{"id":34758,"date":"2011-03-28T07:29:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T12:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=34758"},"modified":"2011-10-12T00:36:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T05:36:32","slug":"geopolitics-in-first-person-shooter-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/28\/geopolitics-in-first-person-shooter-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Geopolitics in First-Person Shooter Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katrin sent us a link to a image at GOOD<\/a> that illustrates the geopolitics of first-person shooter video games. The image was created by a group at Complex<\/a> to illustrate the way that the changing actual political landscape can be seen in the nationality of villains in video games. Peter Rubin, of Complex, explains, “Gone are the days of all FPSes being either World War II or sci-fi; in the new milennium, developers are on the hunt for enemies that are speculative but still plausible.”<\/p>\n

They looked at 20 FPS games from the past decade (unfortunately, they give no details about how those 20 games were chosen<\/p>\n

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The selected titles:<\/p>\n

Return to Castle Wolfenstein<\/em> (2001): Germany
\nTom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Desert Siege<\/em> (2002): Ethiopia
\nTom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Island Thunder<\/em> (2003): Cuba
\nDelta Force: Black Hawk Down<\/em> (2003): Somalia
\nTom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Jungle Storm<\/em> (2004): Colombia
\nTom Clancy’s Ghost Recon 2<\/em> (2004): North Korea <\/em>
\nJoint Operations: Typhoon Rising<\/em> (2004): Indonesia
\nTom Clancy’s Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike<\/em> (2005): Afghanistan
\nDelta Force Xtreme<\/em> (2005): Chad
\nTom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter<\/em> (2006): Mexico
\nCall of Duty 4: Modern Warfare<\/em> (2007): Russia\/Afghanistan
\nArmy of Two<\/em> (2008): Somalia\/Afghanistan\/China\/Iraq
\nFrontlines: Fuel of War<\/em> (2008): Russia\/China
\nCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 <\/em>(2009): Russia\/Afghanistan\/Brazil
\nOperation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising<\/em> (2009): China\/Russia
\nSingularity<\/em> (2010): Russia
\nMAG <\/em>(2010): Russia\/China\/India
\nArmy of Two: The 40th Day<\/em> (2010): China
\nHomefront<\/em> (2011): Korea (They don’t specify if it’s North or South Korea)
\nOperation Flashpoint: Red River<\/em> (2011): China<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyway, it provides a nice little illustration of the way that global politics seeps into this element of pop culture, as well as a snapshot of nations currently perceived as rivals or even enemies of the U.S. — a mixture of old tensions (Russia, Germany), ongoing anxiety about China, and emerging focal points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Katrin sent us a link to a image at GOOD that illustrates the geopolitics of first-person shooter video games. The image was created by a group at Complex to illustrate the way that the changing actual political landscape can be seen in the nationality of villains in video games. Peter Rubin, of Complex, explains, “Gone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,1763,8102,1773,8091,1775,1777,1784,1785,1824,4381,1799,1853,1711,309],"class_list":["post-34758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-culture","tag-nation-afghanistan","tag-nation-chad","tag-nation-colombia","tag-nation-cuba","tag-nation-ethiopia","tag-nation-germany","tag-nation-india","tag-nation-indonesia","tag-nation-mexico","tag-nation-north-korea","tag-nation-russia","tag-nation-somalia","tag-toysgames","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34758"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40406,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34758\/revisions\/40406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}