Oh, and by the way, contrast that with the Modern Warfare story:
You get intel that there is a smuggling operation going on. You board the ship in Crew Expendible to try and find out what is up. In the process, you stumble upon a nuclear warhead. The Russians get word of the attack, and they fire upon the ship. (Now you know something is up.)
So then in the opening credits (btw the opening credits in MW2 suck since they didn't do them like MW1), you are the president as he is taken prisioner out of his palace and then assassinated live on national television by Al-Asad, who you don't know, but you see there for the first time.
That is followed by you needing to rescue the informant, Nikolai, from being assassinated. That little piece tells you how you got info of everything going down. You successfully save him.
Now, you are attempting to capture Al-Asad. You find out he was broadcasting from a television station, so you make your approach to it in attempt to capture him. You then find out that it was a pre-recording and he isn't there.
After that, it's all about fighting the terrorists and securing the capital. You find out over the radio that a nuclear bomb has been found in the palace, armed. They attempt to disarm it while you make a rescue attempt on a downed helicopter. Unfortunately, the bomb detonates as you make your getaway. You die.
Now it's about locating Al-Asad again to get to the root of this. You know he would have never sacrificed himself because he's a cowardly shit, so you go to his safe house. You find there that they are killing everyone in the village. Way in the back, in a farmhouse, you find Al-Asad. He is tortured, but then he receives a phone call giving away who the man above him is. No longer needing Al-Asad, he is assassinated.
The man who was on the other end of the phone was Zakhaev. Price (right?) thought he killed him back like 20 years ago or something after the incident at Chernobyl. So, you play in the flashback of you using a high powered sniper rifle to shoot his arm off and then get chased down to the evac site. Guess he didn't die after all.
But now back in the present, you have no leads to him. You do, however, believe the one way to get to him is through his son. So, you trace him down, but after a long chase scene and with him cornered, he kills himself.
Now, I think you learn that Zakhaev has taken control of an ICMB launch facility, and that doesn't sound too good. He says in the cutscene that their "so-called leaders have prostiuted them to the west," and that he is out for revenge on the US. Your goal is to stop him. As you work your way though the entire level to the launch facility, you secure a hostage and blow the power lines to create a window of opportunity to cut through the fence. Upon meeting up with the other team, two missiles are suddenly and unexpectedly launched from the facility.
You now have only a few minutes to get inside the facility and make your way to the war room before they reach the coast of the US. Once inside, they launch more. Now you only have 9 minutes (or less depending on difficulty, I think). After blasting through the wall of the war room, you kill everyone inside and enter the codes. The missiles are destroyed.
Now you notice that Zakhaev is making a getaway. He leaves, and you leave after. Then, you cut him off on the highway. A fucking badass chase scene takes place between vehicles and helicopters, ending with almost everyone from your unit being immobilized and killed. With one last hope of surviving, you kill Zakhaev and his men just as the good Russians arrive to kill everyone else and then lift you away to safety.
You can easily see the difference.
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