Tag: Call of Duty
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The Status-Quo (A)politics of Modern Warfare II
Back in 2019, when the first rebooted Modern Warfare title came out, two top Infinity Ward devs looked a GameInformer reporter in the eye and said, “I don’t think it’s a political game.” You can hear the incredulousness in the reporter’s short reply: “Really?”
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II… is a bad video game
I don’t hold very high esteem for Call of Duty generally, but this summer, I decided to buck my own prejudices and take an honest dive into the series’ most consequential sub-franchise, Modern Warfare.
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Oh no! I played all of the currently-available Modern Warfare games!
I’ve been historically pretty up-front about my disdain for Call of Duty. I’ve mentioned it multiple times directly as a game series that is emblematic of the industry’s wider problems, and I even wrote a whole post about how the upcoming release in the franchise (at time of writing) could get fucked. It is published…