10 Most Iconic Moments From Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
4. The Joy Of Sniping In One Shot, One Kill
Okay, so nobody ever really knew what the Coriolis effect was, but in One Shot, One Kill you spent more than two days on surveillance in a rooftop hotel waiting for villainous Imran Zakhaev to do a deal for nuclear materials. Said materials had been poached from the nearby Cherynobyl power plant disaster that both blew up and melted down in 1986.
You had to snipe Zakhaev from almost one kilometre away, and a handy flag affixed to a nearby waiting car told you when to take the shot based on wind speed and direction. Captain MacMillan was your spotter, and also explained you would have to "Take the Coriolis effect into account". We all smiled and nodded at home pretending to know what on earth he was blathering on about.
With the kill confirmed, cue a mad escape through derelict housing and a fight among rusted fairground rides. The second in this pair of assassination missions was precisely the opposite of the one before: fast-paced, thrilling and genuinely difficult on Veteran in the final fairground stand-off.
The feeling of being outnumbered and outgunned left you rushing with adrenaline once it was all over as you find yourself saying, "Thank goodness for Ghillies!"