Sometimes a marquee video game series is a best-seller for good reason. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, developed by Infinity Ward, published by Activision and converted to the Mac by Aspyr, is the latest installment of the Call of Duty series. Breaking from its typically World War II-themed roots, the latest chapter focuses on a present-day conflict involving the United States, United Kingdom and Russian forces fighting both a group of Russian ultranationalists in Russia as well as rebels in a small Middle Eastern country. The story is conveyed from the perspective of a United States Marine as well as a British S.A.S. operative with the game switching back and forth between perspectives as the player finishes one mission and starts another.
Separating itself from the previous entries in the series, Call of Duty 4is plotline is a grittier and more realistic than the previous entries. As the titleis opening credits are displayed, the player sits through a first-person-viewpoint experience in which their character is shoved into a sedan, driven through a militia-occupied city, hustled out of the car, leaned up against a pole, screamed at by militia members and then shot before a camera. This is how the game begins and the storyline pulls absolutely no punches as the title moves away from the nostalgia and heroism of the previous entriesi World War II theme and injects the player into a sequence of events that could realistically occur.
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