Impact of Gaming
“Call of Duty” aka “COD” is a world renowned video game that has a generation of gamers glued to their x-box controllers. With the recently released “Black opps” edition a lot of media and press have been circling around its success and impact. One impact I found extremely interesting was in an article I read online. It focuses around the story and material of the missions and states that the content of the game is reigniting the cold war tensions and gained the attention of the ever threatening Cuban government, due to one mission entailing the attempted assassination of Fidel Castro.
It also focuses largely on the conspiracies within the American government, the ever touchy Vietnam situation and the comic ending of Fidel Castro, JFK and Nixon working together to fight off a never ending horde of zombies.
The extremely graphic torturing scenes throughout the entire campaign and shift relations forming between Russia and Cuba all add up to the ever ready people just waiting for something to outrage them. The portrayal of Russians as crazed mad men wanting to take over the world never ceases to please the war hungry generation I have grown up in.
The game takes scenes from some of the most infamous and influential movies of all time like apocalypse now and deer hunter. One mission is based in Vietnam and you are on a gunship blowing up anyone and everything that moves, whilst sympathy for the devil by the rolling stones was blaring in the background, similar to an infamous scene in apocalypse now. One mission starts off with your character, Mason, being captured and forced to partake in a game called Russian roulette which originated from the movie “Deer Hunter”. Also from cold war thrillers like "The Manchurian Candidate" and "Dr. Strangelove."
savage post! and your backround is class!
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