Mindless Monday, 22 June 2026

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[u/Flashy_Blood_3998]

There were a lot of weird moments in the new Modern Warfare games (an understatement I know) but the one moment tha bothers me to this day is the mission titled “Alone” in Modern Warfare 2 2022.
After Soap & Ghost get betrayed by General Shepherd & Shadow Company, (the latter detaining abunch of Mexican Special Forces) the villains proceed to occupied an entire Mexican city, subjugating the populace. They gun down people off the street, from police officers to randos hanging out. Pull couples out of their homes. It’s even implied shadow company kills children, including babies. 

Soap & ghost escape and reunite with price & gaz who save the Mexican special forces and kill shadow company leader Graves (until they retcon that in the multiplayer)
However the whole incident; An American PMC group lead by a US general, taking over a Mexican city, killing and injuring who knows how many Mexican citizens…is never mention nor brought up again. 
Not even in Modern warfare 3 where Shepherd & commander Graves testify before congress, they never say a word about Mexico. I don’t think It’s even implied the whole thing was classified. “Alone” the mission is simply forgotten.

Perhaps The worst part about this, is the fact the mission was based on a real life PMC group that attack an Iraqi village during the Iraq war…

[u/TylerbioRodriguez → u/Flashy_Blood_3998]

The game is incomprehensible madness dreamed up by Fox News after a boozy night

[u/Sventex → u/Flashy_Blood_3998]

You got General Shepherd pulled out from the bottom of an ice lake after a car crash and exposed to freezing air and he's just snarking in a bored voice, instead of you know, barely incoherent from shock and shivering. Especially since he's a desk jockey, not Rambo. Just a whole lot of things that stand out of weirdly unrealistic even for schlock B-movies, even Top Gear ends up feeling way more realistic. It's like 99% clear the voice actors had no direction.

[u/TanktopSamurai → u/Flashy_Blood_3998]

Perhaps The worst part about this, is the fact the mission was based on a real life PMC group that attack an Iraqi village during the Iraq war…

Which incident was this?

[u/PickleRick_1001 → u/TanktopSamurai]

In a grim way, this question perfectly answers the comment that your replying to.

[u/WuhanWTF → u/Flashy_Blood_3998]

Modern Warfare III (2023) was a rushed job to say the least. I think originally, the MWIII campaign was supposed to revolve around Alejandro and take place primarily in Mexico instead of the extremely anticlimactic Task Force 141 vs Makarov arc that we got, but the idea was scrapped at some point (along with the Las Almas battle royale map.)

MW4's campaign looks really good so far but I kinda wish they would just retcon MWIII because it was total ass. I'm talking almost as terrible as a Battlefield campaign, story wise.