Who ordered the spy plane, exploding crossbows and incendiary shotgun?
The first level on display is titled “WMD” and bears the date stamp “March 5, 1968” – this is smack in the middle of the Cold War, when tension between the USA and the USSR threatened to plunge the whole world into nuclear winter. “WMD” takes place largely at a weapons facility nestled deep in the mountains of the Soviet Union. We say “largely”, because you begin the level dressed in what looks for all intents and purposes like a bright yellow astronaut suit, complete with a mirrored bubble-helmet. This is, in fact, the flight suit worn by pilots of the SR-71 Blackbird, an extremely high-altitude stealth spy plane. Once you hop in and take off, the scene fast-forwards and your Blackbird is shown cruising at the pitch black edge of space, the Earth far, far below you. You, however, are more concerned with the view inside your cockpit – specifically, a tiny black and white screen that displays a small house surrounded by snow-laden trees. A group of American soldiers is infiltrating enem
