Modern Warfare 2 is easily the most anticipated game of the month, and with its release today many are questioning the political views contained within. Not being one to make melodrama out of nothingness, Chris Plante takes a humorous approach to whether or not Modern Warfare 2 is the game for Hawkish NeoCons only.

Chris Plante writes,

"For a game that analysts predict to demolish records with a possible $500 million first week launch, it's astonishing that Modern Warfare 2's most recent artistic analogue is World War 2 comic books. (Funny, the series just cannot drop that period.)

Gamers from my generation saw clippings from these '40s era stories in our social studies books. Captain America versus the Nazis. Superman with a bald eagle perched on his bicep. These trades were part propaganda, yes, but also patriotic tomes, part of a larger unified movement against the Axis power.

Modern Warfare 2's already built like a comic book. Its meatiest bits are the stock heroes, two-dimensional villains and plot zigzags seemingly written on an Etch-a-Sketch. Critics will be quick to note inspirations from other creative works, namely Jerry Bruckheimer action flicks, but those too borrowed plentifully from war time comics with their flag-waving patriotism, and one man against the odds stories."

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