This is an awesome idea for a series, it's a fascinating look at game development and the cities where it happens. @shaunmc you should totally do Montreal or some other Canadian cities...Edmonton, maybe?
"Toasted"? Come on, Gamespot! What happened to the REAL trailer breakdowns where you pause the trailer and dissect each part of it? This is a poor and somewhat confusing substitute...
I hope they really do their homework on the whole near-future setting. It seems pretty common for developers in the genre to take a little-known geopolitical factoid (e.g. the U.S. has a lot of oil shale, China has 95%+ of the world's rare earth minerals) and make some B-rate game (Homefront, this game) with a semi-plausible story because they think they're so clever for knowing said factoid.
Well, it looks like Treyarch has heard the prayers of all those looking for something new out of CoD...and completely missed the point. Honestly, I'm gonna be kind of interested to see how such an august series tackles "the future of warfare", but this still doesn't feel right...
I think the question is, though, where do you draw the line? If you accept someone like Commander Shepard, and by extension other soldiers like, say, Matt Baker as everymen, do you include elite commandos like Soap and Captain Price? And what of realism? Is the protagonist of the upcoming Far Cry 3 really such an everyman when he goes from boating across the Pacific to fighting across a jungle island with assault rifles and stealth kills?
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