Watch Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s most gut-wrenching scenes

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 25, 2019
Updated June 20, 2025
3 min

You can’t unsee some of the brutal scenes in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, this year’s first-person combat game from Infinity Ward and Activision. If you don’t want to see them or even get a mental picture of them, stop right here.

Infinity Ward’s leaders have said they have tried to make a game that makes players both uncomfortable and makes them think. They say the game’s violence isn’t gratuitous. It’s contextual, fitting for the story and the artistic themes of the game about where soldiers have to draw the line in modern warfare.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.