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Fiction about rebellions

  • Star WarsWithin three weeks of Star Wars opening, Fox's stock price doubled to a record high. Fox had expected limited success.
  • Final Fantasy XIIIFinal Fantasy XIII's heroes learn their mission is to destroy their own world.
  • V for VendettaV for Vendetta is a British graphic novel by writer Alan Moore and artist David Lloyd, and its hero wears a Guy Fawkes mask that hides his face. He is an anarchist who treats the toppling of a government as theatre. The government is a…
  • Half-Life 2Half-Life 2 is a 2004 first-person shooter from Valve Corporation, and it cost 40 million US dollars to make. Development lasted five years. By 2011 it had sold 12 million copies worldwide. In November 2024, twenty years after its release,…
  • Far Cry 6Far Cry 6 opens with a fishing boat full of refugees slipping away from the Caribbean island of Yara, bound for Miami. It never arrives. The island's own president, Antón Castillo, stops the boat at sea. He discovers that his 13-year-old…
  • Final Fantasy IIFinal Fantasy II replaced experience points with stats that grow by use. Its designer felt it went too far.
  • Final Fantasy XIIFinal Fantasy XII lets players program their characters to fight on their own. It drew on American football plays.
  • AsterixAsterix, the French comic album series, usually opens with a small joke at Rome's expense. The standard introduction reads: "The year is 50 BC. Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely..." That hesitating last line has…
  • Far Cry 3Far Cry 3, a first-person shooter built by Ubisoft Montreal, once offered a free copy to anyone at the PAX East convention who received a permanent tribal tattoo. Shaving your head earned the same reward. It was a fitting stunt for a game…
  • Final Fantasy VIFinal Fantasy VI lets its hero fail to save the world. The story's second half is called the World of Ruin.
  • Kill la KillKill la Kill is a Japanese anime series about a teenager whose clothes have minds of their own. It was created and produced by the studio Trigger. Its heroine is Ryuko Matoi, a vagrant schoolgirl searching for the person who killed her…

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