Worse yet, CoD wasn't always this way. The original WW2 based games went to great lengths for authenticity, and consulted many veterans in their development. T

Worse yet, CoD wasn't always this way. The original WW2 based games went to great lengths for authenticity, and consulted many veterans in their development. The difference is that WW2 veterans nearly universally view the war with horror, not the hop-rah of many modern veterans. This tone was reflected in the early CoD games. Case in point: the anti-war quotations that flash on screen each time you die. This has been kept in recent installments also, except now it looks disturbingly out of place. One second the game is gleefully cheering your slaughter of nameless foreigners, the next minute they're quoting Oppenheimer. The CoD games have always had a heavy dose of American machismo, but the latest games are comical caricatures. MW1 had at least a solid Tom Clancy-esque tale of international intrigue, the latter games not even that.