I’m honestly hyped for a new golden age of movies and games where Russians are the bad guys. I feel like Russian bad guys always had more character and really made you want to see the hero outmaneuver them. Arabs just didn’t do it for me the last two decades.
“The old-fashioned racism didn’t cut it for me anymore. Excited to be racist towards a new group of people”
Just pointing out the world we live in.
Any game with any sort of bad group of people can be reduced to an "-ism", but that doesn't make that conversation piece particularly interesting.
Hollywood will again strike back at Russians by mangling their names and putting up jumble of Cyrillic instead of a single actual Russian word.
Lshtshfum Ashchf will again outmaneuver the baddies and turn out to be the American Universal Hero: Jason Bond by day, Iron Batman by night.
I think it stems from the fact that fighting terrorists is asymmetrical warfare. The Russians can go just as hard as the US can, though the US has vastly more military resources and the power of NATO behind it.
Will it be an economic strategy where the player gets to decide to stop buying Russian gas by 2030? You know, do the one thing that Pu and buddies actually care about.