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"Every so often in our lives, a piece of entertainment is released that completely blows the doors off of what we thought was possible. Whether it be a revolution in tempo, story telling, special effects or quality, these events do not occur often. But when they do, the world is taken by storm.
"Today, I am reviewing what will be known to hundreds of generations as THE hallmark of interactive entertainment: Duty Calls: The Calm Before The Storm.
"You should already know from the title that the game KNOWS it will create a storm."
Back in 2011, Epic Games and People Can Fly launched a Call of Duty parody - Duty Calls - that has been lost to the annals of history.
"Duty Calls: The Calm Before the Storm" sounds more like a massive case of the sh**s. 😂
I saw the parody mention, and half expected the ability to drop a deuce on your opponent... I left disappointed.
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Hahaha i actually just dropped a review of this game on my channel! I hit all the story beats for anybody too lazy to install it and play through it
https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Do you remember Duty Calls? Do you remember the epic slogan "bloody screen, so real!"? PC Games shows you that Epic Games didn't only have Call of Duty in mind!
Such as? They mocked the bloody screen, the fake "realism", the out-of-place collectible system that had no impact on gameplay, the ranking of every little thing you do in multiplayer, the slow motion parts, the boring and cliched enemies, etc.
Here's a refresher if you're forgetting: http://www.joystiq.com/2011...
I'm not saying Bulletstorm was an amazing game or anything, but I don't see what you're claiming. Bulletstorm ended up being a fairly good game that got old quick, but the criticisms they pointed out were pretty spot-on.
Is google translate not working for anyone else? It just keeps translating, finishing, translating, finishing, etc.
I wonder what Infinity Ward did with the guy responsible for Modern Warfare 2's bloody screen. Hopefully they stuck something similar into his eyeballs and he accidentally walked over a cliff, because it easily takes the cake as the most obnoxious "blood screen" of all time.
People Can Fly are promoting their upcoming Bulletstorm with Duty Calls, a parody of the most popular first-person shooter series around. It makes a lot of good points, but it totally fails to make a valid argument about why you should buy Bulletstorm.
Eh, it did it's job. It's not like every day a developer would create an entire level, even a rudimentary one, to stick it to another game.
"Duty Calls fails at making a fair contrast and instead focuses purely on stirring controversy for easy publicity."
Which you are giving them. If you dont like it stop writing articles about it, hence giving them more free publicity.
Basically this boils down to Call of Duty fanboys having their feelings hurt as people point out the Call of Duty franchise is, and has been, utter wank for a long time.
I actually discuss in the article how I agree with all the criticisms. This has nothing to do with "having my feelings hurt" and everything to do with a developer either misunderstanding what its game is trying to accomplish or making a cheap jab at a more successful franchise that isn't its direct competition.
"This has nothing to do with "having my feelings hurt""
Sorry but I'm getting that same vibe throughout the whole article of it's just you upset about that someone dares ridicule CoD in such a brazen fashion.
To be honest, it just sounds like a CoD fanboy that can't spot that People Can Fly are just having a laugh and missing this humour, you rush to defend your beloved CoD by making a petty argument that, "People Can Fly took the easy way out by choosing not to parody the series' obvious selling point".
Even the last sentence about not giving Bulletstorm a second thought after returning to CoD seemed like the sort of silly crap that you see fanboys, (regardless of affiliation), saying just to try and defend whatever they like.
Again, just to state it with regard to the comment I'm replying to: It was a joke. It was actually pretty funny but not when you try and take it at more than face value and especially not when you apparently don't even care that it is just a joke and still launch an attack on it for not focusing on the CoD multiplayer.
You took up the chance to respond to the game. You clearly feel hurt by it else you wouldn't of taken the time out to comment on a game made soley for satire purposes.
They're clearly using CoD weak points like boredom, weak level design, etc to promote their own product, i don't see nothing wrong with this
I don't care what Duty Calls tried to do. It made me laugh, and really that's awesome. I wouldn't mind actually having a game like Duty Calls, being released as a full title. Make fun of a few more commonly used FPS tactics etc, should be a riot if done right. All this seriousness lately has just taken some of the fun out of gaming.
That was pretty funny and i agree. it would be nice to see a game like this. Reminds me of Conkers bad fur day. And that was a decent game and took jabs at a few topics including certain games.
This is definitely one of the greatest titles ever released.
Ever.
No other game can hope to come out in the wake of Duty Calls.
This is the best 'fun' promotion ever. And if it is spawning its own parody reviews, it must make the creators proud!
Call of Duty so got pwned here!
LOL....just lol. It's about time a spade was called a spade with these serious gung-ho shooters.
"Boring, boring, boring" "Blah blah blah nuclear weapon"!!!
I'll gladly pay $60 for this rather than shitty cod xDDDDD.
@snake yea i know it's free i downloaded earlier in the day.just making a reference that i don't shovel money out for broken pos game.
Lmao excellent I like it.