Thousands of citizens have been rounded up and imprisoned, including your own brother. A nuclear missile has taken out the US capital, offing the President in the process, and giving the commies free reign to send in the troops. Ok, who remembers Red Dawn then? The mid-’80s Cold War paranoia flick starring Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen? You know, the one where a bunch of plucky teenagers have to save the USA from an invading Soviet army hell-bent on enslaving the decadent capitalist pig-dog and replacing every MacDonald’s sign in sight with a hammer and sickle? It’s had videogame potential written all over it for years, and it’s bordenng on criminal that it’s taken until now for someone to recognise this.įreedom: The Battle For Liberty Island (working title) may not be formally related to the big-screen classic, but it does take Soviet invasion as its basic premise, and does put you in the shoes of a Swayze-esque everyman leading a team of motley freedom fighters against an occupying force on Uncle Sam’s soil.
