While some sequels have been met with mixed reviews, like Call Of Duty: Ghosts or Infinite Warfare, they always turn a healthy profit. It's a cornerstone franchise, with names like Idris Elba, Sam Worthington, and Kit Harrington having loaned their voices to different entries. The rise of Call Of Duty has been unstoppable ever since, with the franchise pumping out annual blockbusters. This sequel brought the franchise into the modern-day and featured superb single and multiplayer gameplay.
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The first few games brought historical battles to vivid life and the series would be transformed with 2007's Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. If there is some statute of limitations on when it’s okay to make a video game based on an actual war without worrying about anyone's sensitivities, I think that Vietnam, like the war on terror, still falls under it.Gary Oldman's Viktor Reznov is one of Call Of Duty's most memorable characters, but could the crusty old Russian have survived his apparent demise? Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Medal Of Honor franchise had somewhat cornered the market in World War 2 shooters, but the arrival of the first Call Of Duty in 2003 would change that.
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When people tell me that World War 2 is “no longer as relevant,” perhaps that’s actually code for “I wasn’t alive when it happened, and therefore I have no context for it.” Plenty of people alive today have a lot of context for Vietnam, but I’ll be shocked if we see mainstream journalists waving advertisements for Battlefield Vietnam in the faces of ‘Nam widows and raising an uproar on Fox News. Perhaps if our country had actually learned the lessons Vietnam should have taught us – don’t go into a war unless you have an exit strategy – we wouldn’t have gone to Iraq in the first place, and a far lesser number than 5,841 (as of the date this column was published) would mark our dead in the current conflict. That’s one of the many purposes art serves. While I stand by my belief that military first-person shooters should never even attempt to depict the brutal reality of modern warfare, there’s plenty of room for dramatic depiction and thematic investigation. I think it’s important that video games try to tackle serious issues. I likewise feel that Six Days in Fallujah should see the light of day. This column is not an argument that Battlefield Vietnam should not have been released. I find it difficult to dismiss Vietnam as “no longer relevant” when I take into consideration that there are still families missing their loved ones. If that's the case, then consider that according to the Department of Defense, 1,771 souls are still missing in action in Southeast Asia. Or is it more about the emotional costs of a conflict still being suffered which demarcate the wars we can or cannot depict? I can imagine that it would be difficult for a person who still has someone they love in harm’s way to see their loved one’s situation depicted as a fantasy for someone else to live “just for fun.” I get that the pain of the war on terror is ongoing and very fresh…but I’m not sure that pain is any more valid than that suffered by Vietnam veterans and their families.ĭoes the outrage against Fallujah and Medal of Honor rest on the argument that if the bullets are still flying, you cannot make the video game? By that logic, if all American combat troops are removed from Iraq and Afghanistan by the end of 2011, we can get back to Six Days in Fallujah for 2012. Critics felt that it was inappropriate to depict a fictional conflict in the context of a war which was still taking place. Six Days in Fallujah, set during a recent conflict in Iraq, was dropped by Konami after mounting criticism, and Electronic Arts pulled the word “Taliban” from the multiplayer component of Medal of Honor, set in contemporary Afghanistan, due to fears of insensitivity.