At the end of the day Call Of Duty was about you being a very specific kind of action hero. Not a space ninja like Titanfall, not gritty Star Ship trooper movie like Gears, not a hardened "ive seen things, and the only family I know are the men in my unit' soldier in Battlefield.

When COD is at it's best you're the hardened motherfucker smoking a cigarette, sniping bogeys at 100 meters smoothly transitioning into meticulously picking off 3 dudes that bumrush your room, to go save a couple of POW's. Perhaps call in a helicopter or five to rain down death on those badguys.

Its for that hilariously irresponsible era where war movies transitioned from 70's realism into 80's Arnold Schwarzenegger pop..COD had that perfect line of making war fun, for better or for worse.