I know many of you already know that I love history and my favorite time period is WWII, but I won't go on with that. So instead I will be talking about the game as a whole, no nostalgia, no unbiased attempt to make the game look better, just full hearted thoughts on the game and the community reacting to it. Now, for what you may know, CoD is a game that everyone knows about. You say Metroid, your Grampa is going to ask what the hell that is. When you say Call of Duty, everyone, even your Grampa will know what that is. It was a game that honored Veterans and my Grandfather is happy to see the game is still relevant. The game gave Veterans like my grandpa a name and an appreciation that any Veteran needs, but what do they not know about the game? Everyone hates it. Why? Product Saturation. Hello and welcome to this lovely thought blog.
Call of Duty was the money muncher before money munching was even a business thought process. You and your parents only know that Call of Duty exists is because of how they won't stop making them. WWII shooters were irrelevant because of how much Call of Duty and their competitors wanted to be in glorified fame. They're not doing this to be known, but to get more money. Medal of Honor was the first to do the WWII game and they were kicked out of the water by CoD. Brothers in Arms was a great game that soon made a technical revolution with advanced facial animation, but was forgotten because CoD was in the way. Then they asked themselves, what else can we do? The WWII fame is fading! What should we do to save CoD? Then a light bulb was lit, how about modern warfare. I personally loved the games, they had a great campaign with great storytelling and a fun multiplayer with Spec Ops in it, but everyone hated it. Why? Because it was not WWII. But everyone didn't like WWII games, why hate a modern time version of the game? Disregarding the times and the controversy, there was still a large majority of people who liked the WWII style of gameplay. There was still people playing and liking the new Wolfenstein. They continued with the Modern age CoD until they started getting comments about milking the same game over. Another light bulb lit, why not go into the future!? Great idea, everyone said and then they all brainstormed a new game with a mediocre campaign, but new multiplayer. Everyone hated it.
The funny thing was that there was nothing to do with the game series. Why go farther in the future? Just stop and stick with the glory you have. They heard those words and they thought of the best idea in the world! How about go back to WWII! It's a product that should have stopped a long time ago, but the creators just wanted more money. The reason why we have these awful games in our hands is because of Activision. The reason why Activision hasn't done anything besides CoD is because of CoD. It's generally depressing in my opinion. We all loved the old games, but they just leave an awful taste in your mouth, a taste of a corporate company. But who cares? The game look great!
Well, in my best opinion, it looks like a traditional multiplayer shooter. Do I think the game is going to have a good campaign? I'm not entirely sure. Maybe the same kind of storytelling as Modern Warfare, but with awful gameplay of you watching people move things out of the way for you to go further in the game. Maybe that's the kind of campaign we'll get. I mean, what else can they do? They're going to get their money anyway, so I don't really care if the campaign is good or not. The multiplayer gameplay that I've seen looks fun. It makes me want to get it. And the gunshots are on point, satisfying to hear and cool. I love what they're doing with the game as well, making it as accurate as possible to both campaign and multiplayer. Wait... No... They aren't....
With gameplay aside, I think it's very disturbing to see a Black, Nazi woman fighting in the game. Why? It shouldn't be there. Why shouldn't it be there? Because she's a Nazi! I don't care if the lady's Black, Asian, Native American or whatever, as long as she's not a Nazi! And why hasn't the Feminists reacted to this? I told every person I know that's for women's rights and they disapprove of this! Why haven't your leaders in the Feminists HQ reacted to this in extreme anger!? As a person who loves this time period, this makes me not want the game. And to clarify, there were no Nazi black women. When the Nazis were making laws about the Jews, they thought the Blacks weren't bad because there was so few of them in Germany. They made no laws of against them and there hasn't been one Black Nazi recorded in history, nor a Black Women fighting for them. There was a Russian Sniper Team that consisted of women, but that was Russia, a land that was fighting on their own soil, begging for more troops. There was a demand for anyone to fight in the Russian army.
I have nothing against Black Rights, nor Women's Rights, I just think it's wrong to make the game so inaccurate to history after telling us they were going to extreme accuracy. I know this is a small disliking and a widely talked about thing, so you can ignore that entire paragraph.
Now let's talk about Zombies. For some reason, people keep saying that Zombies is boring and repetitive, making another wave based mode is useless. People, for some reason, complain about like they have to play it. Just ignore the Zombie news, it's not like you need to know more about it or even play it. I think personally it's going to be good. I know that's a common thought that comes up with any Zombies mode CoD, but what the people are doing to this mode is fantastic to me. The developers said that they're going to make it horror based, having the mode become what it was suppose to be. I really hope all the audio for this mode is clean, because sound key for horror. And the new enemy types sound amazing! The one they talked about was this caged Zombie that has flies coming out its eye sockets, making this buzzing sound for the player to hear. I love that a lot, making this notable queue for the player know that Zombie's presence. I adore that idea a lot! And how they're going history accurate with that as well, having all the zombies be similar to 1930's German Science sound amazing to me. I hope they do a lot with this mode and improve beyond the starter map.
So I kind of like it. I might get it, maybe. I don't know. I believe I'm sold on the Zombies, so I might get it for my B-Day. Might. Anyways, my thoughts in a summary is basically, this is going to be a rehashed version of the classics we already have, but better looking and a new team behind it. People hate the games in general, with no reason at all, but because it's a Saturated Product. I hope you enjoyed this and 'til next time...
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