The story begins in Makin Island at night on August 17, 1942.
Marine Private C. Miller watches the torture and execution of a fellow Marine,
along with another Marine being beaten by a Japanese soldier. Miller is rescued
by a squad of Marines, led by Corporal Roebuck and Sergeant Tom Sullivan as
they assault the island, replicating the Makin Island raid. The following story
is set two years later at the beginning of the Battle of Peleliu. After
breaking through the Japanese lines on the bloody Peleliu beach, Miller
destroys two Type 97 Chi-Ha tanks with rocket strikes, allowing the American
tanks to advance. At the end of the mission, Sergeant Sullivan is killed by a
Japanese officer with a katana. Roebuck, now promoted to Sergeant, and his
squad make their way through the Peleliu swamps to launch an assault on a
Japanese-held airfield to disable anti-aircraft guns. During the assault,
Miller acquires a flamethrower to destroy a bunker and a bazooka to blow up
Japanese tanks.
The story then shifts to the Eastern Front on September 17,
1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad. Private Dimitri Petrenko regains
consciousness in a blood and body-filled fountain, just as German troops
execute his surviving comrades. When they leave, Dimitri meets the injured
Sergeant Viktor Reznov, another survivor, who tells him of his intention: a
secret mission to kill a German general named Heinrich Amsel who is responsible
for the massacres. After killing some German soldiers in their way, Dimitri follows
Reznov through buildings and streets and they meet up with the remainder of
Dimitri's unit, who are about to assault the General's communication post to
the north after expressing surprise to see that Dimitri has cheated death.
During the assault, Dimitri manages to kill Amsel as he flees. Dimitri and
Reznov jump into a small canal and escape. The following mission takes place
three years later, during the Battle of the Seelow Heights, near Berlin.
Dimitri has been captured by German soldiers in an abandoned house. He is saved
when the Red Army attacks the house and he is re-united with Sgt. Reznov.
Reznov's right-hand-man Pvt. Chernov is also introduced. The Soviet troops
advance through German lines and Dimitri aids them with a Panzerschreck until they
reach a German camp. The story then returns to the Pacific Theater. On Peleliu,
the Americans are pushing further inland. Miller and his unit take out enemy
mortar crews, so their tanks can go inland. They then proceed through the
Japanese underground tunnels to attack the artillery-filled Point, one of the
major Japanese strongholds that had destroyed many landing boats when they
first landed, allowing American ships to advance, and the island of Peleliu
finally falls into American hands.
The following mission campaign returns to Eastern Europe,
where Dimitri and Reznov pilot T-34 tanks, pushing through German lines. The
Soviet troops then board a train to Berlin. Upon arrival, they engage German
soldiers on the outskirts of Berlin, commencing the Battle of Berlin. They then
advance through the streets, killing any soldiers who stand in their way,
taking no prisoners and eventually, the Soviet soldiers reach the entrance to
the Berlin U-Bahn, where three German soldiers are attempting to surrender. Reznov
is unwilling to deny his men their revenge and gives Dimitri the choice of
determining their method of death: he and Chernov can shoot them, or burn them
alive with molotov cocktails. They head into the U-Bahn and start fighting
German soldiers around the platforms, until a surge of water fills the tunnel
and Dimitri, unable to avoid the oncoming tidal wave, almost drowns.[16]
The story then shifts back to the Pacific during the Battle
of Okinawa, where the player becomes Petty Officer Locke in a PBY Catalina
flying boat, which takes part in a raid on three merchant ships. On their way
back to base, another Catalina, codenamed Hammerhead, is destroyed by Japanese
Zeroes, leaving Locke and his crew alone. The US fleet is assaulted,
replicating Operation Ten-Go. Locke's PBY, which is the only PBY near enough to
come to immediate aid, arrives. They are able to rescue American sailors in the
sea, but if the player takes too long to respond, the sailors are killed by
enemy machine gun fire by attacking enemy PT boats. Locke also has to shoot at
Japanese PT boats and kamikaze planes. With the PBY almost completely
destroyed, more US aircraft arrive. In the following mission, Miller's squad
makes a ground assault on Okinawa. They clear out the Japanese from machine gun
bunkers, allowing American tanks to progress. With the battle almost won, the
Americans stormShuri Castle. Having cleared the entrance, they reach the center
of the castle. Once there, they encounter Japanese soldiers surrendering.
However, when Roebuck and Polonsky go to search them, they reveal concealed
grenades under their clothes, at which point the player is presented with a
grim choice of saving either Roebuck or Polonsky. The remaining American troops
arrive to assist the squad and engage the remaining Japanese soldiers in a
battle in the castle center. After Miller calls in air strikes on two
buildings, the Americans take Shuri Castle, crushing the last bastion of
Japanese resistance in the Pacific War.[16]
The final mission starts as Reznov drags Dimitri out of the
U-Bahn to regroup with Soviet infantry. The Red Army then advances towards the
Reichstag. During the assault at the Reichstag's . Reznov, Dimitri, Chernov,
and the remaining Soviet soldiers enter the Reichstag and clear it of its German
defenders, and reach the rooftop. After a final showdown on the top floor to
reach theNazi flag, Dimitri is shot by a dying German soldier in an attempt to
stop him from planting the Soviet flag, whom Reznov kills with a machete
shortly after. Although wounded, Dimitri manages to plant the Soviet flag (in
an allusion to Raising a flag over the Reichstag), signalling Soviet victory,
ending the war.
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