So says General Shepherd in Activision’s latest masterpiece of video gaming, Modern Warfare 2. It’s the coolest, fastest, best graphiced first person shooter. Ever. You get to live life, or rather lives (it’s also the most realistic and difficult shooter on the market), as U.S. rangers, anti-terrorist Special Ops troops, and at one optional point, the terrorists. And Activion certainly aimed well when they developed this game: gamers spent $550 million on Modern Warfare 2 in the first five days of it’s release.

So, moral of the story: people like to shoot guns.

For those who aren’t personally into shooting, they can do it vicariously through video games, and gun toters in real life get to re-experience the same weapons without the recoil and danger. And Modern Warfare 2 provides a veritable feast of weaponry to wrap your cyber fingers around. In fact, there’s probably no appetizer, entree, drink, or dessert missing from this munitions meal. Modern Warfare 2 boasts everything from the ACRs (Adaptive Combat Rifle) used by the fictional anti-terroristTask Force 141, to the M-14s and -16s wielded by elements of the 75th Ranger Battalion, U.S. Army. Along the way, gamers get to shoot all the current firearms of the world, in addition to a few spicy extras, like the eclectic Beretta 93R, the little-known Vector, the behemoth Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifle, and the Moby Dick of all shotguns, the Striker. All of these are real guns, which makes it all the more enjoyable for gamers who lean towards the more realistic games.

Actually the game teaches some important points about shooting, such as the title of this article. It also teaches games to hold their breath as they squeeze off a precision shot, the better to hold the target in their sites. Modern Warefare 2 also reminds players of basic physics that most first persons shooters skip over; like, grenades will roll on sloped surfaces, yes, you do have to reload, which takes time, and other real-life facts.

This is a game that no gun afficionado should miss out on, and that no gamer has an excuse for not playing.