Why I can't review Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Opinion by Matt S. 

I cannot make myself play the recently-released Call of Duty: Modern Warfare any longer. And I cannot review it. It is a piece of jingoistic, military hero worship propaganda, and the way that it blatantly re-writes history in order to prop up an aggressively nationalistic perspective on the part of the Americans is unforgivable. This game is violently ideological, and it's really quite offensive that so many other media outlets have either overlooked or forgiven it for that because it's (apparently) fun.

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