Is Captain Price dead? It\u2019s a reasonable question to have at the end of Modern Warfare 4\u2019s campaign, considering how often characters we thought were gone have come back over the course of the four-game story \u2014 I\u2019ve lost track of the number of times Graves has returned now. We spoke to developer Infinity Ward to get an answer, and we got one. Well, kind of.<\/p>\n
In a mid-credits scene, Mads Mikkelsen\u2019s The Archer can be seen taking a captive Captain Price away on a truck. An ambush allows Price to break free, though, as the vehicle crashes, leaving The Archer to scuttle away into the snow as our hero wrestles with a metal pipe sticking out of his stomach. After stumbling after the villain, Price turns the tables on him and uses said pipe to puncture his throat, leaving the rogue Russian minister of defense very much dead in the middle of a frozen-over lake. Ghost then arrives on the scene to share his former squadmate’s final breaths with him as Price lies still, presumably dead, next to his victim. But is he?<\/p>\n
I asked Jeff Negus, narrative director at Infinity Ward, if that\u2019s the case. \u201cI’ll say this. We went out of our way in this game to pace character deaths, both in where they happen and in the expression of the moment happening,\u201d explains Negus. \u201cAnd I would say that scene is consistent with others.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, not a yes or a no, is it? Multiple characters established in earlier series entries meet their makers across Modern Warfare 4\u2019s 16 missions, including Makarov, Gabriela, Graves, and Gaz, to name but a few. While we don\u2019t see any of them put in the ground never to rise again, some of them meet pretty conclusive ends, with the Gs \u2014 Gaz, Graves, and Gabriela \u2014 all receiving bullets to the head. Makarov’s head is now pulp on a snowy New York street, but he looked pretty lifeless the last time we saw him, and seeing as he\u2019s dispatched so early in the story, surely he would\u2019ve come back by now. Archer needs a reason to go after Price and avenge his son, after all.<\/p>\n
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