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It's A Rare Day I Agree With Kotaku

…but hey, even a stopped watch is right twice a day.

Note to game developers: war is not TURBO XXXTREME NO RULES NO FEAR AWESOME. And previous Call of Duty titles (up to the magisterial Call of Duty 4, which is a fantastic epic both in its overt and less open messages) handled very well the respect required for making an entertainment product based on man’s bloodiest endeavor.

Whereas Activision has, with one demo movie, shown that they really, really do not get it.

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