Games for Lunch: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

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0:25 Well things have gone from easy to... not easy. We're pinned behind enemy fire and I'm badly wounded and ducking behind cover. MOMMY!

0:26 Oh, never mind. A few seconds ducking behind cover and I'm right as rain. ATTACK!

0:27 We got the "package." It's a box marked with a radioactive sticker and some Arabic. Well, that's not distressing at all. Now we have to get topside and off the ship.

0:28 Day ummm... not to spoil anything, but just as we're running for the top, a helicopter strike turns everything to fire and the ship starts sinking. Oh, crap.

0:29 My first death... I get caught on a piece of scenery and I'm not fast enough to make it off a crumbling catwalk. I'm sorry, but I'd have to think that, in real life, I would not get so easily trapped while running for my life.

0:30 Everything is tilted to the side. It's surprisingly off-putting... I'm used to first-person shooters with everything at nice right angles.

0:31 I have to jump for the helicopter but I make it just in time. I claw at the deck a bit before Price pulls me in. The title appears. You mean that was just a warm-up? Holy crap!

0:32 A cut scene shows satellite tracking of some president, who's being held captive, I guess? I'm more than a bit confused.

0:33 Now I'm the guy held captive. I'm the president, then? Maybe I should just wait to figure out what's going on.

0:34 We're riding in a car. I hear an Arabic voice booming in the distance: It's the new leader vilifying me as I ride to my execution. That's my best guess, at least. The introductory credits start rolling... a nice cinematic touch.

0:35 We pass people being lined up by a wall and shot. Gritty!

0:36 More scenes from around town: a guy spray-painting graffiti and another hiding in a dumpster. It's nice being able to turn my head and focus on bits that catch my attention.

0:37 I'm dragged out of the car and kicked in the face. More dragging... I'm fading in and out. We're in a palace of some sort? I hear chanting in the distance. "Just as they lay waste to our country, we shall lay waste to theirs." A gun gets pointed at my face. "This is how it begins," my character murmurs... and then I'm dead.

0:39 Meanwhile in Russia, one of our informants is about to be executed. We're going to get him out. Seems like an abrupt change, but I roll with it.

0:41 Note to self... look AWAY when my allies throw a flash grenade.

0:43 I'm laying claymores and setting them off while my teammates take out the people that get flushed from the houses. I feel like my computer-controlled teammates are carrying me a bit, but it's still early, and I don't really mind just watching them work.

0:45 We find a Russian ally and go to the top of the hill to provide sniper support for his troops.

0:47 I get quite lost trying to find the place from where I'm supposed to shoot. Price calls me over, but it sounds like he's right next to me when he's really about 50 meters away. I've got to remember to use the compass.