There's no way to get past it and no allies to help you.'

'The one that always sticks out in the first game is the one where you're a sniper sent to take someone out. There are a few levels that demand more of you,' Sheely tells me over Skype. 'The levels that are the most successful are ones where you have a whole group of people and it's just a big battlefield.

He won't break either of the above rules unless the game's programming makes it impossible to proceed, even after he tries to exploit that programming.

He'll do whatever he can to avoid hurting anyone if he has to use weapons or explosives.

He goes by three rules as he plays through one of the most violent shooters in gaming as non-violently as possible. He's played through 2007's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare back in 2016, and is currently playing through 2019's Modern Warfare campaign as a pacifist on his YouTube channel.

Sheely is a game developer, experimental artist, and activist currently living in Los Angeles. He hesitated, trying to think of anything he could do to complete the mission without directly killing Zakhaev, before letting a bullet fly taking Zakhaev's arm clean off. Sheely held his sniper rifle steady as Zakhaev arrived via an SUV in a parking lot in the distance, keeping his marker steady on his target's head. He was waiting for his target, Russian arms dealer and revolutionary Imran Zakhaev, in the nuclear remnants of Pripyat.

Kent Sheely was laying on the edge of an abandoned hotel rooftop: frozen, anxious, and ready.

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