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Call of Duty is the Coca-Cola of Video Games
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Posted by Donster on: 2010-12-16 16:14:32 228
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Contrarian Corner takes on Black Ops.
By Michael Thomsen, IGN
Contrarian Corner takes a critical look at recent games, with the intention of encouraging a broader discussion of titles which have been the recipient of either an abundance of single-minded praise, or an undue amount of criticism. If you're interested in joining that discussion, keep reading.
It's said that William Golding on hearing the news that Lord of the Flies had earned a place on the New York Times Best Seller list wondered aloud, "What did I do wrong?" The tension between what compels a creator to work and the meaning her audience takes from that creation is inescapable. With video games, creators are bound by the narrow genre expectations of experienced players, too often forced to abandon their work as it transubstantiates into an "Intellectual Property." Such is the case of Call of Duty, which began as a derivative of Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan--a hero fairytale with a stunning foreground of spilled guts and wails of the suddenly limbless.
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