Introduction: Black Messengers, Hairy Snipers, American Pilots, New Zealand Tough Guys, they all make up the protagonist group of COD Vanguard.
As players in the war zone blow up a train in droves like barbarians hunting primitive animals, the Call of Duty series (COD) 2021 New Year's "COD Vanguard" has finally officially unveiled. In this new work set in World War II, the single-player campaign mode has a total of four protagonists, corresponding to the Western Front battlefield of the Allied landing counterattack, the Eastern Front of the Soviet Union's resistance to Germany, the Pacific Theater of the United States and Japan, and the North African Theater with the participation of overseas corps.
After sacrificing a train, COD Vanguard released its first full promotional film
The rich materials brought by the complex environment of the battlefield to the game design, the eternal burning enthusiasm of military enthusiasts, and the players' interest in participating in the history of major wars together constitute the main reasons why COD chose the theme of World War II.
If the early COD is an interactive adaptation of World War II films such as "Saving Private Ryan" and "Brothers Company", "COD World of War" successfully attracted the attention of Chinese players with an expanded battlefield theme, and the "COD World War II" in 2018 is a "Renaissance", then "COD Pioneer" In order to create new ideas, but also to better serve the multiplayer mode that COD relies on throughout the series, the character settings of the four protagonists on the four fronts have laid the corresponding content. Let's start with the real-life archetypes of the four characters and see what kind of dishes COD Vanguard has for players (I'm not suggesting that you have a lot of dishes in multiplayer mode).
According to the current general environment of the international community, I am afraid that this scene will not appear as it is
In the past, the wind and rain were shared, and now there is no distinction between you and me
What is the spirit of an American manufacturer's World War II-themed game that places a black British soldier in the C position of the propaganda visual map? It's a spirit of partnership that takes care of the mood of close allies – especially given the partial damage to british feelings (and IQ) in the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and coddonats on the UK weekly sales charts for a while every time a new work is released (and then surpassed again by FIFA2X, Carriage 8DX and GTA5), what could be more noble than singing the praises of allies in its own work?
The character of British paratrooper Arthur Kingsley in COD Vanguard is based on Sidney Cornell, a Portsmouth (English city) boy whose father is African-American. In his history book " Storms and Rains: Britain, Slaves and the American Revolution " , the scholar Simon Sharma tells that during the American Revolution , the British colonists used their personal freedom as a bargaining chip to absorb African Americans from North America into the Ranks of the British Army against the American Revolutionaries in order to deal with the revolutionaries.
"COD Vanguard" uses a black character to take into account the affirmative action movements of both countries, and shows the history of the heroic resistance of allies.
Among the historical archetypes of the four characters, Cornell left the least historical material and even fewer photos, and it has to be said that the historians have a certain cultural "discrimination" from the beginning.
Of course, Cornell, who served as a messenger in Company B of the British Seventh Parachute Battalion in 1944, could not have imagined that he would be able to take on such a "mission" decades later. In the battlefield of World War II, his main task was to reconnoiter the enemy situation, and repeatedly shuttled through the artillery fire to deliver important battlefield information to large troops. The scene in the game where Allied paratroopers descend against the backdrop of war is supposed to be based on the battle of Cornell's paratrooper company on the night of June 5/6, 1944.
After landing, his company launched a surprise attack on a strategic enemy position in the theater of operations, and due to the damage of radio communication equipment, The Herald Kenel took on the job of a postman in the line of fire and completed the task well in case of injury. As the Allied counterattack advanced, Cornell was getting closer to the final victory, but on April 7, 1945, his company was in the process of capturing a bridge position when the enemy on the opposite side detonated a pre-set bomb, and Cornell was killed. But if you follow the magic change of the game's four protagonists meeting in the final battle, Cornell will have a chance to witness the dawn of victory.
Regarding the contributions of african blacks in World War II, various literary and artistic works have undergone a process from "ignoring" to "targeted performance", including the two-year "COD16", and the multiplayer mode has a choice of black special warfare roles. When the "Black Life Expensive" movement was in full swing (zero yuan rush) during that time, Activision also stopped updating the season and put the "BLM" slogan on the public screen of the player lobby, resulting in some black players being impatient because they could not play new content, and also went to the official protest "I am black, but I want to play the new season", but I don't know where the black player is now, and whether he has pre-ordered "COD Pioneer".
Military self-media traffic queen
From west to east, we next talk about the female character Polina Petrova who appeared on the eastern front of "COD Vanguard", which is based on the famous legendary Female Sniper of the Soviet Union, Lyudmila Mikhaillovna Pavlichenko, compared to the other three characters in this article in the Chinese world of obscurity (the Internet also needs to be looked for a little bit to find accurate historical prototype information), Pavlitchenko is just the relevant nickname obtained in Chinese context, which is enough to form a "sniper elite" company.
Born in 1916, Pavlitchenko was a studious from an early age and soon became a sharpshooter at a local shooting club in Kiev (Ukraine's largest city) – so the Lolita gunners in Maiden Front aren't exactly what Ayako imagined.
In 1937, Pavlitchenko defended his master's thesis at Kiev University. Four years later, when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Pavlitchenko signed up for the 25th Infantry Division of the Red Army, and the officer wanted her to serve as a field nurse, but Pavlitchenko sternly refused, and she became a member of the Female Sniper Corps of the Red Army.
Pavlitchenko in reality
After the war, Pavlitchenko, as a representative of war heroes, frequently appeared in the foreign affairs of the Soviet Union
From August 1941, when two enemy troops were killed with a Mosin-Nagan sniper rifle, by May 1942, Pavlitchenko attracted the attention of the Soviet top brass with his record of killing 257 enemy soldiers, and was widely publicized under the label of "sharpshooter".
Later, Pavlitchenko was forced to shell and injure in the battle, and the Soviet army, out of consideration for the safety of her ace soldiers, asked her to leave the front line of the battle after she recovered from her wounds, and Pavlitchenko's number of enemies killed in World War II was finally locked at 309, including 36 enemy snipers, which earned her the Gold Star Medal symbolizing the hero of the Soviet Union.
Compared with Carla, who is based on the American tactical female Internet celebrity in COD16, and the sister of the fictional Western spy organization of COD17, Pavlichenko, who has experienced a real test of blood and fire on the harsh battlefield, is definitely not a "relationship household" added by the development team with a politically correct mission.
On the eastern battlefield of the game, players will play as Pavlitchenko, and it is no surprise that there will be a series of classic "sniper levels", as for whether it is a Vasili-style sniper in the middle or a stealthy battle, it depends on how the development team designs the specific gameplay. In addition, in the multiplayer mode, Pavlitchenko's high popularity is believed to also drive a wave of paid character skin sales, with the soaring smell of the Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle, "one shot and one little brother" will definitely become a new target for players to improve themselves.
Did the devil burn?
In the Pacific theater that most players in our country are most concerned about, Wade Jackson, who is based on the ace pilot of World War II, Vernon Mike Michelle, became the lucky one who can most likely burn the devil with a flamethrower on his back - also an ally who shows muscles on the international stage today, and if you look at the comparison of American attitudes towards Britain and Japan, you can know who is a good brother and who is a pawn.
Originally a dairy farmer from Iowa, Michelle enrolled in flight school immediately after the outbreak of World War II, and after graduation became a pilot on the USS Enterprise, one of the main ships engaged in the Battle of Midway against the Japanese fleet.
In this crucial battle in the Pacific Theater, Michelle piloted his SBD-3 "Fearless" fighter and together with his teammates accurately hit the Japanese aircraft carrier Akamachi, a scene that was also specifically shown in the game trailer. However, in the actual war credit book, Michelle's teammate at the time, Best, who is also a legendary pilot, scored the key kill, probably because Michelle was concerned about hitting the plane with a pistol (a fictional scene that appeared in this trailer, which was jokingly called "Battlefield" by players), so it affected his output efficiency.
Vernon Mike Michelle
After the Battle of Midway, the U.S. military partially replaced the new model of the SB2C Beast fighter, but the fighter had some performance problems, and Michelle, as the squadron leader of a fighter-bomber group, corrected the technical shortcomings of the fighter to the greatest extent with his piloting skills, and achieved excellent results in the subsequent series of battles. The battle clips that take place on the island in the game's promotional film may be that Michelle is dragged down by mechanical failures, or is knocked down by the enemy, from air combat to a tragic ground battle, and the famous scene "Fire Devil", which first appeared in "COD World of Fire", may be personally demonstrated by Michelle this time.
As a pilot, Michelle's expertise may be difficult to use in the traditional multiplayer mode, but the air attack in the kill streak reward will most likely be handled by the US carrier-based aircraft in the Pacific Theater. However, in the war zone mode that officially announced the future of modern warfare, the Cold War, and World War II, if there is a war between contemporary gunships and World War II fighters, I don't know if the money I set aside for Battlefield 2042 can be used to eat a roast duck.
New Zealand tough guy on the Battlefield in North Africa
Finally, let's go to the North African battlefield and see a pure grandfather who fights against the German armored forces with explosives in his hand in the long yellow sands, Charles Apamu, a New Zealand soldier in the form of Lucas Riggs.
Apamu is probably the closest of the four archetypal characters in cod vanguard reference designs to Rambo, which is the closest to the early World War II FPS games.
In August 1940, Apamu entered the military training unit in New Zealand, graduated with the rank of second lieutenant, and after joining the army, was assigned to the North African theater to participate in local anti-fascist operations. In May 1941, during the airborne attack on Crete, Apam Rambo, who was suffering from stomach problems (presumably due to the harsh conditions of the troops and the lack of water and soil), awakened physically, not only insisted on fighting with wounds, but also as a grenadier, he destroyed four enemy machine guns with grenades, rescued a wounded man, and finally led a group of teammates trapped in enemy territory to get out of danger, which can be said to be full of attack and defense.
Game with real-life Apam
A few days later, he and another teammate successfully ambushed a German unit, killing several enemies and protecting the movement of his own rearguard unit. On 14 and 15 July 1942, Apam again led his troops in a fierce attack on German positions, during which he was hit by explosives and accidentally injured in the arm, and he and his company were captured and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
During his capture, Apamu did not give in, and made several attempts to escape from prison, all of which ended in failure, until the U.S. army liberated the location of the prisoner-of-war camp in 1945, and he was rescued. In real history, Apamu offered to join the U.S. military and continue to march closer to Berlin, but was refused. According to the setting of the game's four protagonists converging to run for the final victory, either there is no capture plot (after all, it is not "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence"), or the superiors agree to his request and take him with them to Berlin.
Judging from the picture given in the trailer, the empty desert field of the North African battlefield may become the main stage of the tank battle level, and this driving link, which has been talked about by players since the early works of COD, has always been an indispensable hard dish in World War II games. And Apamu's grenadier identity and real character archetype experience, but also let players stage a "single soldier to blow up the tank" or "use explosives to demolish enemy strongholds" drama, but do not know the "COD Cold War" has been useless explosives (in the premise of equipped with "anti-bomb" skills, you can even use the face to hard connect the RPG), can find the field in "COD Vanguard".
Conclusion: The last time was also the "COD World War II" developed by Sledgehammer, it experienced a change in word-of-mouth from low to high among players, and the later improvement benefited from the content update quality of the multiplayer battle part, while the early stage was lower, mainly because it wanted to present the new single-player campaign mode of the level design, which was really boring to play. This time from the story setting and promotional images of the four game characters, with the help of the next-generation IW engine, it should be intentional to return to the COD single-player campaign enduring war blockbuster deduction, so I personally still have a relatively optimistic attitude towards this game, thinking back to that year, my FPS game career began when my classmates installed a World War II gun game called Call of Duty on my newly bought computer...