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If it had come out two years earlier, right after the attacks…well, it’d still seem skeezy, but at least it probably would’ve sold. Electronic Arts may once have been semi-reputable, and they still occasionally put out some okay games, but at the time they were a shameless-money-hungry-quality-be-damned corporation that would put out pandering shlock to fill our country’s needs to kill foreigners under the pretense of truth, justice, and the American way (for an honest to God example, see Fugitive Hunter, where you can kick Osama bin Laden in the balls, if you’d like.) Ironically, Freedom Fighters is far better than most other titles that were being published by Electronic Arts at the time.Īnyway, the game more or less tanked. It didn’t help that Electronic Arts’ name was on the box. To the tin hat wearing crowd, it almost might seem like it was propaganda in video game form. So Freedom Fighters reeked of post 9/11 exploitation, trying to sell itself on the fear and paranoia instilled in our country by the terrorists. (This was also before the days of yearly military shooters like Call of Duty.) By this time, the word “freedom” itself had become something of a loaded term, used to stir feelings of patriotism to excuse America’s more questionable actions. The cover was almost hilariously over-American – rough sketches of military figures against a red, white and blue colored backdrop of New York City, who were fighting to save our dear precious nation from foreign invaders. Back when it was released in the holiday season of 2003, Freedom Fighters looked like it could be a bit of an embarrassment.