10 Most Iconic Moments From Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
7. The Execution Of Yasir Al-Fulani
After the daring boat raid with a group of the SAS's finest, an American intelligence agent tracks an anonymous vehicle through a middle eastern street via satellite imagery.
You warp into the shoes of President Al-Fulani: captured, beaten and driven through the streets towards a fate unknown. Credits roll. Music gently ebbs with the right mix of western movie symphony and eastern instrumentals. Everything important to the game, story and setting is shown in this section: It is very much Infinity Ward channelling Valve with their railroad style of expository introduction.
Dusty streets are filled with rusty cars, captured and escaping civilians, soldiers firing AK 47s into the air. Helicopters and jets fly overhead. Traitors are massacred up against crumbling walls by firing squads. An early version of what looks like Niko from GTA IV sits in the front passenger seat.
An enraged speaker is your tour guide through these streets as you are loudly denounced on radio and television as a 'traitor to your country', before you gradually realise what your fate will be.
No daring escape. No slow-motion, quick time event, no rescue from heroic spec ops soldiers. You die, live on TV and your country is torn apart in the events thereafter.
As a player, you see who you'll be facing off against, and have the right level of understanding about just how brutal these villains can be.