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Awkward: ‘Call of Duty’ Video Game Casts Petraeus as Defense Secretary in 2025 Plot (See the Clip)

Nov. 14, 2012 8:33am

The next rendition of the popular “Call of Duty” gaming series — Call of Duty: Black Ops II — was released this week and found to feature a computer animated David Petraeus in a role that, in light of recent events, he’ll probably never otherwise play.

The retired Army general, who stepped down as CIA director last week amid a scandal surrounding his extramarital affair, pops up in the highly anticipated Activision Blizzard Inc. first-person shooter game as the Secretary of Defense in the year 2025.

David Petraeus Makes Cameo as Defense Secretary in Call of Duty: Black Ops II

A look at the animated version of David Petraeus in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. (Image: YouTube screenshot)

David Petraeus Makes Cameo as Defense Secretary in Call of Duty: Black Ops II

Here’s a photo of the real life Gen. David Petraeus if you’d like to gauge how the accuracy of his computer animated likeness. (Photo: CRIS BOURONCLE/AFP/GettyImages)

The character with Petraeus’ name and likeness was voiced by Jim Meskimen.Β The cameo role was first reported by the gaming site Kotaku.com.

See animated Petraeus in this clip from the game via IGNGameplay (Note: There is one errant curse word in this clip):

Kotaku explains the Petraeus is seen in the game on an aircraft carrier calledΒ the USS Barack Obama. Here’s more from the gaming site on Petraeus’ role:

Petraeus doesn’t do much in the game, and there’s no sign ofΒ Paula Broadwell, the woman with whom Petraeus had his affair. When we first see Petraeus, he’s receiving a terrorist prisoner on board the Obama. Another mission in the game starts with Petraeus and the Clinton-esque President Bosworth on board a futuristic version of Marine One before it is shot down over L.A. The crash should kill everyone, but this isΒ Call of Duty. The important people tend to survive. We don’t see Petraeus again, but an audio message indicates that he survived.”Call of Duty” games have often employed virtual renditions of political figures.

“Black Ops II” also features an encounter with Manuel Noriega, a female president resembling current Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, an aircraft carrier named the USS Barack Obama and an appearance by retired Lt. Col. Oliver North.

411 Mania, a pop culture site, predicts the game will gross more than the also highly anticipated release of Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part II, which hits theaters Thursday. The first Black Ops game made more than $650 million within five days while Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part I earned $705 million in its entire run in theaters, according to 411 Mania.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.Β 

(H/T: Yahoo! Games)

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Comments (31)

  • loneindividual
    Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:05am

    COD Black Ops – Allies with Communist Russians? (main character…Mason)
    New COD – Easy Allies with Communist China?
    Battlefield 3 – Soldier to Soldier buddy buddy with Soviets?

    Dafuq is wrong with our video games nowadays…

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  • OperationNorthwoods
    Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:21pm

    In the last one, after you beat the game zombies break into the pentagon and JFK, Nixon, Castro and McNamara are there meeting together and arm themselves to kill the zombies. Its actually pretty funny.
    Here’s the vid
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbDQVs4NE6c

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  • BigDogRex
    Posted on November 14, 2012 at 4:54pm

    On a positive note, the game should have some good cheat codes then.

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  • DWilliams08
    Posted on November 14, 2012 at 4:17pm

    USS Barack Obama? Where are the ground troops from? Fort Dick Nixon?

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  • Black Manta
    Posted on November 14, 2012 at 3:26pm

    America has no friends…don’t be fooled…America has no money, no friends, and no REAL leadership….meaning America is gonna fall very soon…Thus saith the bible…Turn to the Lord while he still can be found….

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  • Mr.Fitnah
    Posted on November 14, 2012 at 2:54pm

    The USS Barack Obama will run guns to Gaza.

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  • Paool
    Posted on November 14, 2012 at 12:46pm

    Would be embarrassed to be assigned to a ship named USS Barack Obama. Good Lord that’s weak. I wonder what it would be like to be on that ship… ‘So where have you been stationed?’ – ‘Well I spent some time on the Nimitz and the Washington, but now I am on the BARACK OBAMA! It’s great!’ – ‘How so?’ – ‘Well we redistributed the rankings, everyone on board is now a LT! We did drop bombs, but now we drop Obama Phones! The best part is no one is held accountable for anything. We just blame the guy on the last duty shift!’

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    • Buchanan16
      Posted on November 14, 2012 at 1:07pm

      I’m sure there will be. Take for example the USS Jimmy Carter. I think we can assume the connotations that sub holds. If anything we can hope for the USS Barack Obama to be a sub…

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  • twbranch
    Posted on November 14, 2012 at 12:21pm

    I pray they never name a ship after Odumma. I am a Navy vet and think that would just make us look weak.

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  • Metallicat
    Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:48am

    Im glad I stopped playing this game franchise long before it turned into the turd it is today. I’ve notice since 2008 game developers seem to highly support obama and use their games as a platform to promote him. I stopped “playing” at modern warfare back in 2001 after we sent kids younger than me out to do it for real. they should be home playing games,not me.

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  • yiska8
    Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:43am

    Just another reason to loathe video games post-1986.
    The days of the arcade were so much better. And we weren’t as fat.

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  • The_Cabrito_Goat
    Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:23am

    Gotta “get in good” with the coming oligarchy. It’s a matter of self-preservation.

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  • 00100111
    Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:00am

    The USS Barack Obama? Is that the carrier they installed the engines backward, so it goes in reverse while looking forward? The one all the deck guns just shoot blame at all the other ships in its detail?

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    • yiska8
      Posted on November 14, 2012 at 10:25am

      Ha! Sounds about right. If the guns fire at all.

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    • VRW Conspirator
      Posted on November 14, 2012 at 11:31am

      NO NO NO…the guns are all installed pointed in and down so at the first sign of conflict the crew can sink their own ship and surrender…just like the French…after all..we want to be MORE like European Socialist States…
      I know that Activision is located in the People’s Republic of Santa Monica, CA and but Blizzard was in the heart of conservative country… Irving, CA in Orange County….guess the new bosses at Activision turned them all into liberal loving jack monkies….how come no USS Ronald Reagan (which actually exists) or the USS GHW Bush (also real)….
      the day they make a carrier BHO is the day America has finally outsources all of our military manufacturing and hardware to the Chinese…almost there Chairman Obama…almost…but the military still has enough good men and women in power to stop you…
      and when you can’t turn them, you blackmail them out of office….
      don’t worry..WE the PEOPLE are still here and still coming for you…

      I might get Black Ops II and then purposely fail that mission just so I can watch the carrier BHO blow up… over and over and over again…

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    • SacredHonor1776
      Posted on November 14, 2012 at 12:24pm

      Let’s see the usual tradition is to name a ship after someone dies… are they implying Obama is going to die before 2025? I’m surprised that the secret service hasn’t shown up at Triarch.

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    • Poggle The Stick
      Posted on November 18, 2012 at 1:43pm

      Funny, but even the GB (George Bush) is being built right now – and he hasn’t died yet.

      So, it’s USUAL, but not factual.

      I’m sure that Barack Obama with the green movement will make a giant hippi van to replace the Air Force One, and it will be named the USS BARACK OBAMA. It will fire love particles and have a giant speaker on the side wailing, ‘Hope and change, hope and change!’

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  • DZ-015
    Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:50am

    If an aircraft carrier is named after him in 2025, that means he must have died in the meantime, right?

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  • A. James
    Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:48am

    That was a typo. It’s actually “USSR (b)arack (o)bama”.

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  • endthemindlessspending
    Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:42am

    The Aircraft Carrier is named the USS Barack Obama, really. Like he needed more to feed his ego. I wouldn’t be surprised if he releases a ship named after him now.

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  • Paulhgreenbay
    Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:42am

    “aircraft carrier named the USS Barack Obama” — Oh, the irony!

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on November 14, 2012 at 8:36am

    Call to duty 2025 in reality will have the military mowing down American citizens; with the UN at it’s side.

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