The 725 12 gauge is currently very overpowered, I’m talking you can get long shot bonuses from killing people with it. The range is insane and the damage is too
@@GodOfGamingBG in real life people die from fatal wounds and bleeding, not just one bullet anywere, because people can actually take some serious damage, but I seriously doubt any COD game will ever have such advanced damage model, so proper damage balance is good enough for this game.
The rooftop holdout is actually a reference to the movie “13 hours” if I’m not mistaken. Everything was replicated down to how the field looked perfectly
I think its pretty much guaranteed the game's getting microtransactions. After all there's already COD points in the game just nothing to spend it on from what I've seen
"Imagine being friends with someone in real life, then finding out that they camped in a Call of Duty game with the Dragunov." I genuinely laughed at that.
Also Infinity Ward The only real moral chouce will be participating in a interrogation, but we give the option to wuss out and get the same result Me: Oh.......
@@jaybeam1466 What's your point? Name a country with a larger air force than the US. You can't. On its own, that point means little. Either nut up and start letting people know the stupid shit you believe, or shut up.
The needle is set firmly on the "make money at any cost" category. Why do you think a vast majority of Activision's games have either been gigabyte gobbling reskins or garbage shovelware?
I am from Russia and I must say you're pretty damn right about our people's perception of this game. On RU-vid there are NO any reviews or let's plays as of yet of this game. Everyone's just pissed of. Distributors refused to sell physical copies of the game. I haven't seen such big shitstorm toward a game ever before. P.S. Love your videos :)
Yeah, the “Russians are bad” is so prevalent that the story writer’s “moral grey-ness” is more of “moral redness”. And I gotta say, that’s some lazy writing.
@@fisher3317 That's not exactly the point. The point is that the game has very visible hatred against Russian people in general. Otherwise why would they always say that they're killing Russians themselves. Why not to say some "soldiers"? And it was so surprising to see that Russian civilians' dialogs during St. Petersburg missions are marked as red as they are enemies. It may be a nitpick but nonetheless.
'-Well, you see, Vadim, this is a morally chalenging project'. '-Vitya, that doesn't mean we should gas the civis'. '-But horrors of war!..' '-Cyka, dai mne yobaniyyou canistru!'
@@harb1911 I am worried about the direction in which this whole propaganda is developing. I think it is bad for the young generation especially in western societies without a functioning education system. have we really come this far? I will not support such a mischief. Greetings from East Germany!
elijah de jesus Granted, what he does in the game is pretty over kill, but there is a reason why he does this. If you die enough time’s in game, there is a death quote that something along the lines of “Barkov’s goal of invading Urzikstan is to stop any Terrorists from invading Russia.”
what country would you have chosen for it to have been justified that someone was committing war crimes. you people seem to forget that the americans were the bad guys in Modern Warfare 2 and none of the Americans complained that the US were the bad guys. man people are sensitive these days
Hades Americans in the MW2 don't look like some fascists. I don't mind when Russians playing bad guys, it's funny, pretty much always. But what did MW 2019, is spit in our faces. It's not about sensitive. It's about some basic rules of respecting each other. Sorry, if I wright something not very clearly of with some grammar errors.
@@egarkatupoi6422 The amerians to the russians in MW2 did nothing but shoot up an entire airport of civilians. I think thats pretty damn close to what happened in this game. Of course, Activision probably should have put a disclaimer that it was a fictional story and that none of it represented anything in real life but hey, its already made, no point crying about spilled milk. just wait for the next cup and hope it doesnt spill again
Hades well, I just tried right now to wright something good for the answer, but yes, you right. Yes, crying has no point. But it's not that kind of thing, from what I can just look other way. But yeah, now we can just wait. Anyway, thanks for that little discussion.
Basically, I am the one of that "old guys" you mentioned, who is playing COD series for a long time. And I am from Russia, moreover - I was born in the USSR. I started playing from the very first game in 2003 and only missed the ones that came out for consoles, Black Ops 4 and WW2. I've always loved this moral unity with players from all over the world in defeating the Nazis or a fictional enemy from the future. I wasn't upset that I fought against the Russians in Modern Warfare - according to the scenario in Russia there was a civil war and the government was nuts. I perfectly understand that for good scenario about the war you need a strong enemy. It would be strange to play an American game in which the US is attacked, for example, by New Zealand (with all due respect to this country!). Good, strong and familiar enemies will always be Russia, China or some terrorists. I have nothing against it, I would even play an "evil Russian" in sucj a game for laughs. And I would have voiced him many times better than the unfortunate actors who are hired over and over again for this series of games. You have no idea how stupid they sound to the Russian ear. I perfectly understand that to me many will answer something like "Russia committed many war crimes in Syria, the President of Russia is bad, blah blah blah". I've heard it many many times. But what pissed me off in this game is that Russia, it is unclear why, attributed to known war crimes of other countries, such as the famous Highway of Death (committed by the Americans), hanging civilians on cranes (committed by the Arabs), the use of chemical weapons (committed by the Germans, Italians, Japanese, Americans and Arabs). I'm surprised that the game did not include scenes in which Russian soldiers cut off the heads of civilians on camera (you all saw it done by the ISIS). I wouldn't have any objections if the scenario was about Russia invading the US and we were all having fun with the good old skirmishes between the Russian airborne troops and some rednecks in the southern states. I very strongly doubt that there is a second bottom in this game and writers, thus, criticize their own country for accomplishment of these crimes. I can hardly imagine that any country would released a game about the second world war, in which the Americans or the British staged a coup in Austria in the 40s, would shoot the Jews, and the blame would be on the Danes or Finns. But, I understand that the script requires it. What does the average viewer know about the conflict in the East? That there are terrorists, there are national minorities fighting for independence, war crimes are committed, and Russian troops still wear absolutely not suitable to the climate uniforms from the 90s. Want to make a blockbuster for such a viewer? Mix these superficial stereotypes all together and you get COD MW 2019. And we, the Russians, again to blame. And General Barkov wears the epaulettes of a Colonel. I'll go play multiplayer COD MW2 to calm down. No hard feelings to any of the nations, I love all of you. I just hate the fact that politicians and propaganda have infiltrated our sweet escapist world of computer games.
I am worried about the direction in which this whole propaganda is developing. I think it is bad for the young generation especially in western societies without a functioning education system. have we really come this far? I will not support such a mischief. Greetings from East Germany!
Don't buy into any of the modern entertainment coming from major western industries. It's all propaganda aimed at the lowest common denominator. Also, I don't think the people who play most of these games take it seriously.
@@energeticyellow1637 Cracking MW may be hard for scene groups due to Always Online DRM. Also the PS4 doesn't have Always Online DRM and you can play the Campaign offline.
This game is set in a alternate universe where the cold war never stopped and the us kept fighting russia hell the whole modern warfare series is about that
@@viperlife914 an alternate universe where all the horrible things America did was done by Russians. I bet the USSR also hosted a massive firebombing campaign on Imperial Japan because the US of A would never stoop to such barbarism.
``you blend in with surroundings by holding a cinder block``` Oh my god, they took a bug/exploit from Half-Life 2 and made it actual game mechanic... (lookup MarphitimusBlackimus video "Half-Life 2 - Advanced AI in Action")
i have to admit playing that house raid mission with the night vision on a 4k HDR TV looked incredible, i liked the campaign for the most part but i wish it was just more of that
Well, as russian myself there's actually a shitstorm about this game in Russia. First of all, Sony simply banned this game in Russia a few months before release. It wasn't government, it was Sony itself. They said that game has a lot of questionable content and they want to stay away from it if goverment notices it. Everybody laughed at Sony then and hated them for basically self-censorship. But... Game came out and actually a lot of people now hate it and say that Sony was absolutely right. Localisation tried to soften things up (for example there's no word 'russians' in russian localisation, they translated it as 'Barkov's people'), but it didn't help at all. This isn't funny клюква we had from, for example, Black Ops 1, it's pure propaganda about Syria. It's a shame because I wanted to buy this game exactly for 'gray morale', but it seems like game simply doesn't have it. Russians are pure evil in MW2019. Not 'terrorists' like in CoD4, but simply russian army. Shame. EDIT: Looking at comments now I thinks it's pretty interesting how many russian viewers you have! Keep up the good work man!
Hey man has a brazilian you have all my support. I'm not the greatest fan of the Soviet Union or Russia but the way Call of Duty portrays them has always been very offensive, even since the very fist Call of Duty in my opinion, and this year it really is off the charts to the point where I'm considering if it would be immoral to even buy the game.
chinese here, aren't we always the punch bag for a cheap nazi/commi/psycho/dictator bad guys. It is funny to me how everyone bitching about "fake news" yet still belive every bad stuffs happen in China/Russia.
They do have Nikolai and Sergeant Kamarov as good guys, but the SP does portray the Russian Army very badly except for indicating that Barkov was disavowed right at the very end of the story. Also we will never have games like BF4 or Black Ops II again because portraying China in a bad way is a terrible business idea lol
If some ethnicities were portrayed in the way Russians are in this game, we wouldn't hear the end of rants about racism and whatever -phobia given the ethnicity or religious allegiance of said group.
mouthman the problem is Americans are never portrayed badly. They are always the badasses that save the day when in reality they’ve committed mass genocide, millions of civilian deaths, and hundreds of millions of American boys used as meat shields. America has probably committed the most war crimes of any first world country besides China. A more accurate regime would be China for this campaign but they will NEVER use China because that’s 1.4 billion people who won’t play their game due to the government shutting it out. So the Russians are always the bad guys. No matter what.
I dont buy the whole "no MTX" stuff. Otherwise why did one of the preorder bundles have 3000 cod points? Also on PS4 I got none of that stuttering in cinematics Edit: I'm referring to the people complaining there is going to be MTX, not Activision. I dont know why people thought there was going to be no micro transactions
The ol' Black Ops 4 switcharoo! Also, didn't they say that they dropped the lootboxes in favor of a battle pass? At least that was still, like, last week or the week before. I mean, even a battle pass is a bit much given that it's usually reserved for F2P battle royale games, not premium-priced team deathmatch games.
@@HenkkaArtGames they'll more then likely go back on their word(not much of a shocker if they do)and add in both a battle pass,and lootboxes(or whatever they call em). All of this is of course after reviews,to prevent loss of sales.
Yep. Release with no MTX, get a lot of initial sales and free marketing from absolute morons parroting “There’s no MTX in the game” Once initial sales are all in, fuck the whole player base with lootboxes because what the fuck are you gonna do about it now? That’s why I’m not buying this shameless garbage.
Ya they came out and gave the "best campaign ever its gunna be so groundbreaking blah blah blah" usual and its mediocre. Just insanely good graphics. But I'll still keep playing BO1 and BO2 online on xbox. Those games hold up even after all these years very strongly.
@@MrBlonday how can you play those games, I love them but bo2 is full of hackers and it's hard to find games on both of them. Also, im a bit dried out of both the games
@@mostafaahmedibrahim2541 i got the same setup and i have way less lag then him. They shouldve prerendered the cutscenes cuz it too beautiful for modern technology
@Steiner Hardy, Mechwarrior What Greg Furey said, Spec Ops: The Line has a great story dealing with the horrors of war. Gunplay is a little lackluster, but it's definitely a must-play.
M3chaMike It also serves as a scathing criticism of the exploitative nature of most modern military campaigns. Nothing in that game is heroic, and no one is a hero.
Another thing I should point out: the game doesn’t slam the reload save button if you accidentally kill a non-combatant, further adding to the grayness of the game.
@Parker Hetzel sad how people forget the us is currently arming a Syrian genocide and committed the same highway of death depicted as being conducted by Russians in this game. Imperialism is bad. No matter which "team" you're on
@Parker Hetzel Listen, I understand that Russia was reponsible for some fucked up shit, but demonising other big countries and showing them like complete buffoons is not a good look and does not help anyone. Any country did a lot of shitty things, US are not angels too. It is easy to make someone a generic bad guy, but introspection also important. Nobody is going to make a fuss about a game where you kill nazis, because everyone knows that nazis suck. With modern setting and countries it is not as easy. And this whole story was a bad move on a part of Infinity ward, because now this game weaponised russian media, who use this game as an example of US propaganda. I dont really believe that and think that IW just were stupid enough to not realise the bigger picture. MW series at least had us fighting extremists and separatists in the past, here its just stupid.
Lmfao i know right. It annoys me that Gman has beef with Jim. Cause Gman is an apologist for microtansaction bullshit. A corporate ass licker at times.
Its pretty ridiculous. It felt wrong just blasting away Russians. Even in game they didn't seem that bad as they were retaliating for gas stolen by terrorists. Leave it to the CIA to trust rebels over Russians.
I don't know who the writers are, but, it sure looks like they hate you guys, I mean, geez. The amount of war crimes and the type of war crimes done there are fucking nazi germany level
Yikes. Imagine working on those beautifully rendered cutscenes for however many years they did, only to have them be presented like shit on a plate. That's heartbreaking man.
They're very well done on the PS4. The transitions are seamless, I thought they were rendered in game until I replayed some of the campaign and the immediate playing was suspect
The console version actually has occasional loading screens and theres no issues. Hopefully they update the PC version to run like it does on the consoles.
@@stevemc6010 Ahh right, Must be an oversight then. I can't imagine they'd be happy to see cutscenes in that kind of state. Makes me wonder if all the playtesting of these games is only ever done on the most spec'd out rigs possible. (then downgraded only for consoles)
>this game will give you a whole new experience about the realities and horrors of war unlike anything you've ever seen before >Terrorists scary, Soviets bad, US war crimes were actually commited by a fictitious country and never actually happened, and when we do commit war crimes it's totally justified and makes for an epic sick killstreak :^) Wow, so brave.
"No microtransactions, no season pass and all future content will be free" I believe there is no chance any of that will happen. AAA publishers know they aren't punished for false advertisement, so they will turbo monetize this if it sells well. Activision has worked hard to cultivate that infamy.
The way you talked about the Russians in the campaign, I imagine seeing a frustrating Spielburg wishing he could've made the nazis in his WW2 movies half as over-the-top evil and psycho
I'm all anti racism and all this stuff but honestly what's the point in changing an already existing character ??? feels stupid and forced, they could create a new character instead...
@@cyberdemon9306 Seriously though. I get it's a reboot and all but he's "supposed" to be Gaz. But he's just not, like. Sure he wears a cap with the British flag on it, but is he still the same snarky bastard we've barely known? No, not even close. Instead of saying funny sarcastic lines with Price. Gaz is basically a student and Price is the teacher, might as well just created a new character for fucks sake
What really kills it for me is that game a particular mission that you’ll remember for the rest of your time playing video games. The older games always had at least one, likely up to three or four missions that completely knocked your socks off, best examples being Shock and Awe, or that trifecta of missions in MW2 where you fight through a destroyed Washington DC. This game doesn’t have that. Instead you have a bunch of forgettable missions with forgettable side characters that while I can tell they at least tried to do something, they ended up forgetting what made the old ones good, and so we’re stuck with this. I’ll still take anything over nothing though. Hopefully they learn their lesson by the next game. Also, they ruined Gaz.
1:05, The "Infinity Ward Team" that you think about, the one that developed CoD1, CoD2, CoD4, and Modern Warfare 2 actually left for the most part after MW2 and founded a new Team called "Respawn Entertainment", know for their two Titanfall Games (Titanfall2 had one of the best levels in FPS history and the story was pretty neat too) and Apex Legends. Their next game will be "Star Wars: Fallen Order". The Team that developed MW2019 is, for the most part, a new one. MW3 which people think is made by these guys was made by Infinity Ward (Singleplayer), Sledgehammer Games (Multiplayer) (Also developed CoD:AW and CoD:WW2 later), and Raven Software (developed all DLC content). So the only two games that this studio ever developed by themselves (for the most part) are CoD: Ghosts and CoD: Infinite Warfare, arguably some of the worst CoDs ever. IW is pretty good in updating the Graphics-Engine and bring new mechanics (Ghosts introduced sliding, fast vaulting and a more fluent gameplay. But these guys are not great in Multiplayer Design and especially not Map-Design. And yea, the people who think "But wait, some of the original guys behind CoD4 came back for this!", Yea, but only some Animators, and Model-Designers, so nothing relevant for gameplay. So, another CoD thats okay, but not good.
@@kloa4219 Did you read the text? I guess not really? Quote myself here " "But wait, some of the original guys behind CoD4 came back for this!", Yea, but only some Animators, and Model-Designers, so nothing relevant for gameplay. "
okay the whole "cinder block" gag you got going on just doesnt make any sense you're directly disobeying the soldiers if you dont start working, so criticism on that is just dumb
GoodGoy Productions if you think about it, they are following orders from General Barkov, the man who is responsible is senseless killing of the people who are deemed “spies” so yes, it does make sense.
Well they haven't killed any villages with gas and machine gun as far as I know. Their style seems to be more "fire a missile at the village and execute a random selection of residents when you're bored, while abducting most of the reminder"
Brupcat Campaign had good parts but was overall mediocre. The multiplayer is weak and uninspired. It’s different from the other Call of Duty games, but it isn’t a unique game one it’s own.
This makes me wish it was written by the same guys of Spec Ops the Line. That games narrative is very similar in tone to MW, but basically takes it to another level, forcing you to do some absolutely shocking actions with no good effect and causing you and your team to descend into madness. The fact It was also based on Apocalypse Now works well too. Highly recommend you check it out Gman. You won’t be disappointed.
Fitz pmc nigga who was doing his thing in Syr... Urzikstan for 20 fucking years, with aviation support and unlimited supplies. In the ending he even fucking calls Kremlin lmao. Where did you get that stupid thought that he is a rogue general? Nowhere in game it is mentioned, some reviewer started pushing that bull crap and you all went full parrot.
Cutscene stuttering has always been a problem with COD on PC weirdly but never on console. It's something to do with Shader Preloading which I think can actually be disabled
morally grey, or as I commonly refer to it as “mold”, is too soul corrupting for mainstream. very artistic, very intriguing, but also potentially damaging
@@user-vp6cq4sv3d they say that yet they are more than capable of lying and going back on their word. Bethesda said mtx in 76 would be cosmetic only. Fast forward almost a year later and what happens?
@@user-vp6cq4sv3d how many times have companies told us "no microtransactions" , then change it to "cosmetic only" , to "look this gun will impregnate your mum buy it it's too fuckin' good m8"
some people & media already confirmed that this game is 180 degree rewriting history by flipping the civilian attacks on Russians while in fact it was US that did it. I am talking about the "Highway of Death" that in fact it's very much clear USA did the bombings on their own. It's very much more infamous that also featured in the military movie like "Jarhead."
Croz Raven Well, yeah. It’s supposed to be fiction. I could care less if the US was portrayed as the antagonist in this game and Russia was the good guys.
@@definitelynotthefbi4412 I am just pointing out the fallacy of the promotion on the game being the story is more grounded & "gray area." It's simply lies & pretty much glorifying USA savior complex, probably more so than some of COD games.
@Ghost_Troupe How about you are chasing US based PMCs to bring the to trial in Hague ? In the end you fight US army due to American Servicemen Protection Act.
@@lazyduchess3291 so? You expect to get a full AAA game along with several maps, weapons, game modes after launch all for just 60 bucks? Freeloader. Even for a game like the witcher 3 their dlc cost money. Shit isnt free
@@bignaaasty5096 Imagine trusting the words of Activision. The same group of people who said there wouldn't be any microtransactions in CTR, and yet look how it turned out.
- a 6 hour campaign - heavily scripted scenes - the russians are the bad guys - waypoints/checkpoints set in a way so you won't lose the direction you have to go - multiplayer with recycled story mode maps and gunplay - an over the top marketing keeping this franchise on life support for years yup...sounds like every cod from the last 7/8 years
1st day I played: so many campers, huge maps, glitches in missions. 2nd day: wow this is actually fun, good thing I know all the camping spots to kill people in. My experience from this weekend.
Mr. X Isn’t that...the point? He hasn’t played the game yet and doesn’t want to spend money on it, thus he wanted an exterior opinion to help him decide on the purchase.
@Mr. X $60.00 is $60.00. If I end up not liking the game I don't get that investment back. My comment was simply thanking the reviewer for saving me that money. If you like the game I *legitimately* am stoked for you. The reviewer has a good track record thus far on recommendations that I ended up buying. He also spoke in ways that made me believe we share similar feelings on this franchise so I ended up passing on the game purchase. The world kept spinning.
It’s funny how people are talking so shit about this comment. Theirs a reason why critics make reviews is to show the public if they should buy a game or not. Some people have trouble deciding. Deal with it Jesus.
''Same old shit with a different smell'' ....................... best line i heard all year, Thank u Gman, u gave me a new catchphrase , Bless your heart :)
Honestly I don't know how I feel about MW it's very love hate for me. I will say with a squad of friend's multi-player can be fun but when playing by myself I'd get bored. I don't really mind the quick time to kill get gud. Did enjoy spec ops and the campaign. I'd love to hear everyone else's opinions on this game
RYAN TURNBULL honestly I found the campaign funny because of how dark it tried to be. It kinda felt like what a edgy teenager would write after reading a Tom Clancy book
I am really enjoying the game. I really loved the campaign, and though I had to suspend disbelief on a lot, it was an exciting ride until the end. I felt the game ended a bit fast, the campaign was too short. But I mean, it never overstated it’s welcome and left with me wanting more which is good! Each mission I felt was so different too, the gameplay felt fresh from start to finish. As far as the multiplayer, again I’m really enjoying it. The presentation; the gunsmith and perks are all really nice and make gun and class customization a shit load of fun. This mode will not convert anyone who already hates COD, but it’s a solid entry and I’m really playing it. I also skip a lot of COD’s, so I haven’t played the last 3-4 because I despised the specialist abilities and WW2 I just didn’t play. Ground war I’ve been playing a lot of, but it needs a lot more maps. It’s fun, but I get sick of playing the same 2 maps on rotate. And while I talk about maps, Piccadilly as Gman said is the worst fucking map I’ve played. I leave games when this map comes up. Gunfight I got to admit I’m not a fan of it. The maps I’ve played aren’t compelling and Most people I play against just camp their spawns and makes such boring matches. That’s all I got, hope it helps 🤷🏻♂️
@@DeadlyCornbread it did I've been playing it and I definitely agree idk what the hell they were thinking with Piccadilly but that may be the worst map I've ever played in a fps
RYAN TURNBULL yeah I straight drop from this map now. I figured it was a case of get Gud I needed but then I got stuck on a match where we dominated them, and it was sooooo boring. I can’t name a worse map, lolol
The campaign really did bring emotion from me like Picidelly and Clean House, something about Picidelly just made me feel powerless to try and save the civilians, civilians are always in the campaign and die, and it was only after Picidelly I felt that way because it becomes the norm after that. Clean house was weird to me cause the animations they put in the characters if you shoot them a certain way, they actually still move around and try to reach for there weapons again if that first shit isn’t a kill shot. But the second house raid again that feeling was gone cause they just pushed the shock value too hard
@@baneofbanesthe US and other countries do this on the regular and it’s never covered by the media. The US is currently aiding Saudi Arabia in the genocide of the Yemenis people. I’m not Russia and I don’t care for them, but it’s dishonest to pretend they’re the clear cut badguys of the world
I've been binge watching all your reviews on the games I know and love, mostly classics like Half Life, or other late 1990s and early 2000s FPS. It's been really fun and interesting. But you really made me laugh with your Sean Connery impression. 😂
I teared up when I witnessed how quickly the Picadilly Operation turned Sour. But it was just because of shock value. After that I was like "Oh yeah, terrorism sucks!" and just finished the rest of the campaign. It was alright.
16:15 I remember Spec Ops.... the mode in Battlefield 3, where you had tight scenario based co-op with a timer, objectives, and a leaderboard for who did the best. There weren't that many of them, but they were fun an interesting as linear set pieces for two people to enjoy as a team.
One of Gman's biggest complaints about the campaign is: "they make these guys [Russians] look like complete fucking psychos going around murdering innocent people and wiping out villages with poisonous gas and machine guns" Oh boy, has this aged poorly
The civis are not the target for russian military. And where did you find reports about gas? And mass civis shootings? Apart from propanganda from the goverment, but like real independent or semi- sources?
@@swatcccp4673 International media visited several Ukrainian towns which the Russians recently fled from and documented that. Except for gas/chemical usage which so far is only a rumour seemingly without any substance to it. Regarding mass shootings depends on what you call a mass. Anyway so those Russians that were there and those in command do absolutely target civilians & civilians infrastructure. Those are probably the only targets they can actually defeat. What a bunch of cowards Putin assembled for his ridiculous assault.
@@armorgeddon and in maryopool they are shielding behind civis and not letting them out. Its not the only city with this situation. And the towns couldve been bombarded by ukranian military since they seem that its okay to do that. You should look away from mass media and look into alternative sources.
@@swatcccp4673 russians talking about government propoganda is priceless, many western medias are pro kremlin. Meanwhile in russia all western media is banned, russian media that doesnt spread the "special operation" narrative are shut down. At least our media has nuance
@@dopaminedreams1122 nah. Theres just no opposition media on tv. On the internet theres opposition sites groups and so on. And not really a lot of people trusylt the propaganda, at least that i know. And opposition doesnt really do much here.
"All you gotta do is pick up a cinder block." Great, I'll use that strategy from now on in every game for every stealth mission. Didn't think it would be that easy.
The best part of the campaign is when you get to play as the kid. The other good part is holding off the Russian Soldiers with the Sniper Rifle. It's fun because if you don't take them out, then they can actually get to you and kill you. It actually felt like you were under pressure. There were a couple of other parts, but those are the stand-outs to me.
Spec Ops: The Line is one of the only games I've played that did what this game was trying to do. It actually puts you in this moral grey area at a certain point where you really question whether or not you are the good guy.
Spec Ops: The Line was one of the best driven story game I've ever played, I finished that game couple months ago in hard difficulty and wow what an experience.
That's why Spec Ops was a commercial failure and Call Of Duty is a billion dollar franchise. You are always supposedly playing as the good guy and the war atrocities are always performed by "the others" (surprise surprise, it's the russians). I can perfectly enjoy it as arcadey fun that provides zero insight regarding actual war and politics, just like a hollywood movie.
But Spec Ops failed too. That 'White Phosphorus' mission everyone loves talking about... as the player YOU HAVE NO CHOICE. As soon as the player saw his reflection right before the attack, I knew it was a bad choice yet had no choice but to do it. Great game, but doesn't test the players moral compass at all.
