Call of Duty Modern Warfare is one big WTF. (Spoilers below)

Shooter Season 2011 has arrived, and with that comes more generic action, as you begin to have the sudden urge to join the army as the shooters devour your senses set piece after set piece. Modern military shooter games have indeed become the reality shows of the video game world. While the game developers who triple as movie makers, and military recruiters swim around, and indulge in their ocean of cash, frustrated gamers continue to buy the same rehashed game year after year.

The Infinity Ward lounge right now

Consumers keep buying, and you can't blame the developers/publishers for wanting to make money it's what they do. And though every Call of Duty game I've ever bought was was fantastic for the first two weeks, but declined in quality to almost absolute zero after that, there are still plenty of great games out there, and I'll enjoy the freedom of not buying a Call of Duty game this year.

leaving more time for my other hobby of ditch-digging

Now that I'm done with my criticism, I can focus on the story of the Modern Warfare games which seem to be littered with plot holes. Modern Warfare 1 starts off with the world today, and is shown through the perspective The US Military messing around in an unspecified Middle Eastern nation, and the British Special Air Service sneaking around all over the world, and tying up loose strings. In this universe however, it turns out that there actually were nuclear weapon in the Middle Eastern nation of unspecified. 

And this happens

30,000 US Marines (including the player) are killed, and it's up to the SAS to avenge them by assassinating Zackaev, a Russian Ultra nationalist who was responsible for giving the terrorist access nuclear weapons, and blah blah blah, Zackaev dies, and all of a sudden the people of Russia unilaterally decide that Zackaev is a national hero/martyr. 

Because Russians watch nothing but their version of Fox News

 In comes Modern Warfare 2 where an Ultra nationalist terrorist attack led by Zackaevs successor Makarov on a Russian airport leaves one CIA agent dead at the scene, and apparently that is enough evidence for Russia to invade the United States. So after a series of "Why the fuck not"s and "Yeah I guess. I'm bored anyway"s at the Kremlin, it happens, and yet again, the SAS swoops in, and detonates an EMP in the Northeastern US which disables every electronic device within range, thereby stopping the Russian advance in to the US. 

Also pissing off this guy who forgot to save game

In comes Modern Warfare 3, when a startled Russian President has decided that it's time to make peace with the United States, but before he can do that, what do you know, he gets kidnapped as well as is daughter, who dies but that doesn't really matter, and the Ultra nationalists who are now in power stage a Russian invasion of Europe. That's right. EUROPE as in the entire continent not even a week after withdrawing from a war with a superpower. And as pattern goes, the SAS saves the day by tracking down Makarov (losing some protagonists in the process for added dramatic effect) and killing him, ending the Ultra nationalist presence in Russia.

Similarly to how terrorism ended forever when this guy died. 

And we're done. As absurd as it sounds (though I did present it very sarcastically), that is the Modern Warfare story that fans so happily eat up. How fantastically depressing isn't it?