Heartwarming / World in Conflict

• At the very end of the game, Mike finally finds batteries for his CD player and he and Anton end the game listening to Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again." It just gives you a fuzzy feeling to see that these two made it out alive, even though the camera pans out to reveal that there's not much left of Seattle.
• Despite his official role as The Political Officer in Colonel Vladimir "Volodja" Orlovsky's regiment, KGB Major Lebedjev is a pretty good guy who goes through the motions of being a commissar without really believing in it. He and Orlovsky are old friends, and it's implied that Lebedjev sought the assignment so that he could protect Orlovsky from more zealous higher-ups. After Orlovsky is murdered by Malashenko, Lebedjev takes over the remainder of the unit and leads them to Tacoma, as Orlovsky had intended, where he uses his status as a KGB officer and being the son in law of the Minister of Defense to intimidate the captain of a Soviet cargo ship into taking them home.
• The Objective of getting the family of a General out of the path of the Soviet Invasion helps dull the edge of having to abandon Seattle. It's ultimately only three people and done for pragmatic reasons, but you still managed to save a family from being torn apart. The added bit at the end of the soldier grabbing the dropped pacifier as well.