10 Hugely Important Video Games Kids Today Can Never Fully Appreciate

9. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

2007 was a special time for video games; the twilight era of World War 2 shooters, the sub-genre was rightly coming to an end after years and years of over-saturation on the market. With the future blown wide open, it was unclear if there'd ever be a game that could revitalise the genre to its once great heights ever again - until Call of Duty 4 blew everything else out the water, of course. With a (at the time) daring setting and a fresh take on multiplayer that would set the precedent for an entire generation of gaming, the original Modern Warfare just seemed to get everything right. Whether you were a fan of competitive multiplayer modes, first-person shooters or just well-told contemporary warfare stories, Modern Warfare satisfied the needs of just about every single gamer in 2007. However, like Gears of War, those once game-changing innovations just don't seem as special after you've seen them adopted in hundreds of other releases. It's hard to understand the allure of a class-based, XP-driven multiplayer system when every successful online game features one now, but at the time this was a novel idea that provided players with an experience they simply hadn't seen before.