Thankfully he gets hit by a mortar and dies an explosive death late into the game, which I considered rather karmic. On the other hand, it did make me hate a fair share of this game’s characters, including “Psycho” Kowalski, who not once, but twice kills a hostage to get intel. Granted, Shellshock doesn’t get that deep and thought-provoking compared to Spec Ops: The Line and was released was back before games really started thinking about the consequences of player actions, so I might be giving this game a bit too much credit.
Being stuck in a warzone and seeing all this horrific imagery, complete with soldiers doing things without thinking them through, people torturing other soldiers, even cutscenes that feature mass graves and other horrific things. When I played through Shellshock, I was getting a vibe from it that reminded me of another third-person shooter that also tried to show the horrors of war that was released several years later: Spec Ops: The Line. Granted, this is probably par for the course when it comes to these games, but it gets pretty gnarly in spots. On the bright side, at least the soundtrack is unique and fits the time period, there’s no “Ride of the Valkyries” or Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son” here like there is in Every Other Vietnam War Story these days, so Shellshock: Nam ‘67 gets a gold star in that regard. I felt this music wasn’t necessary considering it really only plays on the base camp, which you visit about 3-4 times in the whole game, and nowhere else. There’s a surprisingly large amount of licensed music for this game, stuff like Roy Orbison and the Small Faces. I’m gonna move away from talking about the R&R for a bit to something lighter.Īlso around the base camp is music, which lightens the mood a little. I genuinely felt uncomfortable finding out that this exists in this game, and I’ve played a handful of games with rather unnecessary love-making scenes. It doesn’t seem to do much to the player, it just feels superfluous, or maybe somebody at Guerrilla really loved that prostitute scene from Full Metal Jacket. While thankfully there’s no graphic depictions of said sexual conduct, it is rather off-putting considering the rest of the game’s content. Buying an R&R pass will give you access to another area where you can have sex with a random Vietnamese prostitute.
I want to talk about the last part because it’s one of the more questionable parts of this game. I hope to god there isn’t pinups of these in an issue of Playboy or whatever, because I’m already skeeved out by the existence of this.
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