50 Fun Facts About Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

In Call of Duty 4, what kills playable American sergeant Paul Jackson midway through the campaign?

A nuclear explosion engulfs the capital as American forces withdraw, killing Jackson, his lieutenant Vasquez and much of the invasion force that had been hunting Khaled Al-Asad.

Which Scottish SAS recruit of Call of Duty 4 dies in both 2011's Modern Warfare 3 and 2023's Modern Warfare III?

Soap bleeds to death in Prague in the 2011 game and is killed by Makarov himself in the 2023 reboot, where his squadmates scatter his ashes.

Which historical conflict, the setting of the first three Call of Duty games, did Call of Duty 4 leave behind?

World War II had been the series' only setting, and Infinity Ward's bosses later said Activision at first resisted the risky move away from it.

In which city do a young Lieutenant Price and his captain crawl past patrols in ghillie suits in Call of Duty 4?

Pripyat, emptied by the Chernobyl disaster, hosts the 1996 flashback All Ghillied Up, which critics have called one of the greatest levels in video game history.

Which Hollywood film composer wrote the main theme of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, leaving the rest to Lorne Balfe?

Hans Zimmer wrote only the main theme, yet the soundtrack's iTunes page wrongly listed him as its sole composer.

Which British film star voiced the Delta Force operator Truck in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3?

Idris Elba played Truck beside William Fichtner as Sandman and Timothy Olyphant as Grinch, the three making up most of Delta Force's Team Metal.

Which blockbuster film's record run to $1 billion did Activision say Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 beat in 16 days?

Avatar had been the fastest film to gross $1 billion, and Activision said Modern Warfare 3 beat its pace after a $400 million first day.

What does Captain Price light at the end of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, moments after hanging Makarov?

A cigar is Price's reward after he wraps a steel cable around Makarov's neck and plunges him through a hotel skylight, ending the original trilogy.

In Call of Duty: Warzone, what is the name of the prison where eliminated players duel one-on-one for a second chance?

The Gulag gives both defeated players the same weaponry, and a player may only enter it after a first death in the match.

Which fictional Kastovian city from 2019's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare became the original map of Warzone?

Verdansk hosted Warzone from its March 2020 launch until the island of Caldera replaced it as the main battle royale map in December 2021.

Which Task Force 141 lieutenant, real name Simon Riley, got his own comic-book prequel to Modern Warfare 2?

Ghost proved so popular that readers of Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition voted him the 40th-top video game character of all time in 2011.

Which American general, creator of Task Force 141 in the original trilogy, betrays the unit in Modern Warfare 2?

Shepherd executes two of his own operatives at their extraction point and takes the intelligence they recovered, while his private army hunts down the rest of the unit.

Which Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 mission casts the player as an undercover CIA agent in a Moscow airport massacre?

No Russian can be skipped without penalty, and its designer, Mohammad Alavi, had already built the sniper mission All Ghillied Up for the previous game.

In which Gulf city does Captain Price finally corner Makarov in a hotel at the end of Modern Warfare 3?

Dubai is where Price storms the hotel once the war in Europe has ended and Makarov has gone into hiding, closing a campaign that began in India.

Which wave-based co-op mode debuted in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, set on the game's own multiplayer maps?

Survival sends enemies to tactical positions based on where the players are standing, rather than spawning them at fixed points on the map.

Which mode, introduced in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, only scores once a downed enemy's dog tags are collected?

Kill Confirmed also lets the other team grab the tags to deny the point, and the mode went on to become a mainstay of the series.

In which East Coast city does Delta Force's Team Metal fight an invading army early in Modern Warfare 3?

New York sees the squad destroy a radio jammer on the Stock Exchange building so that American forces can win back control of the air.

Which fictional country, occupied by General Barkov's forces, is the main setting of 2019's Modern Warfare?

Urzikstan was invented so that the game's Middle East conflict was not tied to any one real place, though its story drew on the wars in Syria and Iraq.

Which mode, new in 2019's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, pits two teams of two against each other in forty-second rounds?

Gunfight proved popular enough to return in Black Ops Cold War and, after launch, in Modern Warfare II.

Which extraction mode arrived with Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0, sending trios to complete missions and escape with loot?

DMZ pits its squads against AI combatants as well as each other, and it launched with Warzone 2.0 on November 16, 2022.

In Call of Duty 4, what does Ultranationalist leader Imran Zakhaev lose to Lieutenant Price's sniper shot in 1996?

An arm is all the bullet takes, and Zakhaev survives to lead the Ultranationalists into civil war against Russia's government fifteen years later.

In Call of Duty 4, which kind of vessel does Captain Price's SAS team raid in the Bering Strait?

A cargo ship carrying a bomb linked to Khaled Al-Asad is the target, and enemy aircraft sink it while the team is still aboard, forcing a hurried escape.

Which type of gunship covers Captain Price's SAS team from the air after they are shot down in Call of Duty 4?

An AC-130 keeps the stranded team alive, and Modern Warfare 3 later seats the player at the same aircraft's TV screen during the Battle of Paris.

In Call of Duty 4's console multiplayer, which mode lets a max-rank player reset to rank one for a new insignia?

Prestige could be repeated up to ten times in Call of Duty 4, and by Modern Warfare 3 the limit had doubled to twenty.

What name does Call of Duty 4 give the three bonus abilities, such as increased health, chosen for each custom class?

Perks came in three groups in Call of Duty 4, and the idea became a hallmark of later games in the series and of other shooters.

Which long-running Call of Duty co-op mode first appeared in a Modern Warfare game with 2023's Modern Warfare III?

Zombies arrived as an open-world mode for up to 24 players, created by the Black Ops team working with the game's lead studio.

Besides the British SAS, soldiers of which American force are playable in the Call of Duty 4 campaign?

Marine Corps veterans with recent combat experience advised the developers, who also watched a live-fire exercise at the Twentynine Palms base.

Which type of headwear, worn weathered and misshapen, is a trademark of Captain Price in the Modern Warfare games?

A boonie hat throws a shadow over Price's eyes, which the artists used to give him the look of a thousand-yard stare.

Which type of enemy vessel do Delta Force and Navy SEALs hijack in Modern Warfare 3 to fire on the invading fleet?

A submarine of the Oscar II class is boarded so that its own missile payload can destroy the Russian Navy in the bay, forcing a withdrawal from the East Coast.

Which nickname is shared by Captain Price's SAS right-hand man in Call of Duty 4 and the reboot's Sergeant Kyle Garrick?

Gaz is executed by Zakhaev in the 2007 game but survives the reboot, where Price names him among the first recruits he wants for Task Force 141.

Which studio, better known for the Black Ops games, ported Call of Duty 4 to the Wii as Reflex Edition?

Treyarch released the Wii version in November 2009, on the same day that Modern Warfare 2 launched on other consoles.

Which Wisconsin studio rebuilt Call of Duty 4 as Modern Warfare Remastered, with Infinity Ward supervising?

Raven Software took the job after an online petition for a remaster caught Activision's attention, and every employee at the studio agreed to take it on.

Which 2016 Call of Duty game's special editions were at first the only way to buy the Call of Duty 4 remaster?

Infinite Warfare buyers alone could play the remaster at first, and the bundling drew complaints before a standalone release followed in mid-2017.

Which 2014 shooter was the debut game of Respawn, the studio set up by Infinity Ward's two fired co-founders?

Titanfall came four years after Activision fired Jason West and Vince Zampella, and many of the Infinity Ward staff who resigned afterwards joined them at Respawn.

Which reward did a seven-kill streak earn in Call of Duty 4 multiplayer, one step above the five-kill airstrike?

An attack helicopter topped a ladder of only three rewards, and the designers had first tried rewards that players fought over at special trigger zones.

Which English actor, known as Don Beech in The Bill, voiced Captain Price in the original Modern Warfare trilogy?

Billy Murray voiced Price in all three original games before Barry Sloane took over the role, and its motion capture, for the 2019 reboot.

Which former Spetsnaz soldier, the main playable character of Modern Warfare 3, once served alongside Makarov?

Yuri turned against Makarov and tried to stop the airport massacre, for which Makarov shot him and left him for dead.

Which studio, founded by the creators of Dead Space, co-developed Modern Warfare 3 and led 2023's Modern Warfare III?

Sledgehammer Games was brought in after several dozen Infinity Ward staff left, and it set itself the goal of review scores above 95 percent.

Before Activision won it in a complaint, the web address ModernWarfare3.com redirected visitors to which rival shooter?

Battlefield 3 belonged to rival publisher Electronic Arts, and Activision won the domain through the National Arbitration Forum in September 2011.

Which rebel commander, a playable hero of 2019's Modern Warfare, was freed from General Barkov's prison camp by Price?

Farah Karim was inspired by the female Kurdish fighters who battled Islamic State in northern Syria, and she kills Barkov herself at the end of the campaign.

At which London studio was the orchestral score of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare recorded?

Abbey Road Studios hosted the orchestra for a score that also mixed in electronic elements, modern percussion and ethnic instruments.

Which 2002 shooter had Infinity Ward's founders made at a studio called 2015 before they created Call of Duty?

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault was the work of all 22 original Infinity Ward team members, who left 2015 to start the new studio under a publishing deal with Activision.

Which map completed the four-map Variety Map Pack for Call of Duty 4 alongside Broadcast, Chinatown and Creek?

Killhouse and its three companions passed one million paid downloads on Xbox Live in nine days, which was then a record for paid content on the service.

Which Modern Warfare 3 strike package keeps its pointstreak progress even when the player dies?

Support rewards count every point earned across the whole match, while the other two packages reset to zero on each death.

In which country did Infinity Ward open a studio that helped build the new engine for 2019's Modern Warfare?

Poland gained the studio, in Kraków, in December 2017, and it worked with the California team on an engine that was five years in the making.

Which private military company does Vladimir Makarov command in the rebooted Modern Warfare games?

Konni Group operatives open Modern Warfare III by breaking Makarov out of the prison where he was serving a life sentence.

In Call of Duty 4's opening, which office does Yasir Al-Fulani hold when coup leader Khaled Al-Asad executes him?

President Al-Fulani is himself playable, but only during the opening sequence, a trick that Modern Warfare 3 later repeated with another character.

In which mountain range does Zakhaev seize a missile launch facility at the climax of Call of Duty 4?

The Altai Mountains site is retaken by a joint task force, and the missiles Zakhaev fired at the United States are destroyed over the Atlantic.

In which country does Captain Price's SAS team track Khaled Al-Asad to a safe house in Call of Duty 4?

Azerbaijan is where Price answers Al-Asad's ringing phone during the interrogation and recognises the caller as Zakhaev.

Which SAS captain commands a young Lieutenant Price on the 1996 mission to assassinate Imran Zakhaev in Call of Duty 4?

MacMillan returns in Modern Warfare 3 under the call sign Baseplate, feeding intelligence to Price while he is a fugitive.