NO RUSSIANS

CALL OF DUTY's director ditched enemy nations so he could visit without bodyguards

-  Fraser Brown

Call of Duty has been around the block a few times, and across the years it's turned a lot of the world's countries into videogame enemies. In contemporary or near-future games, though, that can be problematic, as former Call of Duty director Glen Schofield realized when he was promoting the first incarnation of Modern Warfare 3.

"I was doing 30 days of press for Modern Warfare 3," he tells us during a wide-ranging chat about his history with the series. "I'm all over the world, and the last stop is in the UK, and I'm having dinner with some journalists from the UK and I get a call. They say, 'We need you to go to Russia tomorrow and do some more press'. And by then, I was really tired. I'm like, 'Do you know who the enemies are in