It seems silly, a Call of Duty mission making me tear up as I played it. I had seen this mission being played on YouTube and Tik Tok prior to me actually playing the game for myself, and my own experience of it was vastly different to what I had watched. Upon hearing the mother and her baby, I teared up. I don't know why, maybe it was the crying from the baby, or the mother tending to her baby while we raided the house, but I had to pause the game to get ahold of myself. This mission was so immersive that every person I saw, every person I shot, every person I killed, all felt like real people. No other game has come close to this level of immersion, at least in my opinion, and I felt like that was the reason why I teared up upon the baby's crying. They felt like real, living people, and I felt sorry for the innocent people amongst the Al-Qatala members.