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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains plot details from the ending and epilogue in Call of Duty: WWII.
Maybe there are places that certain games should never really go.
I’ve been struggling to gather my thoughts on Call of Duty: WWII and its handling of the Holocaust since I completed the campaign last week. It’s a tough topic, and one that Call of Duty — for all its past trips to the World War II setting — has never tackled until this game.
Maybe that’s for the best.
Let’s be clear: Sledgehammer Games didn’t wholly fuck it up. The campaign mode has its own issues, but at least this is a World War II game that acknowledges the Holocaust as something that happened. Read more…
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