Guilty Pleasure Games
14 hours 23 mins ago
While many gamers love the inclusion of zombies into games, especially of late, seeing just about 'every' developers is going down that avenue, it seems that the other avenue for raising attention is 'controversy'.
WHat better way to gain attention than to irk the publicinto making the game a public talking spot, and thus raise attention to it, thus increase sales.
It has worked for many games, especially the last several Call Of Duty titles, and the Medal Of Honor titles of late.
But this time the developer may have overstepped the mark. Come read why one gamer, while being in age bracket to love zombie inclusion, believes that the choice t=on how they did it is just not okay.
Incl controversial gameplay video footage.
Call of Duty: Black Ops is shaping up to be the best [selling] game of 2010, and one of the biggest attractions is the game’s post-campaign Zombie mode.
World at War had an extremely entertaining mode called Nazi Zombies, and Black Ops will continue with the mode. But this time, Treyarch isn’t focusing on nameless soldiers bound by coincidence: they’re using real-world figures.
And these figures? They’re not random people, as in the original. In fact, they’re some of the most important people in the past fifty years of our world. The names of these four assailants of the undead are John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Robert McNamara and Fidel Castro.
Comments
This made my day.
I don't really see the point of adding them to the game, but I really don't see it as being disrespectful. This is a lot like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. People lost their shit because of that books historical interpretations, but various people who studied Lincoln said that he himself would have loved the book.
Just in reply to that mate. Medal Of Honor was closer to fact than most games actually. Not that I was fussed either way by the so-called controversy, but the entire game is based around the initial insertion of Special Forces, SAS and Green Berets in Afganistan late in 2001, based around Operation Anoconda.
Even down to the exact same mountain rangers, locations of villages, the battles that ensued etc etc.
So it's a lot closer to real life than one would now or understand.
Which is just a point worth noting, that's all really. Check out a book called 18 hours by Sandra Lee, and one called Task Force Dagger: The Hunt For Bin Laden, you'll see a great deal of references there.
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