When we talk about the end of the world in games, it’s mostly in the register of what it means for the player. I control some zombie-hating badass with a dead family who wrecks shit through the wasteland, or I’m a part of a crack team of revenant warriors resurrected from the corpse of the government to bend the world true again.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5x9dq/why-games-have-always-obsessed-over-pandemic-authoritarianism
