine and is happy about it bc indoctrination.
Note that in the trailer the helldivers are constantly killing themselves and their teammates. For all that it's a very challenging game that requires a lot of teamwork, it's also very slapstick. It's the same team that did Magicka and is more or less Magicka's spiritual successor, with drop pods full of guns, bombing runs, and titan-falling mecha replacing spells.
It's a really, really, really fun game.
To add; The Helldivers and Super-Earth are pretty explicitly Space America, screaming about freedom and democracy as they very explicitly go on a war of aggression for oil. I believe the team that made it is somewhere in the Nordics, so for the home audience it's probably very obvious that this is a fun game with a satire of America's wars of aggression wrapped around it.
It's satire. It's very satire. Your helldiver runs around yelling "HOW ABOUT A NICE CUP OF LIBER-TEA!". Each of the enemy factions is a different fascist brainworm - the cyborgs are a slave revolt, the bugs get ground up for oil, and the aliens are foreigners. You are very explicitly the bad guys and the game constantly makes fun about it. You can't really satirize fascism, but the game tries and it's inherently slapstick nature, where you're constantly killing your own teammates with drop pods or bad grenade throws or whatever, highlights that your helldiver is a dumbass being ground up by the fascist machine and is happy about it bc indoctrination.
Note that in the trailer the helldivers are constantly killing themselves and their teammates. For all that it's a very challenging game that requires a lot of teamwork, it's also very slapstick. It's the same team that did Magicka and is more or less Magicka's spiritual successor, with drop pods full of guns, bombing runs, and titan-falling mecha replacing spells.
It's a really, really, really fun game.
To add; The Helldivers and Super-Earth are pretty explicitly Space America, screaming about freedom and democracy as they very explicitly go on a war of aggression for oil. I believe the team that made it is somewhere in the Nordics, so for the home audience it's probably very obvious that this is a fun game with a satire of America's wars of aggression wrapped around it.