The 25 Best Video Games Where You Kick Ass in the Name of America

Celebrate Independence Day with these red, white, and blue ass-kickers.

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The Fourth of July is hands down our favorite 'banks are closed' holiday of the entire calendar year.

It used to be Halloween, but after a certain age you can't run around in a ski mask, after dark, dressed head to toe in black without being stopped for questioning. We blame Obama. Anyway, Independence Day is the one day of the year where you can be as loud, drunk, and unabashedly patriotic as you'd like without being removed for delinquency. You can act that way whenever you'd like, but at least on the 4th you'll have company. Add grilled meat, open flames, and the unsupervised handling of explosives, and you've got a clear winner over Christmas.

We've got 364 other days to worry about crippling student debt, America's vast domestic spying programs, drones, and our wildly debatable foreign policy. We get one day a year to pretend we're the good guys from every Die Hard film of the last 20 years. We can go back to citing Chomsky and shouldering our liberal guilt about being the New Roman Empire on the 5th. Give me a can of Bud Heavy and help us count The 25 Best Video Games Where You Kick Ass in the Name of America.

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All of the Splinter Cell titles.

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The entire Medal of Honor franchise.

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Every minute of Wolfenstein.

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Steve McQueen in The Great Escape.

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The officially sanctioned U.S. Army training simulator America's Army.

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The US Military in Company of Heroes.

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From the ashes of Vietnam II, Blood Dragon.

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Helping birth a nation in Assassin's Creed III.

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The old-school Bionic Commando.

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Everything about Spec Ops: The Line.

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The Captain America: Super Soldier game.

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Playing as the Clintons in NBA Jam 93.

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Literally the entire Metal Gear series.

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The now ancient NES game, Jackal.

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The whole Rainbow Six series.

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Playing Street Fighter as Guile.

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The Rambo arcade game from Sega.

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The entire Battlefield series.

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The True Lies video game tie-in.

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WWF WrestleMania from 1991.

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The Data East Captain America and The Avengers title from 1991.

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Literally every title in the Call of Duty franchise.

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NBA 2K12 as the Dream Team.

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The 1942 series.

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Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja

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