Video Games · 2007
Fifty thousand people used to live here. Now it's a ghost town.
— Captain MacMillan · Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
MacMillan measures the abandoned city by the people who once lived there. Heard in the opening and again during All Ghillied Up, the sentence gives the empty buildings a human scale. The silence suggests ordinary lives interrupted long before the soldiers arrive.
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