As I see commercials for all sorts of 1st-person fighting video games, how long will it be before someone makes a “Strike Back” Wii game?As I see commercials for all sorts of 1st-person fighting video games, how long will it be before someone makes a “Strike Back” Wii game?

– Jeremy, via email.

Wait, is it possible that there isn’t a “Strike Back” video game yet? I guess I just assumed the entire series was based on a video game, perhaps because its plot shares a hell of a lot with Double Dragon and Contra and countless other video games in which two nearly invincible badass dudes run around kicking an outrageous amount of ass and blowing stuff up.

Actually, the episodes of the show feel a bit like levels in video games, since there are always individual goals accomplished in pursuit of the larger one stringing them all together — catching Latif (in the second season, at least), a terrorist mastermind (standing in for Bowser).

That might sell the show a little bit short, though: It’s pretty awesome. I didn’t see the first season, but the second one aired this summer on Cinemax and hooked me pretty good. It’s over-the-top violent and the action is obviously exaggerated — sometimes dudes make full-extension diving catches of falling bombs to prevent them from exploding. But even despite that Strike Back somehow does a pretty good job selling its accuracy in depicting the most intense moments of contemporary guerrilla warfare — thankfully I have no real-life basis for comparison — so it seems like a good take on the action genre for this era.

Also, the main characters, Stonebridge and Scott, are obscenely badass. And everyone in the show is incredibly hot and has lots of sex. Even the characters that probably aren’t supposed to be hot are still pretty hot. I don’t think war is really like that. Video games, though, yeah.