Rating
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
The game brings "open combat, " offering players more choices in approaching the single-player missions. Makarov returns as the chief villain of the new campaign. The newly introduced Carry Forward system will let players keep their progression and inventory from Modern Warfare II. Multiplayer fans can expect 16 maps at the launch and at least 12 ...
Details
- Released
- November 9, 2023
- Developer
- Sledgehammer Games
- Publisher
- Activision
- Platforms
- PC · PS4 · Xbox One · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S
How it plays
Time to beat · 6 player times (IGDB)
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Even with an embarrassingly bad single-player Campaign, the Multiplayer and Zombies experiences are enough to cement this game as one of the franchise's greats.
This year's Call of Duty is a mixed bag. Series veterans looking for a great multiplayer experience will find a lot to love thanks to the game's faithful recreation of some of the franchise’s best maps and excellent gunplay. However, Modern Warfare III's campaign is one of the worst in the series’ history.
All in all, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2023) is, at its best, a safe and minimal upgrade over last year’s episode and, at its worst, a visibly rushed, somewhat poorly designed, and unbalanced collection of game modes. Sure, it builds upon the excellent technical and mechanical background from last year’s game, but much more worryingly: it offers a short Frankenstein monster of a hybrid campaign with much of it being essentially repurposed Warzone content; a Zombies mode that also feels like an unbalanced and unpolished rehash of things we’ve seen in said battle royale mode and last year’s...
Call of Duty’s twentieth anniversary should be a celebratory moment for the franchise and an opportunity for the studios and Activision to put their best foot forward. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is not that best foot. Rather, the game comes off more as a footnote in the history of Call of Duty as we wait for Treyarch’s next Black Ops and the inevitable Call of Duty: Modern Warfare IV. The campaign feels like a stopgap merely intended to close plot lines left open from Modern Warfare II and to reveal Makarov after the last game’s final stinger. Other than that, little happens in the merci...
We review the latest Call of Duty entry and analyze if it's really just an overpriced DLC. There are many things to say about the three game modes Modern Warfare III offers but at least two of them can be summarized in only one word: Warzone.
A disappointing campaign and a Zombies mode lacking in focus makes this a hackneyed Call of Duty entry that those thirsting for more multiplayer action will still enjoy. For anyone who plays for the campaign or loves to blast hordes of undead, however, Modern Warfare 3 is hard to recommend.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 is a low point for the series. A passable multiplayer suite can't prop up the uninspired campaign, and dreadfully dull zombies mode. The series needs to take a break from the annualised release schedule, and inject some much needed creativity into the legendary franchise.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 isn't an outright bad game, but it's also not a particularly good one. Taken on its own, it's a slightly above average first person shooter with a poor campaign, but in context, you can see how hurried and limited in scope this game really is. The multiplayer is effectively a classic map pack, Zombies and Open Combat Missions are game modes built within the existing Warzone map, and the campaign's pacing and story come up short. It all adds up to a lacklustre experience and even a sense that Call of Duty is at risk of losing its identity.
An unessential Call of Duty that does nothing to overturn the impression that it was made too quickly.
Call of Duty is a weird series. I’m getting some strange déjà vu. I could have sworn that Modern Warfare 3 came out when I was in high school. All the characters in this game feel like I’ve seen them before, same with the maps that are available in the multiplayer. Alright, all jokes aside, it’s been a year since Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II came out, and if you’re still playing that, or Warzone, season after season, there’s finally some DLC for you. Unfortunately, it’s the s...
It was always a question whether Activision could get MW3 to the gold standard in just one short year, unfortunately, the verdict is in and it's a resounding no.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (2023)’s campaign is comically bad, its Zombies mode is zonked and its multiplayer just kind of sucks.