"Captain Blazkowicz!
Still fighting, after all these years.
I remember your friend.
I savor his memory.
Do you remember him?
In work like this it is easy to be tempted to sense compassion.
We must learn that this is pointless instinct, not fit for the master race.
(In German) Up!
Up!
On the slab!
People like you.
All you peddle is death and destruction.
I would ask you to consider: in the end we will be judged, not by what we have destroyed,
but what we have created."
Wolfenstein: The New Order depicts an alternate reality in which the Nazis defeated the Allies
in World War II.
In the pursuit of creating a new, super-aware form of artificial intelligence, the Germans
capture any resistance members and use them as subjects in their many gruesome experiments.
Soldiers frequently raid hospitals and insane asylums for fresh test subjects, abducting
them forcibly from medical personnel who are trying to help in the aftermath of the war.
"Sometimes, Nazis come.
They leave with patients in shackles.
Like it's Deathshead's personal candy store.
The shrink raises hell and all, but in the end he signs.
No choice, I suppose.
I've seen all this.
Good folks made powerless."
The plot of the game is premised on the historical reality of the Nazi doctrine of a "master race."
According to Nazi ideology, anyone who is not a member of their master race was considered
sub-human and deprived of their fundamental dignity.
Those who are not used as guinea pigs for experiments become inmates in a prison camp
where they are tattooed with a bar code and seen as nothing more than a number.
Tortured and forced into slavery, the members of the resistance have a bleak existence under
the Nazi regime.
The frightening dimension to Wolfenstein: The New Order is that unlike many video games,
the underlying plot line is actually factual rather than fictional.
Many of the crimes against humanity portrayed in the game were a reality for Jews and other
minorities in Germany under the Nazi regime.
In concentration camps, prisoners' identities were also reduced to a number, and they were
subjected to experiments similar to those in the game, such as those exploring the effects
of drinking seawater for weeks on end, transplant surgeries without anesthesia, and medical
experimentation on children.
Most of the victims of such atrocities suffered excruciating deaths.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was a response to such crimes, but its principles
mean nothing if we forget them.
As the gaming industry expands its global audience, let's hope for more games that remind
us all of the price of forgetting the fundamental rights that are the last safeguard of our
human dignity.
Không có nhận xét nào:
Đăng nhận xét