Posted at 3:32pm on Thu 3 November 2011 |
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VG_Staff- Posts: 17,991
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is almost upon us, but if it's been a while since you played the previous games the story might be a little bit hazy. We're here to clear that mind fog.
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Posted at 3:32pm on Thu 3 November 2011 |
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squidman- Posts: 865
| The only thing I would add is Operation Kingfish, the short official fan film that explains the start of TF141's campaign against Makarov and how Price ended up in the gulag in the first place: http://youtu.be/m0RwcRh731M
Also, I assume Makarov is the fourth horseman. |
Posted at 3:46pm on Thu 3 November 2011 |
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mydeaddog- Posts: 1,247
| It's a retcon job if that turns out to be the case; there's no mention of the Horsemen thing after the first half of CoD 4.
I reckon they just forgot to include a fourth character. |
Posted at 6:53pm on Thu 3 November 2011 |
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altaranga- Posts: 5,516
| I actually found this very useful. Cheers Neon. |
Posted at 7:15pm on Thu 3 November 2011 |
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FantasyMeister- Posts: 3,991
| I found it a gripping read. I also note that it's one page for each hour of gameplay in the singleplayer campaigns, unless you count mile high on Veteran which took me 9 hours. (It's a 60 second mission).
The fourth horseman is George Papandreou who has to destabalise Europe sufficiently enough so that Cost and Shower Gel (new undercover names to avoid Interpol) can crack a couscous in the Caucus joke to break the tension after an over the top set piece involving a minigun, a fuel depot, a nuclear tank batallion and a banana skin. |
Posted at 8:15pm on Thu 3 November 2011 |
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squidman- Posts: 865
| I also found it useful! And it means I don't have to replay CoD4 before Tuesday so hurrah. |
Posted at 8:24pm on Thu 3 November 2011 |
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Posted at 8:09am on Fri 4 November 2011 |
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dazzadavie- Posts: 2,989
| Yay! cheers for that Neon, like others have said we now know the story without having to replay the old. |
Posted at 11:20am on Fri 4 November 2011 |
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draytone- Posts: 3,842
| If you could to the write up including MW3 after its released then I won't have to play it! Yay! |
Posted at 2:52pm on Fri 4 November 2011 |
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mydeaddog- Posts: 1,247
| Cheers guys. I wrote this some time ago, but I have to say I rather enjoyed doing it.
For me, the interesting thing to note is that CoD 4 clearly had a much, much better plot than MW2. I know that this was never really in disputem, but when you have it all laid out on paper (well, screen), it really is quite striking.
MW2 had lots of great moments, but the plot was totally all over the place. And even CoD 4 seriously drops the ball with the Four Horsemen. Makarov may turn out to be Horseman 4, but that clearly wasn't the plan at the time, was it? They'd have mentioned it in MW2, somehow.
Of course, the really telling thing is that MW2's campaign still works, despite being fairly nonsensical. If you give people pure mayhew in the right quantity, you don't need narrative sense.
Although I'd still say that the campaign in CoD4 was the best we've had so far... |
