User blog comment:Didikins/Map gimmicks: why do these exist?/@comment-3967954-20150117085857

"Realistic war settings" are a dying breed because nobody likes them. They've been done to death in earlier CoD games. People don't care about the setting of the map so long as it looks pretty, and to be honest I don't think it really matters at the end of the day, because you're still just shooting people regardless.