Call of Duty Ghost

Call of Duty: Ghosts is a 2013 first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward, with assistance from Raven Software, Neversoft and Certain Affinity. Published by Activision, it is the tenth primary installment in the Call of Duty series and the sixth developed by Infinity Ward. The video game was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Wii U on November 5, 2013, with Treyarch handling the port for the Wii U. The game was released with the launch of next-generation consoles PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

According to review, score aggregator Metacritic, Ghosts received mixed to positive reviews from critics, with most praising its multiplayer gameplay and introduction of the new game mode Extinction, but criticizing it for its single-player campaign, rehashing of familiar concepts and general lack of innovation.

Story

The game starts in the year 2017 with U.S. Army Captain Elias Walker (Stephen Lang) telling his two sons, Logan and David "Hesh" Walker (Brandon Routh) the legend of how the Ghosts, an elite coalition of all US Special Operations units, first appeared. Meanwhile, in space, Federation soldiers hijack the controlling space station of the Orbital Defense Initiative (ODIN), an orbital superweapon that utilizes kinetic bombardment, and practice it to destroy several cities in the southwest United States. The surviving American astronauts, Baker and Mosley, sacrifice themselves to self-destruct the space station and prevent the other ODIN satellites from launching their payloads further inland. Elias and the teenage Logan and David narrowly escape the devastation of San Diego.

Ten years afterwards, the United States has fought the Federation to a bloody stalemate along a front that comprises the destroyed cities, also known as "No Man's Land", but it has become a war of attrition as more Federation invasion forces set about to break the Frontlines. Nevertheless, the Americans stand their ground, fighting about the former US-Mexico boundary line. Logan and Hesh are part of a U.S special unit under the command of Elias and are accompanied by their loyal military-trained German Shepherd, Riley. During a patrol, they spot an American is turning with the Federation, named Gabriel Rorke (Kevin Gage). Shortly later, the comrades are ambushed by wolves, but rescued are Thomas Merrick and Keegan Russ, members of the wraiths who are proposing to rescue their companion Ajax, who was captured by Rorke. Logan and Hesh join the charge to rescue Ajax, but arrive too late to rescue him as he is obliterated by the Federation.

The brothers come back to Santa Monica, California, where the Federation forces invade the city as U.S forces hold out against their violation. As the Americans counterattack, Hesh and Logan reunite with their father, who discloses himself as the leader of the wraiths. Recognizing that his sons are qualified to bring together his special unit, Elias recruits them into the wraiths, and they ascertain from him that Rorke was once their leader and Elias' best friend. Nevertheless, during a successful mission to assassinate General Diego Almagro, then president of the Federation in the capital city Caracas, Elias is forced to abandon Rorke, who was assumed dead, but instead turned traitor after being captured and brainwashed by the Federation and began hunting down members of the wraiths.

The Ghosts track down and capture Rorke, but while flying back home, Rorke's men attack their plane and deliver him. The team is then thrust to land deep into the Amazon Jungle, where they see a rocket being launched for an obscure use. Once reunited and rescued, the Ghosts raid a Federation laboratory in the Andes and obtain data regarding a classified information in a factory at Rio De Janeiro. To guarantee a track to the manufactory, the Ghosts destroy the Federation's Atlas oil platform located in Antarctica to lure the enemy fleet away from their objective and slide down a destroyer guarding the Brazilian coast. Once within the factory, the squad learns that the Federation had scuffled and reverse engineered ODIN's technology and produced their own orbital bombardment system code named "LOKI". After putting down the factory, Elias and his sons regroup at a safe house in Las Vegas, but are captured by Rorke. After Rorke kills Elias, the brothers manage to run away along with Merrick, Keegan and Riley.

Once the Federation's LOKI becomes operational, the United States's defeat will be inevitable. In response, the United States decides to pool all their remaining strengths, including the last aircraft carrier, the USS Liberator, in a synchronized all-out assault to hold down an enemy space center in Chile, while a modest squad of soldiers boards a shuttle to bring over the Federation satellites in place. Once both objectives are completed, Hesh and Logan pursue Rorke to avenge their father and are seemingly successful, only to find out during the aftermath that Rorke survived the confrontation. Logan tries to fight back his wounded brother, but holds his arm broken by Rorke, who declares his plans to brainwash Logan into killing the rest of the Ghosts before kidnapping Logan.

In a post-credits scene, Logan is seen being kept in a pit in the hobo camp, presumably passing through the same torture methods that Rorke went through.