Watching the trailor, it's hard to tell anything about what the game is actually about(Granted, every CoD game seems to do that), but moviebob seems to be just going off on a limb and accusing of being some kind of anti-liberal propaganda piece.
I realize Moviebob doesn't play these games because if he did he'd know that the trailor usally never tells you anything about what the game is actually about(other then stuff blows up). He'd also know that at one point, the series was very cynical and anti-war(around the point MW came out) and World at War could have easily been called "World of Warcrimes". The original games were pretty good for balancing a feeling of being part of a team in a much larger effort and being important enough to that effort to give a shit. And since it was WW2, you could get away with being a little bit patriotic.
I personally have my own beefs with the series, but mostly that the content to presentation ratio which used to be so carefully balanced has fallen way out of whack in favor of presentation and Black Ops was by far the worst offender. Some of the cool stuff, like the SR-71 mission, felt more like a gimmick then innovative and the final few missions felt very, very old style James Bond-ish and way over the top(and then there's the whole "THE ENTIRE US NAVY greets you at the end of the final mission" thing. Score one for plausible deniability, guys). That and apparently the idea of the plot following a logical sequence seems to go away towards to end, where suddenly, the plot skips from S to Z without bothering with the intervening plot points(I'm looking at you, third act of MW3).
I realize Moviebob doesn't play these games because if he did he'd know that the trailor usally never tells you anything about what the game is actually about(other then stuff blows up). He'd also know that at one point, the series was very cynical and anti-war(around the point MW came out) and World at War could have easily been called "World of Warcrimes". The original games were pretty good for balancing a feeling of being part of a team in a much larger effort and being important enough to that effort to give a shit. And since it was WW2, you could get away with being a little bit patriotic.
I personally have my own beefs with the series, but mostly that the content to presentation ratio which used to be so carefully balanced has fallen way out of whack in favor of presentation and Black Ops was by far the worst offender. Some of the cool stuff, like the SR-71 mission, felt more like a gimmick then innovative and the final few missions felt very, very old style James Bond-ish and way over the top(and then there's the whole "THE ENTIRE US NAVY greets you at the end of the final mission" thing. Score one for plausible deniability, guys). That and apparently the idea of the plot following a logical sequence seems to go away towards to end, where suddenly, the plot skips from S to Z without bothering with the intervening plot points(I'm looking at you, third act of MW3).
