Modern Combat: Shadow Operations 3 (2009) (Wii/PC/J2ME/PSP/X360/PS3)

Modern Combat: Shadow Operations 3 is a third person shooter video game developed by Mojang Italia and developed by Mojang Dallas. This game was released for the Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Windows, J2ME, Sony PlayStation Portable, XBOX 360 & PlayStation 3 in the United States on June 17th, 2009, and was released in the United Kingdom on June 19th, 2009.

Plot
The game begins in 2022 with G.O.C operatives Meridan and Hughes, saying how they believe nothing will go wrong. Ironically, the convoy's movement is interrupted by La Guadana. Meridan and Hughes survive with a handful of other operatives, but Cordova escapes. The screen cuts to 5 years earlier in 2017 when Meridan and Hughes receive their masks and commence an operation to save multiple hostages in a cartel compound, but only find one hostage alive; a woman named Isabela. Grebin abandons the others, believing that if he stays, he will die. Meridan, Hughes and Salazar are successful in saving her, but Grebin presumably dies.

The player is then returned to the present, where the their convoy is ambushed and they have to push their way past the cartel's forces to city hall for extraction. From there, a G.O.C operative named Ethan arrives and drives them out of the city but is killed when the cartel ambushes them on the road, forcing Meridan and Hughes to proceed to meet Ethan's contact at an airplane scrapyard. Fighting cartel members along the road, you eventually meet the contact, Isabela. She then instructs them that P.I. and Castle are at the La Puerta resort, Cordova's G.O.C bodyguards. However, she also informs them that Cordova would be at the local church, which is a cartel compound.

The player then fights his way into and through the resort to find El Diablo, La Guadana's top lieutenant, who has killed P.I. and Castle, as well as having taken Cordova. The two then fight their way through the resort attempting to catch El Diablo, but he is able to escape via helicopter and destroy the resort. Meridan, Hughes and Isabela manage to survive by landing in a swimming pool.

The trio soon arrives at the church, and Isabela agrees to stay behind and cover the exit while Meridan and Hughes go in to attempt to kill Cordova's captors. El Diablo discovers them, and orders his men to open fire. He then escapes with Cordova using Isabela's truck. Meridan, Hughes and Isabela chase them with another truck, but encounter cartel reinforcements. The player destroys numerous enemy vehicles until a heavily-armoured destroyer truck begins to pursue them. After a strenuous battle, the destroyer is hit by a train, causing it to derail.

Cordova is saved by Sims, but Sims is eventually shot in the leg, rendering him unable to walk. Seconds later, a destroyer operated by El Diablo runs him over. Meridan, Hughes and Cordova attempt to flee, but hit a dead end and are then captured and tortured by the cartel. Bautista and El Diablo enter, and the latter reveals that he is Jason Grebin. Grebin kills Cordova and leaves, then Meridan and Hughes escape the room. Meridan tells G.O.C via radio that he and Hughes need extraction and Grebin had betrayed them. Hunting down Grebin, they found him and Grebin orders his rather mentally unstable bodyguard to kill them and escapes. The duo kills the bodyguard and regroup with Lars & Connor.

Salazar receives word that Grebin has gone rogue and wants him captured alive, although Meridan and Hughes disagree. Isabel meets them and believes that Grebin and Bautista have fled to a ghost town. Meridan, Hughes and the others raid the hacienda, assisted by Mexican special forces. Bautista shoots Lars and holds Connor at gunpoint as a threat but shoots him anyway and flees. Isabela runs after Bautista while a helicopter prevented Meridan and Hughes from chasing after Isabela. The duo can't find Isabela, so they interrogate a man who tells them Isabela is held at the quarry. Meridan and Hughes later find themselves being picked up by Salazar via helicopter and go after Grebin and Bautista while trying to save Isabela. Isabela is nearly saved by Meridan but an RPG forces Salazar pull the helicopter up and then another RPG shoots the helicopter down. The duo escape while Salazar goes down with the helicopter, who then is saved by them.

Our protagonists spot Isabela entering a compound to hunt down Bautista and Grebin. Bautista is caught and then shot by Isabela. Hughes realizes it was all setup in order to make them chase after Salem. Salem grabs Fiona and points his pistol at her head. Salem tells Rios why he betrayed T.W.O., and then executes Fiona. Rios charges at Salem, but is shot in the abdomen and thrown onto the floor below. Salem escapes, pitting Alpha and Bravo against a small army. Rios changes his mind about capturing Salem; he wants his old companion dead. Alpha and Bravo find Salem in a courtyard and Salem attempts to kill them using an armoured vehicle.

However, the protagonists destroy the vehicle, leaving Salem vulnerable and on the ground. Bravo gets the honours of choosing Salem's fate. He does not kill Salem, who is taken away by Mexican soldiers. Bravo describes Salem's stay in prison as "20 or 30 years". It concludes with Rios, Alpha and Bravo being extracted, Alpha saying that "Fiona will be buried" and they "will have a long time off". The screen fades, and a cinematic of Salem etching the name "Trish" on his prison wall is shown. Trish Mitchell was a G.O.C mission coordinator who had died in the events of The 40th Day when her extraction helicopter was shot down in London.