I actually reread this statement and it's revealing how full of shit Chris Plante really is.
A cop game can't hide under the already prejudiced notion of previous Battlefield games: that the enemy is an international terrorists motivated by pure evil.
Every Battlefield game that I have played to date has been about nation states engaged in total war scenarios against other nation states. Every round of Battlefield is US versus Russia, or China versus US, or UK versus Germany and so on and so on. Even their future war game involved total war scenarios between the European Union and the Pan-Asian Coalition. I have never played a Battlefield game where the enemy was Al-Qaeda, or Boko Haram, or the Tamils, or any other major terrorist organization. Chris Plante, however, wants to tell you that Battlefield has been putting across an 'already prejudiced notion that the enemy is an international terrorists' (sic). He is modifying reality to fit his narrative. He is full of the fanciest monkeyshit legally available for purchase.
edit: I thought about it even more, and players do not even choose a side when they launch into a game. In a China-US battle scenario, you are randomly placed on either the Chinese or American side and sent to combat the opposing force. According to his bugfuck logic, players placed in Chinese squads would be learning that America is pure evil.
I'm no longer sure if this article is spawned purely from Chris Plante being a dumbshit, or if it's part of the nature of having to write something. He's a 'video game journalist', whatever that means anymore, and thus he has to talk about something, regardless of analytic skill or how well-read he is on the subject.
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