The Changing Face of War Games

By Richard Wordsworth

The Changing Face of War Games
How last-gen shooters failed us at best and propagandised at worst.

The PS3 and Xbox 360 generation was defined by the realistic modern shooter. Call of Duty and Battlefield dominated the sale charts year-on-year and spawned more copies across all platforms than even the most hardcore fan had time to play. 'Realism' was the selling point for these titles: real guns, real vehicles, real world locations, and so on. CoD in particular made famous the formula of breaking up the traditional shooter hum-drummery by teleporting players into the cockpit of an AC-130, or giving them fleeting control of a Predator drone, or leaving out Javelin missiles for them to play with. All good, memorable fun – in isolation.


                                 

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