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Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish

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without him while he provides covering fire; Soap, however, refuses to leave him behind. Overlord orders the Osprey pilot to take off immediately, but Sandman argues with him, demanding that Price not be left behind. As Price shouts for the Osprey to evacuate, he is then shot and falls backward, struggling to get back up. He pulls out his
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After the first film did so well, the filmmakers had an idea for a second project based on the Call of Duty series, and We Can Pretend called up Activision to propose it. "The first thing they said," says Fradkin, "is the script that we sent them, the original script, was way too close to the game.
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Upon discovery of the website, a timer was ticking down until the March 2nd, 2011, a date which would coincide with the Game Developers Conference. Due to the viral nature of the website, the date's significance, the site's IP being registered in Los Angeles, and a similar marketing approach for
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fire destroys Spectre 6-4, leaving the Task Force to fend for themselves. Another RPG is fired and explodes near Soap, knocking him semi-conscious and spitting blood. Sandman and Roach drag Soap to the Osprey while Frost rushes to cover them. Price then orders the rest of the Task Force to leave
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After Spectre clears the way for the Task Force, Soap's team advances into the safehouse and kills all remaining hostiles. Roach plants a breaching charge on a wall, with Ghost entering the room first and killing the soldiers inside. The team enters the room after clearing it of the enemy, where
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The original short started out as a personal project for staff Jeff Chan. "I was playing through Modern Warfare 2," he says, "and I'm a filmmaker and I really liked the game. I was like I've never really seen a film from a first person perspective. I was like, what if you made a film from a
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The screen then fades to black and cuts to the present day, revealing the scars that Soap had suffered from the explosion. After demanding that Shepherd tell him Kingfish's true identity, Shepherd throws him a dossier with a picture of Vladimir Makarov, declaring
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We can't do it, we're stepping on their toes. Then we kind of started about, 'Ok, these are the elements we can use, these are the elements we can't,' talking about it and making the script that you saw".
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at several Russian soldiers guarding a safehouse. After requesting permission to engage, Overlord commences the operation and Sandman and Frost start to eliminate the enemy soldiers. A friendly
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film. The video was well received by fans as well as Activision themselves. Activision contacted We Can Pretend about the video and helped produce
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in the mail, with one supposedly being those of General Shepherd and the containing the URL address and the message, "
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convention. The video was produced by We Can Pretend, with visual effects by The Junction, and was endorsed by
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General Shepherd's speech in the mission "Endgame". It shows the protagonists, Task Force 141 and
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sidearm and kills more soldiers before being shot again and overwhelmed by enemy forces.
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for exfil, while Spectre 6-4 provides covering fire for their escape. However, enemy
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The film begins with John "Soap" MacTavish sitting at a table, loading a
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reveal trailer, causing the site to gain large amounts of traffic.
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detonator beeping and escape before the blast can kill them.
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operatives Sandman and Frost are atop a hill aiming with a
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The site was discovered after the website received bloody
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there are pictures of an airport (hinting at the eventual
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behind, leading to his future incarceration in a Siberian
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many believed the timer to show the date for a possible
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first-person perspective, and it wasn't as crappy as
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Jeff Chan
Activision
Call of Duty XP
short film
prequel
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty XP
Activision
fan-made
antagonist
Delta Force
Captain Price
gulag
STANAG magazine
Karkonosze Mountains
Ukraine
Czech Republic
Poland
Captain Price
Ghost
Delta Force
Barrett M82
AC-130
massacre at Zakhaev International Airport
C4
V-22 Osprey
RPG
SIG Sauer P226
Captain John "Soap" MacTavish

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