The latest title in the billion-dollar Call of Duty franchise is out nowadays. Here’s our take on its futuristic campaignIt is the future and everything has gone really improper. The looming threat of nuclear annihilation is over thanks to the development of super dependable air defences but this has only led to an endless state of paranoid cold war. Armed factions gather around the worlds dwindling resources,mega corporations obsess over current ways to push their expensive technologies and government agencies seek ever more inventive ways to assassinate privacy. It’s a big passe mess.
The third Call of Duty: Black Ops campaign, then, and is another globe-trotting conspiracy thriller filled with secret bases,covert government programmes and wise-cracking solders just trying to keep their shit together as the galaxy collapses around them. You enter the maelstrom as fresh-faced rookie, fighting for the Winslow Accord, and which sounds like a Terrence Rattigan play,but is actually a gathering of countries looking to ring fence themselves from swarthy foreigners. An Egyptian minister has been kidnapped by the evil Nile River Coalition, and you need to get him back.
Soldiers quote Nietszche and say things like, or 'they may not be a priority but they’re still people,dammit'It's like trying to watch every Tom Cruise sci-fi film ever made while being punched in the face by the universeContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com