Upcoming game Bulletstorm takes a decidedly sardonic view of the First Person Shooter genre, and seems determined to drag said games, kicking and screaming, back from the ultra-serious, grim, often ‘historical’ settings and tropes they’re situated in today.

So as part of their advertising push they released a savagely hilarious and completely merciless parody of the Call of Duty FPS series. The only way they could have made this better would be to pillory them for abandoning their premise wholeheartedly when the Anti-Zombie game craze came along.. but you can’t always get what you want, as they say.

Still, seeing Call of Duty taken down a peg? Priceless:

Look away, Call of Duty fans. Bulletstorm’s Duty Calls parody game viciously sums up the Call of Duty experience in one painfully funny four-minute experience complete with boring briefings, bloody screens, and the obligatory slow-motion shoot-out. Watch us play it.

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Duty Calls, on the other hand, feels like a direct attack against one of gaming’s most successful shooter series. I’m not saying it isn’t hilarious and to some extent spot-on. It’s just all a bit mean-spirited.

Pfft. A parody video is mean-spirited, but selling millions of copies of violent Anti-Zombie videogaming isn’t?

At any rate, check out ‘Duty Calls’ for yourself:

Tags: Videogames, Youtube Mischief

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