Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is doing everything it can to make you slow down. It’s quite the shift, particularly as Infinity Ward (and the litany of Activision studios that have followed in its footsteps) has spent the better part of 17 years conditioning us to navigate online battlefields with highly specific tactics. We were taught to sprint between firefights with two eyes glued to the mini-map, to reload our weapons the second a single bullet is fired from the chamber, and to aggressively press every opportunity to push at a frontline – as it was in Call of Duty 2; so it remains in Vanguard.
