{"id":9911,"date":"2011-02-07T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ea-s-parody-spoof-duty-calls-hits-1-25-million-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9911-ea-s-parody-spoof-duty-calls-hits-1-25-million-downloads","title":{"rendered":"EA\u2019s parody spoof \u201cDuty Calls\u201d hits 1.25 million downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we reported on EA&rsquo;s blatant Call of Duty spoof, Duty Calls, a free ten minute long FPS created with the purpose of poking fun at the Call of Duty franchise, and advertising their upcoming Bulletstorm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duty Calls feature list<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&bull; Duty Vision slows down the action so you can unload a storm of bullets<br \/>&bull; Immersive dialogue from the front lines<br \/>&bull; Cold, calculated realism<br \/>&bull; Killing animations motion captured from real actors<br \/>&bull; True-life reloading system allows for mistakes in putting the cartridge in the gun<br \/>&bull; Iconic sound effects<br \/>&bull; Thwart an enemy threat that could topple the country and possibly the world<br \/>&bull; Significant and historically accurate props<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The game was released as part of a promotional campaign for Epic Games and People Can Fly&rsquo;s upcoming shooter, Bulletstorm, which promises to never take itself too seriously.<\/p>\n<p>According to EA, over 1.25 million people have downloaded Duty Calls, which is a free 759 MB download that you can grab <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedutycalls.com\/download.html\" target=\"_blank\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/go39bxE2c58?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/go39bxE2c58?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promotional Bulletstorm game proves popular<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}