I've been playing a lot of this game, and I've been thinking about what I've been playing the entire time, and this fictional city's political/sociological implications, and all the like. Yes. This isn't some humorless critique, no, there is a smile on my face as I think of all this, and then write it down, because it would be funny if these scenarios were real. Sorta funny. Yes, it is funny, I have decided. It is blown out to extreme proportions, and that is pretty funny for anything really.
I mean, look at this city. There's no apparent governing system, other than the three maniacal gangs that seem to control it. How did they get their hands on this city? And these guys aren't just silly little street gangs, no, they're military-grade nutjobs is what they are. The streets are in constant riot and uproar. Echoing explosions and clattering machinegun fire can be heard really anywhere you care to stand. You can't go out for a coffee, or take your dog for a walk, because an armored car will pull up full of heavily-armed, eh, malcontents, and eh kill you, perhaps even maim you. On fire. I don't see why there are even people out walking in the first place.
But I mean, talking about these gangs again, there had to be some really genuine unhappiness here to inspire a man to pick up a rocket launcher and go terrorizing a whole city. What kind of city was this? What conditions were these people in to become so unhappy?
Then you have the Agency. Their building is a great tower of incredible architecture that looms over all the land, with terrifying red searchlights sweeping 360 degrees. You get sort of an authoritarian vibe out of this set-up. The police are ruthless. They roll right up, even running over civilians here and there, and fire away at these people, sometimes in the middle of a freeway, causing terrible pile-ups and fatalities. You've got the ruthless police and the even more ruthless gang freaks fighting day and night. It is like some sort of civil war, or it is one, I don't know.
Finally, there's the Agents themselves. Genetically enhanced monstrosities that can leap buildings in a single bound, and drop-kick semi trucks into the ocean, among other things. They administer a special brand of justice. Extremely brutal and savage and awesome. One can only imagine Agents in this day and age, with our societal worries and whatnots. Here is two teenagers dealing weed. Uh oh, here comes an Agent! What's this! He's carrying: a tanker truck! He hurls it at the teenagers, and detonates it right over their heads with an expert blast of his submachine gun! It explodes and sends them flaming high into the sky! Justice is served.
So what is justice in this city? Complete destruction? Furthermore, what's to keep the Agents from going totally berserk and taking the cities for themselves? God knows I've wanted a piece of that city for myself. I would go destroying an entire city block, full of innocents, just for the fun of it, and the boss calls in: "Agent! You disappoint me! The peace-keepers are going to have to take you down!" And I say, "Psssh, I don't care, I'll kill em all, then hang out on a roof until the heat dies down." And that is exactly what I do. It works fine too, because they need me. Say I do want the entire city for myself. No one could stop me. Maybe the Agency will breed stronger Agents to take me out. But what about these stronger Agents? They're stronger. What if they want the city? And then a stronger batch is breeded to stop these ones, and this continues in a deadly cascade of hell.
Ultimately, you have the strongest Agent of all, who is like a god. He can't be stopped. He takes the city with ease. But maybe he has developed his own thoughts about things. Maybe he knows a thing or two about an ideal society, or an ideal political system. Maybe he can be the fabled Philosopher King, like another Akbar, and administer a great rule of the likes that the city has never seen. Because just destroying all these gangs won't be enough. There will be more unhappiness and despair and they will all rise out of the cracks, to fight again. No, another solution is needed. Like a fair and just ruler who has the strength to pull the city out of its seemingly eternal civil war and who is also virtuous enough not to take absolute power, and maybe even give it back to the politicians, if there is any, when the time is right.
Yeah, that would be pretty funny.
