MW3 players joke a surprise character will return after campaign 'death'
Players are joking that one character could be set to make a comeback in Modern Warfare III. Fair warning: spoilers lie ahead.
06th Nov 2023 16:15
Sledgehammer Games
MW3 players joke a surprise character will return after campaign 'death'
Players are joking that one character could be set to make a comeback in Modern Warfare III. Fair warning: spoilers lie ahead.
06th Nov 2023 16:15
Sledgehammer Games
Call of Duty has a habit of professing "If you don't see a body, they're not dead".
This philosophy has been pushed to the limit in the Modern Warfare reboot, as characters on both sides of the bullets are being brought back from the dead.
But - and I'll insert a spoiler warning in here now - the extent of how far a character can be maimed is being put to the limit, and fans think one particularly "dead" character might not actually be deceased and cremated after all.
SPOLIER WARNING This article contains MAJOR spoilers for the final mission of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 campaign.
Modern Warfare 3 fans joke the latest 'dead' character will be revived
Modern Warfare 3's campaign kicks off with the surprising notion that Graves, the character that you "killed" in Modern Warfare 2 is alive and kicking and back on your team, to the distaste of Captain Price and company - you're supposed to know that he's alive as he was resurrected in a Raids mission in MW2.
Even Barkov, an enemy who was last seen flailing from a chopper into a mass explosion is alive, and Alex finally steps back into the campaign with his prosthetic leg who also "died" in that same explosion.
But the campaign ends, rather abruptly, with TF141 sweetheart John "Soap" MacTavish getting capped off by Makarov after he saved Captain Price's life.
Or did he...
Does Soap actually die in Modern Warfare 3?
Soap's death is a token to the original Modern Warfare 3, where we were all left weeping as Price tried CPR on the table. This time the emotion was much less drawn-and-quarter, but Soap is pretty dead, again.
The evidence this time suggests that nobody can come back from being shot in the skull and cremated, but fans aren't putting it past the Modern Warfare 3 developers to roll him back out in the future.
Adding to the Reddit post which jokes "I wasn't in that urn", one fan adds, "That was my body double," while another has taken a poke at his name saying, "Nah it was his twin Shampoo, RIP Shampoo."
Others, though, are actually convinced that this could happen.
"I think they could reasonably do it if it’s done well. The scene with Laswell writing the report and redacting Intel makes me think it could be hinting at the reported events differing from the actual events," one fan has added.
Another fan followed a similar theory, saying, "Calling it now, he's gonna go undercover under the alias of Joseph Allen so they can call back to the old MW2."
The likelihood is that, given you actually see Soap bleeding out from the head, he is dead, and it's time to press F to pay respects, but you never know these days.
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