You All Look Familiar/Playing With

Basic Trope: Every NPC and/or enemy in a video game looks the same.
 * Straight: Enemy soldiers look exactly the same as the one next to them, down to facial features.
 * Exaggerated: It turns out that every soldier is an identical twin of their comrades.
 * Justified: The Hero is fighting an army of clones
 * Inverted: All enemies have a different model, but your comrades all look identical (you included).
 * Subverted: Every soldier has a unique model...
 * Double Subverted: ...until you realize that those unique models are recycled in later levels.
 * Parodied: Every soldier's model has a prominent nametag which says "Pvt. Generic".
 * Deconstructed: All the soldiers you face are wearing identical masks or face-concealing helmets...
 * Reconstructed: ...but they all look the same underneath their masks/helms.
 * Zig Zagged: ???
 * Averted: You have no allies or enemies.
 * There is a random-generation algorithm for character models.
 * Enforced: Because of time and budget constraints, the developers had to use the same model for all enemy NPCs.
 * Lampshaded: A character in your squad exclaims: "Didn't we just kill you two levels ago?"
 * Discussed: Your True Companions ask "Why does everyone look the same?"
 * Conversed: "Man, you ever notice how every adversary in a game looks the same?
 * Plotted a Good Waste: They don't actually look the same - it's a Unreliable Narrator thing! They look the same to you, because the player character has no reason to really distinguish between them.

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