In what is becoming the worst kept secret in the history of the gaming world, yet another clue that Vietnam will be the location for at least part of the next Call of Duty game has sprung up. Before it was music requests and unfounded gossip that led us to this conclusion; now it's a casting call.
A recent casting call in LA has called for voice over/motion capture work for a Call of Duty game. The work was being done for a character named Frank Barnes who is part of an elite Vietnam military unit, the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group. This was a highly classified, elite group of men from varying military services who conducted covert operations during Vietnam. Barnes is described as, “a fiercely patriotic veteran of WW2… A solid leader, possessed with an excellent ability to assess and respond to any situation quickly and decisively.”
It also describes three other characters who may or may not be in the game. Joseph Lewis, a “very physically fit” black man in his 20s; Jason Hudson, a 30-something white male with “over 15 years of military experience, making him an excellent tactician and mission co-coordinator”; and Kristina Ivanova. a lady from Russia who knows martial arts and is “calm to the point of being cold and detached.” You forgot the nerdy Asian guy with a background in science and the forced to be there because of the draft hippie, Treyarch. I suppose you don't want to hit too many cliches all at once though.
You can see the full casting call over at VG247.
Rumour: Call of Duty casting call mentions “SOG in Vietnam,” details characters [VG247, Via TVGB]
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1:00 AM on 02.21.2010 | 
logically when I think about it, I think its okay.
but I have this nagging feeling it shouldn't be made.
What? Name another good vietnam games aside from battlefield vietnam.
Good? None, really. But between movies and games there have been quite a few Vietnam references. I'd say Vietnam games are probably equal to Middle East war games. I never said they were good, just that they exist.
Stay classy, Destructoid.
On the subject of the game, I don't expect much. Unless they go the MW2 route with sensory overload and crazy shit happening every second.
And I find that offensive.
Just stating my feelings.
Hell, this is what the photographer had to say
"The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths ... What the photograph didn't say was, 'What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?"
yes.
You should really replace the pic.
The man shot was presumed to be Vietcong not prooven. It was a murder in cold blood as example by the oppresive and desperate Southern Vietnamese army on the barely controlled South Vietnam.
In other words , it's called a war crime.
That's why people get upset.
I made a mistake the man shot was indeed a Vietcong officer.
sowwy.
I don't like the sound of it.
Unlike other wars, the agendas of each faction during the Vietnam War were very confusing. I think to make a game that justifies the war is very very hard.
I hope this stays as rumour.
I was trolled by dtoid.
Are you saying that a war has to have black and white morality in order to enjoy a video game?
On topic, Treyarch is developing this? That's...disappointing.
years old. Before any of you were born. If you ever needed a symbol of how fucked up the Vietbam War was that is a telling sign. Be offended if you want whether you're natively Vietnamese or some retard looking for "sauce". That picture was one of the first insights that Americans got on how war really is. Here we are some 35+ years on and this picture still has enough power to offend then good. Keep that in mind the next time people call for action because gas goes over $3 a gallon or that military action is always just. War is always fucked up.
Also I think that the header image is appropriate. If anyone thought No Russian was bad. Go read up on your Vietnam War history. The next COD game could have us killing kids or women as normal routine of Rey wanted to get historically accurate. Vietnam was not a Good Guys vs. Bad Guys war.
Hate the header. P
Interesting seeing people here have no problem blasting away Vietnamese, Germans, British, Americans - people, in a video game based on an actual event in history, yet, when reality hits them on the face like this all of a sudden it's "bad taste".
In this context it does the exact opposite of what it did as a successful war photograph. In this context it makes light of war and further desensitizes people.
the picture has become an icon of what the war was and is used as art and other things frequently but then again opinions/sensitivity varies
Figures that the most logical posts in this topic (@BluDesign; @OutlawStar) go largely ignored while the rest of you sheep bleet out "DURR DATS RACIST".
OT: There's no need for a new CoD so soon and there hasn't been a good Vietnam war game other than BF: Vietnam.