Walker is aware of the atrocities he's commited, and is scared shitless of what he's become and the punishment he'll receive, but he still feels like he should be punished for it. Konrad: Is this really what you want, Walker?… So be it. Konrad's cold and mechanical thought process has already been decided, either he suffers judgement at Walker's own hands or Walker dies when he pulls the trigger and then when he finally finishes his countdown, the tone of voice he uses sounds evil, like that of a true monster. Walker is trying his best to maintain his composure and find some way to reason his way out of the situation, but Konrad continues his countdown regardless. The way that in the ending Konrad gives you a simple choice - shoot him or he'll shoot you - is so menacing in how deliberate and definite he is about the choice.Very few of them look innocent, with the majority depicting horrors such as civilians getting bombed and shot by helicopters, parents killed by a soldier in front of their daughter, an implied rape of a woman by soldiers next to trees filled with hanging bodies, and a boy playing with a girl whose face looks like it was burned/torn off. On the wall at one point, there are several childish drawings. Early on, just before you fight the 33rd for the first time, you pass through an abandoned civilian campsite. These are the thoughts and feelings of the survivors, so when you find pictures of violence and suicide, artwork bordering on Body Horror, and one piece of graffiti that simply reads "DUBAI DIED SCREAMING", you can guess what the people left here are going through. Some of the graffiti found throughout the city can be unsettling, whether it's actual pictures or just scrawled writing.The Despair Event Horizon comes and it hits hard. Not only is the sight of this dead body disturbing in and of itself but the deeper psychological revelations that come with it basically invalidate everything Walker had been working up to in that one moment. Walker finding Konrad's decaying corpse, with its pitiful, helpless expression.No wonder it's a wake-up call that Violence Is Disturbing. You know it's really messed up when a video game reviewer like Yahtzee Croshaw, who's desensitized from all the violence in video games, is actually shaken by what happened. Lugo: HE TURNED US INTO FUCKING KILLERS!!
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