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More recently, he had cocooned himself in front of electronic game consoles in the basement of their home, playing warfare games.
In most online games (the Modern Warfare games in the Call of Duty series are good examples), close teamwork is certainly rewarded but not quite required.
Both Modern Warfare games are set in a mythical near-future, but the weapons — Predator drones, AC-130 gunships, nukes — clearly conjure Afghanistan and Iraq, as do the games' good guys (Americans, British) and bad guys (terrorists).
In March 2010, Vince Zampella and Jason West, co-founders of Infinity Ward, the developer that makes the Modern Warfare games every two years – developer Treyarch takes up the Call of Duty reins in alternate years – left the firm, taking many staff with them.
The contemporary trappings of the soldiers and the high-octane feel of the scene immediately recall the CoD: Modern Warfare games, but a closer inspections reveals something else; the back and forth between the player's character and his AI pilot ally sounds strained and cracked – a million miles away from the professional zeal of CoD's soldiers.
Where Modern Warfare games feature only one route and storyline for the player, Borderlands allows players to follow dozens of paths through a general storyline.
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And in The London Review of Books last year, John Lanchester called the first Modern Warfare game, published in 2007, "more involving" than the Hollywood movies with which it might be compared.
Foam Fighters incorporates a small model airplane glider into a World War II air warfare game; Mysterious Raygun has the player assemble gun parts into a variety of weapons.
A photograph of a soldier with French forces in Mali who was wearing a skeleton scarf over his face generated reaction this week because of its similarity to a killer character called Ghost in Call of Duty, the online warfare game.
Unlike previous crowd-sourcing games sponsored by the navy and open to the public, such as one focusing on counter-piracy, the electromagnetic warfare game was limited only to those with a military or government email account.
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