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{{quote|''"[[La Résistance|The Arm]] started this war. But [[Badass Army|Section 8]] is going to finish it."''
|'''-Alex Corde'''}}
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On the war-torn planets of tomorrow, Mankind's greatest battle is about to begin.
''[[Section 8]]'' is a tactical [[First Person Shooter|first-person shooter]] released in 2009 by developers Timegate and Southpeak Games. Set an indeterminate amount of time in [[The Future]], 8th Armored Infantry, a division of 1st Recon of the United States Imperial Forces (USIF) is sent to a reclaim a section of space known as [[New Neo City|New Madrid]] from the [[La Résistance|Arm of Orion]].
The game has been compared to the ''[[Starsiege: Tribes]]'' series, with its character customization options, and also to ''Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory / [[Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
The game has little to no backstory and a criminally short single-player campaign, focusing on a
It's not entirely clear who are the bad guys and who are the good guys here, but it is mentioned that the Arm was going to [[Kick the Dog|nuke a civilian population center]], so I guess they're the bad guys.
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Has nothing to do with government programs instituted to provide housing to underprivileged citizens, although those people probably got mowed down in the war ages ago.
The sequel, ''Section 8: Prejudice'',
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* [[Absent Aliens]]: The milky way galaxy is apparently entirely devoid of alien lifeforms in the universe in which ''Section 8'' takes place. It's simply presented without being remarked on in the first game, but ''Section 8: Prejudice'' actually gives an actual explanation for it. See [[The Extremist Was Right]] below.
* [[Ace Custom]]: The final boss, Commander Soran, drives a modified [[Powered Armor]] with more health and a flashier paint scheme.
** The final boss of the sequel, General Salvador, has a customized combat suit which is apparently a [[Superpowered Prototype]] of the armor worn by all the soldiers in the series.
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: The NPC allies have the worst aim ever
* [[A Space Marine Is You]]: You and everyone else, actually.▼
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Ramming enemies while in Overdrive. On the impractical side, you're ramming into enemies at supersonic speeds in what is basically a shooter. On the awesome side, you're ramming into enemies at supersonic speeds in what is basically a shooter.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: Every in-game soldier. Take a bunch of badass troopers, put them in suits of advanced ultra-mobile powered
* [[Beehive Barrier]]
* [[Black and Grey Morality]]: There are two factions in this game: the [[Eagle Land|brutal, repressive, militaristic]] [[The Empire|empire]], and the ''bad guys''.
* [[Cold Sniper]]: Matthews.
* [[Critical Existence Failure]]: Played straight, with the visual effect of the sequel darkening the screen as your health goes low. Possibly [[Justified Trope|justified]], since health is called "armor". When your
* [[Crosshair Aware]]: Done by the bomber Thorne employs in ''Prejudice''.
* [[Dual Boss]]: In ''Prejudice'', the two special Engineers in the last level, just before the final boss fight. Besides having an insanely high amount of health, one of them can spawn turrets and a healing supply depot, and the other one can spawn enemy Mechs!
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* [[Elite Mooks]]: ''Prejudice'' has the Crimson Guards, who only appear in the last level of the game. They have really high health, and can also heal each other as well as drain your own shields to recharge theirs.
* [[EMP]]: A number of weapons and equipment for the sequel has variants that can do this - it does extra damage to shields and drains jetpacks, equipment and overdrive bars.
* [[Excuse Plot]]: The first game's single-player campaign is essentially just an extended tutorial for the game's
* [[The Extremist Was Right]]: ''Section 8: Prejudice'' reveals that the widespread human colonization of the galaxy was made possible by {{spoiler|mass genocide on a galactic scale, as the U.S. Empire secretly sent an advance wave of supersoldiers from planet to planet to kill off any competing lifeforms or civilizations to pave the way for human colonization. It may seem harsh, but it's all ancient history by the time the games take place, and as a human it's somewhat unavoidably hypocritical to fault the results.}}
* [[Finishing Move]]: Hold down the button for fatal melee strikes in ''Prejudice'' to do a "fatality" animation.
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* [[Jet Pack]]: Everyone has one.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|Graves.}}
* [[Kill It
* [[La Résistance]]: The enemy in the story mode, but both sides are functionally identical in
* [[Magic Tool]]: The repair tool, quite definitely.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: For a while, being discharged from the US military for being "mentally unfit" (AKA crazy) was known as a "[[wikipedia:Section 8 (military)|Section 8]]". Being willing to have yourself launched out of the bottom of an aircraft wearing only armor would certainly qualify as crazy...
* [[The Medic]]: Graves. Yes, we can only imagine what the recruiter had to say.▼
* [[My Country, Right or Wrong]]: The ending narration for ''Prejudice'' indicates that Corde believes General Salvador's version of events rather than the official story given by General Stone, but remains loyal to the Empire due to military pride/loyalty, as well as the fact Salvador was unable to offer any alternatives other than "kill a whole bunch of civilians pretty much at random".
* [[Nitro Boost]]: After sprinting for a certain amount of time, this (called "Overdrive") kicks in, allowing you to shoot across the large landscapes and maps fairly timely.
* [[Obviously Evil]]: Salvador in ''Prejudice''. A bald, ugly blue-skinned giant wearing blood red
* [[Power Armor]]: ''Everyone'', all the time.
** Taken further with the deployable assault mechs.
* [[Pretty Little Headshots]]: {{spoiler|Thorne's}} death.
* [[Shout-Out]]: So many in the Achievements.
** [[Team Fortress 2
** [[Halo (
** [[Toy Story (franchise)||"Falling with Style"]] for killing someone by landing on him.
** [[Apocalypse Now|"Napalm in the Morning"]] for killing 2 enemies simultaneously with Incendiary damage.
** ''[[Demolition Man]]'' for destroying 32 structures with the Missile Launcher.
** [[
** [[Silent Night, Deadly Night
** [[X-Men (
** "Like a Boss" for reaching Level 50 in ranked matches.
** [[Pokémon (
** [[Predator|"Get to da Choppa"]] for surviving the Eliminator DCM.
** [[Mission: Impossible (TV series)||"Mission Possible"]] for participating in each DCM successfully in ranked matches.
** [[Defense of the Ancients
** ''[[I Am Legend]]'' for killing 5 enemies when defending in Sudden Death in an Assault match.
▲* [[A Space Marine Is You]]: You and everyone else, actually.
* [[Standard FPS Guns]]: The assault rifle, [[More Dakka|machine gun]], missile launcher, [[Hand Cannon|pistol]], shotgun, and [[Sniper Rifle]] make up all the primary weapons. Det packs, grenades (unlike other examples, grenades explode automatically when enemies are in range of it, or eventually if no enemy is. Only in the sequel does the game have a variant that has a fuse which must tick down like a conventional grenade), knifes, mortars, [[Healing Shiv|repair tools]], micro sensors and [[Invisibility Cloak|sensor blockers]] make up the secondary weapons. You can carry two of each.
* [[Super Soldier]]: Everyone, really, since even the lowliest [[Mook]] is equipped with a suit of [[Powered Armor]] of [[Halo|SPARTAN]] or ''[[Crysis (
▲* [[The Medic]]: Graves. Yes, we can only imagine what the recruiter had to say.
* [[Trick Bomb]]: In the sequel, grenades and detpacks can be of [[EMP]] and incendiary variants.
* [[We Have Reserves]]: In ''Prejudice'', Thorne's bomber can kill some of his men, upon which one of your allies will mention this about him.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: It turns out that The Arm of Orion, and their secret backers, The Spear, actually have an extremely legitimate grievance with the U.S. Empire. However, they are unable to present any solution other than [[He Who Fights Monsters|"kill a whole bunch of mostly innocent people pretty much indiscriminately"]]. Corde throws this fact in General Salvador's face during the final battle.
* [[X Meets Y]]: It borrows a lot of elements. Namely:
** The territory control element from ''[[Battlefield (
** It's almost certainly a shout-out to/unashamedly borrowing from [[Starship Troopers]] --the book, wherein power-armored super soldiers are fired in from orbit in single-man pods, and are at the behest of a... ''controversial'' government, let's say.
** The suit design and "agency" style of [[Crackdown]] and [[Halo]].
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