The Ideologies of Call of Duty

Call of Duty is a true story and isn't a true story, the game presents many ideologies it supports some and breaks away from others. One way that it is true is because the setting and story is real. Most of the missions that you play through could have actually happened. The reason that I say this is because some of the missions take place in Afghanistan and Iraq, places that we actually fought in. Furthermore the game takes place in the time period when we were fighting those wars. This conforms to some ideologies because our culture emphasizes the idea that all the fighting is in the middle east, and the game shows that to be true. But one way that it might seem false is that in some of the other missions are crazy and stupid. In one of the missions terrorists attack the capital and destroy it. This breaks away from dominant ideologies because it shows that america can be attacked on its home soil. Going back to why the story is true, according to Tim O’Brien at true war story should never end and I think this game expresses that because most of the games in the serious have a cliffhanger ending and don't give you everything. Another way that it breaks from dominant ideologies is because the games don’t necessarily have a happy ending. An example of this is that in the end of the game your best friend gets killed, and then they game ends and there isn't a resolution. Those are the reasons why Call of Duty is and isn't a true story.