Infinity Ward’s most current spin on the Call of Duty series includes a great deal of action, high-stakes plotlines, and characters to get connected to. From classics, such as Ghost and Soap, to beginners like, Vargas and even a reimagined bad guy in the type of General Shepherd, there’s a lot to unload here.
While we got to delight in familiar faces all over once again, the series did have one striking omission from the primary lineup of characters, and it’s one that has actually significant ramifications provided the unfolding information from the video game’s mystical, nostalgia-inducing ending. Let’s take a better look.
Where Is Alex?
Echo 3-1 AKA ‘Alex’ is among the ex-CIA operatives you can play as in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019), and was absolutely among the standout lead characters of the series. As a slick, reliable, and devoted operator, his background and story took in aspects of counter-insurgency, details warfare, and more, providing the preliminary push to Call of Duty: Warzone’s facility and seasonal story arcs.
So … why isn’t he included in Modern Warfare II?
At the start of the 2019 title’s launch story arc, Alex was presumed dead by means of surge, although in real COD style, we do not get to see a remains. Undoubtedly, the post-launch seasons validated that Alex was undoubtedly alive, and simply missing out on a leg from his regrettable occurrence in Verdansk. All of this suggests that Alex should be in this video game? Well, he isn’t. And in a troubling turn of occasions, neither is Vladimir Makarov.
Is Alex Involved In ‘No Russian?’
The ending scene of the video game reveals Agent Laswell presenting a ‘brand-new danger’ to Task Force 141 in the kind of Makarov, the Russian terrorist cell leader who acted as the primary villain for 2011’s Modern Warfare 3 It’s cool to see the notorious ‘No Russian’ traditional objective referenced here, however what’s much more intriguing is that Price is aware of Makarov’s presence and strategies.
The initial No Russian objective saw us enter the shoes of an undercover United States representative working within Makarov’s terrorist cell, as they perform an attack on a Russian airport, slaughtering lots of innocent civilians. After performing their objective, Makarov shoots our playable character dead, plainly familiar with their undercover status.
The character’s name? PFC. Joseph Allen, AKA Alexei Borodin.
This time around, Makarov’s terrorism will happen aboard one or numerous airplanes instead of inside an airport, resulting in a great deal of prospective death and perhaps another World-War-III circumstance. No matter how “No Russian” takes place, it looks like Alex might be Price’s undercover representative. Not just do the names compare, however Alex himself has actually had a lot of time operating in Russian-speaking zones, making him a perfect prospect for Price to send out on a super-covert objective, describing his mystical lack from the 2nd video game.
This fan theory sparked a significant conversation on online forums, with fans conjecturing what lay in shop for the character. Would Alex fulfill the exact same fate as Alexei, or would things play out in a different way in the future?
Sure, Makarov is clever enough to weed out a rat in his ranks, however Alex is quite damn hard to eliminate as we’ve seen currently. Maybe the most intriguing story would form through flashbacks of Alex’s initiation procedure into the terrorist cell, additional darkening the gritty, major tone that the reboot series has actually hung on to considering that2019 Hell, perhaps Alex even goes rogue and betrays Price– something’s for sure, we’re delighted to see what’s next in the Call of Duty story.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is readily available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
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