Night Vision Goggles



Night vision goggles are optical devices that allow the user to make the best use of available light (sometimes called "starlite scopes") or through sensing normally invisible infra-red.

In Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Night vision goggles are available to the player in many levels of singleplayer, and are always available in multiplayer.

During the campaign, they can be used in conjunction with the AN/PEQ-2A laser to see a visible path a bullet will take, which can help with accuracy in some situations. However, this will not work to predict the path of a bullet fired from the hip will take due to recoil. These may still fly anywhere within the crosshairs.

Using these devices in a dark environment gives a great advantage over opposition, although they can be bulky and cut down peripheral vision. Light flashes from firearms and flares are more powerful and disorientating. They are only particularly useful twice in the campaign: once in the mission Blackout, in the house where you rescue Nikolai, and once in the mission The Bog, during the fight in the first building.

Night Vision is also available in multiplayer, but because there are no areas where it is needed, it is rarely used. It may have some use on the map Wet Work, if the player's television's brightness and contrast settings are set too low.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Night vision goggles make their return, but are not used often in either single-player or multiplayer. The only time that they are a major use is in The Gulag, when Gary Sanderson activates his night vision goggles to infiltrate the dark bottom cells until they find light again.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Prestige Edition
Working night vision goggles are set to be for sale with the Prestige Edition of Modern Warfare 2, the most limited edition of Modern Warfare 2. They are supposed to look like the NVGs In Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, as modeled by Captain Price before Gaz cuts the power during the mission Blackout.