![]() With recent iterations of Black Ops taking the timeline decades forward to the near future, the developers at Treyarch and Raven Software decided that it was high time players got to revisit a more familiar, yet frightening, time in the 1980s, when the Cold War was at the beginning of its dramatic third act. And with the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War coming out this week, it’s more of the same, but with the conflict between the USA and the USSR coming front and centre this time. That’s the kind of situation the Call of Duty: Black Ops games have given us over the past decade: dark, gritty, and at times over-the-top stories set in the backdrop of the Cold War. In the eyes of today’s creative, however, whatever happened during that somewhat hazy period of modern history is rife for some quality (and maybe even complete bonkers) storytelling. ![]() It also somehow happens to be a constant source of intrigue for fictional works, simply due to the fact that a lot of it happened behind closed doors, and hence paranoia and rumour-mongering among the masses and the media ran amok. The Cold War was a major turning point for the world, especially for the lives of those who lived through it. ![]()
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