Can't keep up in Capture The Flag? Look, you get the point. Losing squadmates left and right in Team Deathmatch? Go solo and get a Nuke to win. Getting crushed in Domination? A Nuke will fix that. On top of that almost inhuman achievement, what made the Nuke so special, so much more desirable than other killstreaks, was the fact that it ended the game and automatically won it for the side of the player who called it in. Calling one in assigned you with a badge of honour that allowed bragging rights in the school playground because it was no easy feat - you needed to get 25 kills without dying.

The Tactical Nuke was the big daddy of all killstreaks and everyone wanted one. Future killstreaks were constantly in the shadow of the Nuke's mushroom cloud. For a solid year, YouTube boomed with guides on how to get Nukes and montages of people detonating them. These killstreaks changed the landscape of Call of Duty for years to come, and no killstreak did that more than the Tactical Nuke. It was the perfect arcade shooter because it was easy to pick up, it took seconds to get into a game, and the killstreaks were incredible. Modern Warfare 2 was the absolute pinnacle of Call of Duty. Either way, if you played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 back in its heyday, I'm sure you actually heard that line as you read it - followed quickly by that skull-splitting siren. 'Tactical nuke, incoming!' was either the sound of sweet victory or bitter defeat.

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