Rio de Janeiro

Rio De Janeiro is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America. The city makes its only appearence in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Where it is briefly featured in two campaign levels, as well as in multiplayer maps, and Special Operations missions.

In Call of Duty
Rio De Janeiro is featured in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and serves as a battleground for singleplayer, multiplayer, and Special Ops gameplay. The city is the setting for the level Takedown, where the player must chase down and capture Rojas, an associate of Vladimir Makarov, while fighting the Brazilian Militia defending him. The mission The Hornet's Nest is also set in Rio De Janeiro, where the player must escape the city and find the extraction point, the majority of which takes place in a favela. The multiplayer map for Rio De Janeiro is called Favela, which is set in one of the city's urban slums. (There are several other multiplayer maps set in Brazil, but it is unconfirmed where exactly they are.) Finally, the Special Ops missions O Cristo Redentor, Bomb Squad and High Explosive take place in small Rio villages. In O Cristo Redentor, the player must hunt down and eliminate the Militia In Bomb Squad, the player must defuse three different bombs located in the village. In High Explosive, players must kill ten Juggernauts using only explosives and a knife. During Hornet's Nest, commercial planes can be seen leaving at a high rate, indicating that denizens are possibly leaving due to the massive increase of violence between the 141 and militia.