![]() When it’s all over bar the screaming – and the chilling, mechanical tick-tick-ticking of the weapon’s targeting system – Walker and his crew head down through the aftermath. The scene is reminiscent of Sarah Connor’s dream of nuclear war in Terminator 2 ![]() As the player sees Walker’s face, cast in darkness in the glare of the terminal, you open fire. The targets look legitimate, even if the weapons you’re using are not: as well as infantry, the place is loaded with arms and vehicles. As in Call of Duty 4’s Death From Above, you use an thermal imaging camera to detect your foe, before raining munitions down on them. This is now.Īrming the weapon in spite of his team’s pleading not to, Walker uses its targeting system to identify the enemy – his former brothers in arms. Walker and his team have already decried its use in Dubai’s streets in the lead up to the discovery of the cannon, but that was then. The wounds it inflicts are horrendous, leaving little but horribly charred corpses. Stumbling across a makeshift enemy encampment overlooked by artillery, Walker and his squad discover that the weapon uses white phosphorus, a deeply controversial incendiary substance which was used by US forces in the Iraq War to drive enemies out of cover. Acting on incomplete (and as such unreliable) intelligence, Walker finds his own WMD, and then uses it. In the game’s most infamous sequence, Walker makes the call that the 33rd has betrayed the US, and as he’s giving the orders now, they are fair game to be eliminated by any means necessary. They commit atrocities against the city’s inhabitants and, eventually, themselves.īut then, so do you. The CIA’s involvement makes the situation worse still, as usual, and both the Company and the 33rd’s attempts at running their usual COIN (counter-insurgency) playbook (opens in new tab) – favored in the real-world Iraq and Afghanistan Wars by US generals – ends in predictable disaster, creating more enemies than they can kill and leading to brutal civil war. Konrad led them to Dubai after their previous tour in Afghanistan ended, after which point an exhausted fighting force were presumably overwhelmed by not only the elements but their own failings, ethically and operationally. ![]() The 33rd, Walker insists, has gone ‘rogue’. Not that anyone can ascertain exactly why they’re really fighting. ![]()
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