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The latest installment in the popular Call of Duty video game franchise hit store shelves Tuesday. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 , a first-person shooter set in modern times, was released at midnight launch parties at 13, retailers around the world, its Santa Monica, Calif. Take our survey. He attempted to stop the massacre, but failed due to his injuries. A medic comes to his aid and saves his life as the flashbacks end.

Price decides not to shoot Yuri as he "bought himself some time The two follow up a lead on Makarov's suspected fortress, thanks to intel provided by Baseplate MacMillan. They head to Berlin an in attempt to reach the safehouse and save Vorshevsky's daughter, but are too late and the helicopter with the girl inside gets away. Team Metal tells Price of their failure to rescue the daughter, and that they took her to a diamond mine in Siberia , where her father, the President, is also located.

Both Task Force and Team Metal set out a joint rescue operation to save them. The team are successful in rescuing the Vorshevsky's, however, not everyone was able to escape; Sandman and other members of Team Metal sacrificed their lives for their allies and did not get onto the extraction helicopter, keeping the enemies busy. They are then presumably killed by the collapsing mine. Sergeant Derek "Frost" Westbrook was at a different part of the mine during the operation, as revealed in the Special Ops mission, " Black Ice ".

Unlike the other Team Metal members, he managed to escaped safely. Following the rescue of the Vorshevsky's and the end of the conflict between America and Russia, Task Force has been reinstated. Price and Yuri focus on Makarov and try to find his location of hiding. They manage to find him at the Hotel Oasis in Dubai three months later in thanks to intel by Nikolai.

They are first seen putting Juggernaut armor on in a van as Makarov's men shoot it but to no avail. They eventually start infiltrating the hotel with the armor and their machine guns and are virtually unstoppable until a helicopter shoots them while in an elevator. Their armor catches fire, forcing them to shed it. They now have only four minutes to find Makarov, so the two then head to the restaurant where he was reported to be.

They see him running up to the roof of the building, but are being fired at by rockets from another helicopter. The rockets cause the atrium to begin to collapse. The floor collapses, and Price narrowly escapes falling to his death. After clambering up, he sees that Yuri has been impaled by a piece of debris from the explosion, and he tells Price to go on without him and stop Makarov, as he tries to pull the metal rod out of his abdomen.

As Price runs to the roof, he sees Makarov try and escape via the helicopter, but Price manages to jump onto it. He punches one of the pilots and pulls him out. The co-pilot tries to shoot him with a pistol, but Price dodges it, shooting the helicopter instead. He is then stabbed in the throat. Price then manages to divert the helicopter back to the roof of the hotel where it crashes. Price wakes up to see the glass about to shatter. He sees Makarov getting out of the crashed helicopter and the two of them race for a pistol they see on the floor.

As Price is about to grab it, Makarov steps on his hand, wielding it first. As he is about to shoot Price, he is caught off-guard by Yuri as he comes in and shoots him right before he is able to finish Price. Makarov then shoots him back, ultimately killing him. He then wraps the cable around a beam. The glass they are fighting on finally breaks and the two fall through but Makarov is hanged by the cable around his neck.

Police sirens are then heard outside the hotel as the credits start rolling. The player wielding an ACR 6. Attendees were able to experience multiplayer gameplay two months before the game's release. The core multiplayer gameplay has been likened to a spiritual combination of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 but with several major additions:. Every time a player enters Prestige mode they may choose one of the following rewards from the Prestige Shop :. A completely new feature is the addition of a ranking system similar to Multiplayer's.

The player earns experience points in Survival and Mission Modes, unlocking new missions for mission mode and new weapons, equipment, perks for Survival Mode. It features various missions such as timed missions or objectives, as opposed to Survival Mode's wave-based gameplay. The waves are randomized, yet increasingly difficult, so that in the later stages of the game, players can expect to face multiple Juggernauts , Dogs and Suicide Bombers strapped with C4 and enemy air support.

There is no means of winning in this game mode, as the waves will continue until the player has lost. Like other Special Ops missions, co-op is available for this mode, both online or split-screen. The Hardened Edition includes:. Call of Duty Wiki Explore. Cold War. Weapons in Explore Wikis Community Central.

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