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'). Bittersweet Ending: Yes, you stopped the warmonger Shepherd, but Task Force 141 has been destroyed, Price and Soap are internationally wanted fugitives for 'treason' - despite having done nothing against their home country - along with 'global terror' and 'violent acts against the government', the East Coast and Washington in particular are devastated, the US is still at war with Russia (as Shepherd intended, so he won even in death), and Makarov is still on the loose.Amongst this chaos, Makarov escapes Shepherd's men and becomes the Big Bad of Modern Warfare 3, so he is the one who benefits from all this more. The Bad Guy Wins: Sure, Soap and Price have killed Shepherd, but that doesn't change the fact that his Batman Gambit has already succeeded.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.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.

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