Call of Duty has released new skins inspired by the hit show Squid Game, and they're proving to be very popular. The author believes the skins' success lies in their integration into the game's universe, despite acknowledging the collaboration misses the show's core message about capitalism.
I've just finished the second season of Squid Game, but it looks like I won't have to wait for season three for my next fix of twisted gameshows and gunmen in pink suits. Players are competing in red-light green-light, ddakji replacing dog tags in kill confirmed, and tons of Squid Game-inspired operator skins, like the contestant's jumpsuits, pink soldier uniforms, the black-masked game master, and a few patrons with their golden animal masks.
There was a skin last year that put Price in a gaudy vault dweller suit, which really didn't fit the look of Call of Duty and looked pretty silly to me. Then there's the swell of complaints about gaudy skins since Black Ops 6's release, which has even seen these new Squid Games skins because they actually look stylish. I like all of them, but my favourite has to be the pink soldier skin. The masks and suit look at-home—it'd actually be something I'd like to wear while going about my business in multiplayer lobbies. I think the secret to this success is that these new skins actually make sense in Call of Duty's universe. I'm not saying that I could see Squid Game playing out in a campaign, but the people involved, the pink soldiers and the patrons in suits with gold masks, all seem like antagonists that I could feasibly come up against in a campaign while infiltrating some secret casino for the super-rich. However, I do want to note that my only disappointment about this collaboration is that, like every other bit of media and merchandise to come out of this series, it completely misses the point of the show. Squid Game is, ultimately, a show about the terrors of capitalism. A system of commercialism so bleak that contestants would rather risk death at the hands of pink-suited captors on live television than go back to the doldrums of their old lives. A point that has gone over the head of any franchising efforts, hucking its imagery into a modern military shooter because it, uh, looks cool
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