War Has Apparently Changed

I don't think "I'll slavishly buy this game like I buy every yearly iteration." is a very interesting reaction.

So, Syndicate of Duty or Call of Company.

@soundlug: If they are drawing information from that, and not just doing the whole dark skinned people are invading the US, it's already an improvement over most games in this franchise. I hope Sledgehammer has some input in what the story is going to be about? You think they are unaware of this, you think it's completely unrelated?

War has always been linked to economics. There's always been mercenaries. Empires have always relied on them.

None of this is all that new, unless there's one centralized PMC, acting as a nation with its own political interests. Which is not the case, they are a network of competing companies just as mercenaries usually were. We are an empire as we have been for over 200 years, using mercenaries to secure the economic interests of the elites. As was the Mexican American war, so is Iraq.

But if the next CoD frames warfare like that, there could be a really interesting reaction from its fanbase.

I thought it was a pretty cool video at least. I didn't know that PMC's were an actual thing, I always just heard the term thrown loosely around in Metal Gear games.

As a game trailer this was pretty poor.

Ripped from the headlines! Mecha-Cheney confirmed as end boss!

Shooters really need to get out of this modern military rut.

But war never changes...

IS THIS FROG FRACTIONS 2?!?!

@themichaelryan: You are saying that like the devs had some to say in the making that documentary

I get this is an unpopular opinion, but if there is real passion behind this game from Sledgehammer, maybe they can breathe life into this fractured genre.
At the very least it seems this video has more effort and thought behind it than every plot point Ghosts.

eh

Reddit is leaking again

Exactly. Didn't we get enough shooters that took themselves too seriously last generation?

Finally, evil PMCs in my video games. Because that's not a thing that was done to death in popular media following the Blackwater incidents or anything.

Because millions of people still buy it and play it religiously. Its popularity is slowly waning, but it's not going to suddenly disappear off the face of the earth.

"Hey they got a man from dat der Institute to talk on the TV. I'm going to buy the game! Derp."

Who is the target audience for this? People who want some more faux-intellectualism behind their CoD? Does Activision even understand their fan base?

I'll take strange blustery talk about "The WAR economy" over a Call of Duty game any day.

Soooo... what's going on here? Are VICE and Activision teaming up to co-produce both the next Call of Duty alongside some PMC documentary...? That'll then theoretically tie-in together at least thematically I suppose?

For some reason this all just seems kinda... icky.

Well I feel a little grossed out now. =P

How is Call of Duty still relevant in the year of Jebuiz 2014?

scary.

Hey, I threw up in my mouth a little!