Call of Duty 4 too intense for "weak gamers"

By Ben_Richardson
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Try not to soil yourself, warns military advisor

Nov 5, 2007

Call of Duty has always been an exhilerating series, but Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is intense like you wouldn't believe. In fact, it's so intense that Infinity Ward want to "caution the weak gamers out there not to soil yourself when you see this game". Sheesh.

Actually, it's Infinity Ward's long term military adviser doing the cautioning. And he should know, having served in the US Army for more thantwo decades. Though he's now retired, so much less likely to kill you to death if you fail to heed his warning. (Disclaimer: Not that any soldier would ever actually do that. Er. Honest)

But enough of our civvy waffle. Here's Hank Kiersey explaining how Modern Warfare is as close to the real thing as you're ever going to get:

Call of Duty has always been an exhilerating series, but Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is intense like you wouldn't believe. In fact, it's so intense that Infinity Ward want to "caution the weak gamers out there not to soil yourself when you see this game". Sheesh.

Actually, it's Infinity Ward's long term military adviser doing the cautioning. And he should know, having served in the US Army for more thantwo decades. Though he's now retired, so much less likely to kill you to death if you fail to heed his warning. (Disclaimer: Not that any soldier would ever actually do that. Er. Honest)

But enough of our civvy waffle. Here's Hank Kiersey explaining how Modern Warfare is as close to the real thing as you're ever going to get:

Ben_Richardson

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.