Verdansk International Airport is located in front of the glass, so passengers can look at the runway while waiting for the boarding gate. However, so far, most of these windows have been blown up. The terminal greets the world with a broken-toothed smile from an ice addict.
Inside, a special operator in the skull mask kicked the body back to identify the uniform. "Price, Verdansk has a problem," Ghost said in his broadcast. "Their goal is their own. We need to find out why."
One month after Warzone was accidentally launched, no one could find the answer. In addition, the Ghost report also raised some other mysteries: who are they? Why is SAS involved? Where is Verdunsk?
Up to now, the royale battle type has been abstracted to some extent. Fortnite's map collided with colors and characters, leading to rational instinctive errors. Its evolution story is not as much as the astrologer tells. At the same time, Apex Legends attracted people ’s attention, shifting from its premise to the cast, and teasing the soap opera relationship between heroes.
However, Call of Duty is forced to operate within the parameters of the real world. Although the plot line is often plausible, modern war games have raised serious geopolitical expectations in places that people recognize. When the series is pushed too far, fans will retreat-just like the reveal trailer for the space drama "Infinite Warfare", this has become the most unpopular game video on YouTube.
Therefore, Infinity Ward is obligated to promote the idea of 150 people falling from the same plane and turning around each other. This is a reasonable military prospect. Obviously, this idea does not fully meet the strict requirements of intellectuals, but this attempt has told us many developers about the "war zone".
Like many battlefields in Call of Duty, Verdansk is not officially located in any real country. But its name and most buildings mark Eastern Europe, and it has long been a playground for military shooters.
Since Tom Clancy first launched Operation Ghost, developers have used the tension between Russia and the rest of Europe as a springboard to imagine credible conflicts. Through persistence only, they can do it at some point: "Ghost Operation: Shadow War" derived from 3DS actually heralds the annexation of Crimea. For chemical oxygen demand, Vladimir Putin ’s habit of refusing to conduct Russian military operations on foreign territories has helped to make the idea of this battle go beyond the headlines, as did Captain Price 'S role thrives here.
Verdansk is a new field of "modern warfare" because it will not only display postcard pictures of the country within 15 minutes, players can move from one end to the other, which is at least a vast development until the gas disappears until.
The connected space proposed by Infinity Ward is a tempting fragment of the past. According to the legend of modern warfare, it belongs to the fictional Kastoria region. Price's comrade Nikolay said: "East and West, Verdansk was rebuilt after the Cold War." The tall Khrushchevka apartment building hinted at the Soviet predecessor. The shiny panel decoration of the police station is reminiscent of East Berlin, especially the office of Stasi, who secretly monitored and manipulated the public for 40 years.
There were levels in the previous Call of Duty game, which further confuses geographic location. In fact, the inside of Verdansk TV station attacked the same players as in the original "Modern Warfare" in order to chase Khaled Al-Asad, the leader of Saudi Arabia's terrorists. Suddenly realized that this Middle Eastern city building transferred to the European countryside is a strange form of déjàvu.
You may have noticed some striking monuments, distributed throughout the map, and even landed on one of them: the imposed concrete structure bends into a strange spiral shape. These are spomeniks, war memorials that can be found throughout the former Yugoslavia; Ewan Wilson has written beautiful articles for Eurogamer. They tended to mark the location of the Second World War. Once Yugoslavia broke into an independent country and triggered a series of bloody wars, they were full of powerful and complex emotions. In Verdansk, you can see the tent of the fictional world humanitarian project, which is the echo of the UN peacekeeping measures in the Balkans.
All in all, these environments do not tell the story of a particular location, but all parts of the world ’s COD regard fair competition as a battlefield. The modern war movement's attack on Piccadilly Circus was seen as a shock, which is a reminder of revenge against the Western democratic enemy. In contrast, the structure of Verdansk looks like a place where machine guns will not appear. Although the country represented on its map tried to get rid of its unstable history, Battlefield Reproduced it and invented endless reasons to eliminate the horrors of the past.
Whenever you get off, it is always in the afternoon on the 96th day of the armistice. A truce is of course a ceasefire. This is an ironic name because this Earthhog conflict will only end in any distant year when Activision decides to shut down its server. At the same time, "Battlefield" made these countries futureless, and they were destined to face the crisis again and again.
