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* ''[[Modern Warfare]]''. Full Stop. The American campaign of the first game sees you struggle against [[Glorious Leader|Khalid]] [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized|Al-Asad]] and his Quaracian army, which has overthrown and executed the lawful president [[Middle-Eastern Coalition|stands poised to dominate the Middle East, and potentially the entire Muslim world.]] After a series of costly running battles and abortive attempts to end the war, you {{spoiler|succeed in dismantling Al-Asad's war machine and forcing him to flee into exile.}} The cost? {{spoiler|He drops a nuke on you and the entire American expeditionary force, leaving you with a very bitter [[Our Hero Is Dead]] conclusion to the campaign.}}

* In ''[[STALKER]]'' ''Shadow of Chernobyl'', {{spoiler|the best ending has Strelok stopping the C-Consciousness' ulterior motive of tampering with the noosphere by shooting their stasis pods and then escaping their secret lab by means of a portal off-screen. However, this caused the Zone to become even more unstable as emissions have run rampant on a ''daily'' basis, resulting in an increase of zombified stalkers, mutant activity, Monolith soldiers, and other nastiness. ''Call of Pripyat'' takes place after this ending.}}

* In ''[[Halo]]'', the war between the Forerunners and the Flood technically ended with victory for the former group; all they had to do was eradicate ''all sentient life in the universe'' so the Flood would starve, and leave behind technology that would start evolution of every race over at the beginning. That was the only plan these [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]s could come up with to kill these things. Indeed, the Flood is ''really'' bad news even in present day, the only way to stop the spread of the parasites is to quarantine the infected area and blow it up, such operations often done via [[Enemy Mine| cooperation between humans and Covenant forces]], the two usually being [[Arch Enemies]].

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