Call of Duty Would Like to Remind You That PMCs Are Still Probably Evil

Expectations of the CoD campaign:

A.I. Fellow Warrior: "Hey, shoot here, here" ... "Hey, shoot here, here" ... "Hey, shoot here, here" ... "Hey, shoot here, here" ... "Hey, shoot here, here"

Player: *shoots*

A.I. Fellow Warrior: "Well done, now let me block your pathway to give you some exposition"

Looks cool, actually might play this multiplayer again.

I'm looking forward to being disappointed by this game's multiplayer. I'm sure the campaign will be okay in a "follow me around until you need to shoot through a huge wave of dumb AI" sort of way though.

I've got to admit that when I saw the first trailer I kind of rolled my eyes a bit like "oh, this again.. Great..." but honestly this new trailer has me intrigued. If they do it right, this game could be really awesome. Also, I haven't seriously played a Call of Duty game since Black Ops, so I'm kind of interested in what they have in store gameplay-wise. I hope it's different enough to be interesting, but at the same time keep that Call of Duty feel.

GET BENT Kevin Spacey!

Troy Baker face!

@chaser324: Wouldn't it be awesome if this game had characters similar to the bosses from Revengeance?

I'm actually looking forward to this.

I don't think there's ever been a realistic depiction of PMCs in games (or TV or film, really.)

This. Is there any other way, seriously, ANY OTHER WAY, this game's plot could develop?

KEVIN SPACEY HYPE

Good point, I liked Makarov as a villain, but other than that... ehhh, not great in Modern Warfare.

And you are pretty much on point about PMCs, so if we get some good Kevin Spacey being all "I got the power so fuck your politics!" I can get on board with that.

AUGUST 8TH!

Kanji Tatsumi is everywhere.

Definitely a better bad guy than "we made up a completely bullshit World War 3 scenario involving communists/ethnic people" that the previous Modern Warfare series depended on.

PMCs are are natural "bad guy" stock because they're amoral, shady companies most the mindset of most civilised people. They operate with zero transparency and little to no oversight; they hire operators with questionable backgrounds, and they are at their most basic level war profiteers.

I read on the Internet that House of Cards was carefully formulated by Netflix based on their user data, i.e. people like Kevin Spacey and people like political dramas.

Naturally it's just being extended to video games. Take House of Cards, mix in a few guns and jetpacks, and baby, you've got a CoD going.

I hope this game is the next step for the COD series like COD 4 was. After the disappointment of Watch Dogs, I'll just have to wait and see.

Buying it because Kevin Spacey is in it

still don't see the appeal in releasing one of these every year.

I am super pumped to see how this game turns out.

But in the first trailer he seemed like a decent dude that wanted peace.

Already getting those CoD twists!!

Hey guys remember House of Cards? We got that. Remember those cool jet packs from Titanfall? We got that.

@acidbrandon18: That seems like a sure fire bet.

Who wants to start taking bets that Atlas is the real bad guy and that they planned those Terrorist attacks so that they could be employed?

...so the twist is going to be that Atlas blew up the reactors right?

This looks like a fun story. I'm actually interested in a CoD title... AHH!

The natural progression of Frank Underwood's character.

Looks good, really hope that story pans out.

Looks very well made.

Troy Baker, I like you, but stop being in everything.

I haven't bought a Call of Duty game in a while, but this one is starting to look convincing.

Eh, PMC's are a great storytelling tool for military/espionage stories. If you're going to have dudes that are well trained, and in large numbers, they make for a great army-of-your-enemy tool.

It's one of those modern aspects that military/espionage stories do have to touch on at some point nowadays. I think pretty soon, drones are going to be one of those things that have to be shown or pointed out in modern military/espionage stories too.

I'm actually pretty interested in picking this up.

Say what you will about Call of Duty, but those faces look pretty nice.

Besides this looks pretty good actually, though another PMCs are evil tale, really?

good lord troy baker is getting his

This might be the next Cod i pick up. looks interesting :)