![]() Over the first three games, Infinity Ward created the Call Of Duty games via extreme tension. But a better one is to return to its roots, to give itself a chance to apply its state-of-the-art tech to the pathos that once ruled its design. To some extent, the most recent offerings have embraced this, opting for overblown ridiculousness rather than straight-faced near-future tech pomposity, and that was definitely a good move. Sure, there's a single-player campaign too, but they're contemptible - ugly, stupid, spiteful stories with no gravitas, no pathos, just bathetic bravado and mawkish sentimentalism. It was a game where I would have to stop playing every few missions to remind myself I wasn't there, it wasn't happening to me.Ĭall Of Duty now is of course an annual attempt to get people to hand over sixty bucks for a newer version of their multiplayer madness. Awesome (in the literal sense) warfare, brutal devastation, and the overwhelming sense of being absolutely nobody in the midst of utter horror. This was a game that took the setting damned seriously. That came in 2003, the glorious result of the ugly divorce of Medal Of Honor's parents, and it's hard to remember now just what a groundbreaking and resonating experience it was. In fact, if there's anything that could save CoD from itself, it's heading back.Ĭlearly the intentions of CoD games have changed a great deal since the original, and wonderful, Call Of Duty. But there are some really good reasons not to. The temptation of hearing the rumours that the all-conquering shooter series is to return to its own origins is to start sighing once again. We had a whole new theme to groan at, and the Second World War has had something of a break. ![]() ![]() Then to save us, the march of the zombies began. Not only did it mean that it would be one of seven thousand other games that year plundering the past for an excuse to bob a gun at the bottom of the screen, but it was more likely to be crass and ignorant than a tribute to the bravery and miserable deaths of our ancestors. There was a time when learning a game was set in World War II was deserving of the heaviest of sighs. People have reacted with concern, but I'm here to argue it's the best possible news. If the rumours are true, and they most likely are, this year we'll be seeing Call Of Duty: WWII. ![]()
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