Gaming – with whip and fist

In psychology, the implementation of non -approved or difficult -to -implement wishes and needs is called sublimation. Would you like to beat Nazis? In a new video game it is mandatory: “Indiana Jones and the big circle” has a bunch of blue eyes for Aryan men.

The action adventure of the Swedish developers of Machine Games writes a new chapter of the »Indiana-Jones« epic. Perhaps the most famous grave robber of the pop culture of the 80s was invented by Steven Spielberg and George Lucas for the cinema of the 80s, from which a video game series was created. In the latest edition, »Indy« must follow the trace of a stolen cat mummy. In the Vatican, in the Egyptian pyramids, in the Himalaya and in Shanghai during the Japanese invasion and in the Zik curator of UR, he has to deal with countless Nazi henchmen. With the whip and the fist. That takes 15 to 20 hours of total playing time. Fans and critics are unanimously enthusiastic.

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On the other hand, if you want to swing the somewhat finer blade, you can fall back on the game “The Darkest Files”. The Berlin -based company Paintbucket Games released a detective drama in March that was located in the 1950s of the FRG. As a player, one slips into the role of a young prosecutor who works for the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer, a famous anti -fascist. By skillfully researching and combining it, it is important to bring the crimes of the Nazi era to court. In this puzzle adventure, destroyed evidence must be reconstructed and potential perpetrators are interrogated in order to ultimately break through the leading silence of post-fascist society. The ratings on the Steam sales platform are extremely positive at 93 percent, but unfortunately there is no German voice output so far. But the text edition is in German version. The developer of the game, Jörg Friedrich, who also teaches game and narrative design at the technical art college in Berlin, told the specialist magazine »Gamestar« with the fact that the majority of buyers do not come from Germany.

Nevertheless, with “Commandos: Origins”, a classic from the anti -fascist video game history returns to the screens after over 17 years. The real-time tactics series »Commandos« also serves a genre that is hardly represented in the mass market. But the Claymore Game Studio, the Darmstadt development team, has ventured into a new edition. The game offers ten missions in which six members of an Allied special unit fight against the National Socialists. Whether sabotage, overfall, infiltration or delicate rescue operation, it is important to use the different skills of the team members. The respective tasks can be implemented variably, depending on who you let them execute: pioneer, sniper or spy. The areas of application extend over almost all locations of the Second World War: from Africa to the Soviet Union.

Many buyers criticize the susceptibility of the game, especially in multiplayer mode. Nevertheless, the reviews on Steam are largely positive. Maybe from nostalgia, but maybe also because the game satisfies a very specific need: the liberation of the world from National Socialism.

“Indiana Jones and the big circle”, € 69.99 (Machine Games); “The Darkest Files”, € 19.99 (Paintbucket Games); “Commandos: Origin”, € 49.99 (Claymore Game Studios)