Like, what the fuck?
Cool how marketing departments get to market it as "look how cool as fuck these fascists are and their sweet outfits.
I think I get where you are coming from but I take stuff like Helldivers over Call of Duty any day of the week. Call of Duty turns around looks into the camera and tells you we need to kill more brown people to keep our Freedoms™. In Helldivers its obvious even to most liberals that the system portrayed is broken and wrong.(maybe I have to much faith in liberals) Call of Duty and many other military shooters on the other hand are just straight up western propaganda.
I'm just talking about the trailer. Although I'm pretty sure to normies they're both the same thing in regards to making fascism appealing.
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.
Thats exactly what helldivers 1 was as well though. You are an expendable grunt sent into distant worlds to kill exotic life forms so your empire can get more space oil. Really fun in coop though since there is friendly fire and you can "misplace" airstrikes and stuff.
The trailer right after "hot chick must help humanity exterminate a species called the Nativ(a)." Lives in a survivor city called Zion. 'The nearby dessert has been overrun by the Nativas.'
What if we released a PT clone years after it became passe because everyone else already made one?
-KonamiThey have finally made a VR FPS/RPG with the mechanical complexity of a late-'90s RPG. Only 10 more years for them to get to something as complex as Oblivion and another 10 after that to get a VR game to the narrative complexity of Planescape Torment.
Sega couldn't even make a Sonic Generations sequel, they just tacked on half a new game onto the old one.
