![]() ![]() It's also really, really bad timing of course, with the Petraeus scandal just hitting. It's a good lesson in why fictional games should avoid using real people and pop-culture blurbs as much as possible, especially if they set the game in the future. The unfortunate appearance of David Petraeus as the 2025 Defense Secretary (aboard the USS Barack Obama) gave me a chuckle, and the line "So this is how the 1% live" made me wonder if we'll actually still be using that terminology in 2025, in which case kill me now. Really? Your city is crumbling into ashes all around you, and we're supposed to worry about some diplomats because of the political fallout? It's not the big action sequences that bugged me most-we expect these-it's other moments.įor instance, when a city is undergoing a major skyscraper-toppling invasion, the primary concern of the military is to protect G20 leaders because the fallout of any of their deaths will be so catastrophic. There are moments when the implausibility gets to be a bit overwhelming. ![]() It's a Mission Impossible style action-movie of a game, with a whole suite of implausible plot twists, betrayals, and reasonably good voice-acting and direction. Suffice to say the way both plots weave together makes for a much more interesting Call of Duty game than we've seen in the past. He's obviously a bit off his rocker from the very beginning, but over the course of the game we come to learn that he's not only completely insane, he's also an evil genius and a people person capable of uniting 2 billion of the world's people behind his "Cordis Die" movement while pulling off Joker-style trick moves on the government. ![]() Menendez is a narco-terrorist working with all sorts of bad characters and he becomes a CIA target pretty quickly. We first encounter Raul Menendez during a rescue operation in the storyline of the father, Alex Mason. ![]()
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