I think soap did not need to die personally since we only had two stories to learn about the new soap and there needed to be more on him and more of a story with Soap and Price

Still can't outdo the original MW trilogy
From the unsuspecting nuke,to no russian's shock value,the unpredictable betrayal of shepherd, the astonishing death of soap to the satisfying demise of makarov
Sledgehammer can't fill IW's boots

You should join the creative team, honestly. All this work covering the game's plot and story, I feel like you'd make one kickass campaign!

I think something you’ve missed is that Price didn’t necessarily kill Shepherd because he lied in the court room, he told Shepherd because a couple missions earlier when they were working with shadow, price wanted a positive ID on Makarov, Shepherd dismissed it and basically said that the destruction on scene was proof enough. Therefore, without positively ID’ing Makarov, when Makarov returns and kill soap by the bomb, it’s truly Shepherd’s fault because he wouldn’t let price get a positive ID on Makarov in that scene.

The story writer no one asked for… but the story writer we need!
Edit: people crying over if the video/ ma comment was a “rewrite” when did people lose not to cry over tiny things?

That opening actually gives chills. It sets Soaps foreshadowed death way earlier in the story, making every interaction with him more tense going forward because you know Makarov is planning to see him once more.

This was such a massive improvement. I just wish you rewrote the last mission so Soap survived the end. He’d at least have a real cool looking head scar from that gunshot to the temple and more motivation to kill Makarov, but at least he’d still be alive… and right pissed.

The MW3 campaign is not bad. It is the way the campaign is told and the repetitive gameplay that takes it down a few levels.

Edit: nah its bad, yall were right.

I find it interesting that throughout the campaign Gaz was the most level headed person, even more so than Captain Price at some points. Doesn't matter if it was intended or unintended, this shows maturity on his end and he's grown a lot as a soldier from MW 2019

I'm not even joking, after I finished the campaign, I grabbed a notebook and pen and made alternative to what I played and made it cannon to me lolol.

I would’ve preferred if graves didn’t lie honestly. Would be a good redemption arc for him, and truly go all in on the fact that he’s simply a businessman who will do as he’s ordered as long as he gets paid.

How come the entire studio full of thousands of people couldn’t come up with a story that is better than one single person’s ?

100% better story line than the games playthru tells. You even set them up for MW4 better than they did, just by swapping some levels/scenes! The hero we needed.

Should have been ghost that killed shepherd. Shepherd shot ghost point plank in the face in the original mw2, and I feel in this rebooted universe, ghost and soap were closer than price and soap

Only thing I'll add to this is making up a mission with Makarov, Nolan, and Ivan going to capture General Shepard before TF-141 "rescues" him so that it gives insight on how he was captured and how Shepard got some intel on Makarov. Because it still doesnt make sense how General Shepard was even captured.

I think the alternate ending was great man! One other thing that happened which I feel was never addressed, is that Shepard gave intel to Makarov. In the scene where Makarov and Nolan walk out of the room with the "captive" and Nolan asks what if his intel isn't good. That was Shepard, I'm pretty sure, and I think the whole "don't need to confirm a body" in the mission with Graves was Shepard working with Makarov. This gave Shepard a win because as far as the world was concerned Makarov was dead, only TF 141 would have known different by the last mission. I think that's what Capt. Price realized and partly why he killed Shepard, because Shepard most likely gave Makarov Soap and Price for his own life. Unfortunately i don't think the game did a great job of fleshing this point out.

it only changes it from bad to mid, there is still very limited character development. Soap in this timeline has only gotten half a game, thats why his death felt so bland. We saved Soap from death once in the original just for him to die in our arms without a proper send off while he thought we had a rat among ourselves.

This is what it should have been

What I liked about the campaign is the fact there are a couple of mission where you play as Price. You know, the guy on the front cover of MW2019. Price is a fan favourite character and before MWIII the original MW from 2007 and MW3 from 2011 were both the only games that had him playable in campaign.

Otherwise you have to unlock him in the multiplayer modes.

Your restructuring of the campaign and rewriting of certain elements was definitely leagues above what was actually given to us, but there is one more change I would make to this and it would be to the London mission.

I don't think it was the right call to kill off Soap. If I were to change 1 thing, it would be the death scene in 1 of 2 ways:
Option 1: Gaz and Price are the ones who clear the tunnel and find the bomb, and Gaz is the one who gets killed.
Option 2: Soap and Price do still clear the tunnel together, but you play from the perspective of Soap and Price is the one who dies.

Either of those 2 options would have had a much more emotional impact as a whole, because on one hand, Price watching Gaz (who he's essentially mentored to this point, is essentially this trilogies version of the Soap from the original trilogy) die would have been much more emotional to him. On the other hand, with Price being the one to die, it would make the emotional impact for the entire team, as well as the players, much higher as a whole, and it would have been the most unexpected death out of the 4. I thing Gaz dying was what most people expected, with Price being 4th, Soap being 3rd and Ghost being 2nd. What we got was a death that only amounted to poor shock value and kind of discounts Soap's development in the 2nd game from seemingly a rookie looking to prove himself to Ghost's prodigy. It was wasted development in my option and completely ruins Soap's story as a whole.

If Price or Gaz die, it doesn't really ruin their character development or story because we've gotten to see them develop over the course of 2 games, where as Ghost and Soap have only really had 1 game in the spotlight. Soap's death was extremely premature, and the only character we really get to see him develop with is Ghost, so if he got more time to develop his character with the other members of TF141, his death would have meant more than it did. I would have even been fine if we didnt see anyone on the team die until the next game, because then we'd have at least seen Soap's character get developed further. Unfortunately, we didn't get that and we're instead left with a poor excuse for a sacrifice that was done to produce shock value and closed the door for future character development, leaving Soap as a glorified footnote on the overall story of the new MW games as a whole.