
Getting Trapped in Metal Gear Solid V’s War Economy
Debt, industrialism, and the systems of modern war.
Debt, industrialism, and the systems of modern war.
Videogames are stuck in the era of Rambo.
As an escape from its arid deserts and flustered robot politics, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain offers Mother Base—an offshore plant near the Seychelles, a place to chill out between missions, where you can overlook the surrounding view of the ocean blue. Even so, it is still made of refined steel and filled up with saluting soldiers calling your name; hardly a proper retreat from the battlefield. What you might want instead is somewhere populated by paper trees and where shrubs and bushes are cut out from rigid stencils. Think of something resembling the material world of Tearaway: inviting you to…
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