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* Going back to the very first game, this troper thought that Sgt. Moody's rescuing of a injured ally under heavy German fire after verbally chewing out a cowardly medic was pretty awesome. And he gave up his Made of Iron ability while doing this.
** [[Tropers/Kadorhal|I]] was heavily injured when I got to that point, so while Moody went to get the ally, I had to crawl back a bit and grab myself a medkit. And Moody ''still'' made it back in one piece.
* The Noiville mission in UO, after a long siege of the mansion you are in it seems like all hope is lost as three German tanks and a shitload of infantry when P-47s just come out of nowhere and start bombing the everliving hell out of the Germans.
* The American campaign opens with you manning the machine gun on a jeep escaping from a massive German charge. The awesomeness must be seen to be believed.
* The Berlin level in the first game. Once that damned tank is destroyed, it's a massive steamroll as a handful of Germans get hit with an infinitely long Russian charge. At the end there's the aforementioned flag raising, which is almost always followed by the player jumping off the roof of the Riechstag and/or throwing a grenade at the flag bearers right before the game ends.
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** "Good."
* Ice axe. Snowmobile. Clothesline. 'Nuff said.
* Speaking of {{spoiler|Soap}}, he gets another Moment of Awesome much earlier while {{spoiler|chasing down Rojas, and NPC team mate Ghost calls out "He's getting away!" To which Soap calmly replies, "No he's not." And then, from above the player, Soap tackles Rojas through a window and onto the roof of a car, promptly getting to one knee with his pistol drawn.}} This man has [[Took a Level Inin Badass|taken about twenty levels in badass]] since his last appearance.
* {{spoiler|[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|KNIIIIIIFE EEEEEYYYYE ATTAAAACK!!!!!!]]}}
* There's also the moment earlier in the prison mission {{spoiler|where you find Captain Price alive.}} Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Funny.
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Price''': [''after knocking Roach down''] Soap?}}<br />
'''Soap''' [''handing {{spoiler|Price}} a pistol'']: This belongs to you sir.<br />
'''Worm''': Who's Soap? }}
** What makes this moment even better is that, as you will notice, that pistol is the 1911 {{spoiler|1=that Price passed to Soap so he could kill Zakhaev at the end of MW1.}}
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** Where did {{spoiler|Captain Price}} get his chain from? ''He was shackled with it.'' {{spoiler|After his prison is invaded, he takes the opportunity to choke his solitary guard, then when the breach occurs, moves him in front of the bullets without missing a beat if the player chooses to fire, then ''knocks the PC down'' and takes his gun. The subtitles going "Captain Price" is icing on the cake.}}
*** His very appearance was a Moment of Awesome for this Troper. First you get knocked on your ass and when you come to you're staring up at what looks like a crusty old sea captain. A moment later you find out that he isn't just a crusty old captain, he's a crusty old captain who was last seen being revived by a Russian guy (which was assumed to have failed). This Troper had the surprise spoiled and was still surprised.
** Along the same lines as the venerable Reznov, Sgt. Foley puts the [[Badass]] into [[Authority Equals Asskicking]] and then some. To start he's voiced by [[Gargoyles (Animation)|Keith]] [[Halo|Fucking ]] [[Mass Effect|David]]. Then he's got a slew of awesome lines from "Get a grip, Corporal! Our weapons still work, which means we can still kick some ass!" when {{spoiler|the EMP starts dropping helicopters down around them like hail and they're still outnumbered by the opposing Russians}} to "Then take us up! If we're going down, we'll take as many of those SAMs with us as we can!" when {{spoiler|the chopper your squad is riding in is critically damaged, instead of trying to limp away.}} But the most awesome aspect of this truly awesome individual is how he takes his soldiers through one nightmare scenario after another and somehow manages to keep his men together and motivated throughout, and continually puts <s>himself and his squad</s> Ramirez on the line to defend others. {{spoiler|When a squad of Russians are bearing down on the weapons cashe he's taken, and Command is telling him to get the hell out of Dodge, what does he say? "Forget saving ourselves, we're going to stay here and provide support for the fleeing civilians for as long as possible!" If Shepherd wanted to inspire the American people to stand up and fight, he should have just cloned a bunch of Sgt. Foleys and put them in command of every front-line unit;}} almost every moment in his presence is a Moment of Awesome.
*** Worth noting is the intro to "Exodus." Shepherd asks Foley to perform a critical mission to stop the Russians, and Foley's response? "Point it out on a map, sir. They won't take it." The way he ''says'' it is the kicker, here; it isn't a promise. It's simply a statement. It's a fact, as simple as the sky is blue. [[Hold the Line|They will hold the line.]]
* The ISS interactive cutscene. You know the one.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c8ZMlRfXYA]
* The [[Badass Creed|speech]] given by {{spoiler|Captain Price}} in the opening cutscene of "Just Like Old Times", in response to {{spoiler|General Shepherd's betrayal}}, is positively dripping with [[Warrior Poet|poetic awesome]]:
{{quote| "The healthy human mind doesn't wake up in the morning thinking this is its last day on Earth. But I think that's a luxury. Not a curse. To know you're close to the end is a kind of freedom. Good time to take...inventory. Outgunned. Outnumbered. Out of our minds. On a suicide mission. But the sand and the rocks here, stained with thousands of years of warfare...They will remember us. For this. Because out of all our vast array of nightmares, this is the one we choose for ourselves. We go forward like a breath exhaled from the Earth. With vigor in our hearts and one goal in sight: We. Will. Kill him."}}
* Driving a vehicle ''one-handed'' onto the ramp of a moving plane, with the original driver having just been shot. Holy crap.
** This troper actually hit the side of one of the SUVs chasing you and didn't have the time to knock it off so he just kept on driving to the plane with the SUV in front of him.
*** Possible CMOA goes to the original driver as well, Rook. Even though he's only driving a jeep against {{spoiler|Shadow Company technicals}}, the fact that he can force vehicles so much heavier then the jeep without causing much damage to the jeep itself deserves praise.
* Price's intro to ''Endgame''
{{quote| This is for the record.<br />
History is written by the victor.<br />
History is filled with liars.<br />
If he lives, and we die, his truth becomes written - and ours is lost.<br />
{{spoiler|Shepherd}} will be a hero. 'cause all you need to change the world is one good lie and a river of blood.<br />
He's about to complete the greatest trick a liar ever played on history.<br />
His truth will be the truth.<br />
But only if he lives, and we die. }}
* ''[[Call of Duty]] 4.'' "Game Over." {{spoiler|Cornered, surrounded, outnumbered, pinned on the bridge with an exploding gas tanker at your back. Enemy helicopters flying overhead, taunting you. Watching your squadmates killed one by one, executed by the [[Big Bad]] himself, and then rolling over, seeing Captain Price sliding his sidearm out to you, giving you one last chance to kill the man he couldn't. And when the dust settles, the Loyalists arrive, and Kamarov is standing over you, frantically calling for aid and telling you "You are going to be alright, my friend!"}} So freaking badass.
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* Sergeant Paul Jackson's {{spoiler|death in the middle of the nuclear wasteland}}.
*** The exchange a little before that is rather inspiring:
{{quote| '''Command''': {{spoiler|Copy, Two-Five. Be advised, you will ''not'' be at a safe distance in the event that nuke goes off. Do you understand?}}<br />
'''Outlaw Two-Five''': {{spoiler|Roger that. We know what we're getting into.}} }}
*** {{spoiler|They really didn't...}}
*** Vasquez also gets an awesome line here:
{{quote| {{spoiler|"We got ninety seconds, Jackson! Get the pilot! ''No one'' gets left behind!"}}}}
* "Get on the minigun!". Oh hell yeah...
* ''[[Unflinching Walk|"Good night, ya bastard."]]''
* Gaz gets his as early as the second mission, where, fed up with Sergeant Kamarov's refusal to tell them where the informant they need to find is located, proceeds to grab Kamarov and dangle him over a ledge.
{{quote| '''Gaz''': "Enough bloody sniping! Where is the informant?"<br />
'''Kamarov''': ''(shouts in Russian)''<br />
'''Gaz''': ''"[[Punctuated! forFor! Emphasis!|WHERE! IS! HE?!]]"''<br />
'''Kamarov''': "The house! The house at the northeast end of the village!"<br />
'''Gaz''': "That wasn't so hard, now was it? Now go sit in the corner." ''(knocks Kamarov out)'' }}
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*** Also, while he may fire slowly the good Captain ''[[Improbable Aiming Skills|never misses]]'': any shot he takes, kills. Getting rescued from a sticky situation with an empty magazine by a flawless headshot to a sprinting target across the full length of the LZ square tends to leave a favorable impression, or at least it did for me.
*** As icing on the cake, that missing strongly implies that MacMillan's legs have been fucked up permanently... until Modern Warfare 3 reveals that not only did he recover, he is now the [[Colonel Badass]] commanding the SAS, ''and'' he sends Price gear and intel to hunt Makarov.
{{quote| '''Price''': "You still owe me for Pripyat. I'm calling it in."<br />
'''MacMillan''': "Tell me what you need, son." }}
* While {{spoiler|General Shepherd}} is unmistakably the [[Big Bad]], the fact that he actually manages to execute his entire plan flawlessly {{spoiler|except for not surviving to see the results}} despite {{spoiler|Price throwing an honest-to-god [[Spanner in Thethe Works]]}} is still damned impressive, even though we're not rooting for him. It is not possible to listen to him at the very end when he, in simple, honest words, finally explains his motivation and still feel like you can judge him based on [[Black and White Morality]].
{{quote| ''"Five years ago, I lost thirty-thousand men in the blink of an eye, and the world just fuckin' watched. But, tomorrow, there will be no shortage of patriots, no shortage of volunteers. I know you understand."''}}
* Okay, Private James Ramirez may not be as badass as Price or Soap, but he deserves some props for all the crap that went down in D.C. Saving "Raptor," protecting evacuees, taking out enemy anti-armor troops and even enemy armor, gunning down Russian troops while trapped inside a crashed helicopter, awesome. Then in ''Whiskey Hotel'', you manage to retake the White House ''without'' electronic supports (not even powered small arms optics), but have to ignite and frantically wave green flares atop the roof to (narrowly) prevent friendly air power from bombing your position. Anyways, as your squad gathers up on the roof and talks about payback (granted, they're all {{spoiler|[[Unwitting Pawn|pawns in Shepherd's plan]],}} but really awesome pawns at that) you look over the devastated city, and start to see green smoke rising over other famous D.C. landmarks; looks like Ivan may be in trouble, eh?
** Made even more awesome when Dunn, who, up until this point, had been your obligatory [[Deadpan Snarker]] and apparent [[Expy]] of Hudson from [[Alien|Aliens]], delivers the following simple line at the resolution of the above-mentioned Moment of Awesome: ''"So when we goin' to Moscow?"''
*** That line is spoken by a random NPC, not Corporal Dunn. Dunn's line is actually ''better;'' he responds to that line with this one: "Not soon enough, man. But I know we're gonna burn it down when we get there." It's also a meta-[[Crowning Moment of Funny]] for anyone who recognizes that Dunn's voice actor is Barry Pepper, who's last notable videogame role was [[Prototype (Videovideo Gamegame)|someone who could single-handedly accomplish this in bloody fashion.]]
** To add to Ramirez's badassery, this Troper managed to actually ''snipe'' the Russian shooters on top of the White House using nothing ''but'' the IRON SIGHTS on the M4A1, as well as lob some ''carefully aimed'' M203 rounds into the windows with mounted machineguns to clear the way for his team.
** After reading up on the [[Did Not Do the Research]] portion regarding ACOG Scopes, this Troper opted to use weapons (preferably FAL's) with said scope. Take note: Being able to shoot rooftop snipers with ''nothing but'' IRON SIGHTS and a ''DEACTIVATED'' ACOG Scope. All while taking cover from the wrecked jeep. [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] indeed.
** This troper got to witness Dunn pull of some surprising badassery: while playing through either "Wolverines!" or "Exodus" (I forget which, but it was one of the missions where you fight through suburban Virginia), this troper was having a rough time in the beginning fighting through the houses, but I swear, every time I turned around, Dunn was taking someone down in hand-to-hand and running ahead of me. To reiterate: he wasn't firing his rifle, instead beating Russians down with the butt of said rifle, and pushing ahead of the PC to boot. Wow.
*** In terms of melee badassery, Sgt. Foley in the same game takes the cake. He doesn't bother with fancy hip tosses or gun butts, he just kicks the other guy over and executes him. Do not mess with Foley.
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* Raiding the [[That One Level|Gulag]] is ''hardcore''. No, seriously. [[Modern Warfare|Try it on Veteran.]]
* This troper always found this exchange from MW2 awesome:
{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Price:'''}} Contact. Enemy patrol 30 meters to our front. Five men, automatic rifles, frag grenades. One German Shepherd.<br />
'''Soap:''' Dogs... I hate dogs.<br />
{{spoiler|'''Price:'''}} These Russian dogs are like pussycats compared to the ones in Pripyat.<br />
'''Soap:''' It's good to have you back, old man.<br />
{{spoiler|'''Price:'''}} Roger that. }}
* Makarov. Just...fucking Makarov. Say what you will about him, his speech in the ''Infamy'' trailer was epic.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Title In|"Of Their Own Accord"; Washington, D.C.]]''}}
* {{spoiler|Price}} gets an indirect one in "Just Like Old Times"
{{quote| {{spoiler|Shadow Company HQ}}: "Disciple Nine, you rear guard just flatlined!"<br />
Disciple 9: "Not possible. We just cleared that area. Nobody's that goo-"<br />
{{spoiler|Shepherd: "It's Price."}} The implication? {{spoiler|Captain Price is that good.}} }}
* [[Tank Goodness|War Pig]]. Everything about it is amazing. Especially when it starts shooting.
{{quote| "Gunner, two-story building at 1 o'clock, ground floor!"<br />
"Target acquired!"<br />
"'''FIRE!'''" '''''*kaboom*''''' }}
* IW's tradition of having a bonus scene playing in the background as the credits roll. In COD1 you get a mostly-2D version of levels 2-3, in COD2 you get a rather amusing video where they attempt to make a map using every single animation they have (and they still make it good!) and in COD4 they have an AC130 scene in which the devs demonstrate their awesome cheating skillz (semi-auto 40mm, follwed by a rap song from [[S Sgt]]. Griggs. They seem to have forgotten it in MW2, though.
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** Particularly the part where Sergei ''impales a guard from behind with a pickaxe.''
** Don't forget to mention about the "Steps".
{{quote| '''Reznov:''' Every journey begins with a single step...<br />
'''Reznov:''' This - is step one!<br />
'''Crowd:''' Secure the keys!<br />
'''Reznov:''' Now, we take - Vorkuta!<br />
'''Reznov:''' What is step two!?<br />
'''Crowd:''' Ascend from darkness!<br />
'''Reznov:''' Three!?<br />
'''Crowd:''' Rain fire!<br />
'''Reznov:''' Four!?<br />
'''Crowd:''' Unleash the horde!<br />
'''Reznov:''' Five!?<br />
'''Crowd:''' Skewer the winged beast!<br />
'''Reznov:''' Six!?<br />
'''Crowd:''' Wield the fist of iron!<br />
'''Reznov:''' Seven!?<br />
'''Crowd:''' Raise hell!<br />
'''Reznov:''' Eight!?<br />
'''Crowd:''' Freedom! }}
** After picking up the Death Machine, the new objective being simply "Raise Hell" sent chills down this troper's spine. And raise hell he did.
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*** This troper was too busy giggling in sheer joy to actually think anything.
* The [[Crazy Awesome|two times]] you use a soldier as a [[Bulletproof Human Shield|shield]] and gun other soldiers down with the shield's rifle in Black Ops.
* This troper saw one while playing the level SOG in Call of Duty Black Ops. As he was dashing through the trenches, he saw Hudson start punching the shit out of an NVA soldier. He then pushed the soldier to the ground, kept hammering at his face, stood up, kicked him a few times, then punched him once more for good measure. To simplify: Hudson apparently killed a man by PUNCHING HIM TO DEATH, while having an assault rifle on his shoulder.
* Walking to the SR 71 in your bulky space suit with everyone saluting you and then taking off into the edge of space. Too bad it didn't last longer.
* The whole first portion of the Crash Site level - this troper had to make an account just to proclaim the awesometicity of rolling down the river in a convoy of boats that size, while "Sympathy For The Devil" blares.
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* The Russian Roulette scene in Black Ops. Now allow me to describe the situation. Mason and Woods got their asses captured by the Vietcong and forced to play a game of Russian Roulette while the VC bookie continuously flips his shit by yelling and slapping our heroes, let alone threaten them with a big-ass cleaver. Woods pulled the trigger and was luckily to avoid having his brains blown off. So when it's Mason's turn, he pulled the bookie towards him and fired the revolver right in his neck, and then proceeds to use him as a human shield. Now it might not sound all that awesome, but if you have learned probability, you'll know why. So let's do a calculation. Before Woods pulled the trigger there was a 1/6 chance that he would bust his brains out, after Woods pulled the trigger and was lucky that there was no bullet in the chamber, means that there would be 5 chambers left. So Mason had a 1/5 chance on that part. Now take the entire problem and put them together. 5/6 X 1/5 = 5/30 = 1/6. Simply put, Mason had a '''16.66% CHANCE OF ESCAPING THE RUSSIAN ROULETTE! AND HE DID!''' Thus, mathematically, this is a crowning moment.
** Not that it's any less awesome, but Woods tells when the bullet is in the chamber by saying, "Do it now," after he survives his roulette shot. This is possible because he would have been able to see where the bullet is in the rotation before he shot and as the gun laid on the table in front of him, seeing as the gun is a revolver. Unless of course empty shell casings had been placed in the extra holes, making it impossible to tell the difference between the blanks and the lethal shot.
** On a side note there is another CMOA in the same level when you kill the cowardly Russian soldier that clubbed Bowman in the back of the head. "For Bowman!!!" ("For Ice Cube!!!")
** Woods then tops that with a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] by {{spoiler|tackling Kravchenko out a window to save you after he pulls the pins on all the grenades he has on his belt.}}
* In Call of Duty: Black Ops on SOG, an enemy jumps on you, so what do you do? Pull the pin from one of his grenades and literally blow him in half.
** Something of a [[Call Back]] to a similar scene in Call of Duty 3.
* The "Executive Order" mission on Black Ops. Saving {{spoiler|Weaver}} by ziplining across the base and breaking in from a window with guns blazing is just ''awesome''. Not to mention {{spoiler|stopping the Soyuz 2 launch by '''blowing it up using a guided missile.'''}} Holy shit indeed!
* Close to the end of Project Nova:
{{quote| '''Reznov:''' Keep moving! This is not our War!<br />
'''Nevski:''' Then who do we fight?!<br />
'''Reznov: EVERYONE!''' WE STAND ALONE! }}
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Virus [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgfWSl0EDao\]
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* Black Ops trailer. [[Memetic Mutation|The pizza guy.]]
* The sheer levels of preparedness that Dr. Clarke reaches. Have to escape by running over rooftops? He has mattresses laid out. Running low on ammo? He's got weapon caches. Russians trying to steal his research? ''He blows them up with explosives he planted in his own lab.''
* The start of the ''Black Ops'' zombie mode, where [[John F. Kennedy]] is remarkably nonchalant and calm about the fact that the Pentagon has just been invaded by ''fucking zombies''.
* Zombies mode. [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Richtofen's Grand Scheme]]. That is all.
 
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* In the E3 video of the [[MW 3]] level "Hunter Killer", Sandman basically kicks a charging Russian sailor to death.
* During the mission where you play as a Russian FSO agent, you {{spoiler|get into a zero gravity shoot-out with hijackers.}} ''Holy shit'' that is awesome.
* The final mission of ''Modern Warfare 3''. Yuri and Price storm the hotel where Makarov is hiding {{spoiler|while wearing Juggernaut armor}}. They reach the top, but a helicopter assault renders Yuri immobile, forcing Price to go after Makarov by himself. He reaches the helicopter and {{spoiler|jumps on board, throws one pilot out, knifes the other, and then crashes the helicopter.}} Makarov and Price stumble out, and go for a pistol. {{spoiler|Makarov reaches it, but then Yuri manages to reach the helipad and shoots Makarov up. Makarov guns Yuri down, but Price jumps on him, forces him down, [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown|beats the shit out of him]], wraps a cable around Makarov's throat, and smashes the glass they're laying on.}} End result: {{spoiler|Makarov hanging like the criminal he is, and a dazed and battered Price staring at his corpse, before pulling out his lighter, lighting up a cigar, and having a good, long smoke.}} Pure awesome.
** Even the ''load screen'' for that final mission is awesome. In every other MW3 mission using the Task Force 141 survivors {{spoiler|(even the one where Price is fighting alongside Sandman, instead of Sandman executing the "kill/capture" order still out on Price)}}, the word "Disavowed" is superimposed over the old TF141 emblem in the load screen, acknowledging their status as wanted men. In the last level, the TF141 logo is shown ''unblemished''; Price has finally won. He's cleared their names. {{spoiler|If only Soap could have lived to see it.}}
*** And the best part? When the name fades in and you're playing as Price. For the first time in two and a half games, you get to kick so much ass.
** This bears mentioning again. ''{{spoiler|You are wearing Juggernaut armor}}''. And it is even more awesome than you think.
** The awesomeness starts right from the start of the mission.
{{quote| Price:{{spoiler|This is for Soap.}}}}
** These two lines:
{{quote| '''Yuri''': Makarov will have an army in there.<br />
'''Price''': [[Badass Boast|It won't help him.]] }}
** At the beginning of the mission: {{spoiler|''Objective: Kill Makarov.''}} At the end, {{spoiler|you've fought your way through hordes of Russians, lost Yuri to an armed Little Bird, duked it out with Makarov amid the wreckage of a helicopter, and now you're lying in the shattered hotel. The camera pans up, reveals Makarov's hanging corpse, the player gets a moment or two to hold their breath, and then...}}
{{quote| '''Game''':{{spoiler|''Objective Completed.''}}}}
* Price, after figuring out Yuri {{spoiler|worked for Makarov}} from {{spoiler|the now deceased Soap}}, tells Yuri to open the door, spins Yuri around, and PUNCHES HIM DOWN THE ENTIRE STAIRCASE.
** Oh, Price doesn't just punch him down the stairs. He walks down the stairs after him cocking a pistol, then holds it to Yuri's head, saying the following:
{{quote| " {{spoiler|Soap}} trusted you! I thought I could too! So ''why'', in the bloody hell, does {{spoiler|Makarov know you}}?!"}}
* In ''Down The Rabbit Hole'': {{spoiler|Team Metal's last stand. As a wounded Yuri fires at the hostiles, Grinch rolls over to dodge an RPG. Grinch drops his empty M14 and pulls out dual pistols and fires them at different directions. An RPG round nearly hits Sandman as he continues to fire. One hostile runs towards Truck, but Truck throws him over his shoulder and kills him. Another hostile runs towards Sandman, who takes out his knife and stabs him, and then throws it at another incoming hostile. He is wounded on his right arm, so he just e draws out his pistol with his free left hand and resumes firing. The fact that they all die really sucks, but they went out like total badasses}}.
* How the battle of New York ends. America pushes the Russians back into the harbor, and sends Team Metal to board the Russian command sub. Sandman and Frost board the sub and kill everyone on board, and then ''launch the subs missiles at the rest of the Soviet fleet.'' Even better, you get to race through the harbor as their fleet explodes around you. This pretty much ends the Russian invasion of the US.
* The battle for Paris is pretty awesome, as you get to call in a AC-130 at will. In ''Iron Lady'' you even get to switch back and forth between Frost and the AC-130. The ending is great also in seeing the Russian line by bombed, and knowing that Paris and most of France in under allied control.
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