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Does anyone remember the Mercenaries games? The first one was about blowing up North Korea, the second one about blowing up Venezuela
Yeah that one was insane, and with no pretense either - the Venezuela one was literally about taking their oil iirc
Awesome games though lol I liked them when I was a kid
Just Cause perfected that sort of thing really - Just Cause 2 was basically blow up North Korea.
At least Just Cause 2 had the decency to make up a pretend island with a pretend bad guy on it so you're not being conditioned as strongly to think it's okay to kill anyone in any real country
And as far as I remember there are some based characters in that game who have absolute contempt for the main character and will gladly send him into absurd situations because he's a shitty US goon and if he dies good and if he takes out some fascist goons with him all the better
Also the later titles did somewhat move away from that. In 4 the main enemy was an US mercenary group IIRC. And at the end of that game it did sort of imply you would be attacking some sort of US agency in the next title (which was canceled, rip).