Call of Duty: WWII — Playing a badass female leader in the French Resistance

Call of Duty: WWII is an ode to the heroism of the Second World War, but not all of the heroes are familiar. In the name of showing the diversity of the conflict, Sledgehammer Games highlighted the role of Jewish Americans, African Americans, and female soldiers as well.

In the mission where you play a leader in the French Resistance, you play a role in liberating Paris. Your character is Rousseau, a woman who must first infiltrate a Nazi garrison, meet with a contact, obtain a bomb, deal with a Nazi leader, and then blow up the gates to enabled an Allied attack. I found the mission rather difficult, as staying in stealth wasn’t so easy. But it was a very different kind of Call of Duty mission, as it focused the tension on staying in stealth rather than going in with guns blazing.