What is it? A direct sequel to Modern Warfare 2 Release date November 10, 2023 Expect to pay $70/£65 Developer Sledgehammer Games, Treyarch Publisher Activision Blizzard Reviewed on GeForce RTX 2080 Super, Core i9 9900KS, 32GB RAM Steam Deck Unsupported Link Official site
Rain or shine, the Call of Duty must flow. It's a mantra that's served Activision well for 20 years as Call of Duty grew from yet another WW2 shooter to the best-selling franchise of all time. For 18 of those years the series has maintained a streak of annual releases, regularly shattering previous records with only the occasional bump in the road when a less-good, but still fun entry came along.
Modern Warfare 3 is bigger than a bump—it's an indictment of the Call of Duty machine, a rushed product created to fill a $70 gap in Activision's calendar and sold as something (reports suggest) it was never meant to be. Let's not mince words: this is an expansion in everything but name and price. But even if it were more substantial, I'm not convinced that Modern Warfare 3 would be satisfying. Despite riding the coattails of last year's excellent Modern Warfare 2, catering to potent 2009 nostalgia, and bringing welcome improvements to Gunsmith, many of Sledgehammer Games' original contributions come off as superfluous, or simply not as good as what we had before.
This is a series low point. It's the first time that CoD's $70 barrier to entry has felt like an insult to longtime players, and yet, the series' live service model means fans who want to participate in Call of Duty's events and battle passes for the next year have no alternative. Outside of Warzone, Modern Warfare 3 is where the Call of Duty action will be throughout 2024, for better and worse.
There's an overdose of familiarity going on here that's making this map pool stale long before Call of Duty's usual «best by» date.
Modern Warfare 3's unusual makeup is immediately obvious in multiplayer. For the first time in series history, there are no original 6v6 maps at launch. Instead, Sledgehammer reached into the CoD vault and remade all 16 launch maps from the original Modern Warfare 2 (2009). This nostalgia payload was one of the first things announced about MW3, and damn it, it got me really excited. The cultural penetration of Call of Duty for teens of the late 2000s cannot be overstated, and MW2 was arguably its peak. Even as personal doubts around this year's CoD simmered, I maintained that the warm embrace of maps I haven't seen in 14 years could alone justify Modern Warfare 3's existence. Eh, not really.
I'm having a good time revisiting favorite maps, and I can't say enough nice things about Sledgehammer's attention to detail in crafting them. Terminal, Highrise, Favela, and
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