Does anyone know any good games where you kill fascist CIA and US army scum? Ideally as a Marxist-Leninist freedom fighter or as a soldier of a socialist country. Otherwise, games where you fight US puppets like Israel as say a Palestinian freedom fighter are also more than welcome.
Spec Ops: The Line is probably the first example that comes to mind.
They get a bad rap because of the sometimes fascist leaning fanbase, but paradox grand strategy games do let you play whatever side you want. Everytime I tried Hearts of Iron (admittedly my least favourite paradox game), I played as the USSR.
Some of the Metal Gear games, though that’s still “the good americans vs the corrupt government” which isn’t really ideal either.
Yakuza 3 features CIA as one of the villain factions.
interestingly, Yakuza 3 is also the “wokest” yakuza game in the franchise lol
- a part of the main storyline deals with racism, with one of the girls (that kiryu adopted) outright saying she couldn’t like this boy (also adopted by kiryu) because he’s black, and in typical yakuza fashion, she’d later see the error of her ways.
- a substory that essentially boils down to kiryu saying trans rights, though then again rgg studios also included a transphobic quest; but it’s since been removed in the re-release. also i heard rumors that it was exclusive to the western release - the original japanese release apparently didn’t have it lmao
all this in a game released in 2009. imagine that lmao. if you put any of this in recent games chuddies would hue and cry about “forced diversity and wokeist propaganda being shoved down their throats”
