![]() The persuading influence in making this the number two entry on this list, however, is Spec-Ops. The nuke killstreak made for YouTube folklore and Rust is a meme that still lives and breaths today. The online, again, picks up from COD4 and introduces a whole toy chest of new killstreaks, guns, and locations to shoot on. Despite gaining notoriety and worldwide criticism for its depiction of terrorism in an airport, it’s a scenario that sadly wouldn’t look out of place in this century. I’m also a big supporter of the aforementioned No Russian mission, too. The campaign is easily in the Top 3 in the series. ![]() Soap is now a Captain, and Captain Price is still the toughest SOB walking. The story battles with political war, a heartbreaking betrayal, and a myriad of set-pieces designed to induce your fight of flight response at every opportunity – looking at you favela. The campaign continues on from the events of COD4, and introduces some key figures in General Shepherd (bastard) and Ghost. It took everything that COD4 did, and injected it with adrenaline and steroids to go full balls-to-the-wall. That’s exactly what Modern Warfare 2 did. When you release one of the greatest FPS games ever created, what do you do? Why, you do the same thing, and amp it up, of course! If ever another Call of Duty game needed a full remaster, this would secretly be mine. From clearing out buildings using authentic military methods, to bearing witness to a chemical weapons attack, the campaign is memorable. But the realism of the game is captivating. I was worried that it would preach the horrors of terrorism, akin to the infamous “No Russian”, without any real purpose. The pre-release material cited disturbing events that players would see, and to be fair, the game lived up to this, without being too distasteful. Thankfully Modern Warfare more than made amends with a top-tier campaign, the return of some familiar faces, and a harsh visualization of the grim world that surrounds us. After getting the train back onto the track with WW2, it barely reached the next station, before it immediately derailed hard with Black Ops 4. Anyway, the reboot of Modern Warfare was the right move. Now is the time to break that chain and NOT go down the future route. We went from World War, to Modern, to futuristic, to World War, to Modern again. If you wrote down the time period of COD games onto a chart, there would be no disparities, it would be one, flowing wavelength. Whilst it’s admittedly rather basic and not as contrived as some of the later iterations that give Inception a run for its money, it’s still a great time to have with friends. The crowning achievement for World At War has to be the sleeper-success of Nazi Zombies. To this day, I still get nightmares about bouncing betty’s spring-loading themselves straight into my face and turning my avatar into mushy peas. The online was a great extension of the template laid down by Infinity Ward. Although, the spectacle of the legendary Eiffel Tower crumbling more than the Croatian defense in the 2018 World Cup Final was special. That is a recognized medical condition in which the patient becomes numb to the Hollywood theatrics and larger-than-life nature of COD games. Whilst there is absolutely nothing wrong with this entry in the ever-popular Modern Warfare aspect of COD, this was the moment when I started to feel “ COD fatigue”. 8 for one of the Modern Warfare games?! ‘Fraid so. I enjoyed fighting alongside David Hasselhoff whilst riding rollercoasters. Furthermore, the original zombie level was quite fun too. This was emotional and I was genuinely impacted by the narrative and its representation of sacrifice and kinship. I was more than happy to forego the game’s best attempts to make everyone play like Boba Fett. His partnership with Ethan, the war with Kit Harrington’s, Admiral Kotch etc. The story of Reyes resonated with me so much more than other campaigns. A BIG however, the campaign is arguably the most underrated in COD history.
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