Alternate Modern Warfare 3 Ending Found 13 Years Later! 

13 years ago, I lost an alternate ending in the blink of an eye, and the world just f**king watched!

I guess the Tobacco from the Cigars Price had inhaled over the years finally caught up to him

Thankfully this is cut, imagine spending three whole games hyping up The Four Horseman only for them to reveal ANOTHER villain at the very end

Frost is the only survivor of Kingfish

I'm pretty sure it's agent 47, the baldest of them all.

People have said it could be a couple of things: 1. It’s Yuri surviving the shot and rescuing Price but given it was changed to a headshot in the final product doubtful 2. Price is hallucinating as he’s dying and sees the ghost of either Zakhev or Soap 3. It was going to be one of Task Force Stalker saving Price at the last moment and setting up Ghosts

if the cutscene is being rendered at real time you can always break the camera and take a closer look at the guy

I find it crazy how this was overlooked

It's the hotel manager. Who, enraged and disgruntled by the destruction of his hotel, vows to lay waste to the west and their allies, while a dying Price watches on in fear, knowing that, while Makarov was dead, they had inadvertently created a new enemy Edit: Damn, I was not expecting my comment to get so many likes haha, thanks everyone! I'm glad I was able to give so many people a good laugh from this :)

A Piece of COD Lost Media Has Been Found.

It still shocking to find something after 13 years man,Shocking.

Lowkey thought this was gonna be click bait

It could be Death letting Price know it's time to move on.

Its the janitor.

"Shepherd is using Site Hotel Bravo. You know where it is... I'll see you in Hell." -Makarov "Looking forward to it. Give my regards to Zakhaev when you get there first." -Price And holy Hell. Price never broke and fulfilled that promise.

Option number 5: its Price's Hallucination (The Character Wasnt Real At All) • Price To Makarov In MW2: "Give My Regards To Zakhaev If You Get There First..." Price Knew These would have never got worse If He managed To Execute Zakhaev Back Then in 80s And Also For Zakhaev's Death in 2011, Makarov Seekes For Revenge And World War 3 Happened....Everything Is Interlinked...Price Started To Blame Himself For Losing His Team That Way And Failed To Stop Everything From Happening When He Had That Chance .... After All That Things I believe Price Might Have Got PTSD Before Passing Out And Maybe He Visualised Zakahev's Past Self When His Arm Wasnt Worn Off And Also He Thought That Finally He Sent Zakhaev His Regards That Way By Resting In Peace Finally... (Just A Fan Theory)

it could be Price hallucinating before dying

I miss my heroes Billy Murray, Kevin McKidd and Craig Fairbrass. I wish they come back.😢

I read all the comments, but no one mentions the option that he is mcmilen, because he was giving information but he could not personally interfere, also because he is in the shadows, you can't see who he is and he kept telling us to stay in the shadows, seeing that everything is over, he simply left

Nah it was nick fury recruiting price for the avengers

I heard from some people ghosts was originally supposed to be a Modern warfare game. If this theory was supposedly true.This would mean that if the cut ending was true, the ominous man at the end would probably either be the villain for the next game. Given that allegedly Ghosts was supposed to be A MW game we can suspect it to be Rorke (TO an extent). Another theory that could sort of make sense given that the asset used for the ominous man seems to be from the "Turbulence" mission. This could potentially mean that the ominous man is infact a FSO officer who was likely surveiling the entire mission,"Dust to dust", and only walked to the room only to confirm that Makarov is actually dead.

man old cod story is better than these reboot ones

Maybe it’s some drunk guy who woke up from a intense alcoholic blackout during a party and wondering where all his friends went??

I think it's death, he died in this alternate universe but in the OG universe, he survived cuz u can hear the sirens sound in the background bringing police and investigating. Edit: i think it's Price himself leaving his body and walking to the light. Cuz if u look before he turns his back u can see a hat similar to Price.

Fun Fact: The Mystery Man Model Is just the captain for the FSO in that aeroplane mission.

This is soooooo weird watching this Post Credit/Alternate End scene, it feels like we weren’t suppose to see this at all since it was never really brought up & swept under the rug never to be shown the light of day, it gives of a very weird vibe from it & that it was recently discovered after 13 Years is insane! A Very interesting find for sure..

When I was young expected McMillan to come out and congratulate price for everything and that's it. Possible Fact Check: Price sadly dies due to blood loss, maybe.. If you can see blood on the floor, more starts to spill out, and price seems lifeless, after he drops cigar. BUT HEY, THAT'S JUST A THEORY, A GAME THEORY.

Its probably more simple than that, the man was more than likely to be death himself, price was just hallucinating from blood loss at that point. Just marking the end of the MW timeline with everyone dead

One person that isn’t mentioned in the final ending was Nikolai. It’s possible he was in the facility to pick up Captain Price, but since he died on the scene, it faded off into the image.

My head canon is that this guy is some invisible mastermind who manipulated practically _everything_ in the trilogy from behind the scenes as part of some incredibly well thought out "long game," including anonymously supplying the Four Horsemen and providing them with the means to stage their attacks, putting Makarov and Shepherd on the path to starting WW3. Except WW3 is only part of this mastermind's grand plan, and his ultimate goals go far beyond a global conflict and towards something much more sinister. This character would be so powerful, so unknowable, that they would go completely undetected by TF141 and their allies, who would simply assume Makarov was behind everything, until the very end when he appears out of the shadows to observe Price's handiwork, essentially a reveal that the Four Horsemen were never truly behind any of it, before walking away to continue with his dark plans for the world, leading into MW4. Why this guy is there in the hotel in the first place would have to be explained later, but as it's a luxury hotel I'm sure there would be some "hidden in plain sight" explanation. He appears to be wearing a suit and tie after all.

No no no no. Price can't die. We need that old Man

Maybe it was the hotel manager who was freaking out at the damage

I immediately thought, maybe it’s Rourke. It’s interesting because I’m pretty sure Ghosts was originally going to be a sequel to the OG Modern Warfare trilogy.

Could it be possible that the character is Anatoly from MW2, the one who picked up Makarov in the ambulance? On the evidence board in "Back on the Grid" he seems like the only one who was not marked as killed🤔

*_"This was a one-way flight, mate."_* And remember what Shepherd told Soap about revenge before our mate tried to stab him. I think Shepherd would fill-bill if it was confirmed it was really him at hotel. However I wish devs at least kept the "drop cigar and fade away" part of ending in the final game.

If you increase the brightness of the video you will notice the mystery man kinda look like OLD MAN ALEX MASON (like he looked in black ops 2 ending) Can somebody check on that 😶

What is this is the angel of death just signifying that Price's time has come?

If price actually passed out dead then this means he at least died a peaceful death after killing makorv. And I have no idea who that person was that was looking at price.

Heres my theory: It is Rorke, Protagonist or antagonist, but not the same one we know, this is a completely different Rorke that has nothing to do with ghosts. This Rorke could be a different nationality Rorke, but since MW4 got scrapped/cancelled, they implemented Rorke into Ghosts as the one we know. Not to mention the unknown person is wearing something similar to a cape, witch CODM Rorke has on.

13 years? Man I’m old. And boy do miss it compared to the new one

The person who leaked the video, vlad loktionov from yo yo (the person who restored the scripts) broke the camera in the cutscene and took a closer look at the mystery man and uploaded it on his channel yesterday,it isnt zakhaev,yuri,rorke or anyone you would think rather it was a russian secret service working for makarov behind the presidents back, probably the next villain setting up MW4 being a fresh start with new characters as the 4 horsemen were dead and with price dying too in that leaked scene all the people in OP Kingfish also dead. -inkslasher just made a video on it

This scene was a real tear jerker for me. As a Veteran of OIF and OEF, when this game released and I got to the end, it hit too close to home for me and I had to take a break from cod for a while.

Why would Roke even want members of TF141 dead? They aren't ghosts. Lots of head cannon going on here. Also my personal head cannon. Price died at the end. Makes the most sense. He was surrounded by the Dubai Police and everyone else was dead including makarov. It just seems fitting

If that's Rorke, my theory is that all of the events in the MW2 and MW3 were planned out by him or he did played a major part in it. Maybe he was supplying Makarov or using him as a pawn and when Makarov got killed by price, he came in to either confirm Makarov's death or just to get a glance of what happen before disappearing into the dark and maybe that's what sets up Ghosts. Makarov is dead, the world is pretty much destroyed or in chaos and TF141 is gone. Rorke could use this perfect opportunity to start setting up his own big plan which would deal a fatal blow to the US and pretty much start up the Ghosts storyline. If CoD Ghosts was setup like this, that game would be 10 times better imo

It probably had some merit if things went differently but now it’s probably just a deadman seeing ghosts

Price dropping the cigar was traumatizing

After all this time, it is SHOCKING for me to see this. Seriously mindblowing material man, thanks for sharing!

Mw3 was my first cod and seeing this is making my mind blown away

Nah, that man in the shadows is makarov saying " well, i was never in that hotel" 💀

I actually think this might be Major Hassan Zyani think about he was probably supposed to be the next villain character of call of duty modern warfare 4 and he is bald but I think sense they scrapped it. They probably wanted to focus on the new Call of Duty games in the future so that’s why I think this is probably Hassan.

I think this is Nikolai because he was helping Yuri and Price in that mission so maybe he came to check on Price and Yuri because before Price jumped on the chopper he told Price that Makarov is in the chopper and is ready to fly away and after Price killed Makarov he didn't tell Nikolai anything so maybe he came to see what happenend to Yuri, Price and Makarov.

I never lied when I said: "this game never leave surprise me"

I honestly think that the person was just Price hallucinating before he died

I flipped out & immediately thought that was Zakhaev😂

Me when i saw the notification 🏃‍♂️

That style of walking and that way of tilting head is like what the new Shephard did few times in COD Modern Warfare 'Reboot' (2019, 2022, 2023). Thanks for this interesting video!

I think it was another villain. Like a big bad who probably funded The Four Horsemen and had the same goals. He appeared to be wearing a suit and tie in one of the frames where he is walking in and the sound of the shoes matches it, it was probably a set up for another game but it got scraped and it looked like he came for Makarov and saw that he was dead and saw price laying there and left.

When i saw the video the other day i thought the shadow person was nikolai

God if MatPat didnt retire he would have a field day with this

I still remember having a weird clairvoyant like dream about this ending a few years ago and I believed it to be Shepherd

My ideas on who it is - 1. Shepard as he only got knifed through his eye and people can survive from that. 2. Rourke - looks the most like rourke + makes sense as too ghosts being the next game by infinity ward. 3. Death itself/satan - far fetched but a cool idea as makarov tells price he's going to see him in hell in mw2.

Option no.5 - it was just ghost of yuri or someone else's captain price was close to

i saw one of the comments related to this ending, they said that the reason activision hasn't made a mw3 remastered is because there are more mysteries that hasn't been 'solved'

i have 3 theories, 1. setting up mw4 2. death coming to price 3. Zakhaev as a ghost or hallucination. Remember at Price and Makarovs last conversation on MW2, he says "see you in hell" then "give my regards to Zakhaev if you get there first". Well here both Price and Makarov are dead/dying and Zakhaev has come to welcome them to hell.

At first I thought it was Zakhaev because if Rorke can survive a 44 Magnum to the hart then I don’t know what is possible but a total new villain very possible

OKAY so the Person in the Background is wearing a suit with a Long Tie if you look at his suit before Makarov swings in front of the Miseries model he's gotten a mustash as well he has a bandana as well so It could be hudson from Black ops 2 but maybe not or it coulod be rorke or sheperd / Rorke bc of the Bandana /Sheperd bc of the Mushstash. or maybe it was a scrapped character what they never used. Maybe when they were developing rorke's model they could off given him a suit or mushstash.

As always I am amazed by the amount detail and info pot into these videos.

This is like what I used to believe and still do believe Call of Duty Ghosts being MW4 or Modern Warfare 4 named Ghosts and if this ending was removed or originally leaked before 2013 then maybe it would be the reason MW4 is called Ghosts seeing no one knows how WW3 ended and MW3 wasn’t the ending

Btw the original videos was actually posted by bogdan konstantinou and not Watchful wolf. Watchful wolf's video was based on yoyo1love's discovery and Bogdan made the first video on this so he deserves credit

Heard about ominous stranger or shadowman on mw3 thought it was a rumor maybe it was another ending

The man in the end credits is meant to represent death which is why he is a very basic looking character that is also completely hidden in darkness this is also why captain price seems to suddenly die as soon as he leaves showing that death has taken price

RIP Captain price rest easy soldier ❤️😔

I think this guy is a next Perseus

Woah... Took a while.

my theory is that the shadow man could be nikolai or frost or rorke or maybe someone new that was supposed to be inroduced in cod mw4 but was later canceled by the developers

This might be one of the reason he was hallucinating during his last breath cuz he never checked whether Zakahev was died in prypiat. And bcuz of that he lost all of his brother in arms and WW3 happened and he died as soldier after the biggest revenge in gaming industry. Or Activision teasing a new villian and he meant to took after death of Makarov or his actions were stopped bcuz of Makarov standing in line

Hear me out, the secret guy is Joseph Allen or Viktor from No Russian, they look the same and they have a strong connection with this

Big thanks to SPi for revealing this secret ending for us :)

The connection you make for Rourke doesn’t work unless the Ghosts timeline was meant to be different. The Federation would’ve been forming during the events of MW3 which yea makes no sense unless it would’ve been further down the timeline.

I’m thinking Logan from COD Ghost remember at the end post credits cut scene Logan was in the underground cage I think that signified that Logan became the next ghost killer after Rorke and he went to see if everything was going according to plan

Just noticed that the new general shepherd from 2022 wears a suit and is bold, and we know because of cod zombies that traveling between dimensions is possible

😢 the nostalgia

9:46 if you look closely, you will be see tie of that person and with bald head you can say he was Hudson. (This is just a theory)

Holy shit how many years later and we’re just seeing this!

Theory #5: What if the shadow man was Nikolai who was blending in the crowd giving intelligence to Price and Yuri as they infiltrate the building as he is Russian and could easily spy on Makarov. Hence why Nikolai manages to control the Cameras and Elevators in the Hotel

I dont think Price is dead, and I feel like the mysterious character may be a halusination and it is Captain Price from Cod 1.

Nikolai probably who came to the rescue of Price since Price can't walk.

Watching at half speed here's what I noticed. He's carrying a bag of some sort. Puts it down. Then picks it back up as he leaves. Not sure if this helps at all.

( Hudson ) Call of Duty Black ops

If it's Rorke from COD: GHOSTS it also could mean that the mysterious man is Logan Walker?

Before this I always thought price would leave and would retire and be an overload such as mcmillian does…

What if it's Nikolai coming back to save price because we never see or hear Nikolai die.

May be wrong but i think that the model used for the shadowman is originally from turbulence, you can see him waving for the helicopter to land just before you open the door revealing makarov

with a description like that sounded more like big boss then Shepard, but then again the boss aint bald, my legit guess was that they were setting up MW4 to be a sorta soft reboot (remember when that was a novel concept?) before it was scrapped in favor of Ghosts.

I think it's Makarov

Looks like years of smoking has finally caught up to price

OG SOAP die still hits hard…13 years ago, man the game was so simple then. No SBMM, funny weird character skin or blueprint.

I think it’s Death, because right after he sees him. Price dies and drops the Cigar.

2:13 why you gotta make me experience pain again... hearing price nearly break down in tears traumatized 15 year old me at the time

It just hit me we never really got a call of duty 5