Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is the most ambitious COD to date
My very first glimpse of the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare sends an anxious shiver through me. The hands-off preview of Modern Warfare 2019’s single-player campaign begins near Piccadilly Circus in London, where you arrive to intercept a van full of suspected terrorists and arrest them. As you leave the police car you’re hit by a deafening cacophony of barked orders, civilian bustle, and screaming sirens - it’s not clear what’s going on, but the suspect vehicle is stationary just a few metres ahead of you in the middle of a busy street. The back of the van swings open as officers close in, there’s a brief volley of shouts, and then the van’s engine growls into life followed by an explosion that lights up the entire street and sends you hurtling backwards.
There have been well over 600 fatalities from terrorist attacks in Western Europe since Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare released back in 2007. News coverage and social media feeds have embedded these attacks deep in our imagination, but Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s London bombing scene realises that fear with unsettling palpability. Ostensibly, it’s a classic Call of Duty first-person cutscene, but while Modern Warfare has been provocative in the past with missions like ‘No Russian’, it’s never been so close to the bone.
The subsequent mission is called Townhouse, and sees a group of special forces soldiers closing in on a semi-detached house in a London suburb where the terrorist cell responsible for the bombing are holed up. You enter the building through the kitchen, there are pots of boiling water on the stove and you can hear casual chatter murmuring throughout the house - it’s immediately apparent that families are living here. Someone in your team cuts the power and you switch to night-vision goggles, prompting a change in the sounds echoing throughout the home: panicked door slams, hushed voices, couples calming each other, and the heavy thud of weapons being laid out on tables.
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