Alpha Team successfully infiltrates the Zordaya Prison Complex in “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.” The game’s costumes required extensive research and detail work, including scanning real-life clothing for digital modification by character artists. The work that goes into creating looks for “Call of Duty” — be it military operative, bad guy or civilian — requires mapping out looks much …
Hunting down your enemies on the bustling streets of Amsterdam, along the U.S.-Mexico border or in a Middle Eastern fishing village is just part of the intense action in the latest Call of Duty video game. The Friday release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 continues a nearly two-decade run for California-based Activision Blizzard’s wildly popular military shooting game …
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a strange animal. This sort of story-telling feels like something more at home in Call of Duty’s primary rival, Electronic Arts’ Battlefield series, particularly Battlefield 3. Unfortunately, like Battlefield 3, the campaign’s lack of impressive set pieces or interesting, inventive missions means that now that I’ve completed the game, I have no intention of …
Will the new Call of Duty prove to be the equivalent of a greatest hits album put out by a greedy, rights-retaining publisher to squeeze every last dime out of a dying property? This year’s Call of Duty will be taking us back to the contemporary superpower struggles, Middle Eastern flashpoints and terrorism-fuelled urban violence that are the trademarks of …
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