1. In the game files there is a weapon called "Brick Blaster" (Brick Blaster) — it looks like a regular pistol, but shoots cinder blocks.
2. The game was created while a third-party team was working on CoD 3. This allowed us to spend 2 years on development
3. The Guinness Book of World Records in 2011 ranked McTavish 12th and Price 17th in the list of the fifty best computer game characters.
4. In the first and second parts of the game of the Call of Duty series, there is Captain Price, who looks like the character of the same name from this game and, possibly, is the grandfather of John Price from Modern Warfare.
5. The China Town level is completely copied from the Carentan location from CoD1 and CoD2. It looks different, of course, but the geometry is identical
6. At the very end of the mission with the ship, when you need to jump on a helicopter, there is a reference to the movie "The Matrix". If the player falls, a message appears on the screen: "No one succeeds the first time."
7. If you wait and watch the end credits until the end, you can hear the rap performed by Sergeant Griggs. He's reading about the Call of Duty series.
8. The game was banned in Saudi Arabia and the UAE for violence against Islamic soldiers.
9. This is the first game in the series that does not take place during the Second World War.
10. This is the first part in the series where the class of an ally is not shown when the scope is aimed at it.
11. The game was ranked 14th in the "200 Best Games of All Time" chart by Game Informer.
12. In the mission where it is necessary to rescue "Nikolai", the helicopter pilots speak with a very strong American accent, although both are Russian in person. This is a reference to the film "Rimbaud 3".
13. A large piece of content was safely cut out of the game. The missions with photographing the dead and the espionage mission where it was necessary to install a microphone were gone. In addition, several multiplayer maps have disappeared - the mansion and the prison.
14. This has never been said out loud, but it is known that the first act of the game is entirely due to the appearance of the Iraqi province of Al Basra.
15. As in the first part of Call of Duty in MW1, we notice that Sergeant Kamarov has a lot of rights - he easily commands those who are older in rank.
16. The main character is not shown even once. This is done so that the player can come up with it for himself. Or put yourself in his place.
17. In 2008, MW1 overtook Halo 3 in popularity on the Xbox LIVE network. There were no competitors for it on the Playstation Network at all.
18. This is the first game in the series to receive an "M" rating from the ESRB for blood, violence and other related things. And for swearing, by the way, too.
19. Captain Price has been serving in the SAS for 18 years at the time of the events of the game. It is noteworthy that officers entering the service are returned to their native units after 3 years. Price visited the SAS at least twice, only then was he given a lifetime membership.
