Modder unlocks original Call of Duty 4 training mission

YouTube is home to the oddest videos this side of the Internet. The above clip for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is just one of those oddities. Why is it odd? Because the FNG mission that you get to watch isn’t the same one you’ll experience when you play the game.

Digging deeper, I found out from Fourzerotwo’s blog that the video was made by Qrysalis, a PC modder from Japan. Apparently, the modder has found and reconstructed the files from Infinity Ward’s original training missions for Call of Duty 4. According to Fourzerotwo, Infinity Ward decided to make the FNG training shorter in the final version of the FPS.

What’s interesting is the modder’s land of origin. Japan, as we know, is console gaming country. FPS isn’t exactly the game of choice there, at least not as much as Monster Hunter or Pokémon. Kudos to Qrysalis for going against the local flow and bringing out the “original” FNG training for CoD4. I just hope that bit about Brokeback snipers and Hot Coffee moments were in jest.

Then again, some YouTube user just might make that fear a reality. Goosepimples, man.