Shooting the Baby In Modern Warfare Reveals Secret Easter Egg

Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is all anyone’s talking about right now, and for good reason. The newly-released game is being praised left, right and centre for its gameplay, story and design, with Easter eggs being discovered all the time.

One of the most intriguing Easter eggs discovered so far comes from Bechrisslol on YouTube [via Dexerto], who found out that repeatedly shooting the baby in one of the missions can get you booted out of the level.

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The Easter egg can be found in the “Clean House” mission, which sees you work your way through a London townhouse and trying to avoid killing civilians.

In the clip below (which contains baby-shooting, so viewer discretion is advised), Bechrisslol firstly gets warned with a message stating ‘Children are non-combatants.’

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Shooting the baby yet again sees the player returned to the previous checkpoint, which happens a lot in CoD games if you get too trigger-happy on civilians.

If you continue to shoot at the helpless lil baby then you’ll eventually see a different message, this time asking: “Are you serious?” 

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It’s at the point that you’ll get kicked out of the mission for bad behaviour, and at this point, you kind of deserve it to be honest.

It’s a neat little way to try and contain the killing that players could potentially go on in Modern Warfare, a game which already touches on a lot of sensitive issues.

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White phosphorus, decapitation, child-killing, suicide bombers and more are all touched upon in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, so it’s good to see the game has some deterrents in place for those players who like to live life on the edge.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is one of the darkest games in the series. Play it now on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4.

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