Call of Duty: Modern Warfare has had its fair share of controversies due to the gritty depiction of war. And now, the game is under fire, yet again for how it rewrites a particularly grim part of US history in the Highway of Death Campaign mission, reassigning blame for a massive war crime from the United States to Russia.
The mission in question is played from the perspective of a United States CIA agent, tasked with eliminating enemy terrorists across a valley full of shacks and degraded vehicles. In the briefing for the mission, Russia is blamed for the death, destruction, and dilapidation across the roadway, nicknamed the Highway of Death on account of the large death toll. However, the Highway of Death is a real place where the United States carried out attacks on Iraqi forces in 1991, which claimed the lives of an estimated 500-600 people, similar to the events of the game. Many have accused Modern Warfare of flipping things around to make Russians look bad while the United States comes across as heroes.
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