Then if forces you to walk through and view the charred remains of their corpses. This is a game that forces players to do some truly grotesque things, including dropping white phosphorous onto civilians, utterly incinerating them. Had Walker simply followed orders, the game would’ve been over in half an hour, but he didn’t. Just as Walker continues to blame others for the destruction he leaves in his wake, so, too, do we blame Walker. This presents, perhaps, the most interesting moral choice we, as players, have to make. More on that a little later… Even as Walker manages to get the rest of his squad killed, he always finds some way to justify the results of his actions as belonging to someone else. To revisit the Metal Gear well once more, “It’s easy to forget what a sin is on the battlefield.”Įvery time something goes awry in the game, Walker manages to find some way to rationalize his actions. It may sound hard to justify such actions, but if the deaths of the people still in Dubai prevent a much larger scale war in the future, is the CIA wrong? And the insurgents are following through on the provided orders (and weapons) of that very CIA to oppose the Damned 33rd, who are stripping them of their human dignity through the iron-fisted martial law they’ve imposed. The CIA knowingly crosses The Line by, first, stirring up the locals to fight against the 33rd, and, later, by destroying the reserves of what little water remains in the city. This sows confusion among all parties involved, as now, they don’t know which splinter group of the 33rd any individual member belongs to. Some of his own unit breaks away in order to depose him, restoring the unit to its former, scrupulous glory. He is tyrannical in his pursuit of this noble goal, but his willingness to exert such force to maintain order crosses The Line. Konrad, the leader of the Damned 33rd, is attempting to maintain order despite the calamity in the area and the rapidly dwindling resources. This is a game where you can realistically argue that pretty much any named (or even unnamed) character can be both a hero and a villain. Remember those morals we were talking about? Look out world, because here they come.
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