{"id":23281,"date":"2026-05-28T16:37:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/call-of-controversy-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-imagines-a-revived-korean-war\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:37:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:37:35","slug":"call-of-controversy-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-imagines-a-revived-korean-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/call-of-controversy-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-imagines-a-revived-korean-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of controversy? Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 imagines a revived Korean war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Infinity Ward\u2019s new game in the storied shooter genre embraces change with a potentially controversial real-world setting<\/p>\n<p>There was a time when Call of Duty (CoD) regularly courted controversy. In 2009, Modern Warfare 2\u2019s infamous \u201cNo Russian\u201d mission saw players (optionally) shooting screaming civilians in a Moscow airport. In 2022\u2019s entry, a drone strike mission that drew chilling parallels to the real-world US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Suleimani two years earlier was featured. The series has not always been straightforwardly palatable.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, however, the world\u2019s most popular shooter game has largely swapped grit for melodrama, following the misadventures of a troop of larger than life elite soldiers. For 2026\u2019s Modern Warfare 4, however, Activision\u2019s shooter series and its developer Infinity Ward are back in tabloid-baiting territory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2026\/may\/28\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-korean-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/753de16883ea8f862f37d6c5879cf9a3d178a280\/211_90_2287_1830\/master\/2287.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2b55c3ff16680351b08e40a2aa0df072\" title=\"Call of controversy? Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 imagines a revived Korean war\" \/>Infinity Ward\u2019s new game in the storied shooter genre embraces change with a potentially controversial real-world setting<br \/>\nThere was a time when Call of Duty (CoD) regularly courted controversy. In 2009, Modern Warfare 2\u2019s infamous \u201cNo Russian\u201d mission saw players (optionally) shooting screaming civilians in a Moscow airport. In 2022\u2019s entry, a drone strike mission that drew chilling parallels to the real-world US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Suleimani two years earlier was featured. The series has not always been straightforwardly palatable.<br \/>\nIn recent years, however, the world\u2019s most popular shooter game has largely swapped grit for melodrama, following the misadventures of a troop of larger than life elite soldiers. For 2026\u2019s Modern Warfare 4, however, Activision\u2019s shooter series and its developer Infinity Ward are back in tabloid-baiting territory. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infinity Ward\u2019s new game in the storied shooter genre embraces change with a potentially controversial real-world setting There was a time when Call of Duty (CoD) regularly courted controversy. In 2009, Modern Warfare 2\u2019s infamous \u201cNo Russian\u201d mission saw players (optionally) shooting screaming civilians in a Moscow airport. In 2022\u2019s entry, a drone strike mission &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/call-of-controversy-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-imagines-a-revived-korean-war\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Call of controversy? Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 imagines a revived Korean war<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23281"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}