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Call of duty: cold war ps5 review3/16/2024 If this is meant to be horror, it sure feels queasily like sport.This is the third year in a row I’ve been lucky enough to review a Call of Duty title I found Black Ops: Cold Warthrilling and Vanguardserviceable. Another sees you throw an unarmed Iranian suspect from the roof of a tall building. What are you supposed to feel while playing Black Ops Cold War? A flashback mission to the Vietnam war sees you spraying villages with bullets from the side of an attack helicopter. But when war is being sold as mass interactive entertainment, it’s hard not to construe depiction as endorsement. Indeed, Cold War is not explicitly pro-war per se, rather an ostensibly neutral – perhaps even quietly condemnatory – depiction of it. There is an argument to be made that the game’s politics are mostly skin-deep, that Cold War is simply an affectionate homage to Reagan-era action movies – gung-ho anti-Russki shoot-em-ups like John Milius’s Red Dawn. Indeed, the whole game seems to revel in the troublesome foreign policies of Reagan’s US, and weaves conspiracy into history with a sinister assuredness. One of the story’s first scenes features a strange, reverent cameo from a digitally reconstructed Ronald Reagan. However, in the game’s main campaign, there is no separating context from content. The 10 best PS5 games to play at launch.Though of course, in a first-person shooter like this, you’re not really anything more than a pair of hands and a gun, anyway. Cold War tips its head towards the language of progressivism: you can choose Bell’s real name, skin tone and backstory, along with whether they are male, female or non-binary. Throughout Cold War’s single-player campaign mode, you play as an enigmatic secret operative in the 1980s known as “Bell”. A sequel to a decade-old first-person shooter (the original Black Ops) and the 17th entry in the Call of Duty franchise, Cold War manages to dance on the very cutting edge of video game design, while its political sensibilities seem like they belong way back in the Eighties, in the mucky Reaganite years in which the game is mostly set. For all its military-issue bells and whistles, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War feels ill-equipped for these modern times of ours.
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