If you read my previous game diary about War in the East, you might be all ready for me to start playing Eagle Day and RAF, pull a few history books off the shelf, find some random paragraphs that support whatever point I’m making at the time, and still manage to lose the game. You must think that– like the people I write about — I haven’t learned anything from the last war I fought.
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In the most blatant forward-looking videogame product placement (i.e. advertisement) since Aaron Eckhart fought aliens under a Resistance 3 billboard in Battle: Los Angeles, Breaking Bad went to bat for Bethesda this past weekend. The opening scene in the latest episode featured Jesse pretending to play Rage with some sort of fake gun peripheral that doesn’t have the courtesy to superimpose a reticle over the canned footage that passes for gameplay. Meanwhile, the character supposedly relates the gameplay to his own misdeeds involving a gun. Shooters, man. They take you to dark places.
Frankly, I prefer it Breaking Bad is shilling for the new Dodge Challenger.
