Battlefield vs. Call of Duty

The war continues as new editions of each franchise hit store shelves this fall.

This article appears in: October 2011

There is a war being waged. I’m not talking about a real-life struggle in another country, or a virtual facsimile of said war projected from an oversized high-definition television screen. I’m talking about a war between two similar yet disparate factions that have only one thing in common: They love shooting the crap out of strangers online. Yes, the aggressors here belong to two camps, staring at one another from across a battlefield littered with broken controllers and shattered dreams; t