Late Stage Capitalism

I could have sworn that it was only a few months ago when I saw an advertisement for Modern Warfare II in a pizzeria. Did they seriously spend only a few months making this?

Wait, what’s this in the comment section?

MW3 the $80 DLC which there was alot of evidence of it being DLC

Ah, that explains it!

I kind of wish that the designers explored the World War II setting more instead of a heavily fictionalized modern setting. Maybe I’m overgeneralizing here, but it feels like a lot of WWII titles approach the setting in a very formulaic way: the Allies consist of the Yankees, Brits, and Soviets whereas the Axis consists of the Germans and that’s it; only rarely do any other powers appear, and paramilitaries are even rarer. Several years ago I once griped about how there are no video games where the Italian Fascists are the main antagonists.

The only recent WWII title that’s impressed me is The Light in the Darkness, which is unique because it tells the (Jewish) civilians’ side of the story. Unless there’s something that I overlooked, everything else looks pretty generic.