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Shellshock 2: Shellshockier

By Alec Meer on September 30th, 2008.

Here’s a sequel I didn’t expect to happen. Shellshock: Nam 67 was what Guerilla Games got up to before making those Killzone games on Playstation 2/3. An underwhelming fps-but-with-more-shoulder, it turned up in the midst of the brief Vietnam obsession that hit the PC in the mid-2000s. It was also a straight down the line war is hell jobbie. Which makes its having a sequel even odder, because Shellshock 2 is about mutants and experimental toxins and stuff. Someone’s been reading their Agent Orange conspiracy theories, clearly.
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