
"Blind Idiot" Translation: The Japanese version of the game translated Makarov famous "Remember, no Russian" line into "Kill them all, they are Russians.".Bland-Name Product: The restaurants in some of the levels are thinly-veiled versions of Taco Bell, TGI Friday's, Starbucks and Burger King.

Price and Soap are still alive, and as Price admitted, the key was both for Shepherd to die and for them to live. Even if he ends up a martyr, his death prevented his plan from going any further. There is a bit of a high note, though: Shepherd was presumably going to use his hero status and unlimited budget to perform unilateral military actions across the globe (as evidenced by his very well equipped "Shadow Company").

Even at most generous to the scene, the distance between the nuke's explosion and the station is too far to have the outcome it does. Nukes don't have the same effects in space that they do on Earth. Artistic License Space: The destruction of the ISS by an apparent blast wave.Anti-Frustration Features: Due to the extremely controversial nature of the mission, "No Russian" has no achievements, unlockables, or completion percentage tied to it, and you are not only warned of its disturbing nature, you are even given the option to skip the mission entirely.And Your Reward Is Clothes: Completing the "Ghillie in the Mist" (completed by getting one-shot kills with sniper rifles) challenges unlocks ghillie suits, which by virtue of camouflaging you actually make your sniping better.
