Team Player/Trivia

== Bridgelaying ==
* The entire mission seems to have taken its inspiration from the HBO miniseries, Generation Kill.
** Both portrayed similarities in firefight between US forces and OpFor across the damaged bridge.
** Similar verbal remarks regarding to "Danger Close", destroyed building, and other pop cultural reference could be heard.
** The stylistic pattern of the Humvees matched the one from the show.
** Both also portrayed similar ambush scene with the convoy in an urban environment.
*If the player turns around after Shepherd helps Allen up in the beginning, he can be seen walking with an odd step past a tank and into some bushes. Then, if the player looks up to the bridge, Shepherd can be seen there immediately after.
*While voiceovers for Modern Warfare 2 were recorded by the developers themselves for placeholder purposes and later re-recorded by their intended voice actors, the voiceover for the Ranger calling in the airstrike appears to have been retained in its placeholder formPlaceholder voiceover at https://youtu.be/wiBRCeJHQcg?t=24 - compare with release version at https://youtu.be/vK0LneE1aYU?t=115 and Remastered version at https://youtu.be/JhrIU39viyY?t=108; the remastered version of the game adds a radio transmission effect to this voiceover and also adds subtitling for this dialogue, but otherwise continues to retain the placeholder audio.
*Coding and dialogue remnants in the .gsc files indicate that in at least one version of this mission the player was to have a FGM-148 Javelin available and was to use it to engage enemy armour (specifically BMP-2s) while defending the bridgelayerroadkill.gsc and roadkill_code.gsc, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 game files; this concept survived for long enough to have relevant placeholder dialogue recorded.https://youtu.be/wiBRCeJHQcg?t=77 The .gsc files also indicate that Allen was called Brodsky at one point in development."Brodsky, switch to your Javelin!"; "Brodsky, use your Javelin to take out the armor!"; "Come on Brodsky, get in!"; "Brodsky, get in your humvee, you're holding up the line!"; "Brodsky, move your ass, let's go!" - found in roadkill_code.gsc, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 game files
*Occasionally, a Ranger can be run over by a Humvee on the bridge.
**The player can make sure it happens by shooting at the road around other Rangers. Close fire will make them stop their scripted movement, after which some of them will be run over by the Punta Gorda Stryker.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWZPnd_kXUc
*When the Rangers are about to blow up the building with OpFor on the roof, many Rangers are videotaping the event with their phones. One mentions selling the footage to the media while another mockingly calls him "Spielberg".
**The analogue cell phones used to record the airstrike by the Ranger soldiers are replaced to modern-day digital smartphones in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered version of the game.
*The HMMWVs shown in this mission were given paint schemes similar to those used in Generation Kill. The door markers show a "B" followed by a square with a diagonal slash in it.
*The names of the Rangers videotaping the building will have changed after mounting the turret.
*When the player goes up the steps to the bridge with the other troops, the ones who were next to Shepherd stay and shoot randomly.
*When Allen reaches the destroyed white car in front of him at the beginning of the level, he can see an Afghani soldier sitting behind cover and eating a chocolate bar.
**In the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered version of the game, the Afghan soldier frantically shoots over the car cover without looking until he's grabbed and pulled down by a Ranger behind him.
==The Convoy==
*In the first building that the player enters (immediately after the player's vehicle is hit by an RPG), there is a long black weapons case in one of the corners on the ground floor, near an RPD and a G18. Emblazoned on this case is a rook chess piece, the emblem of Shadow Company.
*If the player follows the bridgelayer across the bridge without getting into the Humvee, he will be killed with three shots by a Dragunov sniper.
*On the highway signs, there is a green highway pointer in Arabic characters as well as English underneath. They both read as "Victory Street."
*While driving into the city, graffiti portraits of Khaled Al-Asad from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare can be seen on the walls of the buildings.
**There are also photos of a nuclear mushroom cloud in the school, from the explosion in "Shock and Awe". Also, in the doors and walls of some buildings there is graffiti on the walls that say "infidel".
*If the player points the Minigun at the civilian running the shop, he will raise his hands in surrender.
*If the player fires on the unarmed militia scouting him (without actually hitting them) they will hold up invisible weapons, as the stock "reacting to gunfire" animation was not designed for unarmed characters.
**In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered, this was not only fixed, but had an entirely new animation. Upon shooting near the unarmed militia members, they will panic and run inside their building.
*Even though the HMMWV Curb Stomper is destroyed by RPG fire the player still can see its name.
*The Humvee "Speedy" will stop before it reaches the school but is not present if the player looks through the window towards where Speedy stops.
*Curtis Jackson (50 Cent) makes a voice cameo right after the bridge layer is complete. He is the one who says "That's what I'm talkin' about!"
*On the building with the four OpFor members is the OpFor symbol (the swords) on a banner and a Spetsnaz flag.
==School==
*General Shepherd reappears among the squad pinned down outside the school. The player can see him get into the passenger seat of the rear Humvee after killing the enemies on the second floor. Sometimes, the truck leaves him behind.
**If left behind when the convoy leaves, he will continue shooting at the school, even when all the enemies are dead. At this point, it is possible to shoot and kill him. Doing so will not give the player any penalty and he will still appear at the end of the level.
*Once the player reaches the second floor of the school, if he looks outside one of the windows the player will see two Humvees. One is called "Dirty" and the other in front of the first is called "Diana" referencing the Michael Jackson song "Dirty Diana".
*If the player tries to escape through the road where the convoy came from, to the left of the school, the player will be killed by continuous shot of bullets, even if there are no enemies in the playground and even if the player takes solid cover.
==Miscellaneous==
*In this mission, it is possible to obtain the M1911 and the M60E4 with console commands.
*Desert Camouflage is found on AK-47s from the OpFor Militia. This is the last appearance of the camo in the original, but is seen again on the suppressed Intervention Soap and Price use in "Just Like Old Times" in the Remastered.
*.gsc files for the cut Roadkill mission can be found in the game files, but only contain coding and dialogue for this mission.
*Despite being in Afghanistan, all text is actually Arabic.
==References==
Category:Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Trivia