![]() Everyone who played it will remember seeing a war-torn town in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and hearing “ 50,000 thousand people used to live in this city. In most CoD games, there are usually cutscenes in which characters discuss the human cost of war. While the tone of earlier entries emulated smart, political thrillers of the ’70s, Cold War throws subtlety and nuance out the window. I wasn’t killing demons, I was being told to kill minorities and Soviets and to enjoy the carnage. While FPS games naturally revolve around shooting, Cold War’s enthusiasm for carnage seemed especially sickening. Missions taking place in East Berlin, Russia, Cuba, Vietnam, and Turkey all have the same goal - kill everything in sight and destroy the Soviet Union. Instead, it came off more like orders to commit war crimes stroking the ego of a hyper-conservative, racist ghoul. In BO:CW, that cutscene’s lighting and sweeping score are obviously meant to evoke heroism - as if this legendary figure of American history is sending players on a task to protect freedom. Prior to release, trailers showed former president Ronald Reagan assigning the characters their mission. CoD: BO CW continues this trend, this time with an obvious right-wing slant. While most big-budget games and films don’t do a good job of accurately pointing out the problems of our military industrial complex, the CoD games go out of their way to gloss over American war crimes (usually blaming them on other countries) while perpetuating xenophobic imagery. A few welcome changes are brought into the mix, but it retains the basic skeleton of COD games past, right down to the heinous story content. In short, it’s a COD game through and through. There are also dialogue choices that can alter missions in significant ways and side objectives to complete. Players will travel to different locations and shoot waves of enemies - standard CoD fare.Īlong the way, there will be a few missions that require stealth, some light puzzle work and tests that require the player to remember previous actions/words from events earlier in the campaign. Set in 1981, players control “Bell,” a custom-character assisting CIA operatives Russell Adler, Alex Mason and Frank Woods in trying to stop a worldwide nuclear threat, courtesy of a generic Russian villain named Perseus. This latest release in the massively popular first-person shooter series takes Call of Duty back to the conspiracy-laden Black Ops subseries. As I get older and now have a platform to talk about games (and media as a whole) it’s given me time to reflect on my relationships with the more… problematic… things that I love. There’s also friction when it comes to the type of games I play, mostly in how they portray people in my ethnic group. Hell, I still feel like my last name is too ethnic for any major publication to consider hiring me. It’s stressful to navigate, and difficult to cling to the hope that it will get better. Headlines about Latinx folks getting screwed over seem to pop up almost every day. WTF Someone thought a dangerously right-wing game was needed in 2020?īeing a minority in the gaming industry is hard. LOW …in a severely half-baked, racist and politically screwed-up package. The Little Mermaid, directed by Rob Marshall, opens in theaters nationwide on May 26, 2023.HIGH It’s still that same satisfying Call of Duty gameplay… She makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land, but ultimately places her life – and her father’s crown – in jeopardy. While mermaids are forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel must follow her heart. The youngest of King Triton’s daughters, and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea, and while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. ![]() The Little Mermaid is the beloved story of Ariel, a beautiful and spirited young mermaid with a thirst for adventure. ![]() The film stars Halle Bailey as Ariel, Daveed Diggs as the voice of Sebastian, Jacob Tremblay as the voice of Flounder, Awkwafina as the voice of Scuttle, Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric, Art Malik as Sir Grimsby, Noma Dumezweni as Queen Selina, Javier Bardem as King Triton, and Melissa McCarthy as Ursula. Check out the teaser trailer for The Little Mermaid, the upcoming live-action reimagining of the animated musical classic. ![]()
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