Download and Play Bulletstorm's Call of Duty Parody - Duty Calls for Free

Epic Games and People Can Fly's Bulletstorm has been marketed as a game whose excess and irreverence are intended to serve as antidotes to the often serious tone and focus on realism for which traditional first-person shooters tend to aim. Now, the companies are driving this messaging home with a new downloadable game that intentionally parodies Activision's Call of Duty.

Duty Calls: The Calm Before The Storm -- pokes plenty of fun at the Call of Duty brand, from its logo and visual palette to its dialogue and objectives, which often elect being true to conventions of the military game genre over being especially surprising or inventive.

"Here's your objective," a gruff, soldierly voice barks in the online trailer. "Blah blah blah blah secret base; blah blah nuclear missile bomb."

Epic's Cliff Bleszinski joined the fun, deadpanning on Twitter: "Wow. I'm blown away. This game will redefine military shooters for years to come," 

Of course, the parody -- intentionally or not -- subtly draws on the visible, ugly legal fight that BulletStorm distributor Electronic Arts has had with Activision over the co-founders of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare house Infinity Ward. Self-protectively, Duty Calls' official page features the clear footnote: "Duty Calls is a parody. It is not associated with Activision or the Call of Duty games."

The minimum system requirements to play Duty Calls are as follows:

Supported OS: Windows XP SP2+, Windows Vista or Windows 7
Processor: 2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card
Sound: Windows Supported Sound Card
DirectX: DirectX 9.0c
Hard Disk Space: 8 GB

Download it HERE

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SPOILER ALERT - If you plan to play the game, don't watch this video__