Once the campaign is finished you can continue the story somewhat, through a number of Special Ops missions that can be played co-operatively with up to three other people. Throughout my play-through, I did experience some frame rate drag issues though, particularly when transitioning between a cut-scene back into active play, which was a little distracting and disappointing in an otherwise polished campaign. It has a less arcade-y feel to the action, instead making you feel like your actions need to be a little more precise. Movement has been slowed down, and your character has a newfound weight that I havenвЂ™t experienced before in a Call of Duty game, and I think itвЂ™s better for it. The gun-play is tight, with a sense of impact to each bullet you fire. The set-pieces are as exciting as they have ever been and there are some thrilling missions where you are pinned down with your backs literally to a wall fighting a never ending swarm of enemies, bullets ricocheting all around you. The voice acting and the audio are exceptional as well, and make for an exhilarating experience. PriceyвЂ™s moustache has never looked this good. The new engine makes the visuals sing, with some beautiful lighting work and excellent facial animation and motion capture. Modern Warfare is a well-executed piece of entertainment. Where I do feel things is in the actual minute-to-minute gameplay. Is it OK to hold a gun to the temples of the wife and young child of a known terrorist in order to extract important information from him? If yes, then why is not OK when the main Russian antagonist uses the water-boarding technique to extract information from one of the campaignвЂ™s main protagonists? The only answer that Modern Warfare seems capable of giving me is that itвЂ™s okay when IвЂ™m doing it because I am a Good Guy. These moments also have you questioning whether decidedly un-heroic ends justify their means. Am I supposed to feel bad that IвЂ™ve shot her? I feel nothing. At one point you breach a room to find an unarmed woman who, after a fraction of a second, reaches for a weapon giving you permission to shoot her indiscriminately. You make your way painstakingly through the house, carefully picking your targets. A later level has you storming a terrorist cell under the cover of night with a mixture of people there including unarmed women and children. Do it well, with no civilian casualties, and at the end you are awarded an achievement, just like a real soldier. For example, in Piccadilly, civilian victims of a sudden atrocity run and stumble in front of your pistol as you make your way across the burning streets, taking out terrorist opponents. ItвЂ™s immediately apparent that your actions in the campaign have been designed to give you pause. Setting out its stall early in a deliberately provocative fashion, the campaign opens with a shockingly realistic depiction of Piccadilly Circus in London. Well, other than that the bad things done by the US and her allies are good, but the ones done by anyone else are bad. It attempts to say a lot about modern conflict, about the grey areas that many combatants operate under, but ends up resorting to gratuitous events for the sake of it and saying nothing really at all. The story is based around the fictional country of Urzikstan, and a fictional rebel-come-terrorist outfit known as Al-Qatala, but it also blends that with real-life locations, references to actual real-life incidents and recognisable antagonists and protagonists. Essentially a soft-reboot of the 2007 game of the same name that elevated the Call of Duty franchise to the behemoth it is now, Modern Warfare sees the return of Captain Price вЂ“ part man, part moustache вЂ“ and the familiar present day setting. As a piece of entertainment it is well-crafted, with exciting set pieces and memorable characters, but as a game that professes to want to reveal the harsh realities of war it has surprisingly little to say about that. I enjoyed a lot of Modern WarfareвЂ™s campaign, but I also didnвЂ™t like it at all.

Want to feel immersed in the sanitised entertainment of realistic military operations, while also skimming over the complexities and nuance of the modern worldвЂ™s conflicts? Then CoDвЂ™s got you there, as well. The juggernaut franchise always delivers the kind of popcorn entertainment you are looking for вЂ“ want Michael Bay style action and explosions? CoDвЂ™s got you, baby. If you want a bombastic, blockbuster video game, then there is no denying that Call of Duty will always tick those boxes for you.

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