In a scene set in Piccadilly Circus a mother grasps a child to her waist as a terrorist walks towards her and detonates his explosive vest in another, a child weeps over the body of a woman you've just shot in self-defence. They're everywhere, standing in the way and innocently dirtying-up clean shots, or ratcheting the tension as potential threats on the dusty streets of fictional Urzikstan a place where 'the bad guys look like the good guys,' as a soldier casually remarks. I've never had less 'fun' with a CoD campaign.Īn about-face on a decade of neglecting the human cost of conflict (or doing it so ham-fistedly it spawns memes like 'Press 'F' to pay respects'), Modern Warfare is extremely enthusiastic about shoving civilians down your scopes. It's ugly, gruesome, occasionally horrific, and quite often unpleasant to play.

The recently released Call of Duty: Modern Warfare features a story mode that is uncomfortable. This time around, though, there's a new element to the 'realism' claim.

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