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Prior to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the knife made only incidental appearances, and could never actually be used. Melee attacks in the games prior had used pistol whips and bashes with the butt of the gun. Since Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the knife has been the main melee weapon, triggered by pressing the melee button (default V on the PC, clicking the right thumb-stick on the Xbox 360, clicking the R3 Button or pressing down on the D-Pad on the PS3 and Wii), as taught in the missions F.N.G. and S.S.D.D. .

In The Crossroads , a German attacks the American character, Nichols, with a knife in a scripted Close Quarter Battle. He is not able to stab Nichols, and after his death, the knife does not make a reappearance. The knife is a Hitler Youth knife, as evidenced by the German etching on the blade, which reads Blut und Ehre! , or Blood and Honor! This etching further identifies the knife as produced in 1937, as blades produced after 1937 did not have this motto.

The knife in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is based on the SOG Knife, and is the only knife featured in the game. It possesses a range of a little over five feet and has a slight delay between the stab and the actual hit. This is easily observed in Multiplayer, where connection issues amplify this. It is caused by the relatively slow lunge speed. However, It always kills an enemy in one slash or stab, except in Old School multiplayer matches, where two knife attacks are required to kill an enemy player at full health. This two-hit-kill knifing also applies when double health is applied on Private Matches. In single-player, the only NPC appearance of the knife is when Captain Price uses one to execute an Ultranationalist in Ultimatum.

The knife in Call of Duty: World at War is based off of the KA-BAR knife, and shares the same statistics as its counterpart in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. The stab animation is slightly faster and the hit connects when the user retracts the knife, instead of slightly after the player punctures the enemy. However, it can be rather inconsistent in its ability to connect and kill enemies, making its effective range only about one to three feet. It also makes a very loud and distinguishable swinging noise, especially when performing the stab animation (observed from the knifer's point of view), which can easily reveal the knifer. Interestingly enough, if there is no more ammunition inside a player's gun, they will swing the knife faster.

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