The titular Freedom Force (and doesn't even the name evoke that unabashedly American self-confidence?) are unequivocally good, united, devoted to fisty justice.
It was an age of sincere and vibrant characters, with clear battle lines between good and evil, and themes that reflected the politics and society of the time so openly that it almost seems naive. Specifically, the Silver Age of comic books - a period roughly spanning the 1950s and 1960s, when heroes were Heroes and space robots from Neptune were Space Robots From Neptune. So I say this without exaggerating or clutching at straws: Freedom Force Vs The Third Reich, a real-time, squad-based tactical beat ‘em up from 2005, is the only game that truly shows why people love comics. I have a strange bias here, as I'm one of the fifty people on earth who loves games but never cared about comics or superheroes. The superhero games we do have - for example, the Arkham series - are mainly about specific superheroes, not about the idea or the spirit of their original format, the comic book.
Films about whiny teenagers with the least interesting powers of an arachnid are ten a penny, but video games of this kind have been oddly lacking. Superheroes are, my dear mole cave people recently thawed following a decades-long slumber, very much in vogue right now.
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