It understood the crashing cymbals as well as it understood the quietest flutes. The PCs Call of Duty was an astonishing first-person shooter, built with an orchestral majesty. Which, in many ways, reflects the games it was intended to promote. Somehow, it was respectful, educational, and affecting. Its not quite clear how, but somehow this wasnt the case. It could have been a nasty, distasteful PR stunt, pissing on the history of where we were, and what the games were recalling. But this was how we were introduced to Call of Duty: Big Red One. Being ambushed by German officers in the middle of the woods, while on the way to visit Hitlers Camp Wolf on the back of a WWII jeep, is even stranger. Being in the middle of Poland, hundreds of miles from the nearest town, having reached where we are by an hours violent shaking in a twelve-seater bi-plane, is a peculiar way to see a game.
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