10 Best Next-Gen Reveals In Gaming History

10. Call Of Duty 4 Makes Modern Warfare Beautiful

2007 was supposed to be the year that Halo 3 would announce it dominance over the gaming industry, becoming the game that would perpetually spin in broken homes and fraternity houses all across the world. The problem is, no one told Activision, who would successfully wrest the position of top-franchise from Bungie with their game, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.

The game's success was a perfect storm of America not being able to process its collective grief, while gamers were all harboring a collective appetite for something different after being flooded with sci-fi shooters, and Call of Duty 4 actually feeling like a next generation shooter.

When players first slipped on the night vision goggles to see their targeting lasers dance across the screen, or the deserts dust particles blow through the environment, they knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that the sci-fi shooter was dead, and that the seventh console generation wouold be dominated by the modern military aesthetic.

Taking the fight online, gamers would spend hours in lobbies more toxic than Chernobyl, creating their own classes and customizing with perks to make sure they could top the next game's leaderboards.

From this point on, all shooter games would be judged by the standard that Modern Warfare set.