Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)

[opening mission (The Coup)]The player is placed inside the body of a deposed Arab president as he is driven through a burning city and executed on camera by the game's antagonist. The country is never named - it is simply 'the Middle East,' a generic stage for a coup. Its people appear as mobs and militants glimpsed through a car window.
[mission: Charlie Don't Surf]US Marines assault an Arab city; the level's soundscape uses mosque loudspeakers as ambient texture for combat. Religious and civic geography exists only as cover and target.
[throughout]The Arab enemy faction is an interchangeable mass - Arabic-shouting fighters with no names, no motives beyond fanaticism, and no civilian counterparts. Across the campaign the game presents an entire unnamed Arab nation with not one named, sympathetic citizen of it.

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