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Call of duty modern Warfare 3 is an absolute embaressment of a campaign. One so poor that I need to go away from my normal methods of positive reviewing to just dismantle ever aspect of it. - Hry
Makarov's design went from an actual villain, to a guy that'll do your taxes.
He’ll do your taxes and try to sell you mushroom powders and be more dissapointed with you than you expected when you say “No thanks I take a multivitamin”.
Look here if you register yourself as a business in the Cayman Islands, hypothetically, then you won’t have to pay any taxes ok, you don’t contribute to the democrat welfare state ok, laws don’t care about your feelings.
New Makarov looks like a soyjack fr
OG Makarov: Dashingly handsome, rogueish looking at first and then evolves into a captivating enthralling villain.
Makarov in MW3 2023: Literally Ben Shapiro.
I always thought OG Makarov looked a bit messy in a good way. He gave off a sinister vibe, like he's not someone you wanna meet. Current Makarov just looks funny all things considered. He looks too "clean", with a bit of a baby face for someone who's meant to be the head of a terrorist organisation. I can't take him seriously. And the Ben memes aren't helping matters.
Soap gotta turn up in MW4 and when asked "didn't you die in MW3?" he's just gonna respond "I was never in that game"
Whats MW3? that wasnt a game. we went MW1 MW2 MW4... its weird they skipped 3
@@demon_spawn1535since when was Valve in charge of making CoD?
@@fanficologist6621 they arent. If they were it would hy Modern Warfare Alyx
@@demon_spawn1535 that's an old joke about Valve's games never making it to 3 (Half-life, Portal, L4D, etc.)
Nevermind, my boomer-ness is showing.
@@fanficologist6621 oh, I got the joke, I was also adding the newer version to it… cause half life 1… 2… Alyx…
Funny thing, the original MW2 even managed to make the abrupt death that Bricky is talking about here narrativley satisfying. Remember the original Ghost? No drawn out cutscene, no rescue mission, just shot by Shepherd and he was gone. It was such a jarring, sudden death and it still felt 100x more impactful than Soaps death did in the new MW3, because it was woven into the story.
Because his death came at the hands of shepard, a man you thought you could trust. You thought the mission was done, only to be shot like a dog and your body set on fire by your leader who betrayed you with the warning coming just a little too late
yeah I was gonna say that too. they made the abrupt death work because it happened at a turning point in the narrative.
Jordon here pointed exactly why it worked so well, it was so impactful because of Shepherd, not really the weight that Ghost had. But still shows a wonderful execution there.
Music also made a pivotal role in that death scene, it's why so many players find it very sad.
Yuri's death in MW3. It was the last mission and you stopped playing as him, so it was kinda obvious something was gonna happen.
imagine giving us ghost as a playable character and instead of making a tight stealth mission that plays to his skills and uses his reputation, you just put him in an open world mission that could be done by any soldier 💀
One detail to bring up in the original mw3 with soaps death.
When soap starts to bleed out, the controller starts to vibrate matching soaps heartbeat and slows down overtime.
A minor detail that really adds more to the scene itself
Ooh, that's good.
Reminds me of when a SPARTAN dies in Chief's (your) arms in Halo Infinite. Wonder if 343i were inspired by that.
Another cool detail with this version of soap's death is that the controller will make this slam sound when makarov shoots the gun...
or maybe that was from the floor i threw it on due to how terrible that scene was
@@lavish263team5 Best comment 😂😂😂
Ghost of Tsushima stole this with the Kill ending.
@@garrettsattem4799not really stealing when that is not really patented.
For anyone wanting answers regarding what happened with this game, the Bloomberg article on it is a great place to start. If you want a tl;dr, Activision forced this project onto Sledgehammer with only 16 months to make it. And forced a full story reboot with about a year or less of that dev time left. On top of the fact they originally pitched the entire project to Sledgehammer as a DLC, not a full game. What Activision did here is honestly probably worthy of a criminal investigation, the way they treated their own employees, in spite of mountains of promises that they wouldn’t after the hell that was Vanguard’s development.
Honestly, kudos to Sledgehammer for even delivering on something with that much bullshit behind it. They deserve so much better than being under Activision's thumb.
Activisions entire existence for years and years has been a walking legal crisis. Even during the golden age of Cod there was some shady stuff going on in that company, hell even before Cod Activision was notorious for being a shiity publisher to work under. If you want a pre-cod example of this look into Vampire The Masquarade Bloodlines development. There's also the whole Cod on steam thing that we can get into but god damn that's another rabbit hole that needs to be talked about more.
And that was all just the Activision side of things, the Blizzard side has their own entire set of issues. I would not be surprised if in the nearish future Activision-Blizzard is involved in a massive media lawsuit. I say nearish since I don't think it'll happen in the next 1-3 years, but it will eventually happen.
If a studio can’t handle an asset flip in 16 months they deserve to fail lmao.
Damn. Respect for the devs getting at least this much is impressive knowing they had to go through all that.
Activision is notorious for treating everyone under them in a downright abusive fashion. The way they treat their staff is utterly appalling, and they're only getting worse. They have no regard for anyone or anything except quick profit. Not helped by the fact that people keep buying their stuff, thus proving their philosophy right. I honestly believe that one of the best things that can happen to the games industry at this point is for Activision to crash and burn under the weight of a million lawsuits, because until they - and other studios like them - are held accountable, this isn't getting any better
Amazing breakdown of everything wrong with the campaign. The Ace Attorney soundtrack gets you bonus points
What’s up act man!!
Hi man
Looks someone is taking notes for their own video 😉
Hey Act Man 👋
It's the Reused Assets guy!
Soap's death ironically feels like it's only there because he died in the other MW3.
Somehow, that's even more insulting than bad writing.
"Someone's going to die. One good and one sad death." -Activision and Infinity Ward
Soap: Killed in the most bullshit way "Hey instead of aiming for the neck like anyone with common sense would do and because I got the drop on him, let me go for the shoulder" after 3 fake out deaths from TF141 and co.
Shepard: Killed in a post credit scene and you don't even get to pull the trigger in.
That's it that's the game. Makarov is incompetent, TF141 has plot armor until they are forced to be stupid so they can die, Shepard and Graves don't get punished for being traitors and lie under oath, Shepard is killed off screen by Price so he'll probably come back even after we saw his head on the desk "dead." No one dies, not even the villians unless the plot needs them to die.
Man, Soap didn't even die. I think he's in Warzone now. Hehe Activision is so silly😅
soap stabbing makarov instead of shooting him despite having a gun in his hand is fucking prime
and, someone from the fucking SAS somehow doesn't know where to stab someone for lethality? Come on.
"Don't you guys know? It's very realistic that people sometimes being dumb"
@@cynicat74And the worst part is, if a player character had taken that same stab wound, it would have been treated as some serious, debilitating injury, but Makarov just shrugs off taking a knife to the shoulder without even temporarily losing any functionality in his arm, never mind any more serious longer term consequences.
@@cynicat74From the angle, the stab was right in the external jugular, it's not poor Soap's fault if apparently Makarov is immortal lol :'V
@@Trex40385 or being dumb by not went for his neck. which is perfect timing he can.
SINCE he was so pissed not killing him first place in 4 years ago
16:50 Here’s a small tidbit about passenger airplane doors: they’re designed so you need to swing them both inwards and outwards before opening. For example, if the plane door opens outwards like in the game, you need to pull the door inwards by an inch or two before it’ll let you open it outwards. It’s a safety mechanism so you can’t open the door unless the outside atmosphere and inside atmosphere are roughly equal.
Let’s say you want to open it anyway at an altitude of 30,000 feet. Well… air pressure outside is ~4 psi and air pressure in the cabin is ~12 psi. For a… let’s say a 5 foot by 3 foot door… that’s 8.64 tons of pressure you must overcome to open that door. So Makarov must never skip arm day.
In all fairness, they wait until they're under 8000 to open the door
I learned something today reading a utube comment, i am shocked 😮
Yeah, it’s why they have to blow open the door at the end of the original Mile High Club.
Maybe he just opened it with Facts and Logic.
@@juzkful that happens often to me, for some reason.
While people can die out of nowhere, especially in a violent battle, it only has an impact if we're attached to the character. If they haven't done the bare minimum to get us invested, it will induce the equivalent of the "Oh No......Anyways" meme in practically everyone watching it
“Soap’s death is realistic” counter argument: WHY THE FUCK IS PRICE STILL ALIVE? How is Price exempt of the realism argument when he would’ve been shot way before Soap did but NoOoOoOoOo, Makarov just had to do the typical cartoon evil villain monologue shit because the plot demands it in an active battle zone
or makarov should have died 20 times pulling these stunts or soap should have domed him too
Also Price was present in the first CoDs during WW2 soooo yeah I'm just convinced he's a vampire xD
@@Wolphienot canon but tbh it’s way more fun assuming price was cloned or some shit cuz he’s such a good soldier
actually in cod1-2 that is price's grandfather currently
NAPWISS
It's honestly a bit impressive how thoroughly they've fumbled ball on this one
fumbled? this shit is worse then a fumble and who are we kidding this series hasn't been good sense WAW-BO1 but still fun till bo2
@@drxphhey man bo3 zombies was great
And ill throw AW and IW a bone for having a decent campaign.
@@Khronik_ iw campaign was goated idk why people hated it
knowing how greedy the leadership at actibliz is,im surprised it doesnt happen sooner
fumble implies unintentional
Consumers: "So that 235Gb install size means it has a complete campaign, right?"
Activision CEO:
WHAT?
*Money.*
It's HOW BIG?!
Holy shit
Bro that's fucking GTA V kinds of big and it does not have the amount of content GTA does... and does that even includes warzone??
One crucial thing I noticed is a bit of a continuity error: The flashback mission is 4 years ago, but soap and Ghost are only introduced to each other a year ago during the Events of Modern Warfare 2
IIRC, doesn't Ghost act like he knows Soap in MW2 though?
He basically has an "Oh no, not this guy again" reaction when he's told that they're working together.
@@BackwardsPancake thats not how I viewed it from the body language. I viewed it more as "oh brother, another high energy new guy"
@@4T3hM4kr0n Same. Ghost's first impression was like an annoyed higher rank officer babysitting a rookie.
@@BackwardsPancakeIn the spec ops they talk about meeting people “Lot better than on a plane aye?”
They met on that plane…
Soap coming back: "I was never in that urn."
The man that died in the subway wasn't me but was a clone solidus soap.😂
@@leanbean8962 fucking Liquid Soap
@@leanbean8962 is soap gonna give us a 20 minute speech on how the shadow government orchestrated everything and that shepherd was actually a good guy who brainwashed himself into being evil
Going to enjoy this more than the campaign
At least it’s longer
@@speedlarcool132dude old COD missions might take you 45 minutes, the campaign isn't even 45 minutes?
That’s not too hard to do my man.
@slizzy5675 It's a slight exaggeration because people have done the ENTIRE campaign in less than three hours
@@ViirseKitanimoney well saved tho
I think my coworker summed up the current state of COD very well the other day. “I already don’t care at all about COD releases, but every year they somehow make me care even less.”
CoD is the MCU of video games.
I literally don’t understand how people are still buying these
@@swordboy5477 Based on my experience, I think the main selling point nowadays is Warsone
"I expected nothing and I'm still let down."
And yet they still buy the cod-yearly warfare 9000
26:18 Bricky mentions that old Call of Duty was more heavily reliant on the "action and musical score". I 100% AGREE. Who did the music for the original Modern Warfare 2? HANS ZIMMER!!! The man, the myth, the ABSOLUTE LEGEND himself. The quality of that game's music was the first thing I noticed when the opening credits were playing.
Just to clear things up, Hans Zimmer did the main title only. Lorne Balfe made the rest of the soundtrack. Still utterly amazing though. Retreat and Reveille my beloved.
@@BootstothemaximumBalfe's work on the recent Mission Impossible movies is something else. Pulse pounding work
God I wish the "Hans Zimmer did MW2's score" myth would die. I know it's Activision's fault for putting his name in big bold letters on the soundtrack cover, but it's been 15 goddamn years and people haven't caught on that Zimmer did exactly one (1) track for it and it's nowhere near the most iconic one.
@@EvieCorwell The credits never lie. We can acknowledge Lorne Balfe's contributions all day long, and they should be acknowledged. It is a crime that Lorne Balfe's name wasn't in the credits. But the credit went to Hans Zimmer. Therefore, Hans Zimmer wrote the score. Additionally, Balfe and Zimmer have worked several times before in the past and Balfe's work is influenced by Zimmer. So yeah, it is a fair and honest statement that Hans Zimmer wrote the score for the original MW2.
@@PanzerWeeb3305 No, the credit did not go to Zimmer. The cover of the soundtrack says "original themes by Hans Zimmer" and underneath it _"score_ by Lorne Balfe". The only objectively correct thing to be said is that Balfe did the score.
Leaked activision interview recording:
Are you a writer?
No!
You look like one, you’re hired.
Meanwhile the OG Makarov caused WW3, commits terror attacks on Europe, kidnaps the Russian president and Yuri does things.
Also Nukes the US military and the city they were fighting in....
I also much preferred OG Makarovs and ESPECIALLY Yuris character models. Ben makario is well... pretty easy to see and Yuri looked so cool in the OG Mw3 but looks a little weird/boring in this one imo
@@kakyointhemilfhunter4273 General Sheppard was a let down as well. There's nothing like a .44 toting legend with a beret and an awesome mustache betraying you with a shot to the chest. That cut much deeper than a fat bureaucrat sitting at a desk.
@@scottjs5207 That was Cpt. Price, not Makarov, who did that in MW2 (2009).
@@Slenderneerno, he's talking about Modern Warfare, the original, where the US military gets nuked at the end of a mission and your chopper goes down.
Remember when Sheppard is saying he lost 20,000 men and the world just watched? That's what he's referencing.
In “no Russian” you end up with a bomb vest, yet when it goes off, the civ who picks up the phone has the big fireball, making the phone the explosive
So ironic they want to go all realistic but in this bit what should happen is you hear a split second bang and it goes dark as the character turns into tomatoe sauce.
If you look closely I'm pretty sure the fireball comes from the civs feat then into your face...the civilian is the explosive!
also , why did the civilians try to stop the "terrorist" when they just saw a phone fly though the air , the "terrorist" being pushed to the ground toward the phone and them trying to grab it .
It just doesn't make any sense for the civilians to act that way .
Something I hate about the reboots. No first person cutscenes.
That was so good back in the OG cods, now it's just prerendered shorts that feel like they were made before the game was even in development.
But the shorts were coolllllllllllll
It was dumb as fuck, but honestly, the scene where you actively get FUCKING NUKED, crawl along, and then die looking up at the mushroom cloud still sits with me to this day. Wouldn't have had nearly the same impact if the camera pulled out then back in. Nah man, that was ME.
the worst part on soaps death is that no one bloody gave a shit, hisfriends didnt give much of a shit about it Price screamed "no" once then they are all just looking at each other, while in the og price is going insane and trying to wake soap back up
If you want a "realistic" death done well, look at Rabbit from Medal of Honor 2010. You spend the entire last mission trying to find him and Mother, and when you finally do, the evac chopper doesn't get there in time. No grand last stand, going out in a blaze of glory, he passes out from blood loss and dies, all because the choppers couldn't get there in time.
I need to replay that game some time, it’s quite underrated sadly, a lot of the missions feel like real scenarios too
The last stand mission with the rangers? That was awesome
That M249 defense of the rapidly disintegrating hut? Amazing.@@ryon5174
Come on man, you gotta make me remember Rabbit's death like that
I remember this.
Realistic, but still heartbreaking.
@@kiki123456able even moreso since it’s one of the military shooter games I know where it’s the main character that dies at the end, we don’t really get that often
This game is simply Activision's latest experiment to see how little they actually need to do to technically call something a full-priced game. Absolutely everyone knew this was an MW2:2:2022 DLC, their main marketing gimmick was a LACK of any original maps ffs. And you know what, this was still a bestseller. The COD fanbase only has themselves to blame at this point. Activision was as clear as they possibly could be that this was going to be a cash grab devoid of any artistic integrity or effort.
It doesn’t help that most of the people that play COD don’t give a rat’s ass about campaign. All they really care about is their unga bunga pew pew multiplayer with tiger camo unlocks. Unfortunately, Activision knows their fan base VERY well.
I would like to point out that a realistic death scene doesn't even have to be fast. There are tragic realistic deaths where someone just bleeds out while a medic is trying everything to save them as the others can only watch, one that comes to mind is Jamie Smith's death in Black Hawk Down but there are a bunch of other examples. And if it really has to be an impactful quick death, another example I have is Act of Valor, a NAVY Seal lays on a grenade to save his bros in that one... or everyone that just gets shot in Tears of the Sun. They really didn't even try to find a way to make Soap's death scene impactful.
The thing that got me thinking that this campaign was gonna be lazy is at the start of the campaign when your breaking Makarov out of the gulag where you find him in solitary confinement and he’s wearing tailored, pressed suit instead of, I don’t know, a PRISONER JUMPSUIT like every other prisoner in that mission lol.
Random idea but if they wanted to do things more "realistic" how come its only the three SAS operatives at Soap's funeral? Did the guy not have parents? siblings? a partner? It would have been a real tonal juxtaposition to cut from a spec ops mission gone wrong to the guys all in civilian dress at an uncomfortably ordinary wake or even Gaz and Price having to show up a quiet english suburb and break the news to soaps mum and dad. Different way of making a soldiers death sting than in the original but id say it could be as effective if done right.
literally imagining that last scene gave me goosebumps and the new soap i dont even care about but just that scene would’ve gave him more character the whole team really
From the new Soap's personality, I swore he had a big and stereotypical scottish family lol. I was kinda "??" when I saw that this guy apparently didn't even have friends besides 141 :v.
DUDE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN PERFECT WTF
Or even a massive funeral, 141 is not a classified task force, soap dying disarming bombs under London would be a funeral akin to Chris Kyle.
Also it would be the perfect time for the ghost face reveal. Just have him somberly place the mask on Soap's coffin, and talk about how he's going to avenge him. But of course, this reboot series can't handle any character showing vulnerability
I beat the game while recovering from knee surgery and was happy to find out i could finish the game AND get it refunded. Crazy it has more reused copy paste assets than CoD games made during covid.
I mean, sledgehammer only had 16 months to make the damn thing. They didn't even want to. They wanted to make AW2.
@@GoldenSwordnot gonna lie I feel bad for sledgehammer for they are now the 343 of COD when it comes to rep now
@@GoldenSwordthey can’t make the thing that they want made most.
@@fbiagent.. an Aw2 would have been cool as shit right now
@@GoldenSword You can talk about Sledgehammer's mixed portfolio of games as much as you'd like, but I get the feeling no one wanted to make this and was obligated to finish it in a tight deadline. I don't really think this is on them but on Activision's greed.
I love that Bobby Kotick is so shameless, that he pushed this DLC as a fully fledged game to squeeze as much money out of the company before he's gone, great move! I'm sure everyone will love you for it, including the devs that were crunched for 10 months to make this.
Also, to give credence to this entire game originally being intended to be a year 2 update for MW2… This campaigns length, plot, story beats, and mission structure feel like it was originally the raids that would have been released for Year 2, leading INTO the campaign for the actual MW3.
I genuinely think all of the “good” missions were originally meant to be raids, the three missions related to No Russian were probably already in development for the real MW3 and then the “open world” missions were thrown together with whatever they had since they had about a year to put this campaign together. Soap’s death is the only part I can’t place because I can’t imagine they would kill off Soap in a mid year raid.
This also explains Price’s death fakeout, because imagine at the end of the raid, Price presumably dies, then you have to wait all season for the next raid to see that Price is okay
Actually… Looking back at Soap’s OG death, I COULD see Soap getting his injury in the raid, and then death in the next campaign. Oh God it all adds up… Wtf
@@OBSDCC7 soaps death was only because sledgehammer had to post-hoc justify the game as a "main title". Had this game stayed a DLC, there would not have been any pressure to add huge moments to the story. im 99% positive they thought they were making a DLC and then had the hammer drop on em and they rushed to make their story be a "main title" story
@@OBSDCC7 i mean think about it, the story basically starts with makarov getting out, and then warzone missions where none of makarov's plans work, and then soap dying. it's clear they were stretching the original story of makarov being broken out of jail plus the flashback, to fit the story of a main title, which they failed at
7:15
"You know the part of marvel everyone loves? The part where you have to watch a bunch of barely related movies to understand what's happening in the one movie you want to watch. I think we should put that in our COD campaign"
I've never understood this sentiment because it's giving marvel too much credit. As if you'd need to watch any other movies to understand the surface level and insignificant references they make
@@The_SharktocrabHonestly agree. Theyre all connected but the only movies you HAVE to watch to understand whats going on is infinity war to end game and those 2 are kind of needed for the Spiderman movies
@@kakyointhemilfhunter4273 I guess I can agree with this
@@kakyointhemilfhunter4273With the newest phases watching the stuff that’s connected only opens up plot holes. None of the people making them coordinate at all anymore.
They somehow managed to top Disney starting a major Star Wars plot-thread through fucking Fortnite
17:41 Crossbows got way quieter after we stopped strapping airhorns to them, dunno why we kept them for so long but my god it helped
>The French army switching uniforms in WW1.
As yes, the loudener! Who could’ve forgot such a legendary attachment?
I cannot express how badly I want to see just a crossbow with bolts that have gun silencers at the tip just bonking off of everyone and just leaving them confused
@@yourfriendlyneighbourhoodc8475 It's just a tube that the bolts can fire through to make them extra quiet
this made me laugh way harder than it should've, I pictured a near miss with the old MLG meme air horn but it zips past you and just fades out in the distance
Honestly I would not be surprised if Sledgehammer decides on just all leaving Activision after this, they would be rightfully looked at and given applause for it, since this is now the SECOND time they have been fucked over by the CEO of Activision, Honestly this whole clusterfuck really needs some fucking investigation by outsiders, preferably law enforcement agencies to find out how and why such a crash dev was forced out like this in only a year, because we all know this deserves a massive amount of outside scrutiny.
I’ll never understand why soap tried to stab Ben shapiro he literally had a pistol in his right hand but instead of one tapping him from behind (ya know the guy that had no idea he was about to be stabbed) he tries stabbing him in the shoulder like my guy you are a fucking trained soldier how in the actual flaming fuck did you think that would do Anything
It really makes my Boi soap look entirely incompetent..
MW3 (2011): After years of following him around, for the last mission, you play as Price, every person he lost, you lost as well, Roach, Ghost, Gaz... Soap... All died in some form by Makarov, perhaps directly or indirectly. As you scale the tower with Price, you realize something, you're not doing this to save the world. No, you already did that. You're here for revenge. Revenge for not only for 141, but the countless of lives Makarov took in order to satisfy his bloodlust. Does this make you as bad as him? It doesnt matter now. All you care about is him finally kicking the bucket.
MW3 2 (2023): So-So uh... Uhm... Price is a playable character throught the entirety of this game. It TOTALLY isnt us trying to hide the fact that we pushed this game too early. But I mean heyyyy, Price is cool, right? You guys like playing as Price, right?
Please enjoy the warzone missions
Please enjoy raspy voice price hes so cool!!!
(Soap dying by just being domed is realistic though, if the game was um, good? Id be fine with it, price shouldve died aswell)
the ONE thing new MW3 has over new MW2 is that at least they put the main character you play as on the cover this time. They based all the marketing about MW2 on Ghost and you get one war crime mission at the start and one quick scope segment at the end.
Don't forget for revenge of Delta Force as well!!!!
Roach survived but I get the rest entirely
Price is coll right 😂😂😂man this had me so good😂😂😂
I feel like the biggest tragedy of the entire series is that they completely forgot that the B plot was the story of Price. He starts MW1 with his friends, his men, but over the course of the games he ends up alone having lost everything. You felt the emptiness of his victory at the end of the original mw3 as Price was forced to move on alone with everything he cared about destroyed. In mw3 2023 the only person you "lose" is soap, it's forced and out of nowhere and there's ZERO gravity to it.
Yes dude, like some lame cqc sequence that lasts 5 seconds is how he goes out was honestly surprising compared to the theatrics of the previous MWs. Like his death served to move the plot forward, add to the tragedy of the series showing no one is safe, and give character to Yuri in MW3. The new one just feels like a tick on a check box, "oh we need a sad death and soaps was one of the most memorable ones last time so just use him again".
The MW reboot is going the exact same way as the original, just worse. I expected everything in MW3.
@@cheefqueef6494 at the end og mw2 price lost almost everything. we're waiting for mw4 now and the only one that has died from our band of superheroes is soap, even though reboot mw2 was the perfect time to kill off one of the member
33:47 the exact moment price punched yuri i got a fucking midroll ad and i just laughed my ass off like bruh
I hate how stupid the situation is in No Russian- I mean "Passenger". Just throwing your hands in the air does nothing if you're still holding the damn gun, and while I get people would panic upon seeing someone in a bomb vest, it's hilarious how we have this woman clearly thrown out of a flight attendant area against her will, stumbling and panicking herself, and this is supposed to "look like a terrorist".
If Bricky gets criticized for anything he says in this review, he can just hit them with "I was never in that video".
You guys remeber when COD did campaign missions and would make multiplayer maps out of the campaign set pieces? When did and why did those roles reverse?
The answer to both is when the money shifted. _Buckets_ more money to be had in multiplayer then in single player, and the added benefit of the consumers just shutting up and consuming instead of acting like customers and complaining about getting less for higher costs.
I'd argue it was around BO1 and MW3 (2011). MW3 had a lot of maps that weren't based off anything you saw in single player.
It happened when Warzone became a profitable competitor to PUBG AND Fortnite
@@leadpaintchips9461 "Consumers just shutting up and consuming instead of acting like customers and complaining about getting less for higher costs." - This right here! A 3h campaign with 1h of cutscenes, built on recycled warzone assets is so egregious my jaw dropped. COD fans, ya'll need to speak up and let them know that's unacceptable.
Like, wow.
I want to point out something about the plane section. Makarov plan to frame the ULF for the entire thing but his plan is hinged on a specific member of ULF to travel on that plane and smuggle a bomb on broad. So while do you need a plastic 3D printed gun when you already brought on the plane a backpack full of explosive and dozens of parachute pack? And why the specific member? Wouldn't it be easier to find a diehard ULF, trick them into thinking suicide bombing the plane be a better thing? And the fact that Farah and 141 even come to crashsite, kill dozens of Konni men and wipe the blackbox, wouldn't that equivalent to handing Makarov a propaganda victory that he can spin? It like the writer try so hard to make Makarov into some sort of 5D chess player making out of this while the old one is ruthless and efficiency, the old Makarov would just bomb the plane and be done with it.
15:22 I genuinley can't stop watching the way Bricky's face just DROPS. It's so perfect.
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34:14 that clip has more emotion in it than the whole campaign
god, at least in australia, i could play the entire campaign even taking my time and still be able to refund it its THAT SHORT
RIP to our homies, taken far before their time 😔
Also shows that gamers are Oscar-worthy voice actors, which will never not be hilarious to me
27:25 I 100% agree, clean house was PHENOMENAL
I swear to god... I watched the part for 38:52 during the stream vods and even now, that line still cracks me up
Telling Price "you beat the gas" made me laugh out loud. I guess he just slept off being exposed to a chemical weapon in the helicopter lol.
Involuntary naptime
I think the sudden death thing works for characters like 2009 ghost. He only appeared in the one game and his sudden death capped off an important moment in the story even though it's second to last mission.
Soaps original death was important because he was with you since mw1, you played the entire game as him in the first game so his emotional death was imperative to having a proper send off
There can be narrative weight to a sudden death, too--it plays up how unfair the world is.
Think of Kat, from Halo: Reach. Her death comes out of absolutely nowhere. You're mid-cutscene, thinking you're safe. You're heading for a bunker to escape the glassing of New Alexandria, but you're going to make it, because you're Spartans that survived far worse. Jorge's death was built-up and made sense; he had a warrior's send-off and he accepted it. Right as you close in on safety--BAM! Kat dies to a Jackal Sniper with a Beam Rifle.
And it hurts! It really does! Noble already lost one good soldier, and now the funny, sarcastic tech girl is gone. Noble feels quieter without her. Hollow, almost.
Alternatively, in the Hunger Games--Prim dying. She's killed in a bombing attack; she's working as a paramedic, and she and Katniss have been separated for a while. Katniss finally finds her again, and starts heading towards her--and then a secondary detonation kills her. It's sudden, but it carries such narrative weight--Katniss volunteered as Tribute specifically to avoid Prim being killed in the Games, and she dies anyway. She was always going to die. Her name was pulled.
Sudden deaths can be good--especially if you're given time to stew afterwards, to meditate on how unfair it was. *Especially* if the character in question either A) survived so much, just to die so quickly, or B) wasn't supposed to die because they were somehow protected.
So whilst watching this, Call of Duty announced Soap returning in the latest Warzone season 4 update😂
I started watching Act Man’s 4 hour stream playing this game, and thank God I found this video. You saved me a lot of time from my day off.
You know what is an old but really good example of a sudden, ""realistic"" death?
Kat's death from Halo Reach
Right on the heels of Jorge's big noble sacrifice to blow up a supercarrier you have the pelican flying mission. then at the very end when they are looking out over the city Kat delivers one of the best lines in a game full of great lines: "I know we're losing, i want to know if we've lost." Then a general makes the boneheaded move to call noble team on an unsecured line, which is pointed out by the team. He try's to give them orders but a covenant glassing interferes with the radio. The emp from the glassing knocks out the Spartans energy shields and while they are hoofing it out of the city Kat gets fucking DOMED by a Jackal sniper. Keep in mind Jorge died 1 mission ago and he had a whole speech about how this is a one way trip and he aint coming back. So while you now know "yeah Spartans can die, and they probably will" you get expectations set for what that looks like, and when it will happen. One mission later Kat dies in the middle of her sentence, not to an elite, not to some horde of enemies, not making a noble sacrifice, she dies to a fucking JACKAL SNIPER, under circumstances that are no fault of her own, and the foreshadowing happens one minute earlier in the cutscene. There is no "KAAAAT" its just Noble team fires back at the sniper and drags her in the bunker. And the fucking cherry on top is the reaction we get does not come from the Spartans. Our audience stand in is the fucking civilian's in the bunker who have never seen a spartan die. And they are just as shocked as we are even though we've seen it before.
And yet it’s been memed so much that it’s hard to look at seriously
@@warlynx5644 everything gets meme'd in to the dirt in time especially charter death
I do love how that is executed, no pun intended, she gets interrupted in the middle of her sentence as you said, no last words, no meaningful looks no nothing, and the other spartans don't comment on it, but you can see through their actions how much they care, the fact that they fire back at the ship with weapons they know damn well won't do anything to it, that scene was in the trailer and i remember people making fun of noble six shooting at a ship with a pistol, but in context it makes 100% sense, it is more out of anger than anything, not to mention how they make sure to bring her body to the bunker even though that slows them down and means they almost don't make it.
Reach had a lot of deaths, but i think kat's was my favourite, it was painfully realistic, there one moment, gone in the next, no noble sacrifice, no monologue or quip, but it was still given proper emphasis through the music and the other spartans.
@@lithobreak3812 that there is the key thing. the MUSIC carries the whole death scene in reach and would not be the same without it. MWIII lacked the music to carry the emotions through the game and fell flat.
A few things to note:
It wasn't a general, it was Colonel Holland.
She doesn't get domed by a jackal sniper, but an Elite Zealot, more specifically, the leader of the Zealot squad that you encounter at the end of Winter Contingency, and later kill after Emile dies (but before you get into the MAC Cannon).
The civilian reaction has subtitles, but no voiced dialogue, personally I'm not sure if that was a deliberate artistic choice or an error on Bungie's behalf, but it's probably the former.
All in all, you are 100% correct in it being a very good example of a realistic death, and Jorge's previous heroic death making it hit twice as hard.
Why is your pitch of a MW4 better than anything Activision has made in the last few years?
Because he actual cares
This trilogy may have gotten fumbled really badly, but you know what trilogy didn’t get fumbled really badly (and only got better each game)? The Phoenix Wright trilogy. Speaking of which, Bricky should totally make a video on those games.
24:03 this edit sent me. 🤣
I’m so glad you mentioned how they speak in this game because it was annoying me how almost no one mentioned it. The voice acting in the original trilogy felt natural but felt intense and emotional at the right moments. It wasn’t perfect but atleast it isn’t sounding like they have something shoved up their ass the entire trilogy like this new one.
finally someone also noticed that in MW2019 it was just price who sounded like that which i thought was to contrast his old english man voice frm the previous but they made soap and ghost sound the same which made no sense because they’re voices in the og were more laidback and realistic
@@Zay_WVTTZin MW2019 Price’s voice kinda bothered me but I just thought the same like ok they want to differentiate it that’s all, but then with MW2 and now MW3 it just got worse and worse with the characters voices and it feels so unnatural.
What I personally hate the most is the dialogue is written in a way that EVERY character in a scene HAS to say SOMETHING. Not just that but it's like somebody wrote a full script and the designers decided to pick a sentence and randomly assign it to one of the characters. It's really annoying and feels forced
@@MoaiticusPrice and Ghost sound basically the same now. I'm sure it wasn't entirely intentional but it's like the voice director told Price VA to make an impression of a Battle Hardened British Army Veteran, he's constantly in this gruff mode
14:30 a radio message can't be delayed, that's not how physics works. Good job MV3!
I mean it can based on LOS and proximity to transmitters but that doesn't excuse that scene
Hell, all the had to do was show Price having issues with connecting, mountain interference or something then you have the tension of the next mission of you knowing the missiles are on there way with knowing Price is desperately trying to warn Laslow and csn only get throw at the last moment
This is from someone who was watching your video while chatting on Discord who allowed me to share it:
Imagine Ghost goes under such heartbreak, he started thinking non-stop about that mission until He realizes Soap death could have been avoided if Price didn't stop him from killing Markov, that fact alone generates a lot of resentment against Price then he decides to go fulll vigilante and leaves the 141, making his priority killing Markov all by himself.
MW4 campaign is about the Task force 141 constantly trying to stop Markov and other related terrorists on top of having Ghost as a rival who always it's 2 steps ahead of them, then let's say Markov is in a position that he shouldn't be killed (He has hostages or something like that), then everything goes to shit (all the hostages even Gaz dies) cause Ghost interrupts a delicate situation and captures Markov, torturing and killing him.
At the End, the final mission would be 1v1 between Price and Ghost, letting the player chose a side with different endings.
I think the main problem with COD Campaigns in general, but *especially* this one, is that they seem to confuse "Drama" with "Story"
Every so often in this story something super dramatic will happen (Like Price getting exposed to the Sarin Gas but then recovering completely in the next scene), and we're supposed to act like this Drama is an indicator of a good and/or exciting story.
This is a thing in so many recent "stories". Drama drama drama but nothing ever actually happens or changes
As to the death at the end of the game being sudden and 'realistic' as a reason it doesn't have the cinematic or emotional impact, I want to point out OG MW2's deaths of Roach and Ghost.
Their deaths were equally sudden and incredibily similar, yet the OG MW2 is able to make them far emotional, cinematic, and MEMORABLE, while not even having proper cutscenes or even voicelines for Roach.
Yes, because pacing, setup, good camera work and emotional music can do a lot of the heavy lifting to make a shocking moment sting harder. Like Bricky said in the MW2 video, Ghost is barely a character in the original game but his death is still an iconic moment that was unexpected.
mw3 made me sad,
and that pfp made me depressed again.
man fk activision and fk Gilgamesh
@@btchiaintkidding7837fitting for op's pfp lmao
I vividly remember the end of that mission: you're encircled and there's artillery coming down and then the cavalry arrives! And the super sudden deaths hit SO much harder because of the build up.
I can think of 2 main reasons why that scene works and this one doesn’t:
(1) It’s a betrayal in MW2, not an established villain killing someone. Obviously we all know that Shepard is the villain nowadays, but at the time, it was legitimately shocking.
(2) Shepard's betrayal isn’t the end of MW2, it’s a turning point in the story. You immediately deal with the fallout of his actions. Here, Soap gets shot and that’s it. Wanna find out what happens next? Too bad, you have to wait another year (at least) for a game that’ll probably be equally terrible.
After hearing about how fucked over Sledgehammer was with the development cycle of this game… not even a shocker. Activision will Activision
I actively dislike what Sledgehammer puts out, but I can't even be mad at them for this one. This was Bobby Kottick's final gamble to make as much money as he could as he walked out the door, it's so sad.
16 months of development for a AAA game is the most rushed thing I've seen since Majora's mask... that explains why it takes so much of MW2 and warzone...
@alexscholz3438 TONS of games come out rushed and fine. The fact that the game play sucks, story was horrible, it was short with reused assets is unacceptable. Yall accepting this bull shit is why gaming is going down hill.
@@contentcop TBH having the sheer amount of games come out rushed and them being fine is a credit to the teams working on them, and not sustainable. Honestly surprised that it took the industry this long to buckle under the pressure that the suits were putting them under.
@@leadpaintchips9461 it would be a excuse if ANY part of the game wasn't dog shit. The servers are bad, looks exactly the same, uses the same story, with a worse setting, is literally dlc. Like, what did they spent a year doing? 10 modders could have made this game. I'm sick of devs pushing all the blame on higher ups. Devs fucking suck at their job in majority and we got better games back in the day because there was less studios, which means a higher talent density. Like if I year one more dev bitch they had to work OT I'm gonna lose my mind. Guess what we all work fucking over time and don't make as much as yall.
>going more mil sim like
>people tank entire mags with near to none impaired movement
>people are just magically immune to thermal sight
>Makarov survives getting stabbed in the neck
Outside of literal memes I genuinely have no idea how they could make this campaign worse realistically.
This is *literally* the bottom of the barrel. There is no realistic way they could make the campaign worse than this.
It can *always* get worse. It hopefully won't, but certainly can.
The bit about "Glossing over death is realistic because people just die IRL" is my favorite thing to meme on, because "Being realistic" should mean "No drawn out death or dramatic last words" not "Oh they're dead, no time to grieve" (nothing against dramatic deaths or final words per se, but a lack of them can increase the tragedy as long as proper care is paid to the death itself)
What I hated about that scene was
IF the bomb went of makarov would have DIED
Why the actual fuck do you shoot the guy defusing YOUR bomb that you know can collapse the entire tunnel etc
instead of idk getting the hell out of dodge!
Soaps original death in mw3 wasn’t drawn out at all. He was an injured teammate who the squad knew very well and would do anything to keep him alive. (At least price). The only weird contrivance is that soap really thought makarov happening to know a guy that used to be spetznaz is impossible unless he was a mole. I mean they’re both Russian, it’s not unlikely that they would’ve ran into each other purely out of coincidence.
Also price’s reaction to soaps death is exactly how a vet who is tired of all of his friends dying might react if his best friend died in his arms. Pretty realistic, soldiers are capable of grief and love like us.
@@salamantics Former Spetsnaz does not mean they served in the same unit. Spetsnaz is just an all encompassing term to say Russian "Special Purpose" units, and Russia has a few Special Forces units. It's like saying he was former "Special Operations Forces (SOF)" in the US military. That doesn't say which one, means he could have been anywhere from 7-8 different units (SEALs, 75th Rangers, Special Forces, Delta, DEVGRU, PJs, Combat Controllers, ISA). Same way we Yuri could be from Alpha, while Makarov was in Vympel, that sort of thing.
Now I want to see a deepfake Makarov response video dismantling this review…with facts and logic
And telling Bricky he should quit the daily wire
Let's say, hypothetically, you hire a writing staff based on political alignment...
@@CollegeDroputPowerpoints he included the aquaman meme i think he knows
35:35 you absolute madman, you called it
i saw a comment on act man's video about this that said makarov says "six years" at one point when the subtitles say "four years", so i wouldn't doubt that the russian voice recordings were rushed.
One thing i never paid attention to in the original MW3 is that, even after seeing Kamarov blow up, even with the thought that the same bomb could've taken out price (his mentor) too, even after hearing the most wanted man in the world say "Yuri my friend, you shouldn't've come here". Soap still pushed Yuri away to safety when he saw the second bomb, saving his life, at the expense of his own. He did what he thought was right to the very end. In the remake he stabs Makarov in the SHOULDER of all places and then gets shot. What a disgrace
“You should have gone for the head.”
Paid*
I remember a time when game's got their titles not from their gameplay or multiplayer, but by their campaign that was written, directed and produced with love, care and commitment.
If you want “open-combat missions” just play something like Sniper Elite.
and then when modern warfare 4 comes around price and the gang gets captured and then they get rescued by an unknown soldier and after the rescue the unknown soldier reveals he was actually soap all along saying that his brain managed to move away the moment makarov pointed a gun at his head
Honestly, one of my favorite narrative scenes where someone just dies uncerimoniously is Kat in halo reach.
It just happens, and the music kicks in to let you feel your own emotion. Which is usually "defeat".
My favorite is Sean from Red Dead Redemption 2. Bro gets sniped out of nowhere mid sentence. I knew it was coming cause I spoiled myself, and my jaw was still on the floor.
Its also pretty well in line with Reach's story and mood overall which is that humanity is pretty screwed on Reach. That and it comes pretty shortly after Jorge's death so its less shock value and more just watching things snowball even more to everyone being wiped out on Reach
God damn forgot about that one, very unexpected and hits you quite well, after that it was like “shiet now anyone can die at any moment”
1:25 This is why i subscribed to you, i’ve become aware and grown tired over the years over people making negative video’s about said media. So much so i actively avoid these video’s most of the time. Meanwhile so many great games get overlooked and or under-appreciated. So thank you for being the counter to so many other youtubers.
I like how Alex says “Heard you died in a tank in South America.”
Las Almas is in Northern Mexico…
Cod 2: graves is dead
Cod 3: graves is alive
A few more things to nitpick.
Ghost calls the gas as Sarin. Sarin is colorless but is shown green here. Sarin is a neurotoxin so you'd lose control over your body once you inhale Sarin within just a few minutes. Also, Sarin is potent so it sticks to to clothes and things so you'll need decontamination.
The chemical missiles hit Arklov base which most likely hit the top of the base. The missiles didn't cause any physical destruction (for some reason) but what's weird is that the gas emerges from the bottom levels instead of the top.
Samara received messages on her phone on the flight while it was airborne, which shouldn't be possible because of no cell service.
It's interesting that the plane crash site has nicely furnished houses around it with intact furnishings. Even the phones and the black box were in good condition.
Calling an AC-130 on a covert FOB which has chemical weapons is never a good idea. Keep in mind that ULF has a decent land army (seen in MW2 2022) which they could have used here. Makarov showing up on a Chopper in a base which has 'potential' chemical weapons is weirdly unsafe for him.
The opponent of my opponent is my ally. ~Yuri 2023
I can’t wait for them to “fix” the campaign by including story content in the battlepass
What do you mean you don’t remember when Ghost and Price took down the Government? It was right there in between the Michelin Man skin and the griddy emote.
The realistic version is they dont deploy into every mission without the gear they need to do the mission. Having to find the ascender every mission is aggravating and an insult. These games used to be dedicated to veterans and the lack of respect in the cod campaigns after MW2019 is incredible
TO BE FAIR at 17:45 ...crossbows can be pretty damn loud. You have the arms flying forward with a loud snap, not to mention the string. Bow hunters actually spend a lot of effort on trying to make their bows QUIETER because they're so loud the sound reaches the animal before your arrow and can make them jump, causing you to miss or get a bad hit.
It's still much quieter than a silenced gun, though, making it somewhat redundant - Especially with the absurdity of even having a crossbow there in the first place.
I liked the part where Makarov said "Its soapin time." And he started dropping the soap at the writers room
I honestly still cannot believe that they killed Soap in such an unceremonial way.
They took THE most heartbreaking moment of the trilogy and killed it.
And the fact they didn't immediately go after Makarov just like they did in the orignal MW3 makes it even worse for me.
Pfft. Killed it.
35:35 You gotta play Warzone to find out how Shepherd survives
(He was never in that office)
The biggest problem i have is that no matter what mw4 does, they havent earned the inevitavble 'this is for soap' moment that theyll absolutely put in the game, because even in his death, the characters didnt seem to fucking care.
Back when mw2 came out, i remember saying multiple times " They'll 100% bring Greaves back from the dead to sell him as an operator skin " and color me not surprised at all when it actually happened lmao 😂
I really don't get the whole "This character didn't survive the campaign so they can't be an operator skin" idea that the fanbase has going, Snoop Dogg wasn't even in the campaign, nor were all of the goddamn Goofy and Collab operators but suddenly canon matters. Multiplayer is an abstract and warzone barely has a story they don't need any excuse they can just do it without these dumb ass pulls.
@@sapphireblaze473See, that's the point, they don't agree with you. Ever since 2019, both Multiplayer and Warzone were treated as official parts of the lore, don't you remember Alex coming back in Season 1 of MW's Multiplayer in such an untemarkable way that 4 years later, people are surprised to see him alive in MW3?
Don't you also remember the entire Al Asad and Zakhaev storyline that was entirely told through Warzone Season cutscenes? Such poor writing in fact, that the writers even forgot about Al Asad halfway through the story, then replaced him with a random " leader of bad guys " general that gets killed in MW2's tutorial mission?
Or even better, how MW3's story picks up not from MW2's campaign, but from it's online raids, that if you didn't play, you won't get the full story?
Things like stakes, or good storytelling are literally done in this franchise. No one will die, and anyone who dies will come back to be sold in Multiplayer Seasons, since they're part of the lore now. Tell you what, how much are you willing to bet that Soap will either somehow come back to life or even be cloned for the next game/season? Wouldn't put it past them at this point.
bricky is the only content creator that can put out a 45 minute video where I will watch the whole thing, without needing to stop, or change it, regardless of the subject matter
From one person with the diagnosis, you may just have ADD/ADHD my friend lol
@@TheFriley4 but of course
Nah fr. I consistently keep coming back to his longer videos after fully watching (example: his CoD Rats video, 50+ minutes & his Uncharted 4 video, 80+ minutes) and not once have I switched to another video or skipped around.
Edit: his vods are no exception for me either.
They should have just fatally injured soap in the alone mission and had him succumb to his injuries after finally reaching ghost. I think that would have been a way better way to kill a character like him off
And it would make Ghost become a killing machine, because he starts to like working in a team after Alone. If that happened to Soap, he would probably blame himself for not helping his subordinate properly.
The devs need to steal Bricky's concept for "MW4 Ghosting time". Yes including the sex scene between Price and Ghost as a post credits scene for those who beat the campaign on "realistic" difficulty. Price will turn out the light after saying "bravo six, going deep".
It's just the fact that they made Soap go like that, like poof he's gone. And end it with a funeral that acts and feels anti-climactic.
Speaking on realistic death being narratively satisfying, suprised you didn’t bring up the death of ghost and roach, they are gone in an instant and my god is it a moment to remember
even soaps og death is more realistic who fights somebody who has a gun like that🤣 you would tackle them or hit them first then grab them not go tug on their arm
@@Zay_WVTTZ ya, man’s got the jump, could have pulled his sidearm and just shot him in the back, instead he opts for wrestling
Aye if you want a good one look at fucken halo reach, kat died so unceremoniously and such an unexpected and honestly unfortunate way yet it works so fucken well and genuinely shocked me and got me emotionally invested way more than anything this campaign tried
@@Zay_WVTTZ Apparently someone from the fucking SAS doesn't know where to stab someone to kill them. Great writing.
I find it really cool that during inspect animations reveal red markings on your clothes in operation 627, which vaguely hints that you could be konni but it still isn't enough to really know for sure.
Bricky's videos always have the perfect balance between serious commentary and comedy gold. You're the gift that keeps on giving!
Call of Duty MW campaigns were about linear cinematic set pieces with tons of actions and wild scenarios mixed with stealth grounded missions. This one feels like a multiplayer lobby with cutscenes.
Imagine lowering the bar in a franchise where the bar has always been at rock-bottom most of the time
Wouldn't say that. It was actually rather high till bo2. After that it started to get kind of shakey and hit with vanguard rock bottom. And it has been trying to recover but failing miserably, somehow digging even lower in the earth.
@@the_seer_0421 I think within the realm of cod games yeah the ones fan deem as the 'classics' are better but even back then COD was already seen as a blight on the gaming industry. Like remember people were already making fun of it with stuff like Duty Calls back in 2011.
In some ways it's like Transformers fans in 2023 being nostalgic about the Bayformers movies and wishing it would go back to the original trilogy even though back then it was looked at as the laughing stock of hollywood.
I’m not gonna lie… the way you was talking about Ghost going rogue, would be a perfect plot for a COD Ghosts (remake)
Soap’s death in this was really bad, and the funeral was even worse, but the worst part about it is that it didn’t have to be that cliche. The funeral would’ve been a million times better if they took after the original MW3 and used the SAS clock tower in Hereford from Price’s speech. It would’ve been so much better if they went there to put Soap’s name on the clock tower or something.
the most terrible thing is not getting to experience bricky's hypothetical MW4 campaign plot. I WANNA PLAY AS FOAP DAMMIT.
Did anyone else notice one of Makarov's big (few) character traits was he was constantly talking about planning? Like he was a person that had conceived of every detail and planned for every eventually and we would constantly be playing 1 step behind... And then that didn't happen at all, like sure he had a plan he was enacting, but we are constantly dismantling it and removing resources of his off the board, even the end where he gets away seems pretty clear it wasn't part of his plan, and Soap could have just as easily one that fight and killed him right there, Mak never feels like he's holding all the cards at any point in the campaign.
Right?! It's like shits just happening around Makarov, he instantly takes the credit for it, and everyone else immediately believes him; no questions asked. It's either that or he's just a Terrorism Wizard who makes stuff happen once he's had the chance to monologue enough.
Just bad writing unfortunately. The writers wanted a cunning character, so they just told you he's cunning but did not show it in his actions. Just like when a writer tries to write an intelligent character, while he himself is not.
Which is funny because the original Makarov pretty much was the opposite. Outside of Shepard basically forcing him to ground in MW2 (which he then immediately sells him out to Price and gets Shepard killed), he's always ahead and has the main characters on the backfoot. Like there was an entire multinational special forces task force made to hunt him and by the end of MW3 only one of those operators is confirmed to be alive. Like when he monologues its when he's pretty secured (end of No Russian when he's sparking a war, when he abducts the Russian President in MW3) or when he's patching in and not in any danger (Talking with Price in the boneyard or taunting Price and Yuri in MW# before he kills Soap).
It's a narrative trick to make the antagonist seem smarter than he is. "oh this operation was stopped by the heroes but AKSHULLY IT WAS THE PLAN ALL ALONG"
The best way I could sum up this campaign: Wasted Potential.
The return of one of the most prolific villains in CoD, it was supposed to be the big finale, instead we got a story that could’ve been decent, but was too focused on rushing itself to completion.
Sad really.
The thing that gets me at the beginning of the game when price gets the call about makarov escaping they should’ve been at the base or at a bar instead of going on a mission which could have been important!