CoD games have always been absolute bottom of the barrel politically and historically, but this one is shaping up to be outright fucking cancerous
They blamed the fucking Highway of Death on the ebil ruskies. Propaganda overdrive.
They became extremely insufferable after straying away from their futuristic nonsense and rebooting their contemporary imperialist “realism”. Now instead of having goofy Russian villains and B tier action heroes, you have a bunch of “””operators””” dealing with “””real””” issues
There was a real brawl in the early 2000's over who wore the crown of WWII shooter, CoD, Medal Of Honor (remember those games?) or Day Of Defeat. Personally I like MOH
Oh, of course. I was in the middle of those fights as someone who loved all three.
I was originally a bigger MoH fan but DoD eventually became such a daily game for me, and so much fun in the golden pre-1.6 days when people actually played objectives well, that I have to give it to DoD. I was even recently talking with my friend about installing it again to see if anyone still plays or if it's just bots. MoH never really had a chance once online gaming began in earnest, both DoD and CoD quickly had it beat, but its local multiplayer was so much fucking fun. I've said it before, though, that CoD always impressed me for letting you play Soviets. It was my very first perspective on the Soviets as a kid and, maybe I misunderstood but, it left a very good impression.
I knew a guy who cheesed hard in MOH by binding the fire key to the mouse wheel. He'd run around with the garand and if he saw an enemy player he'd spin the wheel and mag dump in like 1 second. Kid was a genius.
Allied Assault had a pretty big community back in the day. At its peak it was possibly the second biggest competitive FPS after CS, at least in Europe.
That's true! I forgot about Allied Assault being online!
I played MoH Frontline on PS2 so I missed it. But I played the others on PC and seems like they outpaced MoH pretty quick.
I mean at least in the original Modern Warfare 2 you get to kill the warmongering US general. No chance of something like that in the current CoD games.
Are they gonna show how the CIA helped him with his gas attacks? Or do you think they’re gonna have a cutscene where he’s inspecting WMDs then hands out viagra to his soldiers before grinding brave American POWs in giant meat grinders
Doing the bit from the first Modern Warfare but instead of getting nuked, the protagonist gets lowered feet-first into a meat grinder.
"Remember, no Russian" my colleague says to me, as he pulls box cutters out of his bag on American Airlines Flight 11.
Saddam Hussein overthrows the democratically elected government of Iran because he wants their oil
It should be modern day and they should do a 'somehow Palpatine has returned ' for Saddam. Also he should be playable in multi-player.
Also like, obviously this is all military propaganda but barely euphemistically calling something Call of Duty: War Crimes is really on the nose and doing it 6 times had made it pretty obvious thst normal people have no idea what Black Ops refers to IRL. They think top tier operator missions not Honduran death squads funded by drug money cause a black op can't be on an official budget and needs operating capital from somewhere.
I've never played these games but I will if Sadam is playable
He was only in the BO1 Zombies with Nixon, JFK and Robert McNamara. Nixon and JFK I understand, but they should have replaced McNamara with Ho Chi Mihn.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8Zv61MWfg20
KURWA NIE WYRABIAM XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
pretty obvious thst normal people have no idea what Black Ops refers to IRL.
They think top tier operator missions not Honduran death squads funded by drug money
No, they know what it is, and they support it. They always have.
You are seriously overestimating jelly-brained gamers' abilities to know anything
Dog we have been torturing and murdering people for nearly a century now. Ask an American on the street if they would prefer to instantly close down Guantanamo Bay or instantly drop gas prices down by 5 cents and see what their response is.
Yeah exactly, the opening of Black Ops 2 is you helping the UNITA death squad slaughter people in Angola. The black ops games are very open with this kind of stuff.
And Black Ops Cold War opens with you shooting down Vietnamese people lol
Also like, obviously this is all military propaganda but barely euphemistically calling something Call of Duty: War Crimes is really on the nose and doing it 6 times had made it pretty obvious thst normal people have no idea what Black Ops refers to IRL. They think top tier operator missions not Honduran death squads funded by drug money cause a black op can't be on an official budget and needs operating capital from somewhere.
Nah in the Call of Duty Black Ops games, you literally partake in missions like the Honduran death squads one you described. The opening of Black Ops 2 is literally being part of a death squad in Angola where you help Jonas Savimbi slaughter the MPLA. People like that, that's the point of the games. To normalise this kind of US military activity amongst the general public.
It’s been some years since I’ve played black ops, but considering they they are very mainstream I feel like they have above average criticisms of the US role in geopolitics compared to most militaristic media (which isn’t really something significant, but it always surprised me). I’m curious if that’s still the case.
They'll 100% blame Saddam for a Highway of Death-like event. Instead of iraqis being charred to death, it'll be some people from one of those laughable nations CoD invents like Puchikistan or whatever the fuck. The massacre will be carried out by the Republican Guard.
I know they did this exact thing before and blamed it on Russia, they will recycle.
Highway of death was already blamed on Russia in the modern warfare reboot
Gamers were mad when the previous black ops trailer (the one with the anti communist paranoia John Birch interview) removed a 2 second clip of the Tiananmen tank man since Tencent owns some of Blizzard/Activision lol
They're gonna have a mission where you find and destroy his WMDs, and then make a plot point about why you have to lie to the world and say that he didn't have any.
Depends who america hates more according to the pentagon who funds cod games, russia, china, yemen, iran, palestine, venezuela, dprk, cuba?
This fucking better make an appearance pinned to a board somewhere ingame
Hello I am Saddam Hussein I am so damn insane and I did 9/11, press F to quick knife me and cry.
Ah right the annual US propaganda in vidya game form is coming out. I unfortunately just remembered that
No way in hell they'll get John Benjamin for the role
Looking forward to the cut scene with
Rumsfeldsome high level envoy of Fidel shaking hands with SaddamSaddam Hussein speaks English for the 2.5 seconds he's in the trailer because making cod players read a subtitle would constitute a war crime.
I remember in 2006 cod campaigns were considered derivative. I guess anyone still involved is just young or too far gbone
Bit idea: the game becomes wildly popular but only because people want to play as Sadam. Groups of friends have arguments about people being Sadam hogs in multiplayer.
Here's hoping they have another "bad" ending in this one where you break free of your CIA brainwashing and get to do jihad
Is that in one of the games? If so, which one? And do you have a link to play it?
IIRC it was Cold War, where the protagonist was secretly a "brainwashed" Soviet sleeper agent. When the twist was revealed, you were supposed to side with the US.... or you could work with the Soviets and detonate the nukes that the US planted under western europe as part of Operation Super Gladio.
