To celebrate the launch of the upcoming, Call of Duty partnered with director David Leitch and an ensemble of celebrities to create a live-action trailer for the game.
06.10.2023 - 21:21 / blog.playstation.com
When Call of Duty: Modern Warfare comes up, many players’ minds immediately jump to 00’s memories of lobbying up with close friends. For Modern Warfare III, developers Sledgehammer, Treyarch, Infinity Ward, and Raven Software come together to deliver an updated FPS experience with all the illustrious nostalgic magic we remember, but with enough innovative features to make it feel new.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III returns us to familiar maps and modes like Rust, Zombies, and Team Deathmatch. But this time the name of the game is player control and expression. After playing for hours on PS5 at the recent Call of Duty Next, I found a game that both took me to my classic COD comfort zone, but challenged me with tons of new features at the same time.
Larger maps, more control, and more decision-making make Modern Warfare III an entry in the series that everyone will remember as fondly as the past hits.
Read on for gameplay details, plus Multiplayer beta access details.
Modern Warfare III took me back to 2009 with surprising throwbacks everywhere, you’d think I really took a time machine. Modern Warfare III even brings back the legacy option of map voting, which allows players to vote on the next map to battle in during matchmaking.
There’s a wealth of maps here, including all 16 launch maps from the original Modern Warfare II (2009). Each map is updated and optimized beautifully for PlayStation 5 and will have you running back to MW2 to check if it’s just as you remember it. Besides the impressive graphical overhaul, I’m glad these recreations miss no step in bringing back the exact vibes and possible strategies that they did back then.
A big standout is the classic battleground where all beef was settled, Rust. This map returns in all its industrial glory. My eyes widened when I saw all the classic hiding spots present, players climbing the tower to get good sniper viewpoints, and everyone using their new movement options to traverse the map unlike ever before. I got the same feeling from maps like Skidrow and Favela: two lush urban jungles with tons of room to play around and experiment with.
Along with the maps, classic Call of Duty experience returns in the minimap, complete with red dots to signal where an enemy may be, and in the reintroduction of perks like Silent Movement. With all these updated classic features present I was able to jump right in and not miss a single beat, going right back to the strategies and decisions I made back in 2009.
Speaking of strategies and decisions, Modern Warfare III makes player choices more important than ever. I was surprised by the player expression that the development team allows here and shocked by the amount of options present.
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To celebrate the launch of the upcoming, Call of Duty partnered with director David Leitch and an ensemble of celebrities to create a live-action trailer for the game.
Call of Duty fans are waiting for that next major release to come out this November. We’re inching our way closer to the launch date for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. However, you might be keen on at least trying this game out. Fortunately, there are beta weekends, which we just saw our first already come out. However, we’re now getting the second weekend for beta access, with the developers highlighting some changes made to the game. After all, these beta tests are a great way to check out the game while providing the development teams some insight into areas that require some slight tweaking before it’s ready for an official release.
launches on PC and current and last-gen consoles next month., including 4K support.
Call of Duty players are counting down the days before they can finally get their hands on the latest installment. We know the next game will continue on the Modern Warfare series, so while we wait for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III to launch into the marketplace, we have a new marketing trailer to check out. It’s a brief trailer, but it does highlight some of the features you can expect to have for this game on the PC platform. Included is the fact that you’ll have over 500 customization options.
Call of Duty is a known quantity in many ways at this point. The era, specific weapons, and flavor-of-the-year gimmicks might change, but as we round out two decades of annual iterations, it’s not hard to guess what the next one will bring. So it’s no surprise that after playing in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s multiplayer open beta on PlayStation 5 for a good chunk of the weekend, the feeling I came away with was largely, “oh yeah, this is just more Call of Duty.” That doesn’t mean I didn’t have fun, and I still have a whole lot more left to see in the final version, but so far it feels modern in name alone.
Welcome to the Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III Beta!
I had a chance to play the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III multiplayer beta on the PlayStation 5 this week. A bug prevented me from getting early access but I was able to join the general PS beta on Sunday and get some rounds in.
Almost two years ago, Microsoft announced it was acquiring Activision Blizzard for a colossal $69 billion. Reports say the acquisition deal is expected to close this week and Xbox players are anticipating the addition of Activision Blizzard games to the Game Pass lineup. However, a new tweet by Activision Blizzard makes it sound like the company's games won't hit the subscription service until next year. Plus, Activision Blizzard says it won't be adding the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III or the recently released Diablo IV to Game Pass this year.
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Hackers have already hit Call of Duty Modern Warfare III’s open beta. Of course, this hack happened only on PlayStation.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare III’s open beta is now live for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5.
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