Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Reveiw
So, here you are, John ''Soap'' MacTavish, you have just passed selection and have been inserted into the British 22nd SAS Regiment. You start your training by preparing yourself for a cargo ship infaltration, you are then introduced to your captain and fellow soldier, Captain Price and Gaz. As your mission begins, you take a chopper to the ship and eliminate a few enemies with your fellow soldiers. You then break into the hull and stealthily take out necessary targets. You get spotted and have a long range shoot out with enemies across the hull. When all the enemies have been eliminated, you find a container with nuclear material inside. You don't have enough time to take it as the ship is sinking. Captain Price just tells you to take the plans and then there is a frantic dash to escape. Your team makes it to the chopper, and you have to make a jump to it. You slip, but good old Captain Price grabs you at the last second.
The next mission, you have to rescue an ultranationalist who gave you information from captivity. You fight your way through a lot of enemies while you're searching for this man in pitch black. You team up with the Russian Ultranationalist army and provide support for the men from the cliffside. You battle your way through and end up at a house. Gaz goes around the back and turns off the power, you turn on your nightvision and enter the house. All you have to do now is kill the basically blind soldiers. You find your prisoner and take him to safety. You board a chopper and escape.
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In your next assignment, you play as US Sgt. Paul Jackson. You and your team are assigned to infiltrate a t.v station where you have heard that Khaled Al-Asad is hiding. You have lots of street shootouts with afghan rebels on your way to the station. When you arrive at the building, you break in and eliminate all the enemies on the bottom floor. You head upstairs and you hear a voice. You break down the door and find it's a recording. So your team head back to HQ.
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You play as Jackson again as your team has to get to a tank that got stuck in a bog and is in danger of being taken by afghan forces. You fight through a pitch black building and then patrol through the streets on the lookout for enemies. You see a highway with a few tanks heading in the direction of the bog. You use the Javelin rocket launcher to take them out. You eventually locate the trapped tank and protect it from oncoming enemies. After the bog has been cleared, you find yourself pinned down by MG fire. So, you call in a helicopter to take them out. You and your team assemble back at the tank and form a plan for the following day.
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This next mission involves Soap. You and your team are on the run from Russian forces after your helicopter was shot down. First you take what guns you need from the downed chopper and follow your Captain. You spot an oncoming patrol and quickly hide under a bridge. You crawl through a field towards a house as an enemy helicopter passes above. If you play it smart, it shouldn't see you. You enter the house and take out a few enemies in the process. You find yourself at a barnyard. Your team eliminates the enemy threats and follows you to the barn. Inside the barn is a Stinger rocket launcher that Gaz tells you to shoot the enemy chopper down with. With the chopper safely destroyed, you and your team head down a road searching for a way to escape. The mission ends here.
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The next mission is a strange one. You are the gunman of an Assault aircraft, which you use to carve a path with your cannons to let your team pass safely. Nothing special in this mission, it's just you blowing up many enemies while your team reaches the Landing Zone choppers.
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The next mission for Sgt. Paul Jackson is the following day in the bog. You fight your way through a hoard of enemies while being assisted by the newly freed tank. After the bog has been wiped clean of enemies, you head through a barrier that leads into a narrow, street-based town. You take out enemies from both sides of the street as you fight to the end of the road. The final set of enemies, are two on MG's. You take these out and head into a building. An enemy tank approaches an aims it turret directly at you. However the freed tank destroyed the enemy tank before it could take the shot. Then you and your team headed to the Landing Zone and were picked up by chopper.
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This mission, is where you play as Jackson. But you are now the gunman of an automatic grenade launcher in the chopper. You and your team are in one of many choppers about to invade the enemy capital city because of rumors of a nuclear launch. Basically, half this mission is shooting enemies on rooftops. But one of your fellow Cobra choppers is downed and you are ordered to land and search for it. You search a construction site, to no avail. So you head back to your helicopter and search again. This time you do find the chopper and hear that one of the pilots is still alive. You land and are timed to retrieve the pilot. You get the pilot to the safety of the chopper and you take off. Your captain tells you that the nuclear launch is about to take place so everyone must retreat. While the whole band of choppers was escaping, the bomb went off and the force of it downed all of the helicopters... When you wake up, you are alone in the remainder of the vehicle. All of your team is dead. You struggle to get out of the wreck and fall to the ground. As you get up, you see the crumbling buildings all around you. You then collapse and the screen turns white. This signifies the end of Paul Jackson.
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For the remainder of the game, you play as Soap. The next mission involves you and your team to search for Al-Asad in a small hillside village. In the majority of the mission, you search 5 houses with no results. So, you find him in a barn at the end of the village. Captain Price then beats the man mercilessly and is expecting answers. He then gets fed up and shoots Al-Asad. Then Al-Asad's phone rings. Captain Price answers it and says it was Imran Zachaev. He then has a flashback of when he and his captain were sent to assassinate Zachaev.
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The next mission is the playable flashback. You play as a young Leftenant Price 15 years in the past. You are in the radiation filled Chernobyl with your captain, Captain MacMillan. In your ghillie suits, you pass and kill enemies without being noticed. You pass through a type of church and you then are confronted by a moving patrol. You use the tall grass to your advantage and sneak pass the patrol undetected. You then eliminate certain enemies before crawling under trucks to reach your next destination. You pass through a few apartment blocks and spot an abandoned hotel in the distance. This is where you will make your assassination.
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The next mission is just the other half of the first one. You and your captain are on the top floor of the hotel with sniper in hand. You zoom into the area where Zachaev was making his nuclear transaction. You take the shot but only end up tearing his arm off. Then a chopper spots you and you have to grapple down the building to avoid the exploding floor. You and your captain are told that you have 15 minutes to reach the LZ. So you fight off hoards of enemies and you pass through a few apartments. After shooting down an enemy helicopter, it crash lands and falls on MacMillan's legs and he is unable to walk. So, you have to carry him to the LZ. You carry him through some apartments, putting him down to kill necessary foes. You take him to the LZ but the chopper is 5 km away. So you place traps all over the area and you stay with your captain on a section of grass where you hold off many enemies with your sniper rifles. After a long battle, the chopper arrives and you get MacMillan to the safety of the helicopter and take off, escaping alive.
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The next mission is set 8 hours after Al-Asad was shot. You and your team are holding off some enemies on a steep hill with mines and heavy fire. You are then outnumbered and have to retreat back to the minigun on the downed chopper and hold off the enemies for a little while longer. When you need to again, you retreat back to a tavern where there are detonators for C4 all along the mountainside to slow down the enemy. Then you make a last ditch effort and retreat back to the barn where you killed Al-Asad. You are told that you have 6 minutes to reach the end of the hill at the LZ to escape in the waiting helicopter. So, you and your team fight your way back down the hill and reach the chopper and escape unharmed.
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The next mission is the first of the joint missions. By joint missions, I mean that the Americans are assisting the British to finish the remainder of the war. They are doing this because their main objective, Al-Asad, is now eliminated. So, you and your team and the Americans are invading a small diner on a Russian road at night. You eliminate all the enemies in the diner and take their uniforms. The next morning, you are waiting for Zachaev's son to show up and get information from him. He eventually shows up with a convoy in a jeep. He find out it's a set up and makes a run for it but you remain in hot pursuit. You chase him down a street, killing all his soldiers on the way. You then chase him into apartment blocks and corner him on the roof. Before you can restrain him and get information, he shoots himself. Mission failed. But they won't stop there.
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The next mission involves you and your team to search for American Sgt. Griggs. When you were parachuting into Russian territory, Griggs swayed off course. You kill necessary enemies and then search a couple of houses. You eventually find Griggs and then you find the radio transmitter of the enemy army. You destroy it with C4 and then you break through a fence. After a short trek down the road, you make it to an enemy filled complex and you pass through after a lot of enemy deaths. After you pass through the buildings, you trek down another road to find the American Sniper Team 2. They say they will provide you with cover, but then, two nuclear missiles are launched from the facility and are headed for the main cities of the US. Your team runs towards the entrance and the mission ends.
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The next mission involves your team infiltrating the base. As you enter the gates, you are confronted by an armored tank that you destroy with C4. Then you carve your path through the enemies on the path. Gaz then blows the gates into the facility and your team storms the launch pad. After destroying 2 more tanks, you and your team infiltrate the underground launch bunker using an air vent. Through the whole bunker, you go down different tunnels and eliminate every enemy in your way. You reach a dead end where intel says the launch control room is. So, Captain Price blows the wall with C4 and you storm the place. You upload the abort codes and the missiles are destroyed and destroy themselves in the sea. Then you are told that Zachaev is escaping in the parking lot. So you follow Captain Price to the parking lot and get in a jeep. Mission ends there.
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The last mission of the game is to escape the launch facility and pursue Zachaev. You shoot at enemies in hot pursuit, and you shoot at a chasing helicopter which blows up the bridge nearby. You stumble to your feet and jump onto the safe side of the bridge before it collapses. You and your team have a shootout with the other army and the bridge explodes. You are knocked to the ground and Sgt. Griggs begins to drag you to safety and he gets shot in the torso. You see Zachaev and his two henchmen shooting all survivors. Just then, a helicopter explodes in the backround and distracts them. Just then, Captain Price slides you a pistol, which you use to kill the two henchmen and then ultimately, Zachaev. Then, just as all seems lost, the Ultranationalist army shows up and puts you on a helicopter stretcher. As you look across, you see a lifeless Captain Price and Gaz Receiving CPR. Then you get lifted into the air and the screen turns black.
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To show that Soap survived, there is an extra mission to show that the SAS are still tackling missions after the war. You are on a passenger aircraft where you must save a VIP hostage from terrorists. You kill all the enemies, retrieve the hostage and jump out of the plane before it explodes.
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And that concludes the campaign mode, R.I.P Captain Price and Sgt. Griggs