Captures and Snapshots Windows. Comments and reviews There is no comment nor review for this game at the moment. Write a comment Share your gamer memories, give useful links or comment anything you'd like. Send comment. Buy Freedom Force vs The 3rd Reich Freedom Force vs The 3rd Reich is available for a small price on the following websites, and is no longer abandonware. Total Control DOS Outlive Win State of War: Warmonger Win Maybe it's the fact that all the excellent character voices are performed by Irrational employees in a poky improvised recording studio?
Perhaps it's the ridiculously over-the-top stereotypes that populate the game, including the new A s heroes of Black Jack stiff-upper-lipped Brit , Tricolour sassy chick wrapped in French flag and Sky King American rocketeer. Actually, we reckon it's the whole package that we're drawn to, which is currently being expertly assembled with great passion and belief by Ken Levine and his minions, keen to avenge the hurt they felt after the enforced rush-release of the first game by their evil ex-publisher.
We'll discover whether Freedom Force vs The Third Reich is a superhero or supervillain in next month's review. What's the difference between Andres Serrano and Oliver Reed? One's an artist who works with piss, the other's a piss You get the idea. That's the trouble with comedy you see, it's all about context.
And timing. Timing and context. And delivery. But mostly timing and context. Reputation plays a part. As does taste. Audience judgement can help and you shouldn't underestimate the value of shock. But eight out of ten comedians, when queried for the sake of this poll, agreed that for the most part context and timing were the most important ingredients for successful gag execution. For instance. Do you know who Andres Serrano is?
A quick Googling will enlighten not for the easily offended though , but without some sort of knowledge of the infamous Piss Christ the above jokelet most likely falls as flat as a pancake trodden on by a passing elephant parade.
And that's the main issue surrounding whether you'll get any joy, pleasure and fulfilment from playing Freedom Force Vs The 3rd Reich. Namely, just how well do you know and cherish American super-hero comic books of the '50s and '60s? Fans of the original Freedom Force will be right at home with this sequel as, on the face of it, nothing's changed.
Slightly better graphics, as you'd expect, and a more polished, robust presentational style. But thematically we're ploughing a very similar furrow here, with all the exaggerated parody of old school comic book heroes intact as you work through a timetravelling plot involving communists, Nazis, Romans, aliens and just about everything else you can think of.
We say parody, but here's the nub of why Freedom Force doesn't quite live up to the reputation it's attempting to build. It's something we here at call the Look Around You effect. You see, for all the loving homage and painstakingly faithful recreation of the period material, we can't quite agree on whether or not the TV programme is, you know, funny. Sure the voice-acting is over the top communist soldiers screaming, I fall for the people!
But it's all played very straight, with none of the knowing comic winks or ironic touches that separate an entertaining parody fibm a straight out simulation. So here we have to go back to whether you get' the source material or not.
I'm hazarding a guess that the majority of gamers in this country at least are more attuned with the more modern, realistic, dare I say darker take on the world of superheroes. I certainly am, although disapproving muttering and scowling looks coming from the Will Porter camp opposite my desk would suggest that not everyone is left as cold by all this old-school stuff as I am.
Though obviously remaining faithful to the material of the time, some of the portrayals of non-Americans in this game leave a vaguely unsettling taste in the mouth especially the Middle-Eastern and Asian characters , although I certainly wouldn't go as far as using the R word.
It does raise the question of whether outdated attitudes are acceptable when used in context though. In passive entertainment you can get away with this, but when you're actively taking part in things, is it right to simply assume that cultural differences such as arranged marriages are bad", just because they're not in keeping with '50s American values?
Official Description [ ] When Nuclear Winter returns with a plot to destroy Freedom Force and the free world, gaming's greatest heroes must team up with a flurry of fresh faces! List of missions [ ] Mission 1: Things that go bump in the night! Mission 3: Beware the Sorceress of the Soviet! Mission 7: The Voice of Doom! Mission When Strikes the Kill-a-Rilla! Mission Sky King's Starring Moment! Mission Achtung!
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