While the crowdsourcing whether Clayton Carmine should live or die still rages on, I had to scratch another digital itch. Throughout Modern Warfare 2′s single player missions, you incorporate five characters. Aside from Soap McTarvish and the unknown ISS astronaut, the majority of the missions is spent being PFC Joseph Allen, Pvt. James Ramirez and Sgt. Gary “Roach” Sanderson. Do we ever get to know what they look like?
Who TF cares, you say, it’s an FPS? Point taken, but just like the real world being most of the time first person, there wouldn’t be as many mirrors out there if nobody cared what they looked like, would there.
There could be three ways of finding out about the answer to this universe-moving question of all questions.
- It could simply be said by the developers, just like it is said about McTarvish.
- You could be coming along some instances where your character passes a mirror or a reflecting surface like a sea.
- There could be times where you play as another character and get to see your original char (also applying to the Tar).
The third option is the one for Special Ops and multiplayer, you just have to look at your neighbour (in most cases anyway). But in single player, the three people in question operate in completely different places of the world, so fat chance for point no 3. Also, I didn’t see any mirrors or reflecting surfaces – that sorts out our point no 2. So, do the devs explicitely state the looks of our three friends?
First, for the two dead guys – Allen tries to disguise as russian ultranationalist terrorist Alexej Borodin. Briefly, we get a glimpse of his newly tattooed chest, showing jail/mafia style marks.
But no face.
For the Roach, we don’t even get a pic of his chest. By glitching around a little, one is able to see that he doesn’t have a head at all:
That’s a poor record.
But both Allen and Roach surely figure in the group shot at the end of the game, since they’re both part of 141:
and alongside with Ramirez, they could appear in the credits museum walkaround. Just a guess.
Now for Ramirez, whose hands make a prominent appearence in the shot down helo -
but only his hands. No more than that. However, if you take the boxart, you can see the american parliament in the background. Seldom enough they put some random dude on the cover – why not take one of the main figures? So, this would be my final guess.
At least for the Ghost, there never is any question about his looks. Outside the balaclava, that is.
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On the shoulders of giants
For the ghost statue pic – Major Nelson’s flickr
Pics of Ramirez’ hands and the headless Roach vid – http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/Call_of_Duty_Wiki









