Privates (video game)
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| Privates | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Size Five Games |
| Publisher(s) | Size Five Games |
| Programmer(s) | Dan Marshall |
| Engine | Unity |
| Platform(s) | Windows |
| Release | 6 August 2010 |
| Genre(s) | Multidirectional shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Privates is a freeware twin-stick shooter video game developed and published by Size Five Games (formerly Zombie Cow Studios) and commissioned by Channel 4 as a sex education tool. It was published on 6 August 2010 for Windows.[1] Privates was positively received by critics and won a BAFTA Award.[2]
The player plays as a squad of miniature Marines wearing condom hats who are sent into various people's vaginas and rectums, as well as other parts of the body, in order to kill real-life sexually transmitted infections (STI), which are depicted as monsters.[3] The right weapons must be used to destroy them, which include anti-bacterial and anti-viral guns.[3] The player can order their squad, which consists of up to three additional Marines besides the player, to attack certain enemy types while they cover the others.[3]
Plot
The main character is Jack, who commands Foxtrot Squad. The squad, whose members have been deemed too useless by the "top brass", is forced to embark on a dangerous mission with a combat veteran in the hopes that they will either "shape up" or die.[3]