Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Updated for modern days with battles in the Middle East and Russia, it has very similar gameplay to the old WWII Call of Duty games. I guess Activision was right that perhaps WWII FPS genre was getting a little tired. But somehow I don't feel as excited playing COD4 as previous games. It's as if the 'Good War' made good and evil clear cut and made killing enemy soldiers in war more acceptable -- of course, there's just no real reasoning with why playing a war simulation is fun at all, but somehow it still is. The graphics are excellent, and the game continues the usual seamless cutscene to gameplay segues. There is a darkly hilarious part the game where it makes a joke of air-to-ground missile induced death and destruction -- from C-130 aircraft. There's a running commentary of detached killing: "there's some combatants exiting that building, engage them", "ka-boom", "you got 'em", "you're free to engage all those", "ka-boom", "wow! this will make quite a hilight reel".