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Podcast: Retro Spectives
Episode: Episode 21 - Call of Duty
Description: Back in the early 2000s, World War 2 shooters were in vogue. The broader gaming audience had moved on from the more abstract settings of Quake or Doom, and were demanding real world locations, guns and lethality. Call of Duty wasn’t the first, nor the last of these - but at the time of release it was praised for its bombastic, cinematic action-thriller feel. Before Half Life 2 or Far Cry, Call of Duty was the king of PC FPS shooters.But how well does it hold up, all these years later? With a staggering 15 entries alone in the C...