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America's Army Special Ops: Abu Ghraib
The United States Army (PC)
Okay, the original America's Army required you to go through endless
training missions, and while the online game play was good I never really
got into it. But this game is totally different. In this one you're plucked
from a rural community in America, separated from your family, and flown to
a foreign country. When you land you're given an assignment to guard a
prison, and told to make it up as you go along. That's it-the rest is up to
you. This is a really open-ended game and the story totally depends on the
decisions you make.
You and your teammates are given a group of "detainees" that you must
discipline. The thing that makes this game different is that the detainees
can't fight back, and they're in chains or locked in cells. At first it was
a little confusing, and I killed a lot of detainees expecting them to fight
back, but I got used to it and found it to be a refreshingly different
approach from most RPGs.
The choice of weapons is really interesting, too. You start out with a
crate, a cattle prod, and a Bible, and by using them in different ways you
get more weapons to use. For instance, after you beat a detainee with a
Bible, you get pork and bananas, which you can either (spoiler alert) feed
to the detainees or insert into their rectums, or both. But it's not as
easy as it sounds! The detainees will eat the bananas, but they'll get
really angry if they have to eat pork.
The game is split between sim levels and puzzle levels. In the sim levels
you have to discipline the detainees and see if you can get any information
out of them. After you complete a sim level you go to a puzzle level, where
you have a different goal every time. In one puzzle, you have two minutes
to construct a pyramid out of detainees without letting any of them fall
down.
In another, you have to throw a brown sludge at naked detainees until they
denounce Allah, who in the game is their god. These different kinds of
levels give you some much needed variety in game play (Id games could learn
something from AASO:AG for Doom 4). There are also some new enemies that
appear later in the game: investigators, tribunals, and journalists, each
of which you must avoid in order to finish the game.
Some people have complained that this game is kind of unchallenging because
you're beating up people who are in handcuffs, and they can't fight back,
but I found it really interesting and fun, and I thought the detail in the
3D environments (dripping faucets, clanking bars in the cells,
blood-covered inmates forced to mock-fellate each other, constant
screaming, men beating their heads against bars, laughing soldiers) really
gave this game an ambience.
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"And I sure wouldn't bet a damn buck that Bush's two
girls haven't done their fair share of carpet cleaning!" - AB
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