Some of y’all don’t understand, back in 2007 terrorism was at its peak, only 6 years after 911. Seeing a nuclear bomb blow up a BUNCH of American soldiers in a video game was unheard of. We’ve come a long way in the COD world, but back then this mission was ridiculous.
I wish they had a cut-away of you playing as one of the SEAL/NEST members that found the nuke before it goes off then cutting back to Jackson in the chinook
The remaster is so much more brutal, and it just makes seeing Asad die, killing Zakhaev, and then finally, killing Makarov in MW3 so much more satisfying (remembering that these 3 had a big hand in why 30,000 men died in the blink of an eye)
If it was Ka-52 Alligator to lost a tail, it wouldn't fall and could fly back to base, so soldiers wouldn't waste time for rescue and could reach the safe zone
"The world just fcking watched" -general shepherd. edit: I am not going to thank you for your likes because NO edit-2:i also will replace the firking with fcking because the guy edited it
The part about "Shock and Awe" that always touches a nerve with me is that, even after the Nuke Detonates and everyone(almost everyone) dies, the few who survive just wonder towards it. The survivors are all headed towards the mushroom cloud, even though most cant walk, see, etc.
@@egg64 kinda bs. If you listen to accounts from Nagasaki and Hiroshima, radiation doesn't kill you that quickly. It still took months and years for people who weren't immediately vaporized or killed by fire and debris to succumb to the radiation or their injuries.
@@alastor8091 I'd agree... But Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not an apt comparison for this. Let me explain. The average yield of a nuclear warhead in the US armoury is around 450-500 kilotons (One kiloton is the equivalent of 1000 pounds of TNT). Most of the nuclear warheads are mounted on ICBM's (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile), ALCM's (Air Launched Cruise Missile), and SLBM (Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile). The catch here is, all those nuclear bombs are missiles. Free fall gravity bombs can have a much larger payload. The largest nuclear bombs based off of yield is B-83 with a tonnage of 1.2 Megatron's (One megaton is equivalent to one million tons of TNT), while the biggest bomb ever dropped (The Tzar Bomba by the Russians) clocked in at 50 Megatons at the low estimate, and 58 at the high end. Nuclear bombs have been getting ever more powerful as time progressed, up until the Nuclear treaties during the tail end of the Cold War. Assuming the Nuke Al-Asad used was given to him by the Russians (Zakhaev or Makarov), I feel it would be safe to assume that it would've been an average ICBM warhead. I don't have an exact number for their average yield, but seeing as they were in an arms race with the US, I feel safe in using them as a comparison. So the blast from that explosion was 450 kilotons let's say. That is 30 stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Little Boy had a yield of 15 Kilotons) and 21.4 time stronger than Nagasaki (Fat Man had a yield of 21 Kilotons) TL;DR This bomb was waaaay more powerful than the ones used on Japan.
@@MazHazPazzaz thats just raw explosive force isn't it? I'm talking about the actual radiation. Maybe Jackson died from his wounds he possibly sustained, but every fan attributes his death to radiation poisoning and it just doesn't melt you like that. The guy in the first Demon Core disaster went on to live for 25 days after receiving 200 rads of exposure. Apparently that's 2,000,000 of whatever this is "µSv". Hisashi Ouchi in the 1999 nuclear accident was able to be kept alive (against his wishes to die i might add) for 83 days. When that reaction occurred, he IMMEDIATELY lost consciousness and he received 1700 rads which would be 17,000,000 µSv. One guy got enough to kill him 25 days after exposure, another got 8.5x that amount and was able to live for 3 months and some change. Both were mere feet from the nuclear reactions while Jackson was at least a a fair few miles away. Realistically he would've been able to walk away from it and live for a few months helicopter crash injuries not withstanding. Lastly, I also found out recently that there was actually a scrapped mission after the nuke where Jackson lives and has to find radiation equipment to survive. Speaking in a meta sense, he died because of game development.
@Ladey Babey Yeah, although I wanna know what that Ground Crew is doing in the Marines.... they should leave the Marines, Join the Army, and become part of the US Army NASCAR teams Pit Crew given how quickly they turned that Cobra around.
What's even more disturbing is the fact that the families of the NEST team who had been waiting at home would probably never see the dead bodies of their loved ones because the nuclear explosion might have just vaporized their remainings...
That and the radiation would make retrieving the remaining bodies outside of the initial blast area incredibly difficult and costly. So even the bodies left in somewhat ‘good’ shape would have to be left behind for the scavengers
@@spike51234 With how close they are, the wall behind them and even the ground beneath their feet will be vaporized. The crater left by the nuke will be the only mark to their grave.
@M4A1 Carbine actually in the case of the troops beyond say 300 meters in stuff like helos and vehicles they could have been retrieved. Civilians not so much. We know this because in the 60's the british tested what happens when you nuke a tank and such, in effect the hatched get blown open and the crew killed while the paint, optics, antennae get sand blasted off but the vehicle is still functional to the point that the engine only stops functioning when the engine runs out of gas. In fact they actually drove it back to base then decontaminated it and put it back into service for 15 years with I think 5 more crews.
@@thirstyserpent1079 Correct. There is a reason why tactical nukes meant as a Counter-Force option to destroy Armoured columns are Neutron Bombs, not the usual Hydrogen bombs you would use against a Counter-value target like an Enemy city. If only someone could explain this to the Pakistani military....those morons think its a good idea to use Counter-Value nukes for Counter-Force objectives. Meanwhile Indian military Doctrine calls for sending Indian Armoured Spearheads skirting around and close to Pakistani cities so that any Pakistani attempt at nuking an advancing Indian Armoured Column ends up killing more Pakistani civilians than it kills Indian soldiers. This, the Indian military hopes, is enough to deter the Pakistanis from using those nukes.
What a glorious master piece of a game. Especially the mission alone. This is what games should be like, a roll coaster of emotion and action! So glad to have had this in my childhood. We need more realistic tragic scenes like this. The shear raw hopelessness perfectly executed with the soundtrack on point. A scene that makes the gamer just freeze in actual fear. Writers, soundboard artist, voice actors, and devs this was your best day remember what y’all did that day to make this and do it again
Surprised to see the enemies be so accurate and hard-hitting when it's only on Regular difficulty. They were tearing your ass up way worse than I would have expected.
I feel like a lot of older games were more likely to challenge you a bit more instead of being too scared to ruin your power trip. I can play some newer games on regular and cheese everything without much thought, but play an older shooter on the same difficulty and get slapped right back into a tactical mindset.
I do remember a couple of years ago I think a couple of data miners found some files that hinted that Jackson could've actually survived. I think this level was supposed to be more than just Jackson coming out of the helicopter and dying. If I remember correctly in the files there were objectives that directed the player to find "protective gear" and "located nearest commanding officer". Looks like the devs decided to just let Jackson die but it would've been nice to see how different this level would've been if it were like that.
Imagine that happening and then some cameos/clues in later missions/games referring to a Jackson, maybe retired due to injuries, perhaps an advisor or CO... Maybe even have him be under Shepard's direct command or assist in the 2nd to last mission in MW3 going the whole "I was there at the beginning, I sure as hell want to ensure it ends today" bit.
I think they intended to let Paul meet Shepherd.... Then still died, making it a motivation why Shepherd want revenge and more attention to his army since the world apparently "just fvcking watch" when it happened
I remember how impactful the nuke scene was to me he first time playing through this game. I hadn't watched any videos of this part of the game and didn't look at any guides, etc. so I didn't expect the nuke to actually go off. How impactful that scene was when the nuke went off and your helo goes down and all you can do is crawl a couple of feet knowing you were going to die.
Few ways of serving the last moments of Jackson, the ways I see it, 1. wonder towards the mushroom cloud thinking you still have a mission (which I do ngl), 2. wonder on to the highway and try to get out of there, 3. stay with your fellow marines, stay int the chinook (kind of boring), 4. or go to the playground and die because Jackson might have been a father (I don’t know)
Fr, my jaw literally dropped when I first played this back on December 31st 2007. I just replayed it on the remastered a couple minutes ago to take a huge nostalgia trip of 15 years.
I love the entire mission simply for the build up in it, you see massive waves of tank platoons, other sea knights moving into the city, cobras flying all around as rpg smokes pass over you with insurgents fire several times, meanwhile the music iis just in my opinion the best OST from the Modern Warfare trilogy, right up there and above Of Their Own Accord, theres just so many details and atmospheric build up I love it.
0:56 Nice detail though. Jackson usually loads and locks the Mark-19 cannon. In the original MW, the cannon is already loaded while Jackson is manning it.
Cool story about this. When I was in 4th grade I stayed up all night playing the campaign with my brother, and when we got to this mission, I paused and went to bed and he finished the mission. The next morning at the bus stop I told him “that mission was so cool, did you finish it ”. And he just told me “Dude everyone died. It was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.” Good times.
Am I the only who actually kept thinking about this scene? I mean just imagine this happening in real life, 10.000’s of soldiers choking on their own blood, burn wounds all over their bodies, their clothes burned off their bodies, their skin turning black and far away they see a mushroom cloud looking like a second sun on our earth which will probably be the last thing they see as they suffer and die. All because of the push of 1 small button.....
That is what happened to the people of Hiroshima. Going about their day when the air raid sirens go off and instead of a huge formation of bombers high in the sky, a single aircraft that drops a single bomb. A bomb that never reaches the ground. The people watching never see anything again. The people close to it, vaporised. The lucky ones. The people further away catch fire, the flesh flensed from their bones by the heat and pressure. The people a little further out, their clothes catch fire, their skin burns black and seems to melt and many of them don't die, so other survivors report vaguely humanoid creatures without eyes, ears or noses but with gaping mouths, moving in the ashes, moaning and gurgling. Everyone within a kilometre; fatal radiation dose of 5000-1000 rem. Incapacitated within five minutes by their exposure but likely to live four to six days as they die in agony from necrosis; bloody sores opening all over and inside their bodies. Sepsis will increase their pain and painkillers will be ineffective. Between one and one and a half kilometres, less than a 1000 rem. Fatal doses will take a month to die. 20-25% of survivors will die of cancer anyway. And everyone within two kilometres received third degree burns. They don't even know they have the burns because their nerves are dead; most burn victims will die of subsequent infection. Survivors will be permanently disfigured or disabled. Second degree burns to those beyond two kilometres which they will feel, and again, sepsis will most likely kill them. Between 90,000 and 140,000 people dead. Thousands more dying in the years to come from cancers resulting from radiation exposure. All from one man releasing one bomb.
@@DomWeasel There's a youtube video that actually has a recreation (for lack of better term) of the bomb being dropped and i was just harrowing watching it and making you realize nuclear weapons are a scary thing. All it takes is one bomb and the damage it can do to humanity what people I think most people DON'T realize is how close we are to WW III
@@foxtrotsierraproductions8626, still bad ass, the rock in your headset. God this mission was bad ass. But the nuke was haunting, fuck. Rip those devil dogs.
As haunting as the ending of this mission was, I love the strange beauty the last few minutes of this mission shows. In the original, it shows your vision being almost completely red which was a little off-putting for me. But here, it actually really reminds of The Divide in the Lonesome Road DLC for Fallout: New Vegas. In fact, I’m willing to bet Obsidian must have taken the idea from the last few minutes of CoD 4: Modern Warfare’s Shock and Awe mission as inspiration for Lonesome Road. And this mission truly was a Shock and Awe.
They managed to make this mission more terrifying than in the original. Putting the pilot in the chinook, she’s clearly hurt and has scrapes all over her face. The crew member at the back of the helicopter actually fires his pistol and when the nuke goes off, everyone gets thrown back. Jackson crawls towards him as he’s hanging on for dear life rather than just slowly slipping outta the helicopter in the original.
1:18 You'll 90% be dead in a nanosecond if you don't destroy the BMPs in time in veteran difficulty.This point pissed me off countless times already lmaO
@@Chi13th Ehh...sort of? I'm mean, the fact that he allied with the very same person who _caused_ him to lose all of those thirty thousand men and women...certainly doesn't help, honestly. And that's the _most_ polite way I could've put that.
Playing original cod4 at an age when you could actually grasp the plot is the gaming equivalent of being a Vietnam War vet. Shit was legendary. It pawed the way to all modern shooters. Basically 2/3rds of the stuff you see in today's FPS games were first done in this game. Even the skins on guns (the way they should be done). I'm 25 now, still remember it like it was yesterday
Dam bro this brings tears to my eyes. I was so young when I played this and I remember playing Shock and awe mission repeatedly cuz it's the best. Man the nostalgia and the good memories 😢
This mission had my favorite cinematics and radio chatter, seeing Cobras and CH-46 sea knights fly iin mass as door gunners with 40mm shoot the enemy infantry and armored columns, the music also was just incredible
Super fun facts about nukes: Just looking at the blast like he did would make you blind His hand would be the most damaged place in his body (not counting the heli crash) Going outside that helicopter would expose him to even more radiation, It would probably be wayy creepier to look outside Radiation poisoning is not fun at all, look up the types of super fun stuff it causes like a slow painful death A lot more of those houses would be leveled probably This concludes euper fun facts about nukes
@@benjapizarro981 no problem, it wasn't a funny comment but it's important to enjoy games knowing real war is hell, also the hand thing is not even a joke, there is a lady that was a kid when the nukes dropped, don't remember which one, that when she saw the flash shr put her hand in front to shield her eyes from the brightness, and since she survived enough to be admitted into a hospital they noticed that her hand was considerably more damaged and irradiated compared to the rest of her body Fun!
@@furinick Another fun fact, a person who survived the nagasaki and hiroshima bombings said “The people who were on the street, they got vaporized, there would be black shadows left of them”
I really wish COD would put this much effort into a campaign again. The 2019 MW reboot fell flat for me. I don't even remember the campaign. MW4 was released in 2007 and I remember every level. This was a real masterpiece of an action game!
Haven't played the original in years but I could faintly remember that you could destroy the statue at 1:43, I could be wrong or thinking of something else
First of all: It wouldn't be a crime if you decided to lower the difficulty on that mission, you give us great gameplay. Second of all: That last moment in that mission sure gives me the chills all the time. Everything just goes black
NEST Soldier 1: Cut the wire exactly when I say, not before NEST Soldier 2: Ready NEST Solfier 1: Green wire, NEST Soldier 2: *Cuts green wire NEST Soldier 1: in 3---
100% this game’s achievements and the veteran difficulty was extremely frustrating and hard. Some levels id be stuck on for an hour because of some bullshit. But in the end I beat it and I still love this game.
@@AFGuidesHD nah I don’t blame you, Modern Warfare’s campaign was pretty brutal difficulty wise. I remember spending a whole week trying to beat it on veteran as a kid. Lots of pain and suffering.
I still vividly remember when i was in the internet cafe it was a saturday and at the time i didn't knew what i was playing but the nuke scene oh man my jaw dropped i never seen let alone experience anything like it before it was truly a unique experience, cod 4 (original) remains the greatest cod.
@normalcy._8781 it wouldn't be tactical... if an aggressor ever stupidly caused a nuclear exchange between a country and their own, it would be a strategic decision.."tactical " nukes are used on the battlefield...the term is kind of dumb considering most tactical nukes are in the low kt range and to put into perspective little boy (Hiroshima bomb) was 12-15kt. Which flattened the city.. today that would be considered tactical in size.strategic warheads range hundreds of kilotons up to megatons... A lot of the megaton stuff is getting phased out, though, for more precise and efficient designs...lets just pray it never happens.
Girls: The influence of nuclear power knows no bounds. We underestimated it, honestly. Boys: Tell that to our generals. We lost our own too. Girls: Guess what time it is? Boys: It's vengeance time. *They both do handshake based on the one in Predator 1.*
I first played the mission when i was 13. The title of the mission lived up to the name. I was shocked and awed. I haven't played the remaster but in the og, there were no survivors and you're the only one to survived crawling all the way until the site of the mushroom cloud loom over the horizon as your last site sent chill down my spine.
3:46 fun fact: that is not the helicopter making a metal noise thats part of the song i always thought it was the sound of the helicopter landing but after listening to the OST i found it was part of the song
This gives me nostalgia feelings. first time played it when I was in 4th or 5th standard. Such an emotional seen the list of thousands of dead including Sgt. Paul Jackson but still alive for a few seconds.
Some of y’all don’t understand, back in 2007 terrorism was at its peak, only 6 years after 911. Seeing a nuclear bomb blow up a BUNCH of American soldiers in a video game was unheard of. We’ve come a long way in the COD world, but back then this mission was ridiculous.
Lmso right Nd like if intelligence knew there was a nuke inna city why send American troops in
@@Jay-ye5gk because capturing the bad guy was priority
When cod had guts to do s##t like THIS!!!!
@@benjapizarro981 that makes no sense if a nuke was literally inna city ready to detonate
@@Jay-ye5gk They must've given them a decision if whether they go or not
"Them NEST teams fucking failed"
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"Roasted to perfection at point-blank"
-Sun Wu Kong, Journey to the west
@@nashnash4328 That was dark reality my friend. Their corpse evaporated into literal nothing.
@@muhammadrayhanfirdaus1309 yeah they do, and somewhere nearby that city, makarov and yuri is chilling enjoying sunset.
@@muhammadrayhanfirdaus1309 well I’m sure from a certain distance using a regular Bomb the human body would be cooked to perfection so I could eat it
@@nashnash4328 Those aren't the sunset, my guy. That's the nuke
The original was haunting in it of it's own. The remaster made even more haunting.
Remaster*
A remake would change the story like mafia 1
@@agentandrewmiltonpinkerton9818 Pardon me on that. I've edited it now
Yes, is true is more haunted than the original
I wish they had a cut-away of you playing as one of the SEAL/NEST members that found the nuke before it goes off then cutting back to Jackson in the chinook
"Dying is cringe, not gonna lie"
-Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu never said that.
@@TheLiamster he did
@@TheLiamster no, i'm pretty sure he did actually, as part of his unpublished book
i thought its Tf2 Soldier dad joke..
U mean "dying is gay"
I like that Jackson actually tries to save the crewman from flying out in the remaster.
He did in the original didn’t he
@@Chewie1212 He didn't, in the.original the game only had Jackson to just sit there as the crew chief was thrown out of the ramp.
The remaster is so much more brutal, and it just makes seeing Asad die, killing Zakhaev, and then finally, killing Makarov in MW3 so much more satisfying (remembering that these 3 had a big hand in why 30,000 men died in the blink of an eye)
If it was Ka-52 Alligator to lost a tail, it wouldn't fall and could fly back to base, so soldiers wouldn't waste time for rescue and could reach the safe zone
Tell that to the pilots who died getting shot down in Ka-52s in Ukraine lol
9:54 - 5 years ago i lost 30,000 men in a blink of an eye and the world just fcking watched - Shepherd
It's the internet, you don't need to censor yourself
"The world just fcking watched"
-general shepherd.
edit: I am not going to thank you for your likes because NO
edit-2:i also will replace the firking with fcking because the guy edited it
Who’s the marine general that these guys actually belong to
@@rigatonithetiger9986 Ong free speech if someone has a problem fuck them
General Shepherd: 5 years ago I lost 30,000 men in a blink of an eye and the world just fuckin watched
Vasquez really was forgotten as a character in cod 4. It’s mainly Griggs and possibly Jackson in the marine side of cod 4
Yeah I really missed him on mw2
Dude my last name is Vasquez
@@lukeskywalker5238 Get in the Chinook, Vasquez, we’re going to NON-DESCRIPT MIDDLE-EASTERN NATION that may have WMD’s
@@Waddedupnapkin haha
I really want to know more about Jackson
I like how in the remaster Jackson actually tries to save Volker when the chopper is going down, rather than sit there watching him get thrown out.
Wouldn't call it sitting there, Jackson was holding on for dear life lol
Why was Volker not wearing his tether?
@@chikntaco141bc he’s a gigachad. He doesn’t need no tether
@@beastmode1915bro xd
“Thousands of souls Extinguished,by a push of a button this wasnt war,it was madness”
It's also a good reason why Yuri betray Makarov, he knew he is Insane
Ofc everybody in right mind would stop madman to achieve his evilness
I wonder why Shepherd went rogue to hunt down Makarov with his own private army
@@KenKaneki69699pretty sure he wanted to be seen as the hero
F in the chat for those 30,000 men that died in the blink of an eye while the world watched.
and im pretty sure there will be no shortage of volunteers and patriots
And I hope you understand
*Price tackles Shepherd*
*Soap removes knife from his chest with extreme pain*
*Soap throws the knife into shepherd's left eye*
Thousands of Souls... Extinguished... by a Push of a Button.
why i am reading this in trying hard russian accent
The lines you can hear by the one who said.
@@seaboardspastic it’s because Yuri said it.
Understand Yuri, This is only the beginning
It wasn't war,it was madness
The part about "Shock and Awe" that always touches a nerve with me is that, even after the Nuke Detonates and everyone(almost everyone) dies, the few who survive just wonder towards it. The survivors are all headed towards the mushroom cloud, even though most cant walk, see, etc.
Literally nowhere else they could go, nothing else they could do. The nuclear fallout pretty much ensured that they were already dead.
@@egg64 kinda bs. If you listen to accounts from Nagasaki and Hiroshima, radiation doesn't kill you that quickly. It still took months and years for people who weren't immediately vaporized or killed by fire and debris to succumb to the radiation or their injuries.
@@alastor8091 I'd agree... But Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not an apt comparison for this. Let me explain.
The average yield of a nuclear warhead in the US armoury is around 450-500 kilotons (One kiloton is the equivalent of 1000 pounds of TNT). Most of the nuclear warheads are mounted on ICBM's (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile), ALCM's (Air Launched Cruise Missile), and SLBM (Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile). The catch here is, all those nuclear bombs are missiles. Free fall gravity bombs can have a much larger payload. The largest nuclear bombs based off of yield is B-83 with a tonnage of 1.2 Megatron's (One megaton is equivalent to one million tons of TNT), while the biggest bomb ever dropped (The Tzar Bomba by the Russians) clocked in at 50 Megatons at the low estimate, and 58 at the high end. Nuclear bombs have been getting ever more powerful as time progressed, up until the Nuclear treaties during the tail end of the Cold War.
Assuming the Nuke Al-Asad used was given to him by the Russians (Zakhaev or Makarov), I feel it would be safe to assume that it would've been an average ICBM warhead. I don't have an exact number for their average yield, but seeing as they were in an arms race with the US, I feel safe in using them as a comparison. So the blast from that explosion was 450 kilotons let's say. That is 30 stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Little Boy had a yield of 15 Kilotons) and 21.4 time stronger than Nagasaki (Fat Man had a yield of 21 Kilotons)
TL;DR This bomb was waaaay more powerful than the ones used on Japan.
Small mistake I made. B85 is the largest bomb in the US arsenal currently.
@@MazHazPazzaz thats just raw explosive force isn't it? I'm talking about the actual radiation. Maybe Jackson died from his wounds he possibly sustained, but every fan attributes his death to radiation poisoning and it just doesn't melt you like that.
The guy in the first Demon Core disaster went on to live for 25 days after receiving 200 rads of exposure. Apparently that's 2,000,000 of whatever this is "µSv".
Hisashi Ouchi in the 1999 nuclear accident was able to be kept alive (against his wishes to die i might add) for 83 days. When that reaction occurred, he IMMEDIATELY lost consciousness and he received 1700 rads which would be 17,000,000 µSv.
One guy got enough to kill him 25 days after exposure, another got 8.5x that amount and was able to live for 3 months and some change. Both were mere feet from the nuclear reactions while Jackson was at least a a fair few miles away. Realistically he would've been able to walk away from it and live for a few months helicopter crash injuries not withstanding.
Lastly, I also found out recently that there was actually a scrapped mission after the nuke where Jackson lives and has to find radiation equipment to survive. Speaking in a meta sense, he died because of game development.
Deadly : Outlaw this is Deadly.Refueled and fully loaded.Did you guys miss me ?
Always loved that line and yeah i miss her
Nobody missed you Deadly, specially after making us save your sorry ass lmao
HELL YEAH
Also love how no one replied to her too
@Ladey Babey oh ok. It just sounded funny tho
@Ladey Babey Yeah, although I wanna know what that Ground Crew is doing in the Marines.... they should leave the Marines, Join the Army, and become part of the US Army NASCAR teams Pit Crew given how quickly they turned that Cobra around.
What's even more disturbing is the fact that the families of the NEST team who had been waiting at home would probably never see the dead bodies of their loved ones because the nuclear explosion might have just vaporized their remainings...
That and the radiation would make retrieving the remaining bodies outside of the initial blast area incredibly difficult and costly. So even the bodies left in somewhat ‘good’ shape would have to be left behind for the scavengers
Might have? If they were lucky all that would be left is their shadow on the wall behind them
@@spike51234 With how close they are, the wall behind them and even the ground beneath their feet will be vaporized.
The crater left by the nuke will be the only mark to their grave.
@M4A1 Carbine actually in the case of the troops beyond say 300 meters in stuff like helos and vehicles they could have been retrieved. Civilians not so much. We know this because in the 60's the british tested what happens when you nuke a tank and such, in effect the hatched get blown open and the crew killed while the paint, optics, antennae get sand blasted off but the vehicle is still functional to the point that the engine only stops functioning when the engine runs out of gas. In fact they actually drove it back to base then decontaminated it and put it back into service for 15 years with I think 5 more crews.
@@thirstyserpent1079 Correct. There is a reason why tactical nukes meant as a Counter-Force option to destroy Armoured columns are Neutron Bombs, not the usual Hydrogen bombs you would use against a Counter-value target like an Enemy city. If only someone could explain this to the Pakistani military....those morons think its a good idea to use Counter-Value nukes for Counter-Force objectives. Meanwhile Indian military Doctrine calls for sending Indian Armoured Spearheads skirting around and close to Pakistani cities so that any Pakistani attempt at nuking an advancing Indian Armoured Column ends up killing more Pakistani civilians than it kills Indian soldiers. This, the Indian military hopes, is enough to deter the Pakistanis from using those nukes.
What a glorious master piece of a game. Especially the mission alone. This is what games should be like, a roll coaster of emotion and action! So glad to have had this in my childhood. We need more realistic tragic scenes like this. The shear raw hopelessness perfectly executed with the soundtrack on point. A scene that makes the gamer just freeze in actual fear. Writers, soundboard artist, voice actors, and devs this was your best day remember what y’all did that day to make this and do it again
COD:MW series were such a masterpiece.
@@milf_hunter5144 honestly for me....all cods before ghost were truly great games.
@@b__w_4565 ghost isnt even a bad game wdym
@@7kAndyy its just underrated the story is good
Including infinite warfare
Exepct Vangaurd and ww2
I have a feeling that Vanguard might flop
Badly
Bro Im sorry but calling this scene realistic is such a meme, I mean a literal nuclear detonation goes off, if that isnt unrealistic idk what is.
"You got a flashbang for a reason you know".
-Ghost (2007)
Gaz you peasant
I always end my missions with no flashbangs
Maybe it will be nice if someone make a short mission campaign about those seal team six finding that nuke.
Nah, they will be nuke btw
In MW3 during Makarov's rants I get the impression they were in the wrong place. The nuke was somewhere else.
@@Jalide no because the said they found the nuke and was disarmeing it before it went off
@@abysswalker2594 Oof. Well at least it was quick.
*Press X to Disarm*
(Begins the process)
Everything goes white
Death Quote:
"War...it's FANTASTIC!"
-Miguel Ferrer
Surprised to see the enemies be so accurate and hard-hitting when it's only on Regular difficulty. They were tearing your ass up way worse than I would have expected.
ikr
I feel like a lot of older games were more likely to challenge you a bit more instead of being too scared to ruin your power trip. I can play some newer games on regular and cheese everything without much thought, but play an older shooter on the same difficulty and get slapped right back into a tactical mindset.
Everyone on the Chinook would have survived if they didn't simp for Pelayo.
Simping gets you killed.
No one gets left behind
Nahh, they'll die anyway by air crash, then the radiation will finished 'em off.
@@dhlhthriwdhskissos9606 what they did was illogical if I can save more lives by sacrificing one then that person gonna die
@@blizzard1198 that's not how the soldiers see it. and for good reason , it makes them trust each other and be a team
It was "Sea Knight" not Chinook.
lmfao he trying to change the difficulty, got me dying lol
And he was already playing at regular 🤭
i cant even blame him, he got destroyed the moment he gets out of his cover lol
this and the last level are soo fucking hard
Me too 😂
@@TH3L33TM3XICANyou forgoy charlie dont surf. The Tv Center building... Everything is bulletproof you must aim headshot or run using shotgun
I do remember a couple of years ago I think a couple of data miners found some files that hinted that Jackson could've actually survived. I think this level was supposed to be more than just Jackson coming out of the helicopter and dying. If I remember correctly in the files there were objectives that directed the player to find "protective gear" and "located nearest commanding officer". Looks like the devs decided to just let Jackson die but it would've been nice to see how different this level would've been if it were like that.
Man, I loved Jackson he was like a good guy and I thought he never died but in the next missions I came to know that the USMC campaign has finished 😢
Imagine that happening and then some cameos/clues in later missions/games referring to a Jackson, maybe retired due to injuries, perhaps an advisor or CO... Maybe even have him be under Shepard's direct command or assist in the 2nd to last mission in MW3 going the whole "I was there at the beginning, I sure as hell want to ensure it ends today" bit.
@@juhovuolinko6446 well now since the modern warfare series is getting rebooted, I hope Jackson and Ramirez are still out there 😂
He probably would have been exposed to so much radiation that any MOPP gear he donned would have been too late to do any good
I think they intended to let Paul meet Shepherd.... Then still died, making it a motivation why Shepherd want revenge and more attention to his army since the world apparently "just fvcking watch" when it happened
I remember how impactful the nuke scene was to me he first time playing through this game. I hadn't watched any videos of this part of the game and didn't look at any guides, etc. so I didn't expect the nuke to actually go off. How impactful that scene was when the nuke went off and your helo goes down and all you can do is crawl a couple of feet knowing you were going to die.
It was totally shocking to me... I though the counting was to just scape after saving the pilot, hey, the detonation was not in my mind!
Jackson shouldn’t have died as quickly as he did, nor should any who survived the Heli crash. Radiation is a slow killer
@@beastmode1915 playing as him as he slowly deteriorates isnt fun though
The thing is that , this is exactly how I remember this mission, when I first played it in 2007
I remember just crawling forever
Few ways of serving the last moments of Jackson, the ways I see it,
1. wonder towards the mushroom cloud thinking you still have a mission (which I do ngl),
2. wonder on to the highway and try to get out of there,
3. stay with your fellow marines,
stay int the chinook (kind of boring),
4. or go to the playground and die because Jackson might have been a father (I don’t know)
*CH-46 Sea Knight
What you can go to the highway
Considering you hear children or a child when he's about to fade out. You're probably right about the father thing. Never thought about it.
@@tacticalmattress hes hearing voices of his children playing and laughing
Or he's remembering his childhood. But It could be possible Jackson was a young father
Lower the Difficulty: Daycare.
after playing cold war this felt like veteran, i was like holy f*k
@@AFGuidesHD wait, so you are saying Cold War is much easier ?
Edit : After seeing your park Cold War video, now i see why
@@rivaldo5176 most likley, yes
@@AFGuidesHD tbh cold war was one of the easiest cods I played compared to other the games, even on veteran.
The hardest missions was world at war veteran
This mission literally blew me away.
Me Nd u both
Fr, my jaw literally dropped when I first played this back on December 31st 2007. I just replayed it on the remastered a couple minutes ago to take a huge nostalgia trip of 15 years.
I love the entire mission simply for the build up in it, you see massive waves of tank platoons, other sea knights moving into the city, cobras flying all around as rpg smokes pass over you with insurgents fire several times, meanwhile the music iis just in my opinion the best OST from the Modern Warfare trilogy, right up there and above Of Their Own Accord, theres just so many details and atmospheric build up I love it.
When I found out Harry Gregson-Williams (the man who composed for _Metal Gear Solid)_ was on this, hoo boy, I knew I was in for a good one.
I love it myself.
9:40: Is everything ready?
9:42: Do it.
9:57: Understand Yuri, this is only the beginning.
The way music goes from the badass tones to the dramatic crescendo to absolute silence is just perfection
There's something wrong with the difficulty. This is not regular. Regular needs about 5-8 shots for the screen to redden. Atleast in the OG MW1.
i completely agree
That was the Regular Hell difficulty
So it's Hardened.
@@hernanarauz1610 This is the "I can see Hell from here" difficulty.
I love the moment he goes to lower difficulty and pauses for a few moments in disbelief at how it’s only at regular lmao
0:56 Nice detail though. Jackson usually loads and locks the Mark-19 cannon.
In the original MW, the cannon is already loaded while Jackson is manning it.
Cool story about this. When I was in 4th grade I stayed up all night playing the campaign with my brother, and when we got to this mission, I paused and went to bed and he finished the mission. The next morning at the bus stop I told him “that mission was so cool, did you finish it ”. And he just told me “Dude everyone died. It was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.” Good times.
Am I the only who actually kept thinking about this scene?
I mean just imagine this happening in real life, 10.000’s of soldiers choking on their own blood, burn wounds all over their bodies, their clothes burned off their bodies, their skin turning black and far away they see a mushroom cloud looking like a second sun on our earth which will probably be the last thing they see as they suffer and die.
All because of the push of 1 small button.....
That's war for ya
this happened many times
That is what happened to the people of Hiroshima. Going about their day when the air raid sirens go off and instead of a huge formation of bombers high in the sky, a single aircraft that drops a single bomb. A bomb that never reaches the ground. The people watching never see anything again.
The people close to it, vaporised. The lucky ones. The people further away catch fire, the flesh flensed from their bones by the heat and pressure. The people a little further out, their clothes catch fire, their skin burns black and seems to melt and many of them don't die, so other survivors report vaguely humanoid creatures without eyes, ears or noses but with gaping mouths, moving in the ashes, moaning and gurgling.
Everyone within a kilometre; fatal radiation dose of 5000-1000 rem. Incapacitated within five minutes by their exposure but likely to live four to six days as they die in agony from necrosis; bloody sores opening all over and inside their bodies. Sepsis will increase their pain and painkillers will be ineffective.
Between one and one and a half kilometres, less than a 1000 rem. Fatal doses will take a month to die. 20-25% of survivors will die of cancer anyway.
And everyone within two kilometres received third degree burns. They don't even know they have the burns because their nerves are dead; most burn victims will die of subsequent infection. Survivors will be permanently disfigured or disabled. Second degree burns to those beyond two kilometres which they will feel, and again, sepsis will most likely kill them.
Between 90,000 and 140,000 people dead. Thousands more dying in the years to come from cancers resulting from radiation exposure.
All from one man releasing one bomb.
@@DomWeasel There's a youtube video that actually has a recreation (for lack of better term) of the bomb being dropped and i was just harrowing watching it and making you realize nuclear weapons are a scary thing. All it takes is one bomb and the damage it can do to humanity what people I think most people DON'T realize is how close we are to WW III
humans and another creature is so weak
I always liked that mission.
Manning a autocannon, shooting from a helicopter.
Those were the glorious days of FPS.
Not a Autocannon but a Mark 19 Grenade Launcher
@@foxtrotsierraproductions8626, still bad ass, the rock in your headset. God this mission was bad ass. But the nuke was haunting, fuck. Rip those devil dogs.
And don't forget about the Infinite ammo
Infinite Ammo + M203 = *American Firepower*
@@Butter_Warrior99 Yes i kinda want a Call of Duty Game what is about the Operation Gothic Serpent aka Mogadishu 1993 Conflict.
As haunting as the ending of this mission was, I love the strange beauty the last few minutes of this mission shows. In the original, it shows your vision being almost completely red which was a little off-putting for me. But here, it actually really reminds of The Divide in the Lonesome Road DLC for Fallout: New Vegas. In fact, I’m willing to bet Obsidian must have taken the idea from the last few minutes of CoD 4: Modern Warfare’s Shock and Awe mission as inspiration for Lonesome Road. And this mission truly was a Shock and Awe.
4:39 The man lost all hope he was any good at COD after seeing that
This game was really immersive, especially on a huge flatscreen. The part in the prologue where you're being driven to your execution is magic
They managed to make this mission more terrifying than in the original. Putting the pilot in the chinook, she’s clearly hurt and has scrapes all over her face. The crew member at the back of the helicopter actually fires his pistol and when the nuke goes off, everyone gets thrown back. Jackson crawls towards him as he’s hanging on for dear life rather than just slowly slipping outta the helicopter in the original.
Gotta love how Jackson reassures Deadly she is safe with that little hold on her shoulder
1:18 You'll 90% be dead in a nanosecond if you don't destroy the BMPs in time in veteran difficulty.This point pissed me off countless times already lmaO
Now General Shepherd is getting angry
Am I the only one who felt bad for Sheperd and actually saw his reasoning in betraying task force 141. Or is it just me?
@@Chi13th i actually think he is kinda right especially if that COD MW Universe still got PC bs despite the Nuke being used against US troops
@@Chi13th Ehh...sort of? I'm mean, the fact that he allied with the very same person who _caused_ him to lose all of those thirty thousand men and women...certainly doesn't help, honestly.
And that's the _most_ polite way I could've put that.
9:52
Makarov : It's Everything Ready ?. Do It
Can't wait to see that in remastered
Remember this Yuri, this is only the beginning
_"Thousands of souls... extinguished... by the push of a button."_
Shepard: I repeat, we have a confirmed nu.......
Vasquez: Everyone hang on!
@aaroncampbell2180 telling open comms that NEST is making positive action on a confirmed WMD. It's definitely an insider threat.
Playing original cod4 at an age when you could actually grasp the plot is the gaming equivalent of being a Vietnam War vet.
Shit was legendary. It pawed the way to all modern shooters. Basically 2/3rds of the stuff you see in today's FPS games were first done in this game. Even the skins on guns (the way they should be done).
I'm 25 now, still remember it like it was yesterday
Dam bro this brings tears to my eyes. I was so young when I played this and I remember playing Shock and awe mission repeatedly cuz it's the best. Man the nostalgia and the good memories 😢
This mission had my favorite cinematics and radio chatter, seeing Cobras and CH-46 sea knights fly iin mass as door gunners with 40mm shoot the enemy infantry and armored columns, the music also was just incredible
that nuke was beautiful to watch but also haunted our dreams
All that equipment and life, gone. What a massive loss.
Yeah I now understand shepherds anger
But betraying is no Bueno.
You killed the Ghost
Stepped on the Roach
Nearly Dropped the Soap
Now you will pay the Price.
@@diligentone-six2688 thats like the 50th time I've seen this 😐
That's a hell lotta tax money gone down the drain. Or incinerated.
@@synertic7271 😐
THIS is how you do a campaign. Good old days.
let's face it.
marines would never have shit like this lol
a working mark 19?! that's some sci-fi level shit for the marine corps!!
Imagine being saved, just to die 5 minutes later
FOR REAL LOL
Where
@Idk Idk where was that other one?
They should have Left Her and just evacuated
I still can't believe General Shepard is directing this entire operation
Am i the only one who still think about how much dark is the fate of NEST TEAMS😢😢 who where next the bomb
LMAO rushes out of the helicopter and immediately dies
I mean yeah, what can you do?
@@WholesomeWatermelon..... I mean you dont have to rush out of the helicopter like an idiot.
Super fun facts about nukes:
Just looking at the blast like he did would make you blind
His hand would be the most damaged place in his body (not counting the heli crash)
Going outside that helicopter would expose him to even more radiation,
It would probably be wayy creepier to look outside
Radiation poisoning is not fun at all, look up the types of super fun stuff it causes like a slow painful death
A lot more of those houses would be leveled probably
This concludes euper fun facts about nukes
Damn thanks professor
@@benjapizarro981 no problem, it wasn't a funny comment but it's important to enjoy games knowing real war is hell, also the hand thing is not even a joke, there is a lady that was a kid when the nukes dropped, don't remember which one, that when she saw the flash shr put her hand in front to shield her eyes from the brightness, and since she survived enough to be admitted into a hospital they noticed that her hand was considerably more damaged and irradiated compared to the rest of her body
Fun!
@@furinick Another fun fact, a person who survived the nagasaki and hiroshima bombings said “The people who were on the street, they got vaporized, there would be black shadows left of them”
He's the lucky one here. He died from his injuries rather than living long enough to experience the horrors of radiation sickness.
Modern warfare and cold war difficulties are not the same
I wish there were more missions from the Marines' perspective. This and Charlie Don't Surf are probably my favorite missions from this game.
I really wish COD would put this much effort into a campaign again. The 2019 MW reboot fell flat for me. I don't even remember the campaign. MW4 was released in 2007 and I remember every level. This was a real masterpiece of an action game!
That's down to it being a mix of innovation and your own nostalgia. A lot of people felt MW 2019's campaign was one of the best in years.
@@SPM0717 it’s was garbage mainstream nonsense
@@SPM0717 It was the best in years, but that's not saying much sadly
Yo 4:25 this guy got me dying bro 😂😂 he thought the game was on hard mode LMAO 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Haven't played the original in years but I could faintly remember that you could destroy the statue at 1:43, I could be wrong or thinking of something else
U can
Same i haven't played Cod in years
You can destroy the statue, I usually do it when I replay the mission so the ground team can use the debris as extra cover.
@@tau-5samsara990 Same Bro but sometimes i destroy the Statue because it was fun destroying
Yep, and the statue falls on a random soldier, seems to be scripted
This is Why Shepherd turned rogue
3:26 yuri makarov
I like how you can just barely make out their silhouettes
@@cringelord2875same. I never noticed.
"Remember switching to your sidearm is always faster than reloading"
still remember the shock it gave to me when i firstly played it at 14
After what just happened I think I will think again before joining the marines.
"I lost 30,000 men in a blink of an eye, and the world JUST FUCKIN' WATCHED." -General Sheperd.
Shepard was Command in this Game
First of all: It wouldn't be a crime if you decided to lower the difficulty on that mission, you give us great gameplay.
Second of all: That last moment in that mission sure gives me the chills all the time. Everything just goes black
NEST Soldier 1: Cut the wire exactly when I say, not before
NEST Soldier 2: Ready
NEST Solfier 1: Green wire,
NEST Soldier 2: *Cuts green wire
NEST Soldier 1: in 3---
God, the Marine roll-ins in this game give me a woody.
4:39 oof
you just saw what happened right?
just walked out for a second and got blasted by everyone as if it was veteran
i was like "wtf difficulty is this?"
@@AFGuidesHD lmao
@@AFGuidesHD i thought it was on veteran too
@@AFGuidesHD lmaoooo
100% this game’s achievements and the veteran difficulty was extremely frustrating and hard. Some levels id be stuck on for an hour because of some bullshit. But in the end I beat it and I still love this game.
This mission still sends chills down my spine.
*About to change to change difficulty from regular to recruit*
“Nah the comment section is gonna roast me for that”
also seeing what difficulty it is, it felt way more like veteran
@@AFGuidesHD nah I don’t blame you, Modern Warfare’s campaign was pretty brutal difficulty wise. I remember spending a whole week trying to beat it on veteran as a kid. Lots of pain and suffering.
@@bobpoop6076 you think that’s painful? Don’t even look in WaW direction lol I’ve played every game on Vet, nothing compares to WaW lol
@@quentinmarks8315 oh definitely, that’s the hardest campaign yet. Grenade spam still haunts me.
@@bobpoop6076 well for me its that playground on Pripyat. I played the unremastered.
1:46 No one really spares that parked vehicle here.
I still vividly remember when i was in the internet cafe it was a saturday and at the time i didn't knew what i was playing but the nuke scene oh man my jaw dropped i never seen let alone experience anything like it before it was truly a unique experience, cod 4 (original) remains the greatest cod.
Never thought my childhood would turn into reality in the middle east in 2023
This game was a product of the time.. this was at the height of the war on terror so "storming the desert" was theme
Facts
@@clappinmonkey0944 bruh we finna live to see this a tactical nuke go off in 2 years watch
@normalcy._8781 it wouldn't be tactical... if an aggressor ever stupidly caused a nuclear exchange between a country and their own, it would be a strategic decision.."tactical " nukes are used on the battlefield...the term is kind of dumb considering most tactical nukes are in the low kt range and to put into perspective little boy (Hiroshima bomb) was 12-15kt. Which flattened the city.. today that would be considered tactical in size.strategic warheads range hundreds of kilotons up to megatons... A lot of the megaton stuff is getting phased out, though, for more precise and efficient designs...lets just pray it never happens.
What? This has happened multiple times. Hell, Israel physically occupied Gaza until 2005. Sooo nothing new.
I just realized that the statue kind of ressembles Saddam Hussein's statue when it got downed.
8:25 enemy at the rooftop
''Maybe not today''
The best game I’ve ever played in my childhood.
“Stop quoting me..” -Sun Tzu
"Today, we show the world our true strength. Perhaps it'll give you some, as well." - Vladimir Makarov
5:52 this part i use grenade launcher bring down helicopter.
saim, got back to start xdd
friendly fire gang
Hell yeah the memories
I'm getting way too much nostalgia from this sentence.
@ sike
No COD game is greater than COD4
insane that General Shepherd was in charge of this entire operation. and the nuke that wiped out his army was what drove him insane
They need to remaster these three modern warefare games, plus big read one, and world at war.
Never looked at the map close enough to realize it was in fact at Basrah. Neat
Girls: The influence of nuclear power knows no bounds. We underestimated it, honestly.
Boys: Tell that to our generals. We lost our own too.
Girls: Guess what time it is?
Boys: It's vengeance time. *They both do handshake based on the one in Predator 1.*
@Brandon Munoz Not for me who has imagination.
@Brandon Munoz If used right, of course. 😉
@Brandon Munoz Gender unity, comrade.
Thus causes General Shepherd to rebel and start WWIII
i remember this mission from the original cod called "charlie don't surf" and then the nuke mission called "shock and awe"
This still give me goosebumps
I love how at 2:29 Outlaw just clears himself to land and Overlord just goes along with it lol
He was saying that it was safe for them to land, and Overlord gave him the go-ahead.
When SGT Foley and Ramirez became cool, we had Griggs and Vasquez back then.
Ah, good memories.
Never thought my hometown according to my family's generation will be that creepy after been nuked by Makarov's order to Al Asad
Call of Duty from 2003-2011 Best Years of the Franchise Hands Down
Liu Kang: Instead you will learn... There are worse things than death.
loll bro almost set the difficulty to recruit after getting fkd up
I first played the mission when i was 13. The title of the mission lived up to the name. I was shocked and awed. I haven't played the remaster but in the og, there were no survivors and you're the only one to survived crawling all the way until the site of the mushroom cloud loom over the horizon as your last site sent chill down my spine.
Unforgetable Mission!... I felt the presure and the adrenaline like damn real... I guess I should get the Remastered version...
This mission was so traumatizing. It made me feel queasy knowing how possible this is in real life.
3:46 fun fact: that is not the helicopter making a metal noise thats part of the song i always thought it was the sound of the helicopter landing but after listening to the OST i found it was part of the song
This gives me nostalgia feelings. first time played it when I was in 4th or 5th standard. Such an emotional seen the list of thousands of dead including Sgt. Paul Jackson but still alive for a few seconds.