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Xbox has been in the news recently due to rumors revolving around Microsoft letting its console exclusive titles head to other platforms. When one thinks of the most iconic exclusives that Xbox has, franchises likeHaloandGears of Warcome to mind, the latter of which received universal acclaim for its original trilogy and positive reviews for its other games.
Since the exclusivity could be coming to an end for some of these titles, it seems like the perfect time to revisit theGears of Warseries, which one fan chose to do and realized that it had plenty of disturbing underlying themes that it wouldn’t have gotten away with today.
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AGears of Warplayer took a closer look at some of the themes that the original Xbox exclusive trilogy contained andexpressedhis thoughts on Reddit. The OG titles have been loved by fans, but according to the Reddit user, there is a chance people do not remember just how “hardcore” these games used to really be.
Firstly, the series tries to show how the “Fascist government is the good guy” because of the circumstances that the Coalition of Ordered Governments, or COG, has to handle due to the locusts attacking humanity.
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InGears of War, the COG decides to declare martial law when it is faced with a humanity-ending situation, but obviously, people are not too fond of that. The government in the game also wipes out millions of people to counter the locusts, which is truly messed up, but some might ask, was it the only way to deal with the scenario? This is where the concept of “Fascist government is the good guy” emerges, as it is a highly divisive topic.
The Trilogy Included Disturbing Forced Breeding Farms
Since humanity’s fate was at stake, the COG had to ensure its continued survival by creating breeding farms, where women were basically forced to get impregnated by the top brass soldiers in the government. This was done to make up for all of the lives that were getting lost, so making new humans as quickly as possible was the solution the government ultimately came up with.
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These children would then be turned into soldiers when they grew up to fight in the never-ending war.
To make things even more disturbing, the tie-in comic seriesBarrenrevealed that a woman called Alex Brand was also sent to one of these breeding farms and got “raped for years” in the hopes of getting her forcibly pregnant. However, the government finds out that she is infertile, so all that time of extensive torture had absolutely no point.
It does not get more messed up than this.
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Osama Farooq
Senior Gaming Content Editor / Critic
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Ever since Osama was gifted the glorious PS2 more than two decades back, video games have formed a major part of his life, ranging from spending hours playing through every single Dragon Ball game he could find to witnessing the gaming industry evolve into something extraordinary in modern times. Building his collection of PlayStation consoles throughout the years all the way up until PS5, he prefers single-player experiences like The Last of Us and Persona, while also letting off steam on a daily basis with casual EA Sports FC matches. But the current rise in online multiplayer shooters will never really appeal to his old-school self.
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