MW2 was when it started going off the rails, but it was only like half off. There was still some good stuff in that game. No Russian has stood the test of time as an a authentic statement, unpleasant as it is. The Chinese dropping into suburban LA was Red Dawn nonsense, but it was a way of confronting the idea of war with near-peer adversaries, which has been all the rage in the defense/geopolitics sphere since Afghanistan ended.

MW2 was when it started going off the rails, but it was only like half off. There was still some good stuff in that game.