User blog comment:7th Body/Call of Duty Realisticness/@comment-1790643-20100602181504

It's not realistic because it's a computer action game, not a war sim. It's not supposed to be true to life, it's supposed to take things that happen in the real world, then dramatize and exaggerate them to create an entertaining fantasy that's accessible to a wide audience. And just like any other game, it has it's own rules and rewards that provide an interesting structure to the way people play, as well as an incentive for doing so.

I don't play COD to get a sense of what it's like to be in an elite light infantry unit (or to get a sense of what it's like to use certain guns and ammunition), I play COD to have fun.

And wayback when the game first came out, walking around like Schwarzenegger in multiplayer was fucking good FUN.