#CALL OF DUTI WORLD AT WAR TV#

That’s accurate enough so far but if we consider who made up the Japanese and German armies in 1945 then that accuracy begins to peter out.īy 1945 the Nazi’s once proud Wehrmacht and SS divisions had been brutally diminished by the Allied invasion and the punitive Russian counterattack.

The Germans often run in the opposite direction, always on a defensive retreat, and Reznov encourages you to shoot them in the back. If historical accuracy was what Treyarch were going for – and I doubt it was – then why not accurately represent the people the game sends you to kill? In droves the Japanese enemies charge at you, screaming and hollering before being shot down in their suicidal banzai charges. ”Killing sick children isn’t very fun or heroic.”p> It’s only interested in butchery and bias. Call of Duty: World at War isn’t interested in telling a story about the horrors of war. At a time when America was losing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Activision were producing games for the US military Treyarch were never going to be allowed to make an anti-war game whether they wanted to or not. By the time he is burned to death in the final mission it is clear that Chernov doesn’t really represent anyone. Clearly a recruit rather than the career soldiers Dmitri and Reznov are Chernov is constantly distressed at having to participate in battlefield executions and the brutal fighting the Russians often engaged in. Admittedly there is one voice of reason in all this: Private Chernov.Ĭhernov is Sergeant Reznov’s right-hand man. Now not only could you watch a German soldier lose his legs and lie there screaming while he died of blood loss but you could be the one to do it.

#CALL OF DUTI WORLD AT WAR TV#

Ostensibly this was all in the name of historical accuracy and realism but it hadn’t been seen so realistically recreated except in films and TV shows like Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers. It was a real shock to my fourteen-year-old self and I consider it a milestone in desensitizing me and probably a lot of my generation to that kind of violence. Machine guns and sniper rifles blew limbs off bodies, grenades turned the enemy into open, red meat while flamethrowers burnt foes into pink and black lumps like rare steak. The violence of Call of Duty: World at War was a step above anything seen in the previous IP Modern Warfare. From there the stories flash forward to 1945 to take in the Battle of Berlin and the conquest of the Okinawa Islands by the Americans.Ĭall of Duty: World at War posits itself as an interesting game where you travel to interesting places, meet interesting people and then shoot them. Private Dmitri Petrenko wakes up in a fountain at the height of the Battle of Stalingrad and with the aid of Sergeant Reznov – Gary Oldman doing his best impression of an ageing Russian death metal singer – stages a near-perfect reenactment of the Jude Law film Enemy at the Gates.

US Marine Private Miller is rescued by Corporal Roebuck – Kiefer Sutherland at his gruffest – and joins the Marines in the Pacific Theatre. The game’s dual story lines are set roughly around the same time as each other beginning in 1942 and ending in 1945. The American and Russian characters are the heroes of our story as they tramp across Europe and the Pacific butchering the savage Japanese and Germans for Uncle Sam or the glory of the Motherland. With Call of Duty: World at War developer Treyarch managed to make the best piece of World War 2 propaganda since, well, World War 2. With that said there are no real heroes in war as Spec Ops: The Line will clearly tell you. We’re conditioned to see the Allies as the heroes in World War 2.

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