Call of Duty's Valderas Museum Reimagines the Getty for Online Combat

Activision Blizzard's upcoming first-person shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, set for release on October 28, 2022, features a fictional Valderas Museum in Spain based on the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. During a pre-release test, a player explored the museum without engaging in combat, documenting four exhibitions: Mexican folk and pop art, medieval art from the fictional West Asian republic of Adal, and works by invented abstract painters Russel Crane, Isaac Escribano, Sophie Vaillancourt, and David van de Huurst, as well as photographer Raúl Francisco Ferrón. The exploration video draws inspiration from Eva and Franco Mattes' 2010 performance Freedom, where Eva Mattes played Counter-Strike without shooting, attempting to persuade others not to kill her. The player repeatedly died and respawned while admiring details often overlooked amid the game's gunfights. The article also promotes Artribune's newsletters and social media channels.