Same goes for the bizarre take that Reagan in Cold War was some witty parody and not the libertarian techbros at Activision going "Hey, cool funny wholesome Reagan".
Katana Zero was one of my favorite releases the year it came out. Such a good game.
The dev is working on a free DLC that's roughly going to be half the size of the original game. I'm looking forward to it!
Call of Duty is and always has been blatant propaganda.
If you don't believe me, keep in mind that the very first mission in Black Ops 1 requires you to kill Fidel Castro.
I tried to replay BlOps recently and the first scene a guy says he knows where Castro, it went over my head as a kid but he says "Castro is held up in a plantation... it used to be my plantation". Like, holy shit, CoD is being sympathetic towards a literal slave plantation owner.
It's supposed to go over your head. Call of Duty is effective propaganda that grooms children to be soldiers for empire.
Technically slavery was abolished in 1886 but the work conditions were obviously still bad and probably had similar relations to slavery.
That shit always gets me when this is brought up. Like they couldnt even kill him in their propaganda wet-dream wankery.
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There's honestly sort of a big shift after 4 from the dumbest movie brained guys you know trying to hamfist some war is bad commentary into their action movie in a sort of heart in the right place type deal to just discarding any notion that war isn't the coolest shit ever. Yeah the russian campaign of the first one especially was really bad but to be fair, World at Wars campaign is a rip-roaring russian revenge against the nazis with your buddy Reznov and it owns. The parts in the pacific fucking suck major ass though
CoD is made with the lowest common denominator in mind every time, any resemblance to concept that require more than two braincells to comprehend is purely coincidental.
Oh you can play the collateral murder video, but it's morally grey? very mature gaming
dis is what death of the author is for. what a work means isn't the same as what was meant.
also i will never tire of sharing this story, but development builds of MW 2019 had chomsky and greenwald quotes about the ideological construction of "terrorism"
