Difference being the PMCs are rebels and the ultranationalists are already in power irl... We'll have to see how things turn out... Keep your eyes out for rumors of failed nuclear tests 👀 In a timeline of events in game canon: 1991: Soviet Union dissolves but Russia doesn't form the same gov. as irl - some unknown state where lots of PMCs are free to muck about. 1996: Price fails to assassinate Zakhaev in Chernobyl. 2001: Makarov and his group begin their terror attacks Between 2009 - 2011: Zakhaev forms and leads Ultranationalist Party in Russia. 2011: Modern warfare, the Second Russian civil war erupts - at the same time their allies in the Middle East stage a coup and execute their president on live T.V. The game takes place in just one week and the public has no real clue of how close the West was to nuclear annihilation, just about the one nuke in the Middle East. 2013: Price gets captured. Around 2013-2016: Ultranationalist win Civil War, both politically and militarily (i.e. they have the support of lots of fanatics in Russia and had lots of big guns). Zakhaev becomes a martyr and Makarov now heads the Ultranationalists. 2016: Modern Warfare 2, again one week for in game events. Invasion of United States in August 13th, day following the airport massacre, but it's played as a response when in reality Makarov had already planned for years and even had help from General Shepard. Modern Warfare 3 starts immediately after 2, U.S. repels Russian invasion sometime between August 17th and October 3rd, probably late August. Makarov has already started planting chemical weapons around Europe. October 3rd Makarov kidnaps Russian president because he's turning away from Ultranationalism and wants to negotiate a peace summit in Germany - he'll be pushed into giving Makarov nuclear launch codes. Chemical attacks in October 6th, U.S. makes immediate intervention to save vice president, World War 3 is official (tho you can say it started Aug. 13 too). War ends sometime after Oct. 14th, Makarov is still at large, Task Force 141 is reinstated and given permission to hunt him down. 2017: January 21st, Price kills Makarov. Conflict 2011-2016, Russian civil war lasts 2 years, WW3 3 years after that lasting 1 Month.
love how SAS briefings offer some sort of reflexions on geopolitics and into the motives of the operation while the marines ones just tell you you're going in to blow some shit up
Because the SAS works with MI6 and MI5, so intel is kinda part of their thing. Also unlike Marines (Who are trained to shoot first, ask later) the SAS is a special forces group, so they are smaller, and they need to be able to act on their own to carry out missions, so the briefing is essential
That last cutscene still hurts a bit. They were all so ready to celebrate but Gaz and Griggs died and at the time we had no clue if Price was gone, too.
Finally beat COD4 on veteran and I can say, it still hurts just as much as the last time I beat the campaign. Griggs and Gaz are great characters. And to see them go out the way they did was heartbreaking
“Russia is invading Ukraine well their trying they been pin down and been push backed by the Ukraines with our help though we don’t know what the Russians are going do with their nukes” “The Iranians and Afghans are going at it again disputing over a single river while in Asia the Chinese been getting uppity threatening Taiwan again”
We've got a proxy war between the west and Russia over Ukraine, tensions between the US and Russia haven't been this high since the cold war, China is preparing an invasion of Taiwan which has the potential to evolve into a world war. Israel and Palestine are going at it again, which numerous proxy indirectly supplying weapons, the war is spreading. And the bad news is?
@@NERGYStudios MW 2019’s story sucked. It had several plot holes, but even worse than that are the antagonists. IW may not have tried to come up with an enemy force that isn’t Russian, but they certainly tried their damndest to make said Russians look like the 4th reich.
I'm more impressed by that Al-Fulani scene. Didn't realize when I was younger what it meant, and didn't take the game seriously. Felt like an action scene to me back then. With the rise of ISIS in the 2010s it takes on a whole new meaning to me, hats off for not just saying "x was executed" but instead literally executing the player as x. Humanizing.
2022 Edition Gaz: "Good news first. The world is in the great shape. We got all-out war in Ukraine, 6000 nukes at stake." Price: "Just another day at the office" Gaz: "Xí Jìnpíng, currently the most powerful man in the Middle Asia. Now word on the streets is he going to take Taiwan by force, there intel's keeping an eye on him. Price: "And the bad news?"
same old news, jesus. Ruskies are gonna nuke ukraine harder than you will shove the current RL world situation into the transcript of the MW's first cutscene.
Price learned from Zakhaev the tactic of starting a larger fire to put out a smaller one. The shot that killed Al-Fulani and the EMP were borne from the same idea
@@user-ut5to8dp3i The black cats mission is horribly inaccurate... CoD2 is the most accurate, literally all of it's missions, down to the last one are based on real engagements in WW2. In CoD1 you actually play one of the assaults from Band of Brothers, but CoD1 had many fictional missions so CoD2 is the most accurate by far.
@@piggymaster3209 Meh, it pales in comparison to CoD4 IMHO. It's not paced out properly, as soon as you start the game after throwing a couple of potatoes you just shoot your way through the game until the very end. Gets very tiring after a while. CoD4 knows when to slow down the action a bit. But as far as realism goes, CoD2 most def. Be it crossing the Rhone, defending Stalingrad, battling Afrika Korps in El Alamein or taking Hill 400, everything is historically accurate.
14:38 once we find out the truth from Yuri in mw3 I wish price would've said when he was killing makarov something like "this is for Griggs" or something to acknowledge that he finally avenged them
@@ihatefortnightgivemeareaso5659 @Gavin @David Shead open a world map. you see the area where russia, china, mongolia and kazakhstan meet. thats the altay region.
It labels the Caucus correctly in the missions where you save Nikolai and when you kill Al-Asad. When you go into the altay mountains in the mission where Griggs gets captured, it labels them correctly. In the next mission, however, it labels the Caucus mountains as the Altay mountains, then in the final mission it shows them in Western Kazakhstan, across the Caspian sea from the Caucus.
people still speaking about this while its 11 years old, UNMATCHED CAMPAIGN. WHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG. I had just watched best MW2 campaign moments, I was 7 when this game came out, my parents bought it for my brother (4 years older), but I got to play also. Both this campaign and MW2 were absolute masterpieces, and I will never forget either of them. Core gaming memories.
In the third game it was supposed to be Makarov, but his character hadn't been established yet or the US and Britain assumed he died in the nuclear explosion until he emerges as the primary antagonist.
Love how in the first MW game, a Russian warhead detonated in the Middle-East kills 30,000 US soldiers, and it's pretty much ignored. But one airport gets shot up and suddenly nobody stands up when Russia invades the US.
Goddamn this game was so good, It felt believable like you were really part of the spec ops unit. This was way better than the ridiculous shit that happened in mw2
@WhiteEagleForce doesnt mean the character is, the Reboot confirmed they were two different people. Simon "Ghost" Riley and Kyle Garrick "Gaz" are two different people.
theSilentCartographer I like the theory of Alex being Ghost... after watching some videos about the indicators of them being the same person I think that it could be true... and I hope it is true
