Synopsis
During the single-player campaign, players control five different characters over seven days. For most of the game, the player assumes the role of Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson, a member of the elite, multi-national counter-terrorist unit known as Task Force 141. However, the player begins the game controlling First Class Private Joseph Allen (voiced by Troy Baker) , a Ranger stationed in Afghanistan, who later went undercover in Russia for the Central Intelligence Agency under the alias "Alexei Borodin". Private James Ramirez, a member of the 1st Battalion 75th Ranger Regiment stationed in the United States, serves as the player character during the defense of the United States' east coast against a Russian invasion. John "Soap" MacTavish User . Become the player character in the final three missions.
In the five years since Call of Duty 4 took place, he has been promoted to captain in the Special Air Service. He now commands most of Task Force 141 and its field operations, acting as Sanderson's superior officer. The player also briefly assumes the role of an unnamed International Space Station astronaut during EVA operations moments prior to the station's destruction. Several non-playable characters (NPCs) play major roles in story. As mentioned, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish (voiced by Kevin McKidd) returns as an NPC for the majority of the game and serves as Roach's superior officer and mentor.
Captain John Price (voiced by Billy Murray) also returns from Call of Duty 4' to assist Task Force 141 after MacTavish, Roach, and other members rescue him from a Russian gulag. Another main member of the unit is the mysterious Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, (voiced by Craig Fairbrass, who also voiced Gaz in Call of Duty 4') who hides his face with a skull print of Sergeant Foley (voiced by Keith David), along with his subordinates, Corporal Dunn (voiced by Barry Pepper), was originally the leader of Joseph Allen's squad while stationed in Afghanistan, and becomes James Ramirez's squad leader during the Russian invasion of the US later in the story. Nikolai, the Russian informant from Call of Duty 4', returns to assist Task Force 141 at various points in the story.
In Afghanistan in 2016, Private First Class Joseph Allen of the US Army Rangers assisted in taking a city from insurgents. Impressed by Allen's combat abilities, Lieutenant General Shepherd recruits him to the Force, Task 141, an elite multi-national counter-terrorist unit under Shepherd's command. Meanwhile, two other 141 members, Captain John "Soap" MacTavish and Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson, infiltrate a Russian airbase in the Tian Shan mountains to retrieve the Attack Characterization System (ACS) module from a downed American satellite.
Allen is then sent on an undercover mission in Russia for the CIA under the alias "Alexei Borodin", joining Makarov in a massacre of civilians at Zakhaev International Airport (formerly Sheremetyevo International Airport) in Moscow. However, Makarov has realized Allen's true identity and kills him during extraction, leaving his body behind to spark World War III between the Russian Federation and the United States. Enraged by what the Americans believed to be a sponsored terrorist attack, the Russians retaliated by launching a major surprise invasion on the East Coast of the United States after bypassing early warning systems, revealing that the ACS module had already been compromised before its retrieval. Sergeant Foley leads his squad of US Army Rangers, including Private James Ramirez, in defending a suburb in Northern Virginia against invasion. They then proceed to Washington, DC, where more US troops are fighting against the Russians for control of the capital.
Meanwhile, 141 looks for evidence that implicates Makarov as the mastermind behind the airport massacre, as proof of Makarov's involvement in the death with Allen. Intelligence leads them to a favela in Rio de Janeiro, where the team investigates Makarov's contact, weapons agent Alejandro Rojas. They learn from Rojas that Makarov's worst enemy, known only as "Prisoner 627", is imprisoned in a Russian gulag east of Petropavlovsk. Task Force 141 attacks the prison and manages to free 627, who turns out to be Captain Price. (In Modern Warfare 3, it is revealed that Price was captured during "Operation Kingfish" in 2013, a mission to kill or capture Makarov.)
Price agrees to assist 141st and Shepherd in tracking down Makarov, but argues that the war in America needs to end before they can. To end it, he temporarily goes rogue, and leads the 141st to attack a Russian port to gain control of a nuclear submarine. Price uses the submarine to launch a ballistic missile submarine towards Washington, D.C. He sets the warhead to explode in the upper atmosphere, which (accidentally) destroys the ISS in an EMP that disables vehicles and electronic equipment on both sides, giving the Americans an advantage.
Back on the ground, Foley and his squad seek cover from the disabled planes that are now literally falling from the sky, and proceed to the White House. There, they receive a transmission informing them that the Air Force is preparing to carpet bomb the entire city to deny the Russians a strong foothold. Foley's squad fights their way to the roof of the White House and sets off green flares, aborting the airstrike with less than thirty seconds to spare. Flares lit up on the roofs of other landmarks, indicating that the city was in American hands.
Narrowing down Makarov's hiding place to two separate locations, the Task Force decides to split up. Price and Soap travel to a plane boneyard in Afghanistan, while Roach and Ghost attack Makarov's safehouse on the Georgia-Russia border. At the safehouse, Roach and his team get Makarov's "operations manual" from his computer and escape with Makarov's men in pursuit. However, when they reach the extraction point, the Shepherd betrays and kills them, taking the intelligence with him. Price and Soap, already aware of Shepherd's betrayal, avoid a battle between Shepherd's Shadow Company and Makarov's men with Nikolai's help.
During the escape, Price contacts Makarov on an open radio channel, where Makarov reluctantly reveals the location of Shepherd's mountain base in Afghanistan. Price and Soap attack the base in an attempt to take revenge on Shepherd in a suicide mission. During the infiltration, Shepherd destroys the base using a self-destruct system, then attempts to escape and a boat chase ensues.
At the climax of the chase, Shepherd boards a helicopter, only for Price to disable it by shooting the helicopter's rotor, causing it to crash. Prices and Soap fall over the waterfall in the process. After recovering from the fall, a confused Soap follows the Shepherd and attempts to kill him. The Shepherd slams Soap against a rusty car, stabs him in the chest and prepares to execute him. Just before he can, Price tackles Shepherd and the two engage in hand to hand fighting, with Shepherd slowly gaining the upper hand. Soap managed to pull the knife from his chest and threw it at Shepherd, piercing his left eye and killing him. Price bandages Soap's wounds as Nikolai arrives in the helicopter to extract them, having gone against Price's previous advice not to return for them. Nikolai warns them that "they'll [the United States Army, etc.] be looking for us", but insists that Soap Price receive medical attention.
Minimum PC Specifications
OS: Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 (Windows 95/98/ME/2000 are unsupported)
RAM: 1 GB
Video Card: 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT or better or ATI Radeon 1600 XT or better
Hard Drive: 12 GB of free hard drive space
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom™ X3 8750 processor or better
Recommended PC Specifications
Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6600 or AMD Phenom™ X3 8750 processor or better
OS: Windows® XP/ Windows® Vista / Windows® 7
RAM: 2 GB
RAM: 2 GB
Video Card: Shader 3.0 or better 256 MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8600GT / ATI® Radeon™ X1950 or better
Hard Drive: 16 GB free hard drive space
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