Call of Duty Fan Notices Incredible Detail in The Original Modern Warfare

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A Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare player has noticed an incredible parallel with a real war photograph, that very few players will ever have noticed. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is over 16 years old at this point, but that hasn’t stopped players from noticing new things about the classic title.

It’s fair to describe Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare as legendary. As one of the best FPS games of all time, it wrote the blueprint for the modern multiplayer shooter. Despite being released back in 2007, it perfected many elements of the Call of Duty formula, which can still be seen in the series to this day. A remaster of the game was also released in 2016, but it’s the original game that had all the cultural impact. It’s safe to say that without Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the multiplayer shooter genre would look much different today, and not for the better.

Redditor SameHistorian pointed out that the soldier found in the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare main menu is identical to an image taken from Fallujah in 2004. Pretty much every detail is the same, and there’s no doubt that this image was used to create the main menu of the game — even the lighting shines from the same direction. While every Call of Duty game will take some inspiration from real photos like this, it’s rare to them directly incorporated in such a way.

Gamers in the thread loved the connection between the game and the image, with one user describing it as a “hell of a find.” Considering the age of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare at this point, it’s fair for most to assume that the game’s secrets have pretty much all been uncovered, so it’s great to see that there are still some things to find in one of the best FPS games of the 2000s.

While Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is long in the past, its legacy endures. Rumors are currently suggesting that the Call of Duty 2024 title could be revealed sooner than expected, with the next Treyarch game allegedly named Black Ops Gulf War. The series has never