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Old 11-18-2009, 02:43 PM
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what im wondering, why did price launch a nuke?
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Old 11-18-2009, 03:15 PM
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what im wondering, why did price launch a nuke?
Yet another part of the plot that makes no sense.

I keep watching the credits trying to find the name HIDEO KOJIMA (a man known for writing game plots that are confusing and make no sense), but it hasn't happened yet.
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Actually, it makes some kind of sense. Let's assume that the Russians got thousands of troops into the East Coast with tons and tons of fighters, tanks, AFVs, troop transports and long range communications to make contact with Russian about their progress.

Price asked Shepard is he willing to do whatever it takes to win. And this nuke is launched and detonated in the upper atmosphere. Think 007 Golden Eye. A nuke detonated in the atmosphere won't be radioactive to anyone except in space, but the EMP burst will rain down on the general area of where it exploded. I don't know if the EMP could wipe out the entire east coast like that, but basically, that one EMP took out every electrical equipment on the East Coast, comms, vehicles, fighters, optics on rifles. They've all shut down. So essentially, the Russian troops on the East Coast are cut off to tell Russia of their progress, they lost their air support on the front line while the US reinforcements can be brought in from the west, the Russians have lost their armor, troop transportation, while the US can bring in everything they can bear right away. So all that's left of the Russians to deal with on the East Coast would be their infantry, which has no comms, no armor or air support.

It'll be messy as fuck to clean up, but essentially, it's over for the Russians.
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