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** In the Good route, [[spoiler:he watches Jake die after they try to rescue Lisa from Cecile and Deathmask. At the Control Center, he defeats Dan, the man who admitted to causing the chopper's engine failure and murdering Tom and Steve. In his dying breaths, Dan reveals his Sarcozian heritage, his blood relation to Kenneth, the US Government's involvement in quelling the rebellion that was supported by the majority of the Sarcozian population, and the deaths of his Navy Special Forces teammates when they were on a mission eight years back to aid the Sarcozian government (implying that he knew about Alan being dead the entire time). After taking down Cecile, who blew up Dan's corpse with a grenade, he has Lisa destroy the Gulf System, believing the world isn't ready for that kind of power after it's already claimed so many lives. He, Lisa, and Keith are the only survivors, and he alone knows the full truth of the mission]].

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** In the Good route, [[spoiler:he watches Jake die after they try to rescue Lisa from Cecile and Deathmask. At the Control Center, he defeats mortally wounds Dan, the man who admitted to causing the chopper's engine failure and murdering Tom and Steve. In his dying breaths, Dan reveals his Sarcozian heritage, his blood relation to Kenneth, the US Government's involvement in quelling the rebellion that was supported by the majority of the Sarcozian population, and the deaths of his Navy Special Forces teammates when they were on a mission eight years back to aid the Sarcozian government (implying that he knew about Alan being dead the entire time). After taking down Cecile, who blew up Dan's corpse with a grenade, he has Lisa destroy the Gulf System, believing the world isn't ready for that kind of power after it's already claimed so many lives. He, Lisa, and Keith are the only survivors, and he alone knows the full truth of the mission]].
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** In the Good route, [[spoiler:he watches Jake die after they try to rescue Lisa from Cecile and Deathmask. At the Control Center, he defeats Dan, the man who admitted to causing the chopper's engine failure and murdering Tom and Steve. In his dying breaths, Dan reveals his Sarcozian heritage, his blood relation to Kenneth, the US Government's involvement in quelling the Sarcozian rebellion that was wanted by the majority of the Sarcozian population, and the death of his Navy Special Forces teammates when they were on a mission eight years back to aid the Sarcozian government (implying that he knew about Alan being dead the entire time). After taking down Cecile, who blew up Dan's corpse with a grenade, he has Lisa destroy the Gulf System, believing the world isn't ready for that kind of power after it's already claimed so many lives. He, Lisa, and Keith are the only survivors, and he alone knows the full truth of the mission]].

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** In the Good route, [[spoiler:he watches Jake die after they try to rescue Lisa from Cecile and Deathmask. At the Control Center, he defeats Dan, the man who admitted to causing the chopper's engine failure and murdering Tom and Steve. In his dying breaths, Dan reveals his Sarcozian heritage, his blood relation to Kenneth, the US Government's involvement in quelling the Sarcozian rebellion that was wanted supported by the majority of the Sarcozian population, and the death deaths of his Navy Special Forces teammates when they were on a mission eight years back to aid the Sarcozian government (implying that he knew about Alan being dead the entire time). After taking down Cecile, who blew up Dan's corpse with a grenade, he has Lisa destroy the Gulf System, believing the world isn't ready for that kind of power after it's already claimed so many lives. He, Lisa, and Keith are the only survivors, and he alone knows the full truth of the mission]].
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* TheWoobie: No matter the ending, Jean-Luc Cougar has a ''lot'' to unpack. His handgun is the last reminder of his brother Alan is presumed dead after going missing in a battle as part of Navy Special Forces, and this is before Operation Winback puts him through the wringer. [[spoiler:He sees Matt die before his eyes, then discovers the corpse of Tom after defusing the bombs near the express elevator. Tom managed to hack that elevator's code before he died, but Jean-Luc fails to secure that elevator after defeating Ryan because Ryan primes a grenade to blow up both himself and the keypad in a YouShallNotPass moment. On his way to the freight elevator, he finds both a dying engineer and the corpse of Steve, the person who had overseen Jean-Luc's training in the tutorial. At the freight elevator, a wounded Law sends Jean-Luc ahead since he has to operate the elevator and hold back the terrorists, only to be executed by Cecile. After meeting up with Mike, he learns that Jake and Lisa are being cornered by the terrorists, then sees Banderas kill Mike after Mike opens the way forward.]] From here, the three routes branch off.

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* TheWoobie: No matter the ending, Jean-Luc Cougar has a ''lot'' to unpack. His handgun is the last reminder of his brother Alan Alan, who is presumed dead after going missing in a battle as part of Navy Special Forces, and this is before Operation Winback puts him through the wringer. [[spoiler:He sees Matt die before his eyes, then discovers the corpse of Tom after defusing the bombs near the express elevator. Tom managed to hack that elevator's code before he died, but Jean-Luc fails to secure that elevator after defeating Ryan because Ryan primes a grenade to blow up both himself and the keypad in a YouShallNotPass moment. On his way to the freight elevator, he finds both a dying engineer and the corpse of Steve, the person who had overseen Jean-Luc's training in the tutorial. At the freight elevator, a wounded Law sends Jean-Luc ahead since he has to operate the elevator and hold back the terrorists, only to be executed by Cecile. After meeting up with Mike, he learns that Jake and Lisa are being cornered by the terrorists, then sees Banderas kill Mike after Mike opens the way forward.]] From here, the three routes branch off.
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*** '''The result''': Jean-Luc turns Cecile into Swiss cheese and saves the day.

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*** '''The result''': Jean-Luc turns Cecile into Swiss cheese and saves the day.day.
* TheWoobie: No matter the ending, Jean-Luc Cougar has a ''lot'' to unpack. His handgun is the last reminder of his brother Alan is presumed dead after going missing in a battle as part of Navy Special Forces, and this is before Operation Winback puts him through the wringer. [[spoiler:He sees Matt die before his eyes, then discovers the corpse of Tom after defusing the bombs near the express elevator. Tom managed to hack that elevator's code before he died, but Jean-Luc fails to secure that elevator after defeating Ryan because Ryan primes a grenade to blow up both himself and the keypad in a YouShallNotPass moment. On his way to the freight elevator, he finds both a dying engineer and the corpse of Steve, the person who had overseen Jean-Luc's training in the tutorial. At the freight elevator, a wounded Law sends Jean-Luc ahead since he has to operate the elevator and hold back the terrorists, only to be executed by Cecile. After meeting up with Mike, he learns that Jake and Lisa are being cornered by the terrorists, then sees Banderas kill Mike after Mike opens the way forward.]] From here, the three routes branch off.
** In the Good route, [[spoiler:he watches Jake die after they try to rescue Lisa from Cecile and Deathmask. At the Control Center, he defeats Dan, the man who admitted to causing the chopper's engine failure and murdering Tom and Steve. In his dying breaths, Dan reveals his Sarcozian heritage, his blood relation to Kenneth, the US Government's involvement in quelling the Sarcozian rebellion that was wanted by the majority of the Sarcozian population, and the death of his Navy Special Forces teammates when they were on a mission eight years back to aid the Sarcozian government (implying that he knew about Alan being dead the entire time). After taking down Cecile, who blew up Dan's corpse with a grenade, he has Lisa destroy the Gulf System, believing the world isn't ready for that kind of power after it's already claimed so many lives. He, Lisa, and Keith are the only survivors, and he alone knows the full truth of the mission]].
** In the Normal route, [[spoiler:the White House has been obliterated. Most of the Good route also applies here, but he never gets to take down Cecile, who is implied to have escaped offscreen. The killer of Matt, Law, and Jake gets away, and everyone in the White House has perished]].
** In the Bad route, [[spoiler:he finds Lisa and Jake's corpses on his way to the Control Center. At the Center, he learns from Cecile that the Gulf System is now space junk after obliterating both the White House and the Pentagon. When he tries to take Kenneth Coleman into custody, Kenneth commits suicide. He and Keith are the only survivors of the mission, which rings hollow because so many lives died in the process]].
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*** '''The result''': Jean-Luc turns Cecile into swiss cheese and saves the day.

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*** '''The result''': Jean-Luc turns Cecile into swiss Swiss cheese and saves the day.
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*** '''You'd expect''': He'd shoot an unconscious Lisa dead before leaving the room. After all, [[spoiler:Dan]] didn't didn't make sure the room was safe for Lisa by confirming his death.

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*** '''You'd expect''': He'd shoot an unconscious Lisa dead before leaving the room. After all, [[spoiler:Dan]] didn't didn't make sure the room was safe for Lisa by confirming his death.
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*** '''You'd expect''': He'd shoot an unconscious Lisa dead before leaving the room. After all, [[spoiler:Dan]] didn't confirm his death.

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*** '''You'd expect''': He'd shoot an unconscious Lisa dead before leaving the room. After all, [[spoiler:Dan]] didn't confirm didn't make sure the room was safe for Lisa by confirming his death.
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** He betrays Kenneth and shoots him dead, only to be shot in the back by [[spoiler:Dan]], who tells Lisa where Jean-Luc can find him before knocking her out and leaving her in the room.
*** '''You'd expect''': He'd shoot an unconscious Lisa dead before leaving the room. After all, [[spoiler:Dan]] didn't confirm his death.
*** '''Instead''': He ignores her and leaves the room offscreen.
*** '''The result''': Lisa is able to destroy the Gulf System.
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*** '''As a result''': Jean-Luc manages to kill Deathmask and continue his mission.

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*** '''As a '''The result''': Jean-Luc manages to kill Deathmask and continue continues his mission.



*** '''As a result''': Jean-Luc turns Cecile into swiss cheese and saves the day.

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*** '''As a '''The result''': Jean-Luc turns Cecile into swiss cheese and saves the day.
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** In the Good route, he lobs a grenade at Jean-Luc after [[spoiler:Dan dies]]. As Jean-Luc closes in on him, he activates the lasers to trap Jean-Luc on the ramp and lays suppressive fire. He's already in a safe position outside the range the mounted guns at the top of both ramps.

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** In the Good route, he lobs a grenade at Jean-Luc after [[spoiler:Dan dies]]. As Jean-Luc closes in on him, he activates the lasers to trap Jean-Luc on the ramp and lays suppressive fire. He's already in a safe position outside the range of the mounted guns at the top of both ramps.
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** In the Good route, he lobs a grenade at Jean-Luc after [[spoiler:Dan dies]]. As Jean-Luc closes in on him, he activates the lasers to trap Jean-Luc on the ramp and lays suppressive fire. He's completely exposed to the mounted guns at the top of both ramps.
*** '''You'd expect''': He'd position himself outside the mounted guns' range once Jean-Luc disables the lasers.
*** '''Instead''': He stays in place and continues to shoot at Jean-Luc ''even after he's reached a mounted gun''.

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** In the Good route, he lobs a grenade at Jean-Luc after [[spoiler:Dan dies]]. As Jean-Luc closes in on him, he activates the lasers to trap Jean-Luc on the ramp and lays suppressive fire. He's completely exposed to already in a safe position outside the range the mounted guns at the top of both ramps.
*** '''You'd expect''': He'd position himself outside the mounted guns' range stay in place once Jean-Luc disables the lasers.
*** '''Instead''': He stays in place '''''leaves his cover and continues to shoot at Jean-Luc ''even after he's reached a puts himself within the mounted gun''.guns' range'''''.
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*** '''Instead''': He continues to shoot at Jean-Luc ''even after he's reached a mounted gun''.

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*** '''Instead''': He stays in place and continues to shoot at Jean-Luc ''even after he's reached a mounted gun''.
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*** '''You'd expect''': He'd take cover once Jean-Luc disables the lasers.
*** '''Instead''': He continues to shoot at Jean-Luc even after he's reached the mounted gun.

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*** '''You'd expect''': He'd take cover position himself outside the mounted guns' range once Jean-Luc disables the lasers.
*** '''Instead''': He continues to shoot at Jean-Luc even ''even after he's reached the a mounted gun.gun''.
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*** '''As a result''': Jean-Luc shoots Cecile dead and saves the day.

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*** '''As a result''': Jean-Luc shoots turns Cecile dead into swiss cheese and saves the day.

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* WhatAnIdiot: Cecile has Deathmask hold Lisa hostage, and sees Jean-Luc about to lay down his weapon. Jake suddenly barges into the room and headshots him and Deathmask with his machine gun, and he shoots Jake dead.
** '''You'd expect''': He'd bait Jean-Luc into again laying down his weapon, and possibly shoot him dead once he's vulnerable. After all, Deathmask is carrying an unconscious Lisa.
** '''Instead''': He '''''changes his mind''''', and has an injured Deathmask fight Jean-Luc while he carries Lisa to the room where Kenneth is.
** '''As a result''': Jean-Luc manages to kill Deathmask and continue his mission.
** '''Even worse''': In the Good ending, Jean-Luc also kills Cecile and saves the day.

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* WhatAnIdiot: You'd think an international war criminal like Cecile would be more situationally aware.
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has Deathmask hold Lisa hostage, and sees Jean-Luc about to lay down his weapon. Jake suddenly barges into the room and headshots him and Deathmask with his machine gun, and he shoots Jake dead.
** *** '''You'd expect''': He'd bait Jean-Luc into again laying down his weapon, and possibly shoot him dead once he's vulnerable. After all, Deathmask is carrying an unconscious Lisa.
** *** '''Instead''': He '''''changes his mind''''', and has an injured Deathmask fight Jean-Luc while he carries Lisa to the room where Kenneth is.
** *** '''As a result''': Jean-Luc manages to kill Deathmask and continue his mission.
** '''Even worse''': In the Good ending, route, he lobs a grenade at Jean-Luc also kills after [[spoiler:Dan dies]]. As Jean-Luc closes in on him, he activates the lasers to trap Jean-Luc on the ramp and lays suppressive fire. He's completely exposed to the mounted guns at the top of both ramps.
*** '''You'd expect''': He'd take cover once Jean-Luc disables the lasers.
*** '''Instead''': He continues to shoot at Jean-Luc even after he's reached the mounted gun.
*** '''As a result''': Jean-Luc shoots
Cecile dead and saves the day.
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* SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing: The [=PS2=] version also has a Japanese dub as an option, and it certainly sounds less wooden than the English one.

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* SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing: The [=PS2=] version also has a Japanese dub as an option, and it certainly sounds less wooden than the English one.one.
* WhatAnIdiot: Cecile has Deathmask hold Lisa hostage, and sees Jean-Luc about to lay down his weapon. Jake suddenly barges into the room and headshots him and Deathmask with his machine gun, and he shoots Jake dead.
** '''You'd expect''': He'd bait Jean-Luc into again laying down his weapon, and possibly shoot him dead once he's vulnerable. After all, Deathmask is carrying an unconscious Lisa.
** '''Instead''': He '''''changes his mind''''', and has an injured Deathmask fight Jean-Luc while he carries Lisa to the room where Kenneth is.
** '''As a result''': Jean-Luc manages to kill Deathmask and continue his mission.
** '''Even worse''': In the Good ending, Jean-Luc also kills Cecile and saves the day.
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* PlayerPunch: The deaths of your teammates, and the Bad ending.

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* PlayerPunch: The deaths of your teammates, the scene with the dying engineer in the sewers, and the Bad ending.
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* AccidentalInnuendo: The team sent to handle a terrorist threat is known as the Special Covert Actions Team. The initials spell out a word with a few wildly different definitions: the act of moving quickly ('scoot' is a derivation of this), a term for animal droppings, a musical term (see {{Scatting}})... and most infamously a term for something that is explicitly NSFW.

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* AccidentalInnuendo: The team sent to handle a terrorist threat is known as the Special Covert Actions Team. The initials spell out a word with a few wildly different definitions: the act of moving quickly ('scoot' is a derivation of this), a term for animal droppings, a musical term (see {{Scatting}})... and most infamously a term shorthand for something that is explicitly NSFW.
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* NarmCharm: If one views the story through the lens of a B-Movie plot, the SoBadItsGood voices in the [=PS2=] version actually work as the comedic flourish on top.

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* NarmCharm: If one views the story through with the lens expectations of a B-Movie plot, the SoBadItsGood English voices in the [=PS2=] version actually work as the comedic flourish on top.
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* SuperlativeDub: The [=PS2=] version also has a Japanese dub as an option, and it certainly sounds less wooden than the English one.

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* SuperlativeDub: SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing: The [=PS2=] version also has a Japanese dub as an option, and it certainly sounds less wooden than the English one.
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* SuperlativeDubbing: The [=PS2=] version also has a Japanese dub as an option, and it certainly sounds less wooden than the English one.

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* SuperlativeDubbing: SuperlativeDub: The [=PS2=] version also has a Japanese dub as an option, and it certainly sounds less wooden than the English one.
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* SoBadItsGood: The [=PS2=] version is well-known for its not-so-great English voice acting. Despite this, it was well-received and was considered to be a lot better than the voiceless N64 version.

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* SoBadItsGood: The [=PS2=] version is well-known for its not-so-great English voice acting. Despite this, it was well-received and was considered to be a lot better than the voiceless N64 version.version.
* SuperlativeDubbing: The [=PS2=] version also has a Japanese dub as an option, and it certainly sounds less wooden than the English one.
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* NarmCharm: If one views the story through the lens of a B-Movie plot, the SoBadItsGood voices in the [=PS2=] version actually works as the comedic flourish on top.

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* NarmCharm: If one views the story through the lens of a B-Movie plot, the SoBadItsGood voices in the [=PS2=] version actually works work as the comedic flourish on top.

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* NarmCharm: The BadBadActing of the [=PS2=] version actually works if one treats the story like a B-Movie plot, with the cheesy voice-acting serving as the comedic flourish on top.
* PlayerPunch: The deaths of your teammates for one, and the bad ending.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: ''Winback'' is the pioneer of all cover-based shooting, and it came out on the ''N64'' of all things. While its slow-paced tactical gameplay is still somewhat unique, its cover mechanics have aged extremely poorly.
* {{Sequelitis}}: The second game, ''Winback 2: Project Poseidon'', wasn't as successful as the first game.

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* NarmCharm: The BadBadActing If one views the story through the lens of a B-Movie plot, the SoBadItsGood voices in the [=PS2=] version actually works if one treats the story like a B-Movie plot, with the cheesy voice-acting serving as the comedic flourish on top.
* PlayerPunch: The deaths of your teammates for one, teammates, and the bad Bad ending.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: ''Winback'' is the pioneer of all cover-based shooting, and it came out on the ''N64'' of all things. While its slow-paced tactical gameplay is still somewhat unique, its cover mechanics have aged extremely poorly.
poorly.
* {{Sequelitis}}: The second game, ''Winback 2: Project Poseidon'', wasn't as successful as the first game.game.
* SoBadItsGood: The [=PS2=] version is well-known for its not-so-great English voice acting. Despite this, it was well-received and was considered to be a lot better than the voiceless N64 version.
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* AccidentalInnuendo: The team sent to handle a terrorist threat is known as the Special Covert Actions Team. The initials spell out a word with a few wildly different definitions: the act of moving quickly, a term for animal droppings, a musical term (see {{Scatting}})... and most infamously a term for something that is explicitly NSFW.

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* AccidentalInnuendo: The team sent to handle a terrorist threat is known as the Special Covert Actions Team. The initials spell out a word with a few wildly different definitions: the act of moving quickly, quickly ('scoot' is a derivation of this), a term for animal droppings, a musical term (see {{Scatting}})... and most infamously a term for something that is explicitly NSFW.

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* NarmCharm: The BadBadActing of the [=PS2=] version actually works if one treats the story like a BMovie plot, with the cheesy voice-acting serving as the comedic flourish on top.

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* AccidentalInnuendo: The team sent to handle a terrorist threat is known as the Special Covert Actions Team. The initials spell out a word with a few wildly different definitions: the act of moving quickly, a term for animal droppings, a musical term (see {{Scatting}})... and most infamously a term for something that is explicitly NSFW.
* NarmCharm: The BadBadActing of the [=PS2=] version actually works if one treats the story like a BMovie B-Movie plot, with the cheesy voice-acting serving as the comedic flourish on top.



* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: ''Winback'' is the pioneer of all cover based shooting- and it came out on the ''N64'', of all things. While its slow-paced tactical gameplay is still somewhat unique, its cover mechanics have aged extremely poorly.

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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: ''Winback'' is the pioneer of all cover based shooting- cover-based shooting, and it came out on the ''N64'', ''N64'' of all things. While its slow-paced tactical gameplay is still somewhat unique, its cover mechanics have aged extremely poorly.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: ''Winback'' is the pioneer of all cover based shooting- and it came out on the ''N64'', of all things. While it's slow-paced tactical gameplay is still somewhat unique, it's cover mechanics have aged extremely poorly.
* {{Sequelitis}}: The second game ''Winback 2: Project Posiedon'' wasn't as successful as the first game.

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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: ''Winback'' is the pioneer of all cover based shooting- and it came out on the ''N64'', of all things. While it's its slow-paced tactical gameplay is still somewhat unique, it's its cover mechanics have aged extremely poorly.
* {{Sequelitis}}: The second game game, ''Winback 2: Project Posiedon'' Poseidon'', wasn't as successful as the first game.
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* NarmCharm: The BadBadActing of the [=PS2=] version actually works if one treats the story like a BMovie plot, with the cheesy voice-acting serving as the comedic flourish on top.

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* {{Sequelitis}}: The second game "Winback 2: Project Posiedon wasn't as successful as the first game.

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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: ''Winback'' is the pioneer of all cover based shooting- and it came out on the ''N64'', of all things. While it's slow-paced tactical gameplay is still somewhat unique, it's cover mechanics have aged extremely poorly.
* {{Sequelitis}}: The second game "Winback ''Winback 2: Project Posiedon Posiedon'' wasn't as successful as the first game.
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* PlayerPunch: The deaths of your teammates for one, and the bad ending.
* {{Sequelitis}}: The second game "Winback 2: Project Posiedon wasn't as successful as the first game.

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