Women in the Next Call Of Duty

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Guns were always a given for the next Call of Duty. Women? We really did not expect them.

And yet when I saw the game in action last week, there they were. Women. Two of them in the press demo alone! Ye gods.
I went down to Call of Duty: Black Ops II developer Treyarch's studio in Santa Monica to take a gander at the latest entry in the massively popular, multi-billion-dollar shooter franchise. (A franchise which has historically featured about as many female characters as you'd find in your average men's room.)

The demo the press was shown involved a protracted, exuberant bit of megadestruction in the city of Los Angeles. As our controller-wielding demonstrator shot and grenaded his way through the city, he was regularly rescued by a female pilot named Anderson who flew a high-tech VTOL aircraft. Sure, she got injured at one point and the player-character had to take control of her plane. But so what? That didn't make her any less female.

Then again, plenty of military shooters, from Modern Warfare to Battlefield 3, have featured female pilots. But how about a female Head of State?

"We have to escort the President to safety!" shouted a soldier early in the demo. And with that, the gruff, burly dudes started escorting... a woman in a pantsuit through the warzone. Wait: you mean the President in this game is a woman too? Yup.
After that, the developers showed us a demo of their facial-capture tech. In addition to showing a motion-captured male actor portraying a soldier in the game, they showed us… yet another woman, speaking lines and emoting and everything. She started fighting back tears at one point. "Look at me. I said I wasn't going to do this," she said.

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I bet Women who play Call of Duty will more likely pick a women as a character/avatar, so other players know they are women.
 
Call of Duty hasn't been known for letting you pick your own characters.
 
Maybe. It's usually a set soldier, which for a military game, I don't mind.
 
Meh, not that bothered really but it will give woman gamers the chance to use a female character which i guess is a good thing.
 
All I got to say is it is about time :) Rainbow Six Vegas 2 did this and allowed an option of female characters which made me and many other women feel much more in a place, if this is true then that is awesome :grin:
 
I think it's a nice change, but to be honest I don't think Black Ops 2 is going to be that good. I'm not really a fan of the space theme.
 
Great news. Although I don't mind playing as male characters I do like having the opportunity to play as a female character. Afterall I'm female. It's actually surprising the amount of males I know of who actually prefer to play as females too. :blink: Not that theres anything wrong with it unless they just like staring at their character. :lmao:

I actually don't think there should be female characters in games if they are only eye candy or to be rescued. :ermm: Female president though, I an deal with that. :laugh: It's not that unusual in my lifetime my country has had two.
 
I don't think COD will change the rules and let you pick your charcter but it will be nice if they will assign it based on your gender. I haven't played in a while but I will play it again if this time my character will be a girl. I think this is a nice adition to the game, after all women can fight too.
 
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