Battlefield 4

Story

Unlike its predecessor's campaign, Battlefield 4's campaign primarily follows chronological order, letting the player permanently take on the role of Recker. At the beginning, in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Tombstone Squad - consisting of Recker, Dunn, Irish and Pac - flees the city, with important information in hand and Russian special forces on their heels. The squad becomes trapped in a civilian's car when it crashes into the sea. Dunn, who is pinned between the seats and badly wounded, gives Recker his pistol and orders him to shoot out the windshield.[35] Reluctantly, Recker shoots the windshield and Dunn drowns while the others escape. As the Tombstone floats to the surface, the player overhears its commanding officer, Captain Garrison, talking on the telephone about information that Admiral Chang is planning a military coup and will receive the full support of the Russians if successful, confirming an earlier report from an informant in China. Tombstone returns to the USS Valkyrie, an amphibious aircraft carrier bound for the east coast of China. On board, Garrison informs them of the assassination of Chinese presidential candidate Jin Jié and that Chang has convinced the Chinese that the United States is responsible. Garrison sends Tombstone, with Recker as squad leader, on a covert mission in Shanghai to rescue three VIPs: Kovic, Hannah, and Hannah's husband. With Tombstone's help, Kovic takes his VIPs to the Valkyrie by helicopter. Meanwhile, Tombstone is retrieving a civilian tourist boat from shore when an electromagnetic pulse fries all the electrical equipment in the area. Irish realizes that other civilian refugees are stranded on boats around them and leads them to the Valkyrie against Pac's protests. Aboard the Valkyrie, they make their way to the USS Titan, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier that can help them. When the Valkyrie sights the Titan, it is heavily damaged by Chang's Chinese military. Garrison orders Tombstone, with Kovic as acting squad leader (Recker lost the post for not stopping the Irish in Shanghai), to search the wreckage of the Titan for vital information before it sinks. Tombstone recovers a hard drive containing data from before the Chinese missile attack and fights off invading Chinese soldiers. The Titan collapses under its own weight and breaks in two, forcing Tombstone to abandon ship. Returning to the Valkyrie with a captured attack boat, they find the carrier besieged by Chinese troops. They board the ship to repel the Chinese attack. Kovic is seriously wounded in the skirmish and gives command of Tombstone to Recker before he dies. Tombstone then clears the bridge and rescues Hannah's husband and Garrison. Garrison informs Recker and Pac of the impending attack on the Chinese-controlled Singapore airfield to destroy Chinese air superiority while their air forces are grounded by a storm. Hannah volunteers to join Tombstone, much to Ireland's chagrin, as he did not attend the debriefing himself. They successfully storm the beach and advance on the airfield, but lose most of their troops in the process. As they cross a bridge to the airfield, Recker is pinned down by a car that has been blown away by high winds. A large freighter crashes into the bridge, hurling Tombstone into the sea. They survive and make their way to the airfield via a sewer. After Pac fires the signal flare, Tombstone attempts to evacuate the area with an enemy vehicle, but they are ejected from their vehicle when the missiles hit, apparently killing Pac. Hannah appears to betray the group and gets the Chinese soldiers to capture Tombstone; this infuriates Irish, but neither he nor Recker can stop the soldiers from incapacitating them. Recker and Irish are then taken by the Chinese military to a prison in the Kunlun Mountains. There, under the supervision of Chang himself, the two marines are interrogated about their mission in Shanghai before being put into cells. Recker is awakened by "Dima," a Russian prisoner suffering from radiation poisoning. Recker helps Dima free the other prisoners, causing a mass uprising throughout the prison and reuniting him with Irish. Although the prison guard is overrun, the Chinese military arrives and launches an attack. Recker and Irish hold them off long enough for Dima to open the prison gates, but then they are caught by Hannah and other soldiers. Hannah shoots the soldiers holding Recker, Irish, and Dima at gunpoint; she explains that she was tasked with protecting Jin Jié, who had posed as her husband. The group fights their way through the Kunlun Mountains to a cable car that descends the mountain. The cable car is then shot down by an enemy helicopter, and the impact kills Dima. Tombstone is forced to continue on foot for two days to get down the mountain and search for food to survive. They find a jeep and drive to Tashgar, which is besieged by both Chinese and Russian troops.