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I'm sure that you'll mention it in the AC-130 video itself, but I think another thing that made that section memorable was its topicality. CoD4 was released around the same time that Wikileaks was starting to be a thing, and making big headlines with the infamous "collateral murder" video allegedly showing the killing of several journalists US forces believed to be carrying small arms and anti armor weapons from the perspective of an attack helicopter. There were also leaked in-flight videos taken from AC-130 craft operating in Iraq and Afghanistan, featuring the very same jocular, detached, "videogame-y" attitude we will see reproduced by the Modern Warfare gunners. To me, it's one of the key points where I can't tell whether the game thinks war is disturbing and alienating, or just really awesome and spectacular.
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I guess we'll see how the game looks in comparison when Lazyfire posts the next video. Military technology really is awesome, in the biblical sense of the world. It's horrifying and destructive and utterly captivating. In that video, we have people literally reigning down hellfire from the sky to smite their enemies. Hundreds of pounds of explosives are used to snuff out a dozen human lives through a little blurry TV screen. They don't sound too different from gamers on a teamspeak server. Then Call of Duty 4 comes along to complete the circle.
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