10 Best No. 4's In Gaming History
3. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Speaking of monumentally important FPS games...
Doom may have been a triumphant return to old-school values, but Modern Warfare was the game that made those values fall out of fashion in the first place. The fourth Call of Duty's towering success spawned a host of imitators in the decade that followed, but none came close to Modern Warfare's imperious heights.
To be fair, CoD 4 set a very high bar to reach. The perspective-hopping campaign felt genuinely revolutionary at the time, and led to some of gaming's most iconic moments. Levels such as All Ghillied Up, Death From Above and Aftermath carry the same heady weight as a vintage wine label, and evoke much the same sense of satisfaction - that of experiencing a perfect exemplar of the craft.
Oft-imitated but never bettered - even by its own sequels - Modern Warfare 4 remains a staggering triumph for its campaign alone. The fact that it also contains a generation-defining multiplayer frankly feels like cheating from Infinity Ward.