'Call of Duty: WWII' takes one step forward, many steps back in its handling of the Holocaust

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains plot details from the ending and epilogue in Call of Duty: WWII.

Maybe there are places that certain games should never really go.

I've been struggling to gather my thoughts on Call of Duty: WWII and its handling of the Holocaust since I completed the campaign last week. It's a tough topic, and one that Call of Duty — for all its past trips to the World War II setting — has never tackled until this game. 

Maybe that's for the best.

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Let's be clear: Sledgehammer Games didn't wholly fuck it up. The campaign mode has its own issues, but at least this is a World War II game that acknowledges the Holocaust as something that happened. Read more...

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