Episode 66 - Eating Nachos and Ending Lives - Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Room temperature? Please. A podcast should be ICE COLD. Welcome
back to the podcast this week, where we're getting boots on the
ground in what is arguably the most popular video game franchise of
all time. The fourth CoD is the entry that really elevated the
series within popular culture, and for good reason. This game took
a step away from the setting and tone of previous games as well as
most games within its subgenre of shooters to deliver something
that was—dare I say it about a Call of Duty game—original. We're
going to talk about the mechanical and tonal successes of the game,
the ubiquity of certain controls and mechanical interactions
present in shooters and the staleness this can cause, and both
surprising and unsurprising political implications made by the
game. So you know, don't play this episode at the dinner table
around your weird uncle. Thanks for joining us this week and thank
you for bearing with us through a less than regular release
schedule.  Due to numerous real-life-related events, our
availability to record and release episodes is more sporadic than
it has been in the past and we apologize for that. We should have
an update on that soon, but until then, the next time you hear us
we'll be talking about The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D!