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Cthulhu_ on Oct 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Writing for Half-Life

Funny you'd mention those two (CoD and GTA); CoD started out as an authentic (or, authentic-seeming) WW2 shooter, preceded by the Medal of Honor series that had the same 'genuine' feel to it. GTA started out as a comical top-down shooter and became more serious / realistic in a lot of ways. Well, until GTA Online came around anyway.

lfowles on Oct 4, 2016 [–]

>CoD started out as an authentic (or, authentic-seeming) WW2 shooter

I seem to recall the draw of CoD vs MoH was that you weren't one lone soldier vs the axis of evil. You actually had teammates! And scripted events!

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