Call of Duty is a game that actually captures the Private Ryan pathos--as opposed to simply cashing-in on the flag waving sentiment that fantastic film evoked.

It's warfare that feels as authentic as interactive entertainment allows, encompassing the true dreadfulness of WWII, the terror of taking each step as it if might be your last and exploring the barely-contained chaos of one unpredictable skirmish after another, where the gameplan is ever changing, on-the-fly, to meet the needs of moment by moment situations.

Invariably, you the player are integral to these newly contrived operations, which effectively evokes a sense of wee cog in a big war machine. It makes you feels simultaneously small but significant, humble but heroic.

Call of Duty plays familiar and intuitive like any archetypical first-person-shooter (FPS), but delivers top-of-the-line virtual warfare with real emotion.