Summary
Call of Dutycampaigns tend to place a lot of stock in their ending. While the whole campaign is incredibly important, it’s usually aCall of Duty’s endingthat can make or break the entire experience, either being the perfect final action set piece to a rollercoaster of a high-octane campaign or being a lackluster mess that ends up letting down everything that came before it.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s ending kind of sits somewhere in the middle.
It seems fair to say thatCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s campaign is a definite step back from the last twoModern Warfareentries, and arguably, it’s also a major step back from eventhe originalModern Warfareseries. Along with pacing issues and a lack of exciting big-spectacle moments,Modern Warfare 3’s campaign is also fairly generic and unoriginal, borrowing a lot from past entries and paling in comparison in the process. That’s especially true forCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s ending, which reuses an old 2011 plot point, but fumbles the bag quite a bit.
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What Happens in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s Ending
Taking a good few cues from the originalModern Warfaretrilogy,Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3seesRussian ultranationalist Vladimir Makarovbreak out of prison and wreak havoc on the world in an attempt to incite a war between the US and Russia. But Task Force 141 is there to stop him at every turn. After unleashing some chemical weapons on his own people, and downing a plane filled with Russian citizens, the world is ready to go to war, and time is running out, but Captain Price and the rest of his crew manage to track Makarov down to his underground London base.
Planning to destroy the Channel Tunnel and trap thousands of people underground, Makarov sets bombs throughout the tunnel, and Captain Price and Soap rush to defuse them. While defusing a bomb, the duo is ambushed andSoap is shot and killed by Makarov. Ghost and Gaz suddenly appear and the bomb is successfully defused, but Makarov escapes and the team is left by themselves in the tunnel, looking solemnly at Soap’s body.
The final cutscene ofCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s campaignsees Kate Laswell typing up a confidential report on the game’s final mission, confirming that Soap has been killed in action. The scene then cuts to Price, Ghost, and Gaz on a cliffside, where they say a few words about their former brother-in-arms before spreading his ashes.
Soap’s death inCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3does feel a bit rushed and unoriginal. Fans were only introduced to this version of Soap in last year’sModern Warfare 2, andhe’s not given much screen time inModern Warfare 3, and now he’s gone for good, making his death feel like wasted potential.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s Post-Credits Scene Explained
WhileCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s campaign technically ends with the remainder of Task Force 141 walking somberly into the sunset, the game’s post-credits scene features a very different ending.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s post-credits scene sees Captain Price confront General Shepherd in his private office. Clearly still livid with the general for betraying his entire squad in the last game, Captain Price pulls a gun on Shepherd. After saying that we won’t beg for his life, Price executes Shepherd right there on the spot, saying that it “Wouldn’t do you any good.”
