Royce

"Remember, there are civilians in the Favela, watch your fire...Meat get these civvies outta here"

- Royce reminding Roach and Meat to pick their targets

Royce is a character in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. A member of Task Force 141, he is seen in the level Takedown.

He has short brown hair and wears a blue t-shirt with a combat vest over it.

Royce appears with Ghost and Meat at the time of Rojas' assistant's escape. They attempt to head him off, but he opens fire in a busy intersection causing civilians to flee, which creates a huge traffic collision. After he has been apprehended, Royce, Roach and Meat attempt to clear the Favela and find Rojas as Soap gets the information. The three soldiers come under heavy fire from the Brazilian Militia. Meat is killed, but Roach and Royce continue to push through despite the loss. Royce is killed by a large number of Militia forces shortly afterward.

Soap passes command down to Royce while he interrogates Rojas' assistant, meaning Royce is a higher rank than Roach and Meat, Roach being a Sergeant, but lower ranked than Soap who is a Captain.

Trivia

 * He is likely named after Alexander Roycewicz, an Infinity Ward employee who also appeared as Pvt. Roycewicz in the original Modern Warfare.
 * The player can see Royce get shot and killed in the level Takedown if the player follows him after he says Meat is dead. He will then alert Roach, telling him that he's down -- he and Meat are easily killed when the player does not provide much assistance.
 * When playing on Recruit difficulty it is actually possible, although very difficult, to keep Royce alive by trapping him in a hut and protecting him.
 * It is possible for the player to kill Royce.
 * Royce, in Museum, can show up (randomly) with a helmet over his head, a different shirt or not even show up at all. A person similar to Meat will appear instead.
 * His uniform bears resemblance to the Phoenix Connection terrorists from the game Counter-Strike.
 * Sometimes Royce is clean shaven.
 * Royce's facial hair may change after shooting Rojas' Assistant in the leg. Also, his M4A1 may gain or lose an M203 after Rojas' Assistant is captured.
 * Sometimes in the Museum, Royce will be wearing a helmet with an American flag and may have a Canadian flag on his combat vest. The helmet also has a Private Stripe on the back.


 * Even if the player successfully manages to save Royce and Meat at the beginning, they will have no chance of survival as the level progresses, as they are not scripted to continue, so when they leave the first neighborhood, they instantly are killed by sniper fire similar to that of the sniper fire in Team Player.
 * It's possible (although very rare) to see a character called Royce in the level The Gulag.
 * If the player is with him when he dies he will not announce over his radio that he is hit.
 * It is strange that Royce knew that Meat was killed, as they were on opposite sides of the favela.
 * When Royce informs Roach that he has been hit, his body will already be down.