Not to harp on too much about the whole 'what video games do better' shtick, but shooting things from first-person is almost never done on the big screen - save for something like Gravity or, erm, Doom - whereas Call of Duty 4 showed when the right amount of care, pathos and attention are taken, the effects can be very incredibly effective. Playing out like some 24-style 'but the bomb goes off anyway!'-storyline, it's very rare for traditional narratives to go anywhere near the idea that the hero doesn't make it out in one piece. COD itself too has ended up building a reputation for putting you front and centre in the craziest roller coaster-ride campaigns possible, but with Modern Warfare when you're embodying a guy who's caught within a nuclear explosion's blast radius, the effects aren't pretty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L2AXn6erg0 Letting you control Jackson's last moments as you attempt to crawl from the helicopter wreckage you're engulfed in, every fibre of your being is saying this is going to make for a triumphant return to combat - until the camera zooms up and away from the body, only for the status to then read 'K.I.A'.
