For the end of the year 2021, we have decided to be a little more light in order to give you a little smile. This year has indeed been complicated once again, and the problems encountered by Activision Blizzard did not help. However, we were entitled to our Call of Duty annual (was it really necessary? This is another story …) as well as to the new Battle Royale map Call of Duty: Warzone Pacific.
It is therefore a nice opportunity to come back to some funny or unusual facts that surround this enormous license that has reigned for years now in our video game landscape.
Meet Tactical Gramma in Warzone
Sometimes in the evening, when our editor can’t sleep, she has fun watching a few videos on Hell’s famous social network, TikTok. If the latter mainly offers you the nothingness of the internet, there are sometimes a few small pearls, and it is on this platform thatshe met a Warzone player unlike any other.
Michelle Statham whose real name is, she calls herself Tactical Gramma. This woman is of a fairly advanced age, hence her name, but her skill is undeniable. She mainly plays sniper, and very rarely misses her target. On the various social networks, we can get a glimpse of her most beautiful shouts, and she still makes you dream enough. Our French player Chowh1 had better watch out !
He returns to prison for buying … Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War!
It seems that nothing is holding back players from Call of Duty ! Wants proof this seasoned prisoner who did not hesitate to escape from prison to acquire Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War which was then fresh out.
If that sounds completely stupid, Clint butler, 36, was serving a 17-year sentence for several crimes committed, mainly thefts and firearms offenses. If his sentence was to end in 2024, he could not wait for the end and indeed decided to escape from his prison located in Buckinghamshire on November 28, 2020.
It was not until January 13, 2021 that two policemen then saw him in the city center of the city, our fugitive being accompanied by a friend. While the country was in a period of confinement, the two men tried to escape, but to no avail, and when the police asked them what they were doing outside, Clint replied that he was out buying Call of Duty: Black Ops Col War.…
After an attempted assault and a badly placed kick, our inmate returned to prison and obviously increased his sentence by an additional 13 months for escape, then six more months for assault on an agent. GG!
Call of Duty used for propaganda in North Korea
Let’s go back in time a little more, and more precisely in 2013. That year, The Call of Duty franchise had to deal with a rather astonishing event: the use of images from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 for propaganda in North Korea !
As we know, this country is not known to be the friendliest in the world, and it was that year that the country decided in a “campaign” video to feature footage from the game. ‘a scene of a nuclear missile takeoff which then goes around the planet to subsequently destroy New York City, and all on the song We Are the World. Funny atmosphere.
If at first glance this could make you smile, it is all the same quite worrying when we know the different tensions that there are between these two countries. More recently, during Donald Trump’s tenure, Kim Jong-un threatened more than once to want to attack the United States with nuclear missiles …
Alone against all, they help him with his challenges in Vanguard
This story is particularly balm to the heart when we know that it is very difficult today in the Call of Duty community to get help. Recently in Call of Duty: Vanguard published last November 5, a player unfortunately found himself alone against an entire team on the small Das Haus map. His teammates were indeed raging, but the latter stayed and seemed to have challenges to do with his small shield.
To his surprise, opposing players let themselves be killed multiple times so he could complete his shield challenges, and just for that, we were teary-eyed. This video was shared on social networks by our colleagues from Dexerto. GG to the players for the gesture! Personally, I have never come across such players, and when I wanted to discover the new map of Warzone (for example) with my friends, I had no respite and I was shot at every opportunity. ..
We hope that these few anecdotes will have given you a smile for the end of the year 2021, and if you are aware of some unusual facts about Call of Duty or around the license, do not hesitate to share them with us!