The Rook's Bailey

I knew there was going to be something special about the single player campaign in Black Ops 2 when the game began with this emotionally powerful video:

Indeed, it seems that such intense emotional energy is the driving force behind the entire BlOps 2 story, not surprising when David S. Goyer, co-writer of The Dark Knight Rises, & Trent Reznor, of The Social Network fame, are penning the script. Unlike other iterations of the ...

It is done. I have completed the SP campaign in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Keep in mind that this is no small accomplishment for me as the number of SP campaigns I have completed over the years is remarkably small (interestingly, the Call of Duty franchise has the most entries on that list: CoD 1, CoD:MW1 and now MW3). To be fair, it helped that MW3's campaign was surprisingly short - it took me a slight nine hours on the hard difficulty setting to complete it - but it is also true that I found myself really enjoying its tense ...

Wow, I can't believe I made it. I am now an official member of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Prestige Club. It is a very exclusive club (just anyone can be invited ). Still, I find it hard to believe that I actually maxed out to Rank 80 in three or so short months! I never did that with any other shooter!

I am very proud of my new badge (Prestige 6 since I played a little more since then ):

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"How many people had I already killed? There were those six that I knew about for sure. Close enough to blow their last breath in my face...." - Captain Willard, Apocalypse Now

Yeah, you are probably already thinking that this is gonna being an Apocalypse Now-themed entry. Not really (hint: it's actually gonna be a Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3-themed entry!). It's just that I spent the weekend watching that classic war movie and realized I'd forgotten ...

"My fellow countrymen. When you hear these words, the beginning of the fifth meeting between the United States and Russia in the Olympic War Games will be just minutes away." - The Survivor, by Walter F. Moudy

I crouch in the basement of an abandoned building, my heart thumping away in my chest like some out of control metronome. Knowing that death is lurking in every room, hallway, and shadowy corner, I fear to take my eyes from the red dot sight on my combat rifle for even a moment. It would only take second of distraction,

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