Line #17 VideoGame/HogsOfWar


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2	[[caption-width-right:256:[[DontExplainTheJoke Get the]] [[Film/FullMetalJacket reference]]?]]
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4	The TurnOfTheMillennium saw the release of this game, where [[DrillSergeantNasty Commanding General I. P. Grimly]] guides the player and their army of pigs through a [[NintendoHard devilishly difficult campaign single-player mode]], while there's also a "free play" single-or-multi player mode.
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6	The plot, mirroring how meaningless wars are, [[ExcusePlot is as basic as it gets:]] there's an island filled with swill, and your pigs' country wants it. Of course, you don't get to the island before having to conquer an entire country. [[HilarityEnsues Guess what the premise leads to.]]
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8	[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogs_of_war#Sequel A sequel]] ''was'' announced, but it happened when Creator/{{Infogrames}} happened to go through bankruptcy and therefore became yet another case of {{Vaporware}}.
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12	!! This game provides examples of:
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14	* AffectionateParody: Of various war films.
15	* AmusingInjuries: When a MadeOfExplodium soldier dies, well, he blows up - the catch, though, is that [[SmolderingShoes we have a pair of smoking boots left behind]].
16	* BadassBoast: Several, including:
17	** ''I straddle the battlefield like a mighty colossus!''
18	%% * BadassLongcoat: Spy class
19	* ColonelKilgore: The DrillSergeantNasty briefing the pigs in the intro video.
20	--> As soldiers, our job is to fight! Destroy! With guns... and ''bombs''... and '''''knives'''''... and... and with '''''YOUR BARE HANDS...!''''' ''[unintelligible rabid gibbering]''
21	%% * CoolShades: The Spy class again.
22	%% * DamageIsFire
23	* DeathFromAbove: Airstrikes. You can also pull off this one with a Jetpack too, if your timing is good enough.
24	* DownerEnding:
25	** [[spoiler: The soldier has no house and girlfriend to go back to. The only alternative, possible solution is, [[ForegoneConclusion of course]], [[AndTheAdventureContinues stick to being a soldier]].]]
26	** [[spoiler: Weirdly, this is almost portrayed as a BittersweetEnding, with I.P. Grimly, (who throughout the campaign was a ruthless combination of the DrillSergeantNasty and GeneralRipper) [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold basically comforting the depressed soldier]]. Even though the soldier lost his girl, his home, and any chance of civilian employment, [[EarthIsABattlefield there's always another war around the corner]], [[AndTheAdventureContinues giving him plenty more enemies to fight]]. The soldier happily [[RidingIntoTheSunset marches into the sunset]], with Grimly [[AFatherToHisMen wishing him luck in fighting whatever enemy lies ahead of him]].]]
27	* DrillSergeantNasty: Commanding General I. P. Grimly is either an AffectionateParody or a LawyerFriendlyCameo of Creator/RLeeErmey's [[Film/FullMetalJacket Sergeant Hartman]] [[InkSuitActor "character"]]. See him [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqepk452aj8&feature=related here]].
28	* ExcusePlot: there's an archipelago filled with food for pigs (swill). Your country wants it. [[HilarityEnsues Cue war.]]
29	* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: The pigs give these when they die, the tropes they cover could have a page of their own;
30	** BlatantLies[=/=]OnlyAFleshWound: "Superficial damage captain!" "I'm just...winded."
31	** DyingMomentOfAwesome: "I feed on violence... and now... I'm... full..."
32	** WhatTheHellPlayer: "[[FunetikAksent Dis is all your fault, meester zo-called Cap-e-tane!]]"
33	* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Each one with their own color and helmet!
34	** Tommy's Trotters: UK, green uniforms and First World War helmets
35	** Garlic Grunts: France, dark blue uniforms and army caps.
36	** Sow-A-Krauts: Imperial Germany, grey uniforms and Pickelhaube.
37	** Uncle Ham's Hogs: USA, light blue uniforms and cowboy hats.
38	** Piggystroika: USSR, red uniforms and Ushanka.
39	** Sushi Swine: Imperial Japan, yellow uniforms and tropical visor caps.
40	** Team Lard: Developers, purple uniforms and Ushanka with horns.
41	* GangUpOnTheHuman: The final campaign mission consists of 5 computer controlled teams (the ones you didn't pick and Team Lard) all sending their best troops to kill you. They never go after each other, though it is justified in that you've more or less taken over the world.
42	* GluttonousPig: The main premise of the game is that massive armies of pigs fight a bloody war for a continent full of swill.
43	* HealingHands: [[ShootTheMedicFirst The Medic class]]. Literally, their "Healing Hands" move is them rubbing hands together and touching the patient in question.
44	* HealingShiv: The Medic also has access to a variety of these.
45	%% * HomeByChristmas: Referenced in two cutscenes.
46	* IncrediblyLamePun: A veritable HurricaneOfPuns about 'saving your bacon', and so on.
47	* JettisonJetpackAttack: The jetpack works like this - it can be jettisoned in mid-air, dropping it like a bomb below and allowing the pig who was using it to float to safety on a parachute
48	* LargeHam: A few of the pigs do this. [[IncrediblyLamePun Appropriately enough.]]
49	* MessyPig: In the [[{{Feelies}} comic book included with the game]], an early panel depicts a family of pigs at home before they have joined the army; the living room floor is covered with small piles of excrement. A later panel depicts the pigs about to parachute behind enemy lines; one of them says that he needs to use the toilet, but the sergeant says "You don't use the toilet! You're a pig! You do it on the floor and roll around in it! We all do!"
50	* MobileShrubbery: Pigs trained in espionage can use items to hide themselves.
51	* NationalStereotypes: See FantasyCounterpartCulture. Then browse the appropriate stereotypes from the list. Then throw is [[IncrediblyLamePun pig-related puns]] and... yeah, that's basically the majority of the joke fodder for this game.
52	* NewGamePlus: On completing the campaign mode as one country, you can take it back from them as the purple Team Lard.
53	* NewsParody: When completing an area, you get the front page of a newspaper with appropriate headlines and photos depending on how well you did.
54	--> '''VICTORY!''' Tea and crumpets for leading generals!
55	* {{Permadeath}}: If during a mission one of your hogs are killed, on the post-mission screen their picture will be bruised and beaten, but they remain in your squad. If however three of your squad members are killed in battle, then one of them will be permanently deceased, which means losing all your precious promotions for that soldier as well (something which the player is usually unprepared for). If four squad members are killed in battle, two are permanently deceased.
56	* PunnyName: I. P. Grimly.
57	* RingOut: When a pig gets blown clear out of the map, he [[MadeOfExplodium explodes]], quite undramatically.
58	* ShoutOut:
59	** As noted above, [[Film/FullMetalJacket both the cover art and the]] DrillSergeantNasty.
60	** And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3nL8VFeuFc the theme song]] is [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus "Sousa Liberty Bell March"]].
61	** Music/{{Elvis\|Presley}} and [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Chekov]] are present in all but name among the pig voices.
62	** [[Film/AnAmericanWerewolfInLondon "Stay off the moors!"]]
63	** Most of the various pig soldiers are either parodies of specific national stereotypes or [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of famous characters of that nation from either history or popular culture, including seemingly half the cast of ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
64	** At least one is aping [[Film/RockyIV Ivan Drago]]: "[[PreAssKickingOneLiner I must break you]]", anyone?
65	* SmolderingShoes: what's left of fallen soldiers during gameplay; outside of combat, this is also PlayedForLaughs in a cutscene.
66	* SoundtrackDissonance:
67	** The aforementioned ''Sousa Liberty Bell March'' heard in the Main Menu; [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zyvTghFZKI the BGM for the actual gameplay]] also counts, because it's pretty darn relaxing in comparison to the RealTimeStrategy you have to deal with, given the time limit.
68	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia2WrikdCKs The victory fanfare]] is a debatable example, depending on the interpretation: the first notes deliberately have a very bittersweet feel to them, in order to sum up the pointlessness of war in musical form.
69	* SuperDrowningSkills: Anyone below [[EliteMook commando level]]. They can swim, but even a full health pig drowns very quickly if trying to swim.
70	* SuperNotDrowningSkills: Pigs that rank commando or higher can swim safely.
71	* TakeThat: In the Pig Pen map, you can see a tile depicting [[VideoGame/{{Worms}} a worm]] cut in half. ''[[BloodyHilarious Messily.]]''
72	%% * TankGoodness: There are vehicles.
73	* ToiletHumour: Pigs have a habit of farting when they disguise themselves.
74	* TraumaInn: MASH tents and bunkers. Being in one for a set amount of turns heals a pig.
75	%% * TrickBomb: 'Medicene Balls' and 'Poison Gas'.
76	%% * ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill
77	* WarIsGlorious: The opinion of [[GeneralRipper I.P. Grimley]], and often promoted as such through the gag propaganda films. In reality, of course, it's more like...
78	%% * WarIsHell: Parodied shamelessly and brutally.

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