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Topics: Call Of Duty, Activision, Activision Blizzard, Call Of Duty Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
Topics: Call Of Duty, Activision, Activision Blizzard, Call Of Duty Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II
Call Of Duty fans have called General Shepherd’s death the most satisfying revenge story in gaming history.
There’s nothing like a good revenge story. When an antagonist in a video game has wronged you so badly that all you can think about is the day you can pay them back tenfold for their transgressions. For me, it’s Benny from Fallout: New Vegas, the man who put a bullet in your head at the start of the game. Tracking him across the Mojave before finally getting revenge was one of the most satisfying parts of the game.
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Everyone has a different answer though, and for Call Of Duty fans, it’s usually the same one. Out of all the legendary antagonists in Activision’s first-person shooter franchise, none come close to the dastardly General Shepherd.
Shepherd is an antagonist from Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009), famous for uttering the phrase, "Good. That's one less loose end,” before mercilessly killing practically all of your teammates and running off like the coward he is.
You eventually track him down for some payback, which fans are calling the most “satisfying” villain death in gaming. On a Reddit post discussing the best revenge scenes, one Call Of Duty fan said the following: “Throwing a knife into General Shepherd's skull in the original COD: MW2, such a tense couple of minutes leading up to that and then you finally do it and just lay there in silence.”
As you’d expect, others agreed, with one saying they’ll “never forget” the moment and another adding it’s one of the “best final missions ever". One fan even hailed it as a time “when COD was good,” adding that they longed for a remastered version of Modern Warfare 2, without any changes to the game other than “a higher definition”.
It’s a truly memorable moment, and one the Call Of Duty franchise has repeatedly failed to match despite the best efforts of the recent entries.