Geeks battle Marines in Call Of Duty 5
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By Agence France-Presse
SAN FRANCISCO — Bespectacled teenager John Chitman and a couple of friends marked Veterans Day by wiping out an elite US Marine unit without so much as straining a thumb.
The battleground was an Eastern European front from World War II and the weapons were virtual machine guns, flame throwers, tanks and more wielded by on-screen soldiers in a new “Call of Duty: World at War” videogame.
“They weren’t so hard at all,” Chitman said as he stepped from a GameStop shop in downtown San Francisco that was decked out like an Army field base for the Tuesday launch of the latest installment in the hit COD franchise.
Videogame maker Activision teamed with retail chain GameStop to debut “World at War” by letting COD fans using XBox 360 consoles play the new release online against real soldiers.
“We totally waxed them,” Chitman’s 22-year-old teammate, Glen Robinson, said as one of San Francisco’s famed cable cars rattled past.
“It was awesome. We smoked them.”
