Original artwork, not a still
Fifty thousand people used to live here. Now it's a ghost town.
— Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare · 2007
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The line tells the player what the level is about before a shot is fired: this is a real, dead city, and being there is eerie rather than fun. It is the mission's emotional hinge, a veteran's quiet awe, and fans recall it as the moment the series stopped being only a shooter.
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In context
Spoilers for Call of Duty 4: Modern WarfareShow the scene
In the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) mission "All Ghillied Up", set in the winter of 1996, a young Lieutenant Price follows his commanding officer, Captain MacMillan, through the abandoned city of Pripyat near Chernobyl. As the two SAS men creep through the Palace of Culture, with the empty buildings and the Polissya Hotel in view, MacMillan stops and murmurs the line, adding that he has never seen anything like it. He then points them on towards the hotel, where they can watch an exchange from the top floor. The in-game wording is "in this city", while the site's version says "here".
Sources (2)
- Call of Duty Wiki: All Ghillied Up/TranscriptPalace of Culture passage, before the Polissya HotelReference checked
- Call of Duty Wiki: All Ghillied UpMission infoboxReference checked
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