Modern warfare is complicated, and the challenge isn’t making sure your bullets find the enemy the difficulty comes from trying to figure out who the enemy even is. The most stressful moments of Modern Warfare take place before the bullets start flying, when you’re trying to track your target in environments filled with civilians, not knowing when it’s safe, or necessary, to begin firing. A terrorist hiding under the bed, gun trained on the door, may be able to take you down before you have a chance to react.
Your enemies know that they’re going to lose the battle as you clear out a house, room by room, after the lights have been killed and you have every advantage.īut you still have to decide, in a split second, if that woman is diving for a child or a detonator. Your side has night-vision goggles, an array of suppressed weapons aimed with infrared laser sights that are invisible to the enemy, air support, and rock-solid discipline. Or at least that’s the central message of the campaign of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Which is why their enemies abroad spend so much time making sure the playing field is not even.
The military forces of first-world nations, with their technological superiority and years of relentless training, are unstoppable on an even playing field.