User blog comment:DanielM4712/Modern Warfare 3 Story Ideas/@comment-74.198.28.64-20100627214436

One month after the events of MW2:

Act 1:

Training Mission ("Target Practice") Location: Some US military base Foley, Ramirez and Dunn are all at the firing range refining their skills for the invasion of Russia as retaliation for the Russian invasion of the US. Through Foley's "helpful comments", new players will get a basic idea of how to play. Everyone is then called to a briefing because they board the ships the next day for the invasion. Sitting in the main auditorium, th stage is lit up, and, with a Shadow Company on either side of him, General Shepard walks on stage (explanation for his survival is that Soap only threw the knife, rather than stab him directly, so the knife never went past his eye because their wasn't enough force) wearing an eyepatch. He briefs them on the invasion plan with the help of a touch screen, then brings up 5 faces: those of Price, Soap, Archer, Toad, and Nikolai. He tells the rangers that these men are traitors who are trying to destroy the US by lauching Russia's nuclear arsenal against them. He tells them to memorize their faces and shoot them on sight, no questions, and tells the story of how Soap and Price nearly killed him. The Rangers cheer for him.

Jump back to the timeline of MW2

Mission 1 ("The Other Loose End") Location: Makarov's Estate The player character for most of the game will be Toad, an American sniper part of Sniper Team One along with Archer, an SAS vet. The map is redesigned so that you can see the Estate's grounds from your location. You help out during the initial ambush, snipe targets through the Estate's windows, blow up the two jeeps that try to escape, and snipe Makarov's counterattacking men. When Ghost orders everyone to get to the LZ, You (Toad) and Archer attemp to get there, but are delayed by hoards of Makarov's men. Price then comes over the radio and tells you that Shepard has killed Ghost and Roach and that Nikolai knows a place where they will be safe and gives them the co-ordinates. Suddenly, Makarov's men are cut down by a Shadow Company gunship, and Shadow Company troops come pouring over the hills. Archer and Toad book it and slide down a steep hill into a thick forest.

Date of the invasion of Russia:

Mission 2 ("Tora Tora Tora!") Location: Arctic Coast of Russia Foley, Ramirez, and Dunn are sent with a mixed unit of Rangers and Shadow Company troops (called "Echo guys" by the Rangers after their official military designation Special Forces Operational Detachment Echo) on a special first-strike mission against a Russian sub base. Basically, while the Rangers clear the base, Shadow Company will clear and sabotage the Typhoon-class nuke subs in dock. Under heavy anti-aircraft fire, the troops land on the docks. Foley and his squad push down one dock while a team of SFOD-E troops clear and sabotage the sub in the dock next to them. Other units do the same throughout the base. Once the subs sink and the docks are secure, the troops press into the base, with Foley's squad teaming up with an SFOD-E squad to clear the base command center. Then they push the Russians out of the base as the tanks and troop carriers begin unloading at the dock area. Dunn comments "See? Rangers are just as good as you spec ops types."

More's coming. I spent a while thinking this up and I like where it's going. Tell me if you like it or not and I'll post the rest at some point. And yes, I know it's long.