Video games can sometimes work small miracles. Yes Yes. get it Helldiverse 2 For example. Created by a British studio arrowhead And newly released on Sony’s console and PC, it’s a huge, absolutely overwhelming success, played by hundreds of thousands of gamers.
Democracy will win!
The co-op game puts players in command of squads of future soldiers who will launch operations to conquer planets ravaged by enemy threats, starting with arachnid-type creatures.
And, to carry out their missions, the arsenal is very large: nuclear missile, flamethrower, assault rifle, sniper, orbital strikes from spaceship, motion-detecting machine gun turrets…
With capsules dropped on the surface of planets, players clean themselves up in an absolutely thrilling and above all funny carnage game. Because the Arrowhead team was largely inspired by its spiritual model, Paul Verhoeven’s Certain Starship Troopers.
From a pseudo-democracy with fascist tendencies, propagandistic slogans regularly spat by the characters and belligerent pauses, an arsenal that is almost the same as in the film, non-men, second-rate humor… absolutely everything is remembered by the filmmaker. piece of art.
What does it look like? for that!
A masterpiece rediscovered after 27 years
If we make time to talk Helldiverse 2, this is because there is so much enthusiasm surrounding the game that it seems to have immensely increased the curiosity of players to discover or review the original model! At least in the United States.
It cannot be said that the moment of its release is a biting and cruel twist Starship soldiers from Paul VerhoevenHis satirical and anti-militaristic speech was not discovered by all his viewers, even professionals.
Among critics, some even mentioned the fascist film without mentioning Paul Verhoeven’s handling of the subject (and not remembering his temperament as a filmmaker…). The New York Times even talked about the film “disturbed and scary”…
The sanction was more severe because the production budget was $105 million, the most the filmmaker ever had. Starship soldiers Only 54 million entered the United States.
Time takes its toll and word of mouth, fortunately, has made Paulo’s film an absolute cult hit. A game of carnage in the form of a giant arm of honor from the violent Dutch.
The detail that kills
If you are watching the movie again, pause at 1:41 and 40 seconds. For the record, Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) is taking over for Lt. Raschak (Michael Ironside), who was killed in action.
Rico then discusses his new team before telling his brother Ace Levi (Jake Booze); “Who are these children?” – “We got reinforcements! Most of them come straight from the training camp” Levi answers. “We’re old, Ace” Rico answers.
The frame in question lasts less than a few seconds. It is here :
A plan that primarily emphasizes that after sending hundreds of thousands of soldiers to their deaths, not to mention millions, humanity is actually losing the war against the arachnids. To the point where we can no longer send conscripted children or young adults to their deaths.
As an echo of Nazism and its Hitler Youth, who were mobilized to fight in the Battle of Berlin before the collapse of the Third Reich. These are the very young fighters that Adolf Hitler greeted during his final exit from the Chancellery Bunker in March 1945:
If you haven’t seen it yet Starship soldiers (but possible?), viewing is urgently needed. And even if you’ve already seen it, it’s always good to revisit his classics!
Source: Allocine
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