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About the StoryThey caught Abdul during an insurgency in the east. He tried to take out a regiment with some home-made explosives strapped to his chest. They didn't explode, so pretty soon the coalition had a real live terrorist in their clutches. But who sent him? The fundamentalists over the border? He has been shipped over here to be "questioned". And you have been given the plum job. Game Details
Language: English (en)
First Publication Date: April 7, 2007 Current Version: 1 License: Freeware Development System: Inform 7 Forgiveness Rating: Merciful Baf's Guide ID: 3098 IFID: B0ED5D09-E8DC-49C8-97BE-D347FFBB9054 TUID: uamh4vrhqkcfdsu |
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Rendition leverages the power of complicity, but not to any very effective end. I found it possible both to downplay the goal, since the piece never convinced me that there was anything important to gain by breaking Abdul, and to discount the methods, since the interaction didn't permit such tactics as conversation, persuasion, or alternative forms of espionage. I was free to QUIT, my moral disapproval unchallenged.
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SPAG
The implementation is pretty awful. While most body parts are present, the game gives no consideration to whether the action you are attempting actually makes sense with that part. Thus you can happily pull Abdul's eyes and twist his belly. But then, everything about this game is lazy, most of all the thought behind it. You are a psychopath, taking gleeful pleasure in your work. If you were hoping for a consideration of what it means to be a scared kid who joined the military to get money for college and is now thrown into a strange, hostile land where most of the people want to kill you, and how that situation might lead you into doing things that would be unthinkable back home, you won't find it here. If you were hoping to understand what could lead a man to hate so much in the name of religion that he is willing to strap dynamite to his chest and detonate himself in the midst of a crowd, this game won't help with that either.
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v.7: 31-May-2013 16:12 -
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v.1: 04-Jan-2008 03:22 - Emily Boegheim
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