How Call of Duty turned war into a circus
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Call of Duty was created by developers who worked on Medal of Honor, a World War 2 game modeled after Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan. The film is bru...
  • _ed
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    3 years ago

    I disagree. Call of duty is an arcade game which uses the ww/mw thene for content. Spielberg may have attempted to bring some kind of realism via moh but the core arcade genre was already there and hasnt changed much.

    • TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.orgOPM
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      3 years ago

      I’m not totally sure where you’re disagreeing with this video. I don’t think he’s trying to claim that CoD singlehandedly invented the war shooter, just that its gargantuan popularity and the way it handles its themes and its feedback loops are at odds with the subject matter.

      • _ed
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        3 years ago

        Fair point but shooters have always used subject matter as window dressing.