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JONATHAN IRONS תלוי על מדף חלון. אנחנו יכולים לראות רסיסי זכוכית שבורים, אבל המצלמה דוחפת פנימה פניו. הוא נראה כמו קווין ספייסי. או מעין פקסימיליה של ראשו של קווין ספייסי, מונחת על אדמות היאבקות של וינס מקמהן.
הסצנה הזו לא מופיעה בחדשCall of Duty: Advanced Warfareטריילר סיפור, אני רק מנחש לאן כל העניין הזה מוביל. טריילר ומחשבות נוספות בהמשך.
IRONS
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I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time... For me, it was starting my own wars because I thought that was a good, profitable idea... Studying the measured diction of James Bond villains... Or that soldier's hands, and the way his skin seemed like paper, as he pushed me through a window in a slow-motion quicktime event...READER
Hang on, isn't that grossly unfair? Call of Duty - and this trailer - might not have the most nuanced writing, but it seems preemptively cruel to insult the ending of a game that isn't even out yet. Aren't you always aiming to be less cynical and less mocking of things you don't enjoy but others do?GAME JOURNALIST
Yes, but that's the thing. I like many of the Call of Duty games. They sometimes tip over into leering, geopolitical disaster porn, but at their best they're silly action romps. I can embrace gleeful explosions, scenery-chewing villains, and first-person shooting mechanics that have more in common with rail shooters than Quake. For all its pontificating about Private Military Companies, Advanced Warfare looks to be on the right side of this. I'd like to have a Crysis-style nanosuit in more games, for starters.READER
Fair enough. In that case, isn't it just a bit shit to make American Beauty references just because the game's got Kevin Spacey in? At least the House of Cards references everyone else is making aren't fifteen years old. In fact, it's a bit trite to write this post in script format as well - it's barely even a joke, and a clumsy rhetorical device for delivering the information readers need from a story like this. When's Advanced Warfare out?GAME JOURNALIST
November 4th.INT. COMMENT SECTION - DAY
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