Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

That article looks like it was cut short. I mean, what exactly is the author trying to SAY there? That the game is showing how this generation might also spawn power mad dictators (like just about ANY generation)? That the game is making a statement about the current state of the world? What?

Saw Kevin Spacey in another thing today and I was all like "Damn, he looks just like Irons. Neat."

Took me like a solid minute before I realized how dumb I was.

This whole mocap Ink-Suit Actor trend they're doing now is really gonna throw me off.

I'm surprised that most of ATLAS didn't have "Are We the Baddies?" moments and desert en masse. Especially considering how, judging from enemy comms, most of those soldiers are Americans/probable veterans, who you'd think would have a bit of a problem with murdering their countrymen. Not to mention that, once ATLAS revealed its hand and world opinion turned against them, the company's net worth would plummet, so it's not a matter of good stock options.

But, well, it's COD. Doesn't stand up to too much thought.

Yes he was contractually obligated to surgically augmented hisself to look like Jeremy Irons in the promotional interviews

Eh, they're mercs. As long as the money is coming in no atrocity is too much.

I mean look at companies like Blackwater.

But... 1) There's nothing like picking a fight with the US government to ensure swift financial ruin, 2) mercs are naturally casualty adverse (you can't spend your money if you're dead) and nothing screams "Many of you are going to die" like facing off with the a first world military power (stomping lowtech militias is one thing, the 101st Airborne is another matter entirely) and 3) nothing plays hell on your revenue stream like fighting your own war, with no paying client.

You don't see Blackwater biting the hand that feeds them, and the second a mercenary company turns its guns on a host country that even marginally has its shit together is the second it becomes a dead mercenary company.

edited 12th Nov '14 12:25:38 AM by Mars444

Well, Irons probably told them about Manticore. Which is essentially an "I Win" button.

*ATLAS soldier raises his hand* "Uh, sir, what's to stop them from nuking us?"*Sheepishly lowers his hand*

I know, I know, COD campaign plots are dumb and don't hold up well to scrutiny (for example, in MW 3 in the first half of the game NATO would turn Russia into a glowing parking lot for Russia using WM Ds on European civilians, not to mention the logistical impossibility of invading all of Western Europe at the same time).

It's a little annoying and rah rah America that the game ends with invading Iraq. Again.

The reason why a Nuke Party doesn't break out is the fact that nobody actually wants to use Nukes. Nuclear weapons will never be used in combat.

Even with Russia's WMD use, NATO wouldn't nuke them because they'd be nuked right back. "There's a secret to war: Dare, and the world yields."

Replaying the story a bit. The KPA are really bugging. How the hell did any terrorist organization become powerful enough to invade the US and set up a garrison in Detroit? And hit every nuclear reactor across the world simultaneously?

And how the hell was it Chechens of all people? They were effectively annihilated in the second Chechen war when Russia leveled Grozny. And how can an organization apparently so huge and powerful be completely toppled by killing one man? And why is one man running it anyway?

I dunno, it just feels ridiculous.

You're asking about logic from an FPS game that churns stuff out every two years?

Maybe moving over to three years will help them out a little in that department…

Nah. A girl can dream.

About as ridiculous as some Caucasus rebels led by a guy with an Islamic(!) Russian name creating a civil war that rips apart one of the most powerful countries on Earth.

Or as ridiculous as one insane terrorist having apparently several divisions of Russian military at his beck and call. Or worse enough pull within an actual military to spark a global war.

Or as ridiculous as a Guatemalan drug lord leading a populist anarchist revolution using YouTube and having a connection to the senior most leader of the People's Liberation Army.

Or as ridiculous as a Soviet WW 2-veteran general waging a secret war against the United States deploying WMD's and having apparently the bulk of the Soviet military under his command. And being stopped by a guy with some massive psychological issues including hallucinations, delusions and possibly split personality disorder.

It's just an action game, you should really just relax.

edited 13th Nov '14 7:17:12 PM by MajorTom

Or somehow Russia being able to make a known terrorist who tried to nuke the entire East Coast into a national hero.

Well, the whole nuking thing was covered up as weapons testing.

A known terrorist who started the civil war in the first place.

Then again it wasn't even really a civil war, to be honest. More like a shadow war since besides a car chase on an operating highway none of it was in very public places.

To be fair, it is Detroit.

Lets not forget the US General who worked with a known terrorist to trigger WW3 and so is guilty of probably a billion cases of murder, all because the rest of the world didn't join in his psychotic temper tantrum over soldiers being nuked in a war-torn region that is suspected to have WM Ds.

edited 13th Nov '14 9:29:16 PM by TheAirman

This is true.

Also I'm fairly annoyed I wasn't allowed to kill the Manticore scientists in the last few levels. Don't see why I shouldn't.

Despite committing and being accessory to war crimes, the scientists are civilians, and therefore it is also a war crime to kill them.

Fucker who shot at you doesn't have that protection though.

Angry Joe's not a fan of AW.

I'm still miffed at how one of the most sympathetic characters died

I think Joe was rather lax on this game. Trust me he could of done way worse.....

Who exactly are you referring to?

Cormack who I liked far more than most of the others. His death was disappointing.

What does the mobility stat even do when to comes to guns?

Is it movement speed or?