Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Call of Duty: Ghosts

Oh, finally: a video game that actually deals with the horrific psychological effects of the unspeakable carnage of war! Yes, from the name of this game, I can tell that the game play will be all about combat flashbacks, psychological breakdowns, and the guilt of being haunted by all those you’ve killed in playing the earlier Call of Duty video games. So it’s finally like real combat!

That is what it’s about, right? Or is it a game where the players have to fight an army of ghosts, and so none of their weapons work against them, seeing as how ghosts are not corporeal beings, and so players can’t possibly win, and they’re killed horribly and damned, reversing the war experience? Is that what it is?

Look, it has to be one of these two things, or else it’s deceptive marketing.