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241: COD MW III Review, Blockchain Gaming Opportunities
Good morning kings.
If yall missed any of last weeks posts I will plug it below.
Todays post is all about gaming opportunities within the crypto space. That being said I will also be providing my abridged review of the new Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 — for those interested or on the fence for buying it and talk more broadly about the gaming market.
We’ll be covering the following today:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare III Review
Blockchain Gaming Opportunities
Specific Assets/Gaming Tokens to watch for 2024/2025
Future of Gaming Industry
As background - I have been a call of duty player since I was able to click a mouse. I fondly remember the first Call of Duty commercial to this day - featuring dive bombing German Stuka dive bombers on the Volga River in Stalingrad and paratroopers jumping into France in the early morning before June 6th 1944.
I’ve dabbled in other video and Pc games before like Warcraft, Age of Empires, Battlefield and Halo but call of duty has always been my go to first person shooter. Side note - Battlefield 1 (WWI setting) was one of the coolest and most immersive games I’ve ever played.
Over the years call of duty has changed in some ways good and in some bad. Titles like the original Modern Warfare and Black Ops stand out in the series as crowd favorites. Others like Cold War or Advanced warfare not so much. I am a call of duty purist - I loved the WWII titles, the launch of modern kit, guns, and storylines in Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare, and the campaign in Black Ops in the jungles of Vietnam and parts of Russia. World at War will always be a fond memory of mine.
The game was an absolute work of art from the soundtrack to the gore, to the gritty hopeless ambience it gave you with in depth missions in some of the darkest theaters of the war. I
I’m a big fan of the recent MW series (the last three including this one) and enjoy the modern warfare aesthetic — that is modern weaponry, gear, factions, etc. When WarZone first dropped during Covid, it was an unbelievable time.
You can see me doming some noob off the train in the original Warzone map Verdansk below:
Great times.
I like realistic tactics, gear, uniforms, and story lines in my COD games. Nowadays it’s apparent more is being done in the series to appease Gen Z and Zoomers with ridiculous in game stores offering laser guns, operator skins that look like they came from Helms Deep, and anime celebrations for multiplayer. It’s not rare you see Nicki Minaj or 21 Savage running around in a COD online game.
It’s disappointing and obviously tailored towards the new game model that drives revenue through in game purchases and cosmetic modification. I’d even settle for tow in game modes where you have traditional kit and appearances and then some high functioning autistic lobby for the weirdos and kids who want to buy space lasers and anime skins.
Gaming has changed quite a bit since the days of Runescape, Halo, and Super Smash Brothers. With the growth and expansion of the crypto industry and new pay to play models there’s going to be an opportunity to benefit tremendously from the industries growth in the next 5-6 years.
Gaming is a highly accessible and somewhat addicting market for millions and millions of people around the world. Alongside new narratives like Oracles. Defi, and Yield Farming, I expect gaming to offer many opportunities for sizable financial reward if you can pick the right horses in the coming years.
We’ll walk through those tokens and projects in today’s post but first……
Should you pull trigger and get the new Modern Warfare?