meowchef said:
Modern Warfare 2: Several.
How did price fire the nuke from the sub alone? Two keys at opposite ends of the craft.
America gets nuked. What do they do? Nothing.
If a psychotic Brit storms your Boomer, wielding an assault rifle, and orders you to fire your missile at the target you've already selected for it, what do you do?
They can read the location of an arms dealer off an exploded bullet casing, yet they can't fucking tell that Shepard perpetrated the whole thing by sending Allen on that mission.
The No Russian mission.
Yeah, I hated that the game implies that they learned all that info off not a bullet casing, but a picture of a bullet casing.
Simple answer: Shepard was the only person in the chain of command dealing with Makarov and the only person who knew about Allen's role as Alexei Borodin.
Why do the members of the airport security/government/ANYONE not check security recordings to check and make sure it wasn't only an American slaughtering people... but instead just invaded the US.
How can you tell the difference between a white Russian and a white American on CCTV? Besides, the Ultranationalist government
wanted to attack the US; they reverse-engineered the ACS to hide their fleet from NORAD before the massacre.
eggy32 said:
Now that you bring it up, how the hell did 4 people get that far into an airport with 4 machine guns?
It's not like they just blast the door open or something, the mission starts in a lift so they're already inside. How do they get in?
Yeah. How do four heavily-armed and armoured men walk into a 21st century airport? They carried it all in their luggage and suited up inside the elevator. Listen before the mission fades in and you'll hear zippers and rustling.
patapolo said:
Ooooh, these are just tiny specs compared to the amount of plot holes in this horrible game, such as:
How did the Rangers get from Afghanistan to Virginia in 1-2 days (its not an airplane ride people, its mass friggin transport!)?
The timestamps given are "Day 1" and "Day 2," with no indication of how much time passes between days. Day 2 could be a week after Day 1 for all we know.
What is up with the shitty plot point about the russian steeple tatoo(representing how many years the person has been in prison for), nothing was said this tatto before or after this dumb sentence.
The ink is part of Allen's cover. Alexei Borodin is supposed to be a Russian criminal. That's a Russian criminal tattoo: "Church is the Home of God; Prison is the Home of the Thief."
How could of No Russian happened, HOW!?!?! It says in the beginning that you are a CIA operative, and for you kill 1000s of civilians, even though its common sense that the CIA would have to approve and know EVERY LITTLE DETAIL about any mission that any operative goes on.
The CIA has done a lot of terrible things, but as far as I can tell, it looks like Shepard was the only person dealing with Makarov, so the CIA proper likely didn't know about his job.
WHY DO THEY NOT CHECK THE SECURITY CAMERAS IN NO RUSSIAN! There's even a picture of the incident on select mission screen!
Again, a white American and a white Russian have no physical differences. All they could tell from CCTV is that four men slaughtered everyone while taking only three casualties (Lev, Kiril, "Borodin").
Also, how could they assume that ONE American man managed to take down the entire friggin Russian SWAT force when they find him.
When the Ultranationalists find him and figure out that he's American (I don't know how), they probably jumped to the conclusion that he led the massacre and then mobilized their army.
And at the end of the mission, your so to be known "buddies" get into a hospital car and ESCAPE, how would they DO THAT!?!? There is a friggin police barricade outside, and also, how do the cops not have the common sense to indicate that the car they escaped from came DIRECTLY from the airport during that crisis.
An ambulance with lights and sirens leaves the scene of a horrific massacre. Are you, Mr. FSB Officer, going to pull over an ambulance just because, risking the life of whoever's in the back? You don't interfere in the movement of emergency vehicles during a crisis.
How did they coordinate the mission of Cliffhanger? Did they put the LZ on the other side of a friggin chasm, knowing they would use it?
It's probably a secondary or even tertiary evac point. Had the mission gone properly, you would probably have had a different, easier to reach point.
When Soap and roach find the ACS, shouldnt they friggin tell America about it so they can make a NEW one to lockout the old one and thus prevent the silly supposed unexpected siege they have the GOD DAMNED COAST GUARD and COMMON line of sight, along with sonar and far off satellites.
We don't know how much time passes between
Cliffhanger and
Wolverines! or how long it takes to change the security codes on NORAD's early-warning systems. Maybe the Russians sunk the Coast Guard before they could send a warning?
How did they manage to evacuate the friggin eastern Seaboard in one DAY!? It would have been interesting if they had a few uncooperative citizens we would have to deal with!
They didn't. It's implied that the Russians are slaughtering American civilians in retaliation for the airport and the only areas we see in game are suburban Virginia and areas around the White House, which would be major evac areas anyway. We don't see what's going on in New York City, for example.
Who in the hell is Raptor and why do we need him? What about the guy dead in the panic room, shouldn't he have already been evacuated?
We can say he's not the President because if he was there would have been a bigger response to Marine One going down (by that I mean every soldier in the area would converge to get him out of there). He's more likely a Cabinet member or the like.
The panic room HVI, dead after a struggle (notice the spent flashbang, the bloody footprints, and the Russian soldier raiding the fridge), had important military intelligence. A dead Russian soldier in the same room has Viktor's face (one of Makarov's guys from the airport). Maybe the intelligence pointed toward the Shepard/Makarov connection.
Also, WTF why does he do this in the first place, all of THIS! So more people join the friggin military?If so, then put the draft effort on if your so god damned short on troops.
Remember how badly the civilians reacted to the draft in the later days of 'Nam? There would be rioting. It's best to let people join on their own instead of being conscripted.
And finally,(as the most plot holes from this crappy game I can remember right now), WTF is up with the horribly put plot point TRYING to link Shepard and the Nuke from COD4 in a damned sentence(at the end) noone ever talked about before, or after he said that
I don't recall this part of MW2.