But when BioShock was wringing its hands about player versus developer, and Spec Ops was still just a squad-shooter for the PS1, Kane & Lynch connected the player to their character through a shared desire for violence.
"That doesn't enter my mind, I just pick a squad of players," said the former England bowling coach.
And the former Feyenoord man accepts Kenny Dalglish's summer spending spree means he may just be a squad player this term.
Mr. Rhodes serves up to Mr. Obama a tidy refrain that ISIS is just a jayvee squad.
He was substituting for Manager Joe Torre, who just returned with a squad from China.
When the club you love asks you just to be a squad player, so be it.
On a recent morning just after dawn, a squad of uniformed soldiers used machetes to cut down a plot of coca plants near the town of Ivirgarzama.
But, having been chosen a month ago to step up from his assistant coach role to succeed England's new one-day supremo Ashley Giles as director of coaching at Edgbaston, Brown knows just how good a squad he has inherited.
