The player also takes brief control of a civilian tourist in London, seconds before he and his family are killed by a chemical agent as well as an AC-130 TV Operator during Team Metal’s escape from Paris in the mission Iron Lady. Just like President Al-Fulani in the first game, Soap is only “playable” during the game’s opening sequence while Price becomes the player character in the game’s final mission, Dust to Dust. Marcus Burns and Andrei Harkov, a Russian FSO agent tasked with protecting the Russian President. Several playable characters have been added, including: Delta Force operative Staff Sergeant Derek “Frost” Westbrook SAS Sgt. Makarov returns as the game’s main antagonist, and has a new contact named “Volk”, a Russian bombmaker in Paris, France. For most of the game, the player controls Yuri ( Brian Bloom), an ex- Spetsnaz operative, who joins Price on his hunt for Russian Ultranationalist leader Vladimir Makarov (Roman Varshavsky). Task Force 141 was officially disavowed due to Shepard’s death, with the truth of his involvement in igniting the war known only to Price, Soap and Nikolai. General Shepherd, the main antagonist of the previous game. John Price ( Billy Murray) and Russian informant “Nikolai”, who are on the run after killing the rogue U.S. John “Soap” MacTavish (voiced by Kevin McKidd), former SAS Cpt. The game sees the return of former Task Force 141 Cpt. Improvements were also made to the mode that solved issues that appeared in Modern Warfare 2. For the game’s multiplayer mode, new mode types and killstreak choices were brought in. He leads several terror attacks across Europe, triggering a large-scale war between the Ultranationalists and friendly forces. Alongside the Delta Force and Special Air Service, they hunt Vladimir Makarov (the main antagonist of the trilogy), a Russian terrorist who leads the Russian Ultranationalist party. Similar to Modern Warfare 2, it is centered around the Task Force 141, which contains Captain Price, Soap MacTavish, and Yuri, one of the playable characters. The game’s campaign follows Modern Warfare 2 and begins right after the events of its final mission. In Japan, Square Enix published the game with a separate subtitled and dubbed version. A separate version for the Nintendo DS was developed by n-Space, while Treyarch developed the game’s Wii port. It is the third and final installment in the original Modern Warfare saga, a direct sequel to 2009’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and the eighth Call of Duty installment overall. The game was released worldwide in November 2011 for Microsoft Windows, the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is a 2011 first-person shooter video game, jointly developed by Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games and published by Activision.