I was talking to thechenry today over IM when the topic of the joys of turning digital soldier’s faces into raspberry jam came up (as it always does).

This conversation inevitably turned to the recent re-release of Perfect Dark on Xbox Live Arcade. I remarked how I missed the days when FPS games let you Rambo through levels, indiscriminately piling bodies in fits of homicidal glee justified by the game’s assertion that you’re the “good guy”.

…but then I thought. Are you ever really, truly, given the sense that you’re the “good guy” in Perfect Dark?

Your character, Joanna Dark, is under the employ of a shadowy non-government organization that operates outside the law - The Carrington Institute.

• Carrington Institute’s mission and/or agenda is unclear
• You are constantly advised to not question your missions
• The institute seems to operate soley at the whims of one man - Daniel Carrington
• The Carrington Institute is in league with extraterrestrial beings whose motives and plans for Earth are also unclear
• Carrington sends you into Area 51 where you proceed to murder hundreds of American soldiers. This cannot be considered anything less than an act of war against the United States

Joanna Dark isn’t a heroine. She’s an ice cold, homicidal, bitch.

…at least Bond only killed Russians. They don’t count.