- "Fifty thousand people used to live in this city. Now it's a ghost town... I've never seen anything like it."
- — MacMillan
Pripyat, or Prypiat, is an abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in northern Ukraine, near the border with Belarus. It appears in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. The city is mentioned in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare & Modern Warfare Remastered[]
Campaign[]
In Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and its remastered version, Pripyat is the setting of the levels All Ghillied Up and its continuation One Shot, One Kill. In both levels, the ghost city is portrayed as a gloomy, dark, lonely and scary place with gray skies and long, unkempt grass. In these two missions the player plays as Captain Price, then Lieutenant, in a flashback. He is under the command of Captain MacMillan and the player must sneak past Ultranationalist forces in a ghillie suit, hence the name. In the next mission, the player must try to assassinate Imran Zakhaev, the main antagonist in the game. When the character manages to shoot his arm off with a Barrett .50cal, a helicopter spots them and they must escape the hotel from which they assassinate him. While escaping, MacMillan is injured by a crashing Mi-28 and must be carried by the player to the extraction point which is at the Pripyat Amusement Park.
Multiple buildings portrayed are very similar to their real-life counterparts including the Polissya hotel, the building where Price and MacMillan chose as a vantage position to assassinate Zakhaev, the Palace of Culture Energetik, the large art studio near the end of All Ghillied Up, the Azure Swimming Pool, and the Pripyat amusement park's Ferris wheel and bumper car ride.
Multiplayer[]
The multiplayer map Bloc is set in Pripyat. It consists of two large apartment blocks and the swimming pool, which is largely overlooked and only really plays a part in the Headquarters and Old School game modes. The Ferris Wheel is also visible in the background. Two other maps, Shipment and Vacant also take place in Pripyat. A third map, Overgrown, alludes to Pripyat via a road sign towards the southeastern corner of the map in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered, and is assumed to be located amongst the outskirts of the abandoned city.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2[]
In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the Special Ops mission Hidden is set in the outskirts of the city. It is possible to 'glitch out' of the map and walk through the section of Pripyat which appeared in All Ghillied Up.
The Multiplayer map Wasteland takes place on the outskirts of the power plant which can be seen in the distance. A radioactive border prevents the player from getting too close to the plant.
Pripyat is also the setting of the Call of Duty 4 multiplayer map Vacant which was released as part of the Resurgence Pack. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and Pripyat's Community Center can be seen in the background.
Call of Duty: Black Ops[]
Pripyat solely appears in the Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer map Grid, as confirmed by a big stone statue in the field, where Russian Cyrillic writings can be found, reading "Pripyat". The DUGA-3 array can be seen in the background.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3[]
Pripyat during Yuri's flashback in Modern Warfare 3
Pripyat also makes a short appearance in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 mission Blood Brothers, where it shows Yuri and Vladimir Makarov in a car during Zakhaev's dealing from "One Shot, One Kill".
Pripyat is also mentioned by Price in the cutscene for "Return to Sender". Price contacts Baseplate (who is now revealed as MacMillan) in order to get intel on where the chemicals originated. Baseplate (MacMillan) tells him that he is on "everyone's shit-list" and that he "can't give him clearance". Price angrily retorts that MacMillan "still owes him for Pripyat", which persuades MacMillan to pass along intel about a shipment in Somalia.
The multiplayer map Fallen also takes place in Pripyat.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare[]
During a meeting sometime after the assault on Barkov's Gas Factory in Georgia, Captain John Price recounts to Kate Laswell that he had almost killed Victor Zakhaev's father in Pripyat.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III[]
Pripyat makes a minor appearance in the multiplayer, once again being the setting for the map, Wasteland.
