10 Genius Ways Video Games Fought Pirates
6. Degrading the Player - Arma 2
The Arma series is certainly not as popular as its bigger military/tactical-based shooter brothers, yet Bohemia Interactive’s flagship franchise nonetheless has plenty to offer, from its requisite gunplay, real-world locales, adrenaline-fueled strategic sequences, and immersive multiplayer battles.
Also, you just have to appreciate how creatively 2009’s Arma 2 fights back against disgraceful soldiers via the famous DEGRADE digital rights management software.
Also present in Serious Same 3: BFE and the Operation Flashpoint catalogue, DEGRADE is used differently in different titles. For Arma 2, Bohemia Interactive decided to make it perpetually more difficult for offenders to fire accurate shots (no matter how close they are to their target), as well as see through a perpetually dodgy display full of logos.
Plus, ATVs, tanks, buses, motorcycles, helicopters, and all other kinds of transportation are plagued by inverted controls (that is, if they even start properly to begin with). The most amusing trick, however, comes when Arma 2 transforms the player into a bird while presenting the following message: “Good birds do not fly away from this game, you only have yourself to blame.”
They’re not wrong.