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Call of Duty has never been afraid of
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controversy especially in their
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campaigns one thing that comes to mind
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right away is no Russian from the
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original Modern Warfare 2 it was
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controversial because well you were
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doing some controversial things in that
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mission however Black Ops 6 has been
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weird for this because when I put out my
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review for the game as a whole for the
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whole Campaign which will be linked down
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in the description and after the video
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if you want to check that out but when I
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put that out there was one piece of
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feedback that I received on that video
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that I did not expect you see in the
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campaign there's this Miss called
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emergence and it is this trippy
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mindbending mission that is probably
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narrative wise the most important for
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the story out of any other mission in
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the game I thought this was a pretty
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decent Mission however with there being
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zombies in this Mission and if you
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didn't play the campaign no you didn't
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hear me wrong there are zombies in this
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Mission this Mission started to trct a
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lot of hate and I wanted to take a look
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a deeper look at this Mission and
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discuss why and I don't think the answer
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is what you are actually thinking so in
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this video what I'm going to do is dive
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through this specific Mission and if you
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want to see me maybe do this more in the
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future looking at other specific
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missions and diving into why they're
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great why they're horrible or other
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things altogether show me by hitting
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that like button on this video and maybe
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we'll continue doing maybe a little
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series like this but for this video
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let's go ahead and answer the question
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why is emergence in Black Ops 6 so oddly
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hated s how's it going on your side
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still looking for a way in the north
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door's are totally sealed you case and I
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are in South Gate utility entrance looks
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like someone's been through here
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recently who's the freight elevator
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chains broken all right M so the mission
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starts out with us in the Advanced
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Technologies and applications division
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inside a facility in Kentucky as we go
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in case tries to go alongside Marshall
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when the elevator below him breaks he
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falls his gas mask breaks and he starts
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to breathe in a mysterious gas we
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eventually find out that this gas is
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known as cradle which is one of the main
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parts of Black Ops 6 and also this
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Mission now I want to be clear this is
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probably the most important mission to
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the story of Black Ops 6 there is a lot
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that is revealed in this mission number
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one we find out that case the character
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who we play as in the game aka William
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Calderon is actually named case because
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he was case
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one it's for you
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it's fantastic to see you again case one
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how have you been feeling a friendly
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reminder that most of the facility is
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off limits to
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patients I hope you
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understand welcome back
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case through this Mission we end up
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finding out that case one or case was a
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volunteer for this project known as
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cradle cradle we find out was basically
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a serum something that could be inhaled
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which was meant to create super soldiers
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and case volunteered to be one of these
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super soldiers only a few know the
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origins of the pantheon case they were a
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CIA Branch unknown to even the other
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Black Ops
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divisions they developed the
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Cradle a new generation of operatives
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would be born of it now after they
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started to test this out they realized
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that there were some massive side
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effects to the cradle and in so they
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decided to no longer work on this
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project but Pantheon separated outside
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of the CIA and decided to pursue this
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not for super soldiers but rather as a
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biological
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weapon they tried so hard to perfect the
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cral case but the side effects couldn't
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be
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stopped as we know we were the first and
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last trial
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volunteer so it makers repurposed it
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into a biological vcum
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instead and this is where people start
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to not like the mission because as it
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turns out the cradle that is running
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through case's veins and the cradle that
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he is breathing in in this Mission makes
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you really trip out and turn into a
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really evil human being and that's when
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things start to go wild the Cradle
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project fail this case we were out of
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control violent deniable and in our rage
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we set Touch This facility contaminated
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with the same poison that runs in our
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veins
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remember zombies there are zombies in
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this Mission so the biggest complaint
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that I've seen about this mission is
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that there is zombies in it and I'm
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going to address that in a minute but I
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think there's a couple of other reasons
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as well first of all this Mission does
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not feel like a Call of Duty Mission
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whatsoever if we compare this campaign
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to something like a Modern Warfare game
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Modern Warfare is very set in milit
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istic combat whereas Black Ops is kind
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of like this more spy Thriller
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mindbending it is a very different thing
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and personally I prefer the Black Ops
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style story where you really have to
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think about what is going on it's not
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just militarized combat now you can like
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what you like but to me this Mission as
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a whole emergence doesn't really feel
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like a Call of Duty game whatsoever when
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I first played it I compared it to
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Bioshock I've heard other people say
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atomic heart other games along those
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kind of styles and honestly it really
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does feel like that and I think that's
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okay because some of the most memorable
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missions throughout Call of Duty are not
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the ones that feel like Call of Duty
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even going back all the way to all
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ghillied up at the time that didn't feel
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like a Call of Duty Mission and seeing
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future games it felt more like a Sniper
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Elite Mission or some sort of more
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stealthy combat game didn't feel like
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Call of Duty the Michael Bay games that
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they have created whatsoever or moving
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forward to Black Ops Cold War the KGB
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Mission didn't feel like a Call of Duty
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Mission whatsoever most the time you
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found out you were sneaking around or
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talking to other people or talking your
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way out of getting into combat which
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some of those missions are my favorite
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missions of all time and emergence falls
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under that umbrella for me I loved this
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Mission when I see people talk about
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this Mission I see one of two things
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people either loved it or people
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absolutely hated it and as I mentioned
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maybe it's because it didn't feel like
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Call of Duty but the biggest thing I've
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seen people say is to keep zombies out
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of the campaign and I understand that it
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actually makes a lot of sense but as a
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whole I don't necessarily think it's the
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zombies that are the issue I think more
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than anything number one it is the
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reused assets as we go through the four
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different sectors of this Mission we end
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up getting into boss fights with various
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different special zombies we get into
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boss fights with manglers with mimics
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with Abominations old zombies that we
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have seen many many times before
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throughout Modern Warfare Zombies Black
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Ops zombies and Black Ops Cold War these
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are reused assets and now they are in
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the campaign and having to have fought
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these things thousands of times before
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if you were camo grinding you're
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probably very very sick of them at this
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point so to just see them reused almost
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felt a little bit lazy and quite
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honestly I think what would have worked
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a lot better for this mission is not
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shooting zombies they should have kept
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the mannequins as the main bad guy and
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the reason reason why I say that we
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already know that case was tripping out
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that's the point of this it's showing
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off what happens with cradle and the
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mannequins were already here in this
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area it was the first thing that we saw
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as we worked our way throughout this
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Mission so if you were going through
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this and instead of zombies being here
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they were all mannequins this would make
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a lot more sense and wouldn't feel like
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you were being put into a zombies game
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and then for the boss fights I don't
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think you should have been fighting an
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Abomination or anything along those
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lines I think you should have been
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fighting
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the other main characters in the game so
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for one of the boss fights you could
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have been fighting Adler for another one
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herrow for another one Frank Woods and
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we've even seen this in several parts as
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some of the zombies actually turn in to
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some of these characters it would make a
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lot more sense narratively as we could
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see the good side and bad side of case
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which is brought out by Cradle be
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brought forward and the whole idea of
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the campaign where you can't trust your
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allies be more of a motif instead of
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just zombies be added in for no apparent
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reason so yeah I get why the zombies
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thing becomes a problem there is another
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mission where zombies are brought in as
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well it's called separation anxiety and
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this is the one where you play as Jane
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Harrow the main bad guy or antagonist
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throughout the campaign and when you do
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zombies are once again brought in
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however this time we are not fighting
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against zombie bosses they are used as
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almost a horr element this mission is
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straight up pretty scary sometimes
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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and when they do this they are not
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making it so that you are fighting
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against zombies they are very clearly
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showing you that you are fighting
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against your subconscious and against
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evil Jane herrow pushing that element
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forward whereas when we go into
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emergence and are playing as case the
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reason why zombies are there doesn't
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really make any sense whereas Jane
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Harrow they are there because she is
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scared it is showing her as a child and
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having to deal with these scary things
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that are going on in her life and that
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is presenting as zombies it's almost a
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metaphor if you will whereas case
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they're just kind of there to give you
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something to fight and I truly believe
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those would have been mannequins instead
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of zombies and the bosses would have
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been different this would have gone down
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as the best mission in any Call of Duty
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game but it fell short because of reused
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assets players who want to play zombies
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just wanting to be in zombies and it
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being so so unrealistic because they're
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zombies people just didn't want that to
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make any sense because keep in mind the
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case Mission isn't just in his head he
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is in that facility and he is kind of
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battling against something but because
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they're zombies I think it took away
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from that overall motif of what the
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Cradle is what it does and take away
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from the whole militarized style of Call
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of Duty I think there was a better way
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to do this and yeah I still love this
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Mission and I think this mission comes
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down to one thing either you loved it or
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you hate it and personally I like to see
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Call of Duty campaigns go further and
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further away from that militarized
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combat where every Mission you are just
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in another battle in another area of the
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world and it just to me gets a little
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boring to this it adds more characters
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it adds more story and yeah sometimes it
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gets a little controversial but to me I
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love this Mission but I want to hear
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what you guys think about this Mission
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were you pissed that zombies were in it
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did you care did you like it did you not
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let me know what you think down in the
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comments and if you want me to Deep dive
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into more Call of Duty missions maybe
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something along the lines of all gilled
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up or no Russian or some other missions
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from Call of Duty games like cleanhouse
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let me know by hitting that like button
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subscribing turning notifications on and
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as always appreciate you guys coming to
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check out the video and until next time
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peace but we're making this you hard and
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I wonder where you are
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M that's the part you always show
