History VideoGame / CallOfDutyGhosts

* SuddenDownerEnding:[[spoiler: The game ends with Hesh and Logan, badly injured, finally able to kill Rorke, and savoring US's victory over the Federation, [[KillSat namely turning their own LOKI satellite on them]]. Logan turns for a breath, only to see [[NotQuiteDead Rorke himself]], brutally beating them up and taking away Logan to turn him into a loyal [[ManchurianAgent Federation Agent]]. Here's pleading screams don't help the matter.]]

* AbortedArc: This game was meant to kickstart the spiritual successor series of the ModernWarfare trilogy in tone and gameplay. However, the game ended up selling way less than CallofDutyBlackOps2 and its reception was mostly mixed due to FranchiseStagnation, prompting InfinityWard to develop the quasi-successor to Advanced Warfare and Black Ops 3 and sub-series kickstart: Infinite Warfare.

** During the defense of the American carrier, there is a brief segment where you can [[SavingPrivateRyan save a crewman named Ryan]].

* InformedAttribute: For being described as basically a PhysicalGod, Rorke is never showing actually doing anything out of the ordinary in combat. The only fights he's shown winning have the other combatant tied to a chair helpless, and kicking a barely-conscious soldier in the face, so he comes off as no different than any other soldier. [[FridgeBrilliance Then again when the Ghosts are known for being a group that kills large quantities of people while not being seen, it kinda makes sense.]]

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: The Ghosts commit war crimes frequently; they dress as any combatants and stab them in the back, they use tear gas, and, most alarmingly of all, execute civilians and surrendered soldiers. Why are they the good guys again? The game also awkwardly skirts around the point that the KillSat used by the Federation to wipe out the American population was made by the ''Americans'', presumably to be used at some point in future; dialogue from Hesh implies that the public know nothing about ODIN, ruling it out as a deterrent.
** It could be argued that war crimes were disregarded after the Federation murdered 27 million civilians.
** The U.S. is also fighting for its existence, so war crimes probably would be expected. It's not like a regular war, where they lose and not much changes. If they lose, that's the end of the U.S.
** The USA is also obviously lying to its own citizens; the entire idea of all of South America committing genocide against US Citizens is absurd, not least because they have a high ranking soldier in their army who is American and speaks English. In fact, most of the South Americans in the game speak English in the audio files; while TranslationConvention can usually be expected, it's inexcusable when the people speaking it are supposedly trying to eradicate english from the globe.

* ForcedFriendlyFire: [[spoiler: While Rorke has his back turned during an "interrogation", Logan musters up enough strength to reach for his holstered weapon, only for the attempt to backfire when Rorke grabs his arm and manipulates him into shooting Elias multiple times.]]

** Interestingly, the US's military strength is quite remarkable for a devastated country, as late in the game they still have the ability to [[spoiler: launch a full-out assault on Federation facilities in the Atacama Desert while also sending astronaut commandos into space to take over the Fed's own KillSat.]] Although to generals do tell you unhelpfully that they are putting in most of their remaining hardware (and their last aircraft carrier) into this attack, so don't muck it up.

** The USA is also obviously lying to its own citizens; the entire idea of all of South America committing genocide against US Citizens is absurd, not least because they have a high ranking soldier in their army who is American and speaks English. In fact, most of the South Americans in the game speak English in the audio files; while TranslationConvention can usually be expected, it's inexcusable when the people speaking it are trying to eradicate english from the globe.

** The soldiers in the Brazil level speak Spanish, rather than the native Portuguese. Although, this may be because they are Federation soldiers from other South American countries, and not Brazil.

Ten years [[AfterTheEnd in the aftermath]] of an attack caused by turning a United States satellite weapon against the nation, [[FallenStatesOfAmerica much of the country lays in ruins]]. The severe loss of industry, infrastructure, and capital to rebuild has taken the government from one of the most elite nations in the world to third-world status. This results in a weakened military and exposure to invasion, which comes in the form of a collective of South American governments called "The Federation" (the ones who were also responsible for bringing this on the US in the first place). After ten years of occupation by The Federation, what remains of the US special forces are brought together to become the "Ghosts", whose mission is to use whatever means necessary to defend the tattered remains of the US.

* UnfortunateImplications: All South Americans are portrayed as irredeemably evil savages who want nothing more than to destroy all North Americans. It even goes so far as to have them use magical tribal positions and voodoo torture to brainwash loyal American soldiers into evil degenerates. Even the civilians are casually murdered by the Ghosts as if they weren't actual people. Literally ''all'' of the protagonists are burly white dudes with the exception of a single member of the Ghosts until who inevitably dies after about two lines.

* GenreSavvy: [[DynamicEntry Door breaching]] is nothing new for the "Modern Military Shooter" FPS sub-genre, and this game is no exception as you perform it a few times. Except for the one time when as soon as you place the charge on the door, Merrick shoves you away because the enemy ''immediately begins shooting through the door and disables the charge.''

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse?: The prologue mentions that fifteen Ghosts survived against the Arab Coalition. However, there are only 9 Ghosts in the game, excluding Hesh and Logan as they joined later (Rorke, Elias, Keegan, Merrick, Ajax, Kick, Neptune, Greene, Poe; the latter three are only seen in intel files or as a VoiceWithAnInternetConnection). The other six men/women are never referenced again.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: The Ghosts commit war crimes frequently; they dress as any combatants and stab them in the back, they use tear gas, and, most alarmingly of all, execute civilians and surrendered soldiers. Why are they the good guys again?