A discussion of the ethical issues surrounding games like Call of Duty 4 that are set in modern combat situations. Is it right to so closely simulate real and present events for the sake of entertainment? An interesting read.
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Will be interesting to see what sort of numbers GP users draw in come tomorrow. It is believed that this is one many have been waiting for.
Darth,
That is not accurate; this game is old, and most people who want it have already bought it. You might get a small number of subs, but we will mostly see a good influx of players(not new subs) from people with Game Pass who will try it, which is what happened with D4.
CoD: BO 6 will be the test for actual sub numbers.
That's fair... seeing as many have been saying they want CoD in GP. My comment was more of , now that its here... what can it do. Im sure there will be other titles in the franchise that will either entice or turn off different users.
No one's buying a console and signing up for a monthly bill just to get this game to avoid buying it. That's ridiculous. Besides everyone bagged the crap out of this on release for the 4 hour campaign.
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
Call Of Duty is back with its yearly instalment, but is Modern Warfare 3 breaking new ground, or just a lazy cash grab? The answer may not surprise you in today's review from JDR.
An interesting non flamebait article in N4G? I am shocked beyond words then again its probably not gonna get aproved for the same reasons. I beleive that games are just games in the end and part of the freedom of expresion that the western world ejoys in general, you are not forced to play them and as such they can have any message the designers desire.
How do you think they would portray it? A mission to set a country free from a dictator or to steal the country´s oil?
I personally have no problems with it as long it tastefully serves and respect the men and women proudly serving in the Armed Forces. That also means the game should be politically neutral.
I personally dont have a problem with games based on modern warfare. i am a infantry soldier in the army and a two iraq vet.trust me we love games like this and yes we do play a lot of video games in iraq in our spare time and a lot of the games are fps that invole a lot of killing. cod4 is not the first to use modern conflict. americas army and full specturm warrior are a few i remeber when full spectrum came out they had a big ass build board outside of fort stewart advertising the game. what pepole fail to realize is that games like that are good at recruting pepole to the military.
It's a touchy subject no doubt. I really haven't seen a Vietnam based game, and Iraq seems to be heading the same way in terms of lasting appeal. We've been seeing alot of middle east themes games, but they aren't specific to the current Iraq war. I wonder if MGS4 is just coincidental, or if it's really about a bigger picture.
It's odd to see all these games based on a fictional war, yet they always revolve around an unknown middle eastern country. Makes you wonder if the people behind the project are trying to say something.