It draws thoughtfully on attacks in London and the Syrian Civil War.

The developers emphasise that this Modern Warfare will provide an “authentic and gritty” story driven by “realistic” characters, not “superheroes with lightning and hammers of Thor”. Though it bears the same name as the original, and certain characters – like the wise-cracking, handlebar moustache-sporting Captain Price – return, the game has been marketed as a far graver experience. The build up to this reboot has been different.

“The marketers of combat games must guard against, lest their products be seen as raising unpleasant, complicated, and ultimately less profitable questions or feelings for their audiences.” “Thinking about taking another’s life demands deep and personal introspection - an activity that is most certainly not within the commercial purview of military shooters,” writes academic Matthew Thomas Payne in a 2012 paper entitled Marketing Military Realism in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. (A full on civil war has broken out in Russia at one point, a nuke accidentally detonates.) War has largely provided a conceit to get a gun into the hands of the player. Back in 2007, from the safety of my Arsenal-sheeted teenage bed, I enjoyed the original as you might relish any bombastic and entertaining action movie – its narrative was similar to the kind of military fiction you might find in WHSmith.

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