Tag Archives: Call of Duty: Black Ops

The 8 weirdest flashback sequences in video games

So this one time… The flashback is a fairly standard narrative construct. In fact, it’s so frequently used that it’s become a rather dull cliche. Some games get around this by simply making the content of their flashback sequences flat-out brilliant, masking the hackneyed nature of the technique by filling …

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CoD: Black Ops 2D is a free time machine to the 90s

It’s a basic truth of progress that the more videogames change, the more the formula of “shouting manly-men wearing khaki and blowing the shit out of each other” stays the same. Thus it is that a fully-playable 2D demake of Call of Duty: Black Ops turns the big budget shooter …

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