While most big-budget games and films don’t do a good job of accurately pointing out the problems of our military industrial complex, the CoD games go out of their way to gloss over American war crimes (usually blaming them on other countries) while perpetuating xenophobic imagery. A few welcome changes are brought into the mix, but it retains the basic skeleton of COD games past, right down to the heinous story content. In short, it’s a COD game through and through. There are also dialogue choices that can alter missions in significant ways and side objectives to complete. Players will travel to different locations and shoot waves of enemies - standard CoD fare.Īlong the way, there will be a few missions that require stealth, some light puzzle work and tests that require the player to remember previous actions/words from events earlier in the campaign. Set in 1981, players control “Bell,” a custom-character assisting CIA operatives Russell Adler, Alex Mason and Frank Woods in trying to stop a worldwide nuclear threat, courtesy of a generic Russian villain named Perseus. This latest release in the massively popular first-person shooter series takes Call of Duty back to the conspiracy-laden Black Ops subseries. As I get older and now have a platform to talk about games (and media as a whole) it’s given me time to reflect on my relationships with the more… problematic… things that I love. There’s also friction when it comes to the type of games I play, mostly in how they portray people in my ethnic group. Hell, I still feel like my last name is too ethnic for any major publication to consider hiring me. It’s stressful to navigate, and difficult to cling to the hope that it will get better. Headlines about Latinx folks getting screwed over seem to pop up almost every day. WTF Someone thought a dangerously right-wing game was needed in 2020?īeing a minority in the gaming industry is hard. LOW …in a severely half-baked, racist and politically screwed-up package. HIGH It’s still that same satisfying Call of Duty gameplay…
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