Modern Warfare 3 Stirs Up No Russian Controversy With Its Own Shocking Mission

gamespot.com:

Activision's military shooter has a particularly intense airplane sequence.

By Eddie Makuch on

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III's campaign is available now for people who preordered the game digitally, and that means people are playing it and posting footage of the story mode.

This story contains major spoilers about Modern Warfare 3's campaign.

As was rumored, the game features a No Russian-style shocking mission where players take part in a terrorist attack resulting in a great loss of life. In the mission, the villain Makarov boards an airplane with his henchmen as they plan to carry out a terrorist attack on an airplane. Makarov and company make their way through airport security without issue and head to their gate to take the 6:45 PM flight to Sochi, Russia. The screen goes black before resuming with a cutscene that shows a plane filled with men, women, and children, many of them Russian nationals.

Makarov forces a woman named Samara, who previously had ties to a military organization fighting against Russia, to carry and eventually detonate a bomb on the plane. This scene plays out in first-person from Samar's perspctive. Markarov forces this woman to the back of the plane, with the bomb strapped to her chest. She is made to carry a pistol in her hand against her will. She tells Makarov and says she is not a terrorist. But she looks like one when she's holding the bomb and the pistol, a henchman says. She pleads with the passengers to help her defuse the bomb, but, believing she is a terrorist, they attack her--eventually, the bomb detonates.

Makarov and his team of villains escape from the plane in parachutes. Everyone on board dies in the explosion, a news report states, adding that the plane went down in a