Call of Duty: Modern Warfare isn't pulling any punches. We know that the game will feature intense, extremely violent missions, including a child soldier mission that has already generated headlines for the pure brutality displayed in it. We also know that the game will put players in morally questionable situations, like one mission where they infiltrate a townhome filled with both terrorists and civilians, with the goal being figuring out who is who and making the right calls.

This mission in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has a variety of scenarios where players may end up killing innocent people. For example, there is one moment that has been talked about quite a bit where a woman rushes to get her baby, but the player is at first led to believe she is going for a weapon. Players are free to shoot the woman if they feel threatened, and in fact, they can shoot all of the civilians in the townhome without failing the mission.

In past Call of Duty games, players would often fail missions if there were too many civilian casualties, but this isn't the case for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Instead players' actions are judged by a "collateral damage" score that will rank their performance from A to F at the end of a mission. Essentially, this means that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare players can keep progressing through the game, even when they purposefully kill civilians.

However, there will be rewards players will get when they score well and avoid too much collateral damage. Examples of those rewards haven't been given by Infinity Ward at this time, but more should come to light when we get nearer to release, maybe as early as the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare E3 2019 Coliseum event on June 11. In the meantime, there will be other consequences to killing civilians in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare besides just getting a bad collateral damage score.

Another consequence to killing civilians in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is that the other characters in the game will react to what the player does. This is partly an effort to make the players "feel bad" for making wrong decisions, according to campaign director Jacob Minkoff.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has made playtesters cry, so it seems Infinity Ward's plan to make players feel remorse for their actions is working. How that works on a larger scale remains to be seen, but we'll find out come launch.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare launches on October 25 for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

Source: PCGamesN