Find Makarov

"You're not real. None of this is!" The subject matter of this article is non canon.

Find Makarov is a non-canon fan made film made and produced by Canadian company We Can Pretend. The video follows closely with Shepherd's speech in "Endgame".

Marketing and release

The site was discovered after the website That Videogame Blog received bloody dog tags in the mail, with one supposedly being those of General Shepherd and the containing the URL address findmakarov.com and the message, "End the war" above.

Screenshot of the website prior to the video's release

Upon discovery of the website, a timer was ticking down until the March 2nd, 2011, a date which would coincide with the Game Developers Conference. Due to the viral nature of the website, the date's significance, the site's IP being registered in Los Angeles, and a similar marketing approach for Call of Duty: Black Ops, GKNOVA6, many believed the timer to show the date for a possible Modern Warfare 3 reveal trailer, causing the site to gain large amounts of traffic.

However on February 26, Activision, publishers of the Call of Duty series, denied that they were linked to it in any way and declared it to be a hoax. This was proven to be true; on March 2, 2011, a video entitled "Find Makarov" was uploaded onto YouTube, with the findmakarov.com website having the video embedded on the page. The official video currently has over 9,600,000 views.

Reception

The video was well received by not just fans, but Activision also. Activision contacted We Can Pretend about the video and helped produce a second short film, Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish, which premiered at the Call of Duty XP event.

Video

Notes

• At about the 2:14 mark Soap can be heard saying, "Let's write some history." This is a direct reference to how Shepherd and Price say, "History is written by the victors."