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The games fucking looooooooooove torture so much it's wild. They're pretty good at normalising it too. It blows me away that a literal series of NATO propaganda games in which Remington® advertised its wares owned the entire PS360 gen.

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I want a work of media to do a "tough men making tough decisions" torture scene like this only for it to turn out that the captive just made some shit up so that they'd stop getting tortured and the bogus intel results in a massive operational failure.

The Highway of Death happened a couple of decades before they decide to do an alt history where Russia did it instead of the US.

But why? That's been a celebrated success by the military since it happened and why people want to keep the a-10 around

Ghosts in which ALL NATIONS OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN CONTINENT GET TOGETHER TO INVADE THE USA.

CoD portraying Amerika as this poor victim from a long deserved retaliation from the South American continent is par for the course. Imagine if a dev made a game where the Amerikan soldiers are the enemy and you kill them.

How would they react? Predictably:

Ghosts is the one that does extremely on the nose great replacement shit, with the south american superweapon being "smaller but much more numerous" giant space dicks and the imagery of the guy who changes sides showing his skin getting turned black.

Kid me completely unable to parse their propaganda and coming away thinking the ussr and comrade Reznov were rad as fuck. It helps that the ussr levels in world at war are the best in the entire series

in which ALL NATIONS OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN CONTINENT GET TOGETHER TO INVADE THE USA.

if anyone has cause (and nearly everyone does)

I think COD4 definitely takes the least worst award. It seems self-aware that almost all events in the campaign are self-inflicted and the US/UK forces could just back off at any point and nothing else would happen. Imran Zakhaev (hey what if our bad guy was both Russian AND Muslim?) was a much better villain than le epic joker Makarov too. Also your Russian allies are wearing Soviet insignia.

But yeah this shit is still bad. Even if there is a deliberate theme of the folly of endless western escalation all the g@mers are not going to be picking up on it.

The only good campaign of the modern games was the space one. It's actually decently done for a call of doody game

Call of Duty is an Activision franchise

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You might be thinking of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (1), not to be confused with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4

Nope, it’s actually the first Modern Warfare in a decade that we haven’t “already had”.

Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare came out in 2007 as the fourth entry in the entire Call Of Duty series.

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare came out in 2019 as a reboot.

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 came out in 2009 and 2022 (reboot). The 2009 version was technically “Call of Duty 6” since it was preceded by World at War.

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 came out in 2011 and 2023 (reboot). The 2011 version was technically “Call of Duty 8” since it was preceded by Black Ops.

They never got to Modern Warfare 4, instead they had Advanced Warfare, Infinite Warfare, Vanguard, and WW2 which were futuristic and then WW2 games.

So now here we are, seeing Modern Warfare 4 for the first time ever. And I’m almost certain it will be shit.

Neu Modern Warfare 4: Schutzstaffel Edition