Five reasons why COD4 will make you soil yourself

Becaus𒉰e of certain twists throughout the game, you're never confident that any high-intensity moment will work out in your favour💖. Which makes this speedy escape from a Russian military base all the more exhilerating.

It doesn't hurt that, along the way, you'll have to gun down trucks full of soldiers, or that half-way through you're chased by a Hind gunship. An😼d the fact that hardly a second passes without something exploding or a missile being aimed at your head means you'll never feel safe, even when it's all over...

#5 - You're caught in a terrifying nuclear blast

Modern Warfare succeeds brilliantly in subverting your expectations and giving you the fright of yo🍰ur life when you least expect i💞t.

So, for🐟 instance, when you're high-tailing it out of a hotzone, having just rescued a downed pilot and dragged her to safety, the last thing you expect is to fi🍎nd yourself the victim of a fantastically-realised nuclear explosion. But it's the aftermath that really hurts.

We can honestly say🥃 we may have underestimated Call of Duty 4 before playing it, but this single sequence was enough to convince us that Modern Warfare ൲was something really special. And, all the while, you're expecting to be rescued. Because, well, that's what happens in games. Isn't it? Help!

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In th🌠e years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.