10 Ambitious Video Games With Immensely Disappointing Stories
2. Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Creating a story for this game presumably took two and a half years. That's really impressive, considering that one of the previous entries in the series, Modern Warfare 2, basically copied Michael Bay's The Rock and got away with it. Here the hype was pretty big, but that's what you can expected when hiring Kevin Spacey to play the game's antagonist.
The deeper level of the game is based on the opposition between masculinity and technological advancement. Jack Mitchell is a soldier wounded during battle.
Thanks to the newest technology he's able to continue fighting. He's experiencing some malfunctions of his equipment, which is supposed to stand as proof that the best tool the soldier has is in his head. This is quite promising and leaves some space for the exploration of said opposition, right?
However, he's fighting using the newest technology against a company which produces the newest technology. He even literally cuts off his ties with enhancement by cutting away his bionic arm. But.. how then will he be able to remain an active soldier? He gets rid of the one thing that allowed him to remain in battle, but... is still able to fight?
Those are just the contradictions in the main story, which was unfortunately as predictable and cliche-ridden as any other Call of Duty game.