List of Fictional Revolutions and Coups - Video Games

Video Games

• Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction
  • While North Korean leader Choi Kim is in a conference with the South Korean leader, his son, General Choi Song, kills President Kim and takes over North Korea.
• Mercenaries 2: World In Flames
  • Venezuelan technocrat Ramon Solano leads a militaristic coup to take over Venezuela. After the coup, Solano takes control as dictator and seizes the country's oil.
• Republic: The Revolution
  • Novistrana is finally liberated from the clutches of evil ex-Soviet Secret Police Chief, President Vasily Karasov. The game can end in one of three ways: a coup d'état is launched and Karasov is shot via a firing squad; a peaceful resignation occurs, only for Karasov to be shot by police officers; and the people revolt and force their way into the official residence. Karasov is pulled from his car while attempting to escape and is beaten to death by the revolutionaries.
• Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War
  • Factions of several countries' governments form a coup, later named "A World With No Boundaries." They believe in a borderless world and attempt to use a V2 Tactical Nuclear Missile to send the world into a chaotic bliss in which everyone would need to work together to survive.
• Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
  • Fifteen years after their defeat (and the events of Ace Combat Zero), Belkan Aces that have infiltrated the Osean and Yuktobanian Air Forces' in an attempt to weaken both sides' military. Their mission is simple: take revenge on those that defeated them before to show the "true strength" of Belka. Part of their plan is to kidnap the Yuktobanian prime minister Nikanor and the president of Osea, Harling, leaving the country in the hands of war mongers.
• Ace Combat: Assault Horizon
  • Two dozen divisions of the Russian armed forces go rogue and join Russian criminal organization Blatnoi in a coup that overthrows the Russian government in hours. The coup forces, called the New Russian Federation and led by Russian Air Force general Ivan Stagleishov and former colonel turned mercenary Andrei Markov, are the main antagonists of the second and third parts of the game.
• Empire Earth
  • In 2018, the Russian Federation is overthrown by the illegal, radicalist Ushi Party in a full-blown revolution. The party establishes a totalitarian regime under the name Novaya Russia, using their secret police to brutally suppress dissident ideas, before proceeding to overthrow governments in Europe as well as those of China, Cuba, and ultimately the United States. They suffer several rebellions, but none of them succeed. The situation is finally resolved through a time paradox when the party's leader and mastermind, Grigor Stoyanovich, is assassinated in 2018 after a massive battle involving 22nd century technology, erasing Novaya Russia's existence from history.
• Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter
  • A Mexican rebellion organization in the game declares a coup after it has stolen American-built tanks, with the main mission of the Ghosts to end the coup.
  • In the sequel, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, the Ghosts are brought back to destroy Soviet-era nukes in the hands of the rebels from the first game.
• Fire Emblem: Fūin no Tsurugi
  • During the Bern Invasion in Elibe, Roartz, the royal advisor of the king of Etruria, and Arcard, governor of the Western Isles, plan a strike against the king, who is in a depression because of his son's death. They succeed taking control over Etruria and the Western Islands. With this strike, the Etrurian Coup d´etat handed over the fragile government of Etruria to The Kingdom Of Bern. General Cecilia of Etruria created the Etrurian Anti Coup d´etat Army, looking reinstate the king and recover Etruria. The Etrurian Anti Coup d´etat army was decimated by the superior forces of the Bern Dispatch (Commanded by the King Zephiel himself and the Dragon General Narshen), and the Etrurian Coup d´etat army. General Cecilia was defeated by King Zephiel in single combat at a castle in the island of Missur. General Cecilia was rescued by Roy and the Lycian Alliance Army. The Anti Coup de'etat army eventually reaches the Etrurian capital of Aquelia, where Narshen was defeated and Etruria was reclaimed.
• Half-Life 2
  • Led by the messianic freedom fighter Dr Gordon Freeman, the revolution of humanity (known as the Resistance Fighters) against an alien race known as the Combine takes place over the course of Half-Life 2 and the episodic sequels.
• "Fable III"
  • In the game Fable III players must overthrow a tyrant king.
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
  • In the mission 'Coup De Tat`', Imran Zakhaev and his ally, Kahled Al-Asad, execute President Yasir Al-Fulani and assume position over an unknown middle-eastern country (possibly Saudi Arabia, due to brief map glimpses and references to a democratic revolution). The coup prompts the U.S. military to intervene.
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl
  • A Group of Heroes fights against Tabuu, a possibly digital, humanoid creature that is trying to envelop the planet in subspace. Tabuu's three playable minions gradually join the Heroes and the Ancient minister who is a R.O.B joins. Once Tabuu is destroyed, the subspace goes away but you can still play subspace levels.
• World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
  • Varimathras with his demon brethren and his forsaken servants successfully wrest control of the Undercity from the Horde. He is soon defeated and the Undercity once again becomes a Horde bastion.
• Red Faction
  • The entire game is set about a miners rebellion against the fictional Ultor corporation on Mars, in which the playable character becomes one of the rebellion's best soldiers.
• Just Cause 2
  • The game takes place after a successful coup on a tropical island called Panau and the player fights a revolution afterwards against the government.
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  • In the game's storyline, Skyrim, a province in the world of Tamriel, is engulfed in a civil war when a resistance faction known as Stormcloaks leads a revolt against the weakened Imperial Empire's control of the land. The player character has the choice to join the revolt or quell it.
• "Starcraft"
  • Arcturus Mengsk successfully orchestrates a genocidal coup again the Terran Confederation, luring the ravenous Zerg to the capital planet of Tarsonis. Mengsk then forms the Terran Dominion with himself as Emperor.
  • The Protoss Executor Tassadar and his supporters are forced to battle against his people's ruling council, the Conclave, in an effort to preserve an illegal alliance with the Protoss' "fallen" counterparts, the Dark Templar, an alliance they see as the only salvation from the ongoing Zerg invasion of the Protoss homeworld of Aiur. The Conclave orders Tassadar's arrest but the patriotic renegades fight back, culminating with with the rebellion successfully penetrating the heart of the capital's defenses and laying waste to much of the city. However, with the Conclave on the brink of defeat Tassadar suddenly surrenders, grief stricken that the Protoss are fighting a civil war while the Zerg infestation of Aiur threatens the extinction of all.