My first experience with any COD game was MW2's special ops. I bought the game because I wanted to play the spec ops with a friend of mine. To get three stars in a spec ops mission, you have to beat it on Veteran. On most missions we'd start off on regular or hardened and then do it again on Veteran. In spec ops every time you die you have to do the entire mission over again from the very start. In the campaign there are frequent check points, so in the event you run into something pretty difficult, you get to reply that bit over and over again making it a walk in the park in comparison to the spec ops. I still don't think I am that good at the game, and I still get knocked around by small children while playing online. I am surprised myself how little of a challenge I found it.