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11-09-2017, 06:39 AM
'Call of Duty: WWII' takes one step forward, many steps back in its handling of the Holocaust
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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains plot details from the ending and epilogue in Call of Duty: WWII.
Maybe there are places that certain games should never really go.
I've been struggling to gather my thoughts on Call of Duty: WWII and its handling of the Holocaust since I completed the campaign last week. It's a tough topic, and one that Call of Duty — for all its past trips to the World War II setting — has never tackled until this game.*
Maybe that's for the best.
SEE ALSO: Activision's new patent makes it easy to exploit online gamers for their cash (http://mashable.com/2017/10/18/activision-microtransactions-multiplayer-patent/)
Let's be clear: Sledgehammer Games didn't wholly fuck it up. The campaign mode has its own issues, but at least this is a World War II game that acknowledges the Holocaust as something that happened. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/08/call-of-duty-wwii-review-holocaust-critique/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains plot details from the ending and epilogue in Call of Duty: WWII.
Maybe there are places that certain games should never really go.
I've been struggling to gather my thoughts on Call of Duty: WWII and its handling of the Holocaust since I completed the campaign last week. It's a tough topic, and one that Call of Duty — for all its past trips to the World War II setting — has never tackled until this game.*
Maybe that's for the best.
SEE ALSO: Activision's new patent makes it easy to exploit online gamers for their cash (http://mashable.com/2017/10/18/activision-microtransactions-multiplayer-patent/)
Let's be clear: Sledgehammer Games didn't wholly fuck it up. The campaign mode has its own issues, but at least this is a World War II game that acknowledges the Holocaust as something that happened. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/08/call-of-duty-wwii-review-holocaust-critique/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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