Good day internet. Rob is Agni here, senior editor at Waypoint flying solo for an article

read. My first one for Waypoint. Going to be reading a piece of criticism I did around

the college of duty World War II this week which a lot of people have been reading and chatting

with me online about but I know that not everyone listens to the podcast always makes

it over to the site and catches everything we write so we thought we'd throw this

one into the podcast feed and I sure do hope you enjoy it. The name of the article is

watching history fade away in Call of Duty World War II and here we go.

Remember that we knew them. The people who survived the Second World War were grandparents

or great grandparents who we saw slip in the old age and whose occasional stories gave

us very small personal glimpses of one of the most important and terrible events in history.

Many of them eventually heard themselves called heroes but the term never sat easily on

people like my grandparents. They were ordinary people caught up in a massive global

conflagration and who very much wanted to come out the other side of it with their friends

and family. Most of them dead, many did not and slowly in ever greater numbers they passed

on. Call of Duty World War II exists at the ragged end of a long chain of mediated history

and fading memory. It is a pastiche of other games that in turn were more directly

recreating other movies and shows which had themselves been informed by the gauzy greatest

generation of historiography of the 1990s. Call of Duty World War II isn't quite a

World War II game about World War II games but it reflects the obsessions and ticks of

its medium. In its telling Europe was liberated by squads of melodramatic heroic archetypes

on high stakes achievement hunt. Here you will find hardly a trace of the actual human beings

whose experiences have been commodified over the last quarter century. Call of Duty World

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