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[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 106 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

You're a new type of cyborg cop, that works for a new anti-terrorism unit to hunt down terrorists, formed after they bombed the twin towers. A global pandemic keeps the streets eerily quiet.

The game came out in 2000 btw.

[–] shadearg@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The game came out in 2000 btw.

And the last official patch was...

  • Mon Mar 19 12:06:14 2001 v1.112fm

...176 days before 9/11. Crazy foresight.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Al-Qaeda tried to destroy those buildings every 5 years or so.

[–] shadearg@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

I got the game bundled with a SoundBlaster Live! Platinum 5.1 kit and played it before, during, and after 9/11, and was blown away by the coincidences that appeared eerily prescient during this time.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Technically it's the statue of liberty. It's what gives the purpose of UNATCO. to basically make the world police judge , jury and executioner

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

UNATCO already exists before the statue of liberty

spoiler(which was an inside job)

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

Ssshh OP didn't want spoilers can you hide that?

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also everything was orchestrated by the Illuminati before they got hijacked by a splinter faction of even bigger dickbags than the normal Illuminati.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 19 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I left out the spoilers and stuff that didn't actually happen.

There's a lot of what were open secrets in the 90s, like that the gov't was scanning internet traffic and phone calls, the existence of the NSA, the CIA blackmailing US politicians, that gets combined with wacky conspiracies in there, which leaves a bad taste.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah. Mk Ultra. Cloud seeding. Remote hacking of vehicles. Black site torture.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A global pandemic keeps the streets eerily quiet.

well that's not accurate at all for how it was in 2020

[–] nadiaraven@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

It was for like...two weeks