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It is easy to slip into our most primal emotions when the stakes are constant, high, and unyielding. After all, the climactic formula makes us always react and never reflect on anything. We meet considerable death at points in the story, and we’ve spent so much time with the characters that it is impossible not to feel fleeting rage when one of them leaves, even though we’ve known them as nothing more than lightly-nuanced shapes. The pace is so quick that the story is almost incomprehensible, though the flickers of clarity that penetrate the explosions and swirling lights are resonant. The series has virtually stopped innovating since it first blew away critics a few years ago, but pieces of its narrative have become better in small increments as the story has drawn to a close. Modern Warfare 3 is more drastic than the rest of the franchise. We truck our characters forth into the fields of battle, where we blast past nameless, furious enemies who pour from ruined buildings, sometimes slitting their throats as they stand guard. We’re given a story about inevitable finality, and, at its base, the impact of motivated people colliding with the world. That moment is the entirety of the Modern Warfare 3 narrative, as firefights and roller-coasters take the experience of arcade-realistic war to its threshold. For years now, we’ve followed our heroic pariahs as they careen toward lunatic terrorists, waiting for the moment when it all coalesces into a giant, rapturous finale. They are never slowed by the narrative arcs and artful characters that many games strive to produce, and the result is a delivery of thin but constant euphoria and the desire to be rewarded with even more.Ĭall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is the purest iteration of this practice. Infinity Ward has built their series with a procession of rapid, breathtaking climaxes that amount to hours of distilled dramatic tension and sudden gratifying release. Its formula turns its players into compulsive digital drug addicts, drained from elevated pulses and limitless satisfaction. The Modern Warfare series empties adrenal glands like a speed trip.
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