Especially the campaigns, and especially how certain characters and moments are presented in the campaigns.

It's like right on the borderline of being a chuddy glorification of the military and being an absolute pisstake of things that chuddily glorify the military, and I genuinely can't work out which way it's trying to go with it.

  • neebay [any,undecided]
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    4 years ago

    they at least had better politics in the earlier games

    MW2 is about nationalists conspiring to manufacture false flag attacks and justify WW3

    and WaW is surprisingly sympathetic to the Soviets to the point of glorification at times, like the game's climax literally has you raising the red banner over the reichstag while the Soviet anthem plays

    • Oni [any,comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      WaW isn't that sympathetic, the only shocking moments after the fountain opening in the entire Soviet campaign are about Soviets executing PoOr NaZiS! For no reason!! The only German war crimes I remember is the fountain and maybe one Soviet soldier executed, from the mission before the tank mission. Then it just shoves like 5-6 scenes of Nazis getting the wall in your face (that you can shoot yourself- based) with zero historical context as to why that's actually a good thing. The game wants you to think it's bad.