Call of Duty: Modern Warfare/YMMV: Difference between revisions

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** Those goddamn Juggernauts, elite [[Giant Mook]]s who wield near instant kill Light Machine Guns and can soak up ridiculously unrealistic amounts of damage. ''Nothing hurts them'', unless you either shoot them in the face with a sniper rifle (several times) or use a predator drone.

** In Surival Mode, the enemies get stronger and stronger as the rounds go up, meaning in later rounds you'll be facing swarms of Russian commandos decked out in heavy body armor and armed with top of the line weapons. Their aim is near perfect, their weapons can kill you in a few hits, they are armed with the best weapons in the game, and they constantly spam grenades with terrifying accuracy.

** Little Bird attack helicopters in Survival can be a severe threat, not simply for their firepower but for the fact that as long as they're flying, your maneuverability options are severely limited, as you're stuck in areas with overhead cover (and they can still pick away at you through high windows). Not quite so bad on easier maps, as the helicopters spawn at the same time as the rest of the wave so you can take them out quickly with concentrated light machinegun fire before the rest of the wave arrives, but on the higher-difficulty maps, the helicopters spawn in the ''middle'' of the existing wave (which usually includes Juggernauts, bomb dogs, and suicide bombers) so you'll be in the middle of fighting/fleeing from the close-assault troops when the Little Bird shows up and perforates you if you're not in overhead cover, and if you are in overhead cover, you're stuck there until you can kill all the enemy infantry and concentrate on the Little Bird - easier said than done when three Juggernauts are closing in.

** Little Bird attack helicopters in Survival can be a severe threat, not simply for their firepower but for the fact that as long as they're flying, your maneuverability options are severely limited, as you're stuck in areas with overhead cover (and they can still pick away at you through high windows). Not quite so bad on easier maps, as the helicopters spawn at the same time as the rest of the wave so you can take them out quickly with concentrated light machinegun fire before the rest of the wave arrives, but on the higher-difficulty maps, the helicopters spawn in the ''middle'' of the existing wave (which usually includes Juggernauts, bomb dogs, and suicide bombers) so you'll be in the middle of fighting/fleeing from the close-assault troops when the Little Bird shows up and perforates you if you're not in overhead cover, and if you are in overhead cover, you're stuck there until you can kill all the enemy infantry and concentrate on the Little Bird... easier said than done when three Juggernauts are closing in.

* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]:

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** ''Modern Warfare 2'''s controversial "No Russian" mission where the player is undercover as a terrorist group massacring an airport. {{spoiler|Turns out the whole thing was a [[Batman Gambit]] to frame America for the attack. By leaving the [[Player Character]]'s body behind}}.

** "Wolverines!" involves {{spoiler|the US being invaded. Imagine intense fighting house-to-house in the suburbs of frakkin' ''Virginia''}}. Special note should be given to {{spoiler|the player's first glimpse of "Raptor". It's just a guy in a suit, and you wonder who rates all the effort to prot-- OH MY GOD}}. And that's before {{spoiler|we see Washington, D.C}}. The D.C. missions ''Of Their Own Accord'', ''Second Sun'' and ''Whiskey Hotel'' ratchet that up considerably, {{spoiler|especially post-nuke}}.

** It's especially shocking if {{spoiler|you live in or visited DC. All of those areas that are now battlefields? You've been to them}}.

** It's especially shocking if {{spoiler|you live in or visited D.C. All of those areas that are now battlefields? You've been to them}}.

** Pick a mission in ''Modern Warfare 3''. One mission opens with you smashing through the front gates of an enemy base while a Hind provides overhead cover. Another has a high-speed subway chase. A third involves an amphibious assault on Hamburg. A fourth involves the player getting into a gunfight with hijackers on an airplane, complete with fighting the hijackers in ''zero gravity'' like something straight out of ''[[Inception]]'', and that's before the plane is forced into an emergency landing and gets ripped apart.

* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: {{spoiler|With the degree of surprise the attack took place, there's no possible way the US Army could have evacuated ''all'' of the civilians from Washington DC, to say nothing of the EMP likely hitting ''before'' all the evac choppers would've been out of range. Finally, how many civvies are going to die on account of the East Coast being hit by the EMP? Watch how much of the country goes dark when the nuke explodes. Though ''Modern Warfare 3'' retcons it, so that New York was not effected}}. You can see a few friendly helos going down. And a few minutes later you see what looks like a crashed Boeing 737. Uh oh..

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** The once-smouldering backdraft flared up again with the Map Packs. 1200 MS points or 15 bucks for three new maps and two ports from ''Modern Warfare 4''.

* [[It's the Same, Now It Sucks]]: Some people criticized the second game for not vastly improving on the first, even going so far as to complain about [[Sequelitis]]. Gameplay trailers for ''Modern Warfare 3'' are FILLED with people saying either they are going to buy Battlefield instead or "This is the same thing as ''Modern Warfare 2''." And now that ''Modern Warfare 3'' is released, as of this writing, it has a 3.2 User Score on Metacritic, with many of the negative reviews citing this trope as the reason, and almost all of them from the [[Hate Dumb]].

* [[It Was His Sled]]: ''No Russian'', oh ''No Russian''. Also, both nukes.

* [[It Was His Sled]]: "No Russian", oh "No Russian". Also, both nukes.

* [[Memetic Badass]]:

** MacMillan, overlapping with [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]. He's pretty [[Badass]] in the game, as even [[The Captain|Captain Price]] looks up to him, but the fandom took it and ran with it.

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** The player character in the level "No Russian" of ''Modern Warfare 2''. You can either cross it by shooting civilians<ref>Like every beta tester who played that level, apparently.</ref> or not cross it by just staying out of the terrorists' way. If you shoot the civilians and ''[[Video Game Cruelty Potential|laugh it up]]'', [[You Bastard|you've pretty much crossed the Moral Event Horizon yourself]]. {{spoiler|No matter what you do during the level, it ends with the [[Big Bad]] figuring out that you were a CIA agent and shooting you down as he gets away in a ambulance}}. It can be averted by skipping it whenever asked if you want to play this level or not, such as at the beginning of the game, and may be skipped during the level.

** Nothing compares to {{spoiler|General Shepherd shooting Roach (who you are playing as) and Ghost, and then having his men ''dump kerosene on the two of you, and burning you alive''}}. Regardless of his motivations, after that scene [[Complete Monster|it's nearly impossible to have any empathy whatsoever for him]]. {{spoiler|After tracking him down, he stabs you (as Soap) in the chest with your own knife and nearly kills Price in a fistfight. Thankfully, you rip the knife out of your chest and throw it right at his face, killing the bastard with an [[Eye Scream]]}}.

** If ''Loose Ends'' didn't drive the point home how willing Shepherd is to sacrifice his men, {{spoiler|in the attack on his base, he gives the order to have his base bombed, killing any of his men inside... just to get at two, count 'em, ''two'' men after him}}. In fairness, {{spoiler|by then, the base had been effectively cleared out anyway by the only two men aware of his treachery; with the possible exception of a particular guard, all of the Shadow Company troopers encountered indoors by Soap and Price were definitely killed; four of them had been preparing a detonation charge when their room was breached, possibly causing the process to start way earlier than planned. When it turns out that Price and Soap got out in time, Shepherd then orders a "fire mission" less than a hundred meters from ''himself''. However, the smoke and dust clears to reveal multiple Shadow Company troopers, slumped against the terrain or crawling about in a daze, at the mercy of the unharmed Price and Soap}}...

** If "Loose Ends" didn't drive the point home how willing Shepherd is to sacrifice his men, {{spoiler|in the attack on his base, he gives the order to have his base bombed, killing any of his men inside... just to get at two, count 'em, ''two'' men after him}}. In fairness, {{spoiler|by then, the base had been effectively cleared out anyway by the only two men aware of his treachery; with the possible exception of a particular guard, all of the Shadow Company troopers encountered indoors by Soap and Price were definitely killed; four of them had been preparing a detonation charge when their room was breached, possibly causing the process to start way earlier than planned. When it turns out that Price and Soap got out in time, Shepherd then orders a "fire mission" less than a hundred meters from ''himself''. However, the smoke and dust clears to reveal multiple Shadow Company troopers, slumped against the terrain or crawling about in a daze, at the mercy of the unharmed Price and Soap}}...

{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Price''': [[Ironic Echo|Since when does Shepherd care about danger close]]}}?}}

* [[More Popular Spinoff]]: ''Call of Duty'' is a pretty well-known franchise, but ''Modern Warfare'' has a massive impact upon pop culture and is one of the most successful series in the history of video games. Indeed, a vast majority of ''Modern Warfare'' players have never played the first three ''Call of Duty'' games.

* [[Older Than They Think]]: It's surprising how many fans of the first game think the term "noob tube" is unique to the series; in fact, it's been around since the M203 first started appearing in multiplayer games. The classic noob tubes were actually ''worse'', typically being an instant-access alt-fire with a huge, totally lethal blast radius that sometimes even ignored walls. Picture the Javelin glitch being how the game is ''supposed'' to work. Ironically, this is actually more ''realistic;'' forty-milimeter grenades are actually less tame than they appear in ''Modern Warfare''. A lot of things people think are original to ''Call of Duty 4'' and ''Modern Warfare 2'' were in the earlier games too, most notably Captain Price and the teddy bears.

* [[Older Than They Think]]: It's surprising how many fans of the first game think the term "noob tube" is unique to the series; in fact, it's been around since the M203 first started appearing in multiplayer games. The classic noob tubes were actually ''worse'', typically being an instant-access alt-fire with a huge, totally lethal blast radius that sometimes even ignored walls. Picture the Javelin glitch being how the game is ''supposed'' to work. Ironically, this is actually more ''realistic''; forty-milimeter grenades are actually less tame than they appear in ''Modern Warfare''. A lot of things people think are original to ''Call of Duty 4'' and ''Modern Warfare 2'' were in the earlier games too, most notably Captain Price and the teddy bears.

* [[One-Scene Wonder]]:

** Marcus Burns.