30 Best Video Games Of All Time

9. Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

When it comes to landmark shooters, COD's redirect from old-school World War tonalities into the modern day is one of the most iconic, recognisable, successful, and medium-changing of all.

Seriously, from the day Modern Warfare landed and for about as long as it took for Overwatch to change things up again some nine years later, we saw the industry embrace set-piece spectacles, perk systems to shape your character, killstreak bonuses, twitch-reactions to gain the upper hand and cinematic, Hollywood-rivalling production values.

Modern Warfare's campaign is nothing short of the best Hollywood action movie never made, comprising genuine sadness when Sgt. Paul Jackson is killed in the fallout of a nuclear blast, heart-pounding sniper duel tension whilst crawling through the grass in All Ghillied Up, and a final clip-unloading finale where a slid gun leads to you saving the day.

Talk about its trivialisation and desensitisation of war all day long, Modern Warfare remains one of the best-playing and tightest shooters of all time, with a story and sense of longevity we're only just now seeing start to dry up.