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Originally Posted by helbent4
Call of Duty: Black Ops is actually set during the Cold War. It's certainly not a Cold War going hot, but it's success is proof positive that this time period and the conflicts that arose from it can and does bear enormous fruit in terms of commerce. In simple terms, someone is making quite a buck off the Cold War.
Granted, you can very easily argue Black Ops is not T2K (the difference being several decades, a hot war and an established computer game franchise) and there is no way to piggy-back off that success in terms of gamer cross-over. That isn't my point. Professional game designers may never want to revisit T2K's Cold-War based background. Still, maybe someone should because all kinds of people really do seem to like it or at least aren't turned off by it.
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I'd also be willing to wager that most purchasers are like my two teenage sons...skipping the story to get to the shooting or bypassing it altogether with the multiplayer, online combat.
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