User blog comment:Didikins/Map gimmicks: why do these exist?/@comment-1916935-20150117042655/@comment-24756040-20150118143324

@Sam Truth is, most long-lasting weapons do end up being reliable, thus they end up with wide recognition, making them iconic. Modern Warfare was much more towards weapons that had wide recognition today, such as the FN-P90 or the FN F2000.

Weapon nuts would probably be familiar with it before it comes into a CoD game, too.

Truth is, the Galil may have been around a long time, but not a lot of countries adopted it for widespread use. Only Israel adopted it as a service rifle (most of the AR's in CoD have been Service Rifles at one point), and ever since 2005 it's fiercely in contention with the IMI Tavor. To be honest, it has some recognition, but it's definitely not the widespread type that everybody can identify easily.

In my eyes, the Galil was lucky to make it into the game, and to even be recognized by Treyarch. As well, it's still lucky to kick ass and even luckier to be a badass in Zombies.