I miss the anti-war quotes from the old one when you die. The one that stuck with me the most was from call of duty 4 "the cost of a single javelin missile, 75000 dollars". I remember when I first saw that as a teenager. Here I was shooting these thing's off like no tomorrow. Hell, in the mission leading up to "the bog" i had shot like seven of them in a matter of minutes. $75000 dollars a missile, it stuck with me, how many people had I killed with that money that could have been used to help people. I knew it was a video game sure but that simple message made me realize the expense of war not just in lives lost but in lost opportunity to do good.
to quote Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation in one of his modern COD reviews, ''if the nuke moment from Modern Warfare 1 was done in the current games, your character would just stand up, fart out all the radiation and remove the shards of glass off his eyes while heroic patriotic dubstep music played in the background''
"These teams of talented and creative individuals are spending thousands of hours and millions of dollars to make a $60 edition of Simon Says." (17:28) -Perfectly summarized the franchise.
"The airport sequence that freaked everyone out when it got leaked online shrieks of desperation from the developers to make something more skull-splitting than the nuke scene.But it's nothing more than shock value,it's got nothing to say outside of the narrative and inside the narrative it's just a plot device to have Russia invade America.A plot device that fails because it has more holes than any of the civilians you shot"