kontextmaschine:

Call of Duty: WWII was free on PS4 this month (basically to pump sales of the expansions), thought I might as well play the campaign

Man, I forgot how much I hate CoD writing. Like the Battlefield games tell war stories with missions set in significant operations or theaters, but CoD is like caricature stuff where your character is personally central to every memorable event.

Like there’s a mission that’s reminding me of the WWI-set Battlefield One, and maybe it’s the different tone in re: WWI vs WWII, but there victory is understood as “you survived, and through some objective played a part as the war machine advances another push” and here it’s like “fresh off personally leading the Resistance to liberate Paris, you turn the tables in a Kraut city by personally winning the air war from the ground, leading a decisive tank battle, and clearing the stronghold with your men”

(Also not fond of Naughty Dog writing, all aspiring to middlebrow blockbusters)

Jesus, that mission concludes with you hiding and escaping with… a bunch of Jews? Hiding in the basement of the Nazi strong point? I KNOW.

There’s some value to it. The mission made the point that at this point, tank doctrine involved using them to support infantry, not vice versa. Later, a tent bivouac in the forest subtly indicated the continuity of WWII with Korea and Vietnam.

Codblops, which was basically CoD: The 60s, was at least interesting cause we don’t have an established canon of important themes. The overall sweep was broadly there – “Faced with situations like Castro in Cuba, JFK prioritized a secret CIA-led approach to the Cold War. As the space race heated up, advanced technology joined the fight. In Vietnam, special forces began to take over from the average G.I.”

But still the choices of individual missions were interesting. I’d never heard of the Vorkuta uprising. Vietnam as Khe Sanh/SOG/Laos/riverboat patrol isn’t the obvious option of Search & Destroy/helicopter/tunnels/Tet.

Has anyone ever set a mil-FPS in the Korean War?