Is Captain Worth useless? It’s an affordable query to have on the finish of Modern Warfare 4’s marketing campaign, contemplating how typically characters we thought had been gone have come again over the course of the four-game story — I’ve misplaced monitor of the variety of occasions Graves has returned now. We spoke to developer Infinity Ward to get a solution, and we bought one. Nicely, type of.
In a mid-credits scene, Mads Mikkelsen’s The Archer will be seen taking a captive Captain Worth away on a truck. An ambush permits Worth to interrupt free, although, because the car crashes, leaving The Archer to scuttle away into the snow as our hero wrestles with a metallic pipe protruding of his abdomen. After stumbling after the villain, Worth turns the tables on him and makes use of stated pipe to puncture his throat, leaving the rogue Russian minister of protection very a lot useless in the center of a frozen-over lake. Ghost then arrives on the scene to share his former squadmate’s ultimate breaths with him as Worth lies nonetheless, presumably useless, subsequent to his sufferer. However is he?
I requested Jeff Negus, narrative director at Infinity Ward, if that’s the case. “I will say this. We went out of our means in this recreation to tempo character deaths, each in the place they occur and in the expression of the second occurring,” explains Negus. “And I’d say that scene is according to others.”
So, not a sure or a no, is it? A number of characters established in earlier sequence entries meet their makers throughout Modern Warfare 4’s 16 missions, together with Makarov, Gabriela, Graves, and Gaz, to call however just a few. Whereas we don’t see any of them put in the bottom by no means to rise once more, a few of them meet fairly conclusive ends, with the Gs — Gaz, Graves, and Gabriela — all receiving bullets to the top. Makarov’s head is now pulp on a snowy New York road, however he regarded fairly lifeless the final time we noticed him, and seeing as he’s dispatched so early in the story, absolutely he would’ve come again by now. Archer wants a purpose to go after Worth and avenge his son, in any case.
If Worth does certainly meet an finish “according to others,” then absolutely this implies he’s useless. It could look like a becoming place for the Modern Warfare reboot saga to finish, and really feel like an precise particular conclusion. However we all know issues are by no means that straightforward in the case of Name of Responsibility, and I can see why the door could also be left barely ajar for him to come back again if wanted. If MW4 is well-received critically and proves a industrial success, Activision would wish to hold issues rolling.
For my cash, I’d say he’s useless. He’s achieved what he got down to do at first of Modern Warfare 4’s story, and has even discovered a lesson or two about selflessness alongside the best way. It’s the fundamentals of any hero’s journey, and it ended in wonderful sacrifice, taking down a menace to the Western world in the type of The Archer’s diabolical plan. What do you suppose? Has Captain Worth died? Tell us in the feedback.
Simon Cardy is a Senior Editor at IGN who can primarily be discovered skulking round open world video games, indulging in Korean cinema, or despairing on the state of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Observe him on Bluesky at @cardy.bsky.social.