"My every action, observed, recorded, analyzed. The place was the proof every paranoiac dreams of." - Max Payne

I cant believe this super controversial game that has its own Wikipedia Page has been played by nobody on here but me considering its playable on Newgrounds right now. There's no strategy to it at all and its not even that gorey. It's actually pretty cute in terms of violence and messaging by today's standards this shit came out only 5 years after DOOM (1997) to put it in perspective. There's nothing here that you probably havent seen before, the character isn't even a racial stereotype in the way that the same devs Detroit Cop series is (though noticably arabic). This is a nothingburger that the creator made just to be part of the conversation and presumably bug people talking about it by looking at the description

"IF YOU'VE SEEN OR READ ANYTHING ABOUT THIS GAME LATELY PLEASE E-MAIL ME ABOUT IT. MOST OF THE TIME I AM UNAWARE OF WHO'S BITCHING ABOUT IT."

This combined with the other racist shit from this guy makes me think this is just a paperweight to harrass and rag on random people talking about it so in a way I like the fact that nobody in 2023 is even bothering to take the bait.

Just be mindful, thats what most of this shit is. Shlock fodder intentionally created to start flame wars and rile people up to then rag on them with their fanatic cronies. You could call it the 'alt right' strategy, or 'chud' behaviour but I think this attitude is more vulgar than that, its not nearly that planned. It's the cliquey avarice that pulses the spirit of empire, riling peoples sensibilities up and away from the real problem in this rotten megacity and the squalid festering ratrace happening in the margins, desperate for a kick up the ladder.

"None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with you. You're locked up in here with me." - Rorsach

Reviewed on Apr 16, 2023


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1 year ago

Sidenote: The argument this piece is making that random acts of suicide bombing are meaningless and uncathartic, that the 'highscore' is a difference in 3 or 4 extra dead or injured at most is sage in the sense that it outs suicide bombing both as a lame act of violence in itself and also settling for less in the disturbing fiction of playing by its own logic of terror. This would have been a fine point if the race of you and the NPCs you blow up was randomized every time but because you start off as a mixed arabic person blowing up a predominantly white population it clearly depicts the interaction as a racist colonial fear rather than as an accurate chastizement of suicide bombing as generally pathetic and lame.

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