In Modern Warfare you play sometimes as CIA officer Alex, other times as SAS Sergeant Kyle Garrick. But it all still feels completely and utterly pointless. The campaign is well-paced, with memorable set pieces and varied missions. In the end, despite being a sophisticated game, Modern Warfare's campaign encapsulates everything that makes it hard for me to be a dedicated gamer. I wondered what it would be like to play its story mode as an adult rather than an uncritical teenager. You know the drill.īut the Modern Warfare reboot piqued my interest. Commuting, cooking, washing, more commuting, folding. Now I'm a 27-year-old man who plays whatever he can when he's not subdued by the grind of life. At the time, I was a 15-year-old gamer who played everything he could. The last single-player Call of Duty game I played was the original Modern Warfare. Some people love it, some hate it and others accept it for the quintessential casual shooter it is. But in 2019, games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare seem determined to say as little as possible.Ĭall of Duty has been around since 2003, but it was 2007's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare that turned the series into a money spinning annual event.
Other mediums, like film or fiction, trip over themselves to comment on the broader impact of war and armed conflict. No, I say Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is frustrating because, in its single-player campaign, Infinity Ward has managed to craft a seven-hour story about a 2019 Middle Eastern military conflict without actually saying anything even slightly meaningful about the subject matter.
No problem with the online multiplayer, which is still fun despite being camper-friendly. I don't have an issue with the shooting or in-game movement, which are both crisp and sharp. Is it time for video games to take war more seriously?Ĭall of Duty: Modern Warfare, the new reboot released Oct.
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