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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)

There had been so many permutations of video games depicting war over the years that the genre inevitably began to seem stale...at least when Modern Warfarearrived and inspired the imaginations (or at least the profanity-filled tirades) of millions of gamers on Internet-enabled consoles. The fourth Call of Duty ditched the World War II setting of previous iterations and went Fox News blunt in Middle Eastern politics. Concocting a completely fictional international crisis that taught millions of young gamers that winning a war is as simple as getting a killstreak and calling in an airstrike.