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Looks like a growing community of female multiplayer gamers will soon get to play as their own gender.
At the conclusion of a new trailer for this Novembers Call of Duty: Ghosts the clip features a previously unreleased song from Eminem a sniper levels a gas station. Cut to a close-up of the previously unseen soldiers face and, in a rarity for the Call of Duty franchise, the shooter is shown to be a woman.
Female characters have cropped up from time to time in the Call of Duty series, but never before in whats long been a boys-character-only club of online multiplayer. Its a second first when it comes to characters for Call of Duty: Ghosts Infinity Ward and Activision previously showed off a combat-ready canine created for the game.
When it comes to adding women to Call of Dutys multimillion-strong multiplayer modes, its something that weve gotten tons of requests for and its something weve wanted to do for a long time, said Eric Hirshberg, who oversees the Call of Duty franchise for Activision Publishing.
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/games/call-of-duty-ghosts-female-soldiers-join-online-multiplayer-ranks/
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Xithras
(16,191 posts)The CoD series has never given players any control at all over what your player looked like in the game. The player "type" was determined by the particular match you were playing, and you could end up being a terrorist, an FBI agent, a US SpecOps soldier, a Russian Spetznaz, or any one of a bunch of others. You didn't get to choose your team...the computer picked for you, and you either went with what it assigned, or quit the game. Once the computer picked a type, it randomly assigned a player avatar for you.
It sounds like the real story here is that CoD is finally adding player customization, which is long overdue.
WilmywoodNCparalegal
(2,654 posts)I play CoD multiplayer exclusively so it's nice to be 'represented' though I like to play incognito and secretly enjoy stomping on the young immature boys I play with.
Dash87
(3,220 posts)This one better not stink like the last few. They looked awesome, so I bought them, only to find that they weren't as good as expected.
I already know I'll cave and buy this, though. I shall name my soldier "Katie McDovahmudcrab."