(I was asked to put a Warning Spoilers on here, since I reveal some very minor story elements. Nothing too big, however. So there it was. You've been warned.)

There's been something that hasn't settled well with me over the last couple of years while playing military related shooters. This "something" I speak of is the fact that I've played, who I believe to be, the same character in at least three game franchises now. I'm not sure of this character's "actual" name, but he's gone by the code-names of "Joseph", "Sev" and "Soap". I've been hashing out a time-line in order to better understand this man's amazingly huge adventure sprawling between wars, space and the Jurassic. I believe this timeline to be a bit skewed from the order in which we've played his tale, and I also believe the dates we've seen to be a little exaggerated, so I'll go ahead and give a detailed story of how I believe it has happened while trying to avoid plot spoilers. I'll also attach the "photo evidence" of this character that lead to this entire thing.

The first thing that needs to be stated is that while in the story of Modern Warfare, behind the curtain the whole Helghast from Killzone's story is slowly brewing. Remember that...

Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare was said to happen in the "near future", so we'll say "near future". Back in "near future" a new soldier fresh to the whole "battle scene" took a bold step into a WWIII like war. He did what one could expect from a solider in a WWIII like scenario and saved the day with a mere pistol. Being a little shy, "Soap" refused to get a photo taken of himself, so we have no real photo-evidence of him in this age, just something close. Well, as we just came to realize with Modern Warfare 2, "Soap" had grown 5 years in age, grew in his badassery and decided to go with a super sleek fohawk. You see, in the last 5 years, "Soap's" confidence had grown significantly and he gladly allowed for photos (I'm guessing it's more or less power from the fohawk). In the end of Modern Warfare 2's story, "Soap" is being hoisted into a helicopter seeking a place to hide as he's now under the "most wanted" listing and the pilot states "I know a place we can go". Well my friends and strange readers, this "place" was no less than with a group of men known as "Wolf Pack" stationed out in middle of no-where. Because "Soap" was a wanted man, he was dressed as such for the symbolism, this being how General Kane liked his new thug recruits introduced. (It's an initiation thing, we wouldn't understand...) "Soap" felt he needed to change his nickname as the government was looking for a "Soap", so he decided to go with a low-key name. He chose "Joseph". Well, years pass and the war on earth escalades to space (as hinted in Modern Warfare 2) "Joseph" and Kane have their little issue so "Joseph" goes to Whiskey Company and they head to space to hunt down Kane. I forgot to mention that Kane had become affiliated with the Russians/Helghast (that's not explained in the story, but it only makes sense). Well, we all know what happens next. Yep. DINOSAURS! That's right, "Joseph" takes on a hoard of Dinosaurs while hunting down Kane as this war just keeps on growing to ridiculous levels in the un-announced background. By this point the Russians had surrendered, leaving the war faced mostly at the Helghast. After "Joseph" kills Kane, he finds that he has been cleared of all charges, as the conspiracy against "Soap" ended years ago, so he heads to space again to the main ISA cruiser airship to be joined in with his new team (with the terribly boring name) "Alpha". By this point "Joseph" has taken alot of blunt force to the head and lost alot of blood, so while trying to recall his old nickname (with not alot of luck), he settles on "Sev", as it's close enough. After we leave "Sev" in the end of Killzone 2, we're not too sure what's to happen to our on-going protagonist, but I'm sure that with that fohawk, everything will end just fine with him.

So, there you have it. That's my new theory that I'm desperately trying to piece together after seeing the photographic evidence that we've been playing the same guy for a while now. I'm also not too sure what the Russians and Helghast were doing fighting together, as they each seemed to be fighting over different things, so I'm guess the Helghast just got word of the airport massacre. That whole scenario seems to upset alot of people...