Video: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 story recap: everything you need to know for campaign

Written by Alex Roth on November 02, 2011

News: CoD MW3 comes out next week. Do you remember what happened in Modern Warfare 1 & 2? Major Nelson's does, and he's hosting a video timeline.

A video timeline of the Modern Warfare series's most pivotal plot points is being hosted by Xbox Live's Major Nelson. With the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 release date of November 8 fast approaching, now is the perfect time to catch up all multinational intrigue the series has to offer.

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It's interesting that while Soap MacTavish is arguably the series' main character and audience surrogate, the most pivotal role might belong to British badass Col. Price. He kicked things off with his assassination attempt on Zakhaev, which left the Russian gun-runner missing an arm and plenty pissed off.

It's a plot structure in line with Call of Duty's inception back in 2003, which put players in the boots of Russian, British and American soldiers in WWII. It's nice that an American game can share center stage with its allies.

source: Major Nelson