Archive: november 9, 2008

Where Was the Editor on this One? [Tasteless]

This is a terrible trailer. We've all been over the morality discussion of World War II games, or any game that simulates an actual war in which real people we know fought. For this genre, that hard rock accompaniment to Call of Duty: World at War's launch trailer is atrocious, and I certainly hope it's not going out on television (where the trailer is much better). "NO RULES?" Is this a UFC montage? "NO FEAR?" What, we're reducing World War II to a rear-window sticker in a white trash lowrider? Where's Calvin pissing on Japan?
Sixty years later, there are men who still speak viscerally of the...

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Tags: Activision, Call of duty world at war, PC, Tasteless, XBox 360, ps3

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