In Afghanistan, General Shepherd is looking to recruit a skilled marine for a secret operation. Soap catches the pistol and kills Zakhaev.Ĭall of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 picks up just a few years later, when the Ultranationalists have managed to take control of Russia. Lying on the ground, Soap witnesses the death of Griggs and Gaz before Price throws him his pistol.

As the team attempts to escape, they're cut off by Zakhaev's forces, and their vehicle turns over. Bravo Team finds the missile facility and manages to stop the nukes in midair. In retaliation, Zakhaev threatens to nuke the US. Seeing no other option, the US army, SAS, and Russian Loyalists team up to capture Zakhaev's son, Victor, but he shoots himself to avoid being interrogated. Upon hearing that name, Captain Price confides in his team about an earlier mission in his career, where he and his Captain were sent on a covert mission to Pripyat to assassinate Zakhaev, but only managed to wound him. The SAS team finds Al-Asad in his safe house but through interrogation learns that he did not set off the warhead, instead, it was the Russian Ultranationalist leader, Imran Zakhaev. Al-Asad uses a nuclear warhead to decimate the area. Believing that Al-Asad is cornered, the US army moves in, only to find out that it was a trap. Meanwhile, the US army invades the Middle East to stop Al-Asad. Bravo Team, assisted by Russian Loyalists, then rescue the Russian pilot Nikolai, who gave them the intelligence. The team manages to find the shipping manifest, and discover that Al-Asad is the perpetrator. At the same time, the SAS' Bravo Team, led by Captain John Price, receives a new recruit named John 'Soap' MacTavish.īravo Team sets out on a mission to retrieve stolen nuclear materials, which are believed to be on a tanker in the middle of the sea. Call of Duty 4 opens with the dictator Khaled Al-Asad staging a coup in the Middle East.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare may not be a part of the same continuity as the current Modern Warfare series, but it is where fans got their first introduction to the iconic members of Task Force 141, and a few plot details do seep into the current timeline.

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