Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3-single-player-campaign-review
Just read IGN review of Modern Warfare 3. Usually IGN reviews are on generous side. Was expecting more from call of duty after Modern Warfare 2.
How bad is it that even IGN have rated it 4/10?
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it is pretty bad not gonna lie.
gameplay was medicore at best, those open world missions re like WTF, why would a soldier fought by himself if there is a team nearby.
SPOILER ALERT!
but more than a gameplay, it was a bad story and writting.>! i mean ending was horrible, they killed SOAP again but this time his death was like just WTF, and this post credit scene was just wtf, why any1 would killed Shepard like this, why, i cant find an explanation. overwall campaings were lacking, no russian mission were nothing compared to previous one, and based on trailers and ending on mw2 it was really dissapoimnet!<
plus like 70€ for like not even 4 hours long campaing, like WTF, and at the end some rebranded multiplayer. ok i am fine with that not gonna lie, i’m missing a good old cod mw2 2009, it was best multiplayer by longshot before tubers and hackers became a regular thing, tubing destroyed multiplayer quite honestly. and seeing those legendary maps like highrise, rust, etc. back on track is like a good thing. but at the same time they re getting out of ideas quite honestly and then this rebranded stuff occurs, and we need in order to play paid 70€? thats why people re angry! if campaing would be remotly good and they bring up some new ideas for multiplayer then sure, pay that 70€ and enjoy but for “shit” like that its not worth it. soo i we watched this campaing via youtube and did not purchase this poorly made game.
ik that its more of a criticism for whole call of duty series rather than mw2023 but at the same time nothing new. last really good cod were back in 2011, 2012 with mw3 and bo2, the rest were either future stuff or just incomplet game which were lacking new fresh ideas. campaing got worse with each cod release aswell. soo yea.
old mw campaings were far superior, like 10x better campaing and multiplayer. ok unpopolar opnion: i’m kinda enjoying mw2022 multiplayer not gonna lie. no OP weapons and stuff like that, some maps and gamemodes re fun to play, overwall no toxic community, its nicely balanced if you ask me. but yea, mw2 and mw3 multiplayer were far superior, thats for sure.
Even the title was recycled, what do you expect?
any game or game story is subjective. also i wouldnt trust ign, especially if the tester is a 50 year old woman, or thats what the person in the profile picture looks like.
Not the place to discuss this i would assume.
AFAIK any CoD is not single player but i don’t play FPS so dunno
Call of duty has been garbage since Black Ops 3
Whoa, these games have campaigns?
Yes, yes it is. The end is literally ‘how do we finish this?……fuck it kill soap’.
Have they….. Not been bad for the last few years?
Yes.
What a surprise, they’ll still make shit tons from people that blindly buy.
It is hot garbage. 4 is really generous.
It is
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. MWIII is based on this principle. It seems if you play warzone it’s same as DMZ for open world missions
I don’t know why people are shocked about this.
70€ for a half assed, recycled and very short campaing – yes its bad
Why wouldn’t it be? It’s literally cut content from later MW2 seasons that’s repackaged as a full priced game 😄
It’s one big commercial for Warzone..
The singleplayer is for sure, multiplayer is what you’d expect from a CoD, for better or worse.
Someone, please correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought there originally was no new COD planned for this year. I think they just threw a game together at the last minute.
Saw it coming from a mile away, it should have been a DLC
I didn’t like it all. Had it refunded after playing the beta. Shame, too, because I usually love the multilayer. First one I haven’t bought consecutively since Bo4
probably
AAA gaming is fucked, don’t pre-order.
I’ve been wondering how long it would take ya’ll to find out these games were copied pasted shit for like 15+ years now.
Now I guess I’ll sit here and wonder how long it’ll take ya’ll to stop buying this shit now that you know it’s garbage. Probably another 30 years if the fifa trends tell anything
Havent invested in COD since Ghosts. In that game they had a bug that caused really bad graphical errors for AMD GPUs, which was addressed by them saying they wont fix it as the game had already died within a few weeks of release as its MP had already fallen down to less than half of the current MW3 and Black Ops 2 which at the time was 2 and 1 years old.
Right now COD had just been regurgitating old popular games and then turning it into shits for giggles without addressing any of the issues of its former games.
Welcome to Activision Blizzard. It’s the biggest “See how shit we can make our games and how many shitheads will still buy it?” The answer is still millions.
The campaign yes but who even buys cod for the campaign?
Haven’t bought a CoD game in nearly 15 years.
Kinda want my money back from that one.
after this, and starfield’s review, I’m starting to respect ign again if they keep it up. for along time, their reviews felt like shameless ads for the big leagues. I’m glad they’re changing for the better
Thought that was an old woman’s profile picture for the reviewer
Well who woulda thought regurgitating the same game over and over and over again would have people realise you aren’t releasing a new game but a new version of the old game with ‘fresh’ in game buyables.
Who woulda thought? 😃
Wow. An IGN 4 is like a real world -2.
At least we get a campaign, EA charged 60 dollars for a half baked multiplayer and no campaign for BF2042.
Edit- Clarified battlefield price
First time IGN gotta review right in years. MW3 is just as bad as MW2. Pretty much MW2 V1.2. Utter trash so we won’t be able to get a decent cod until we get a black ops variant unfortunately
As someone who enjoys Call of Duty campaigns, I think the MW2023 campaign is really bad in both story and gameplay. I would go as far as saying it is the worst COD campaign in recent years (even worse than Vanguard). From the beginning, I knew it was going to be a DLC turned into a full release game and only had around a year of development time, so I had low expectations. But damn, the campaign is not just around 3.5 – 4 hours long, half of its missions are just you running around an open-ended map completing random tasks DMZ style with characters’ voicelines sprinkled in. I suspect that when the high-ups decided to turn MW2023 into a full game, the devs had to come up with extra content to pad out its runtime in order to justify the price. And the other half is traditionally scripted missions, which are better, but overall nothing stands out or is memorable, no bombastic set piece, no gameplay variety. The plot is as basic as it can get, the game keeps telling you to stop Makarov because of how dangerous he is without showing it. I understand that COD cannot do a “No Russians” style in today’s landscape, and I do think “Passenger” is somewhat an interesting idea, just poorly executed. Plus, they killed two characters in a very anticlimactic way.
I haven’t bought a COD in a while and I’m so happy I haven’t.
It’s not a 4, but it’s worse than normal for their campaigns. People love to hate popular things so they over react, but definitely disappointing.
Call of Duty (Warzone) has been trash since Cold War merged with MW2019. MW2019 was the last enjoyable multiplayer for most OG Call of Duty players. I think they would agree.
Almost all levels are “open combat” missions, meaning they barely had to craft any cool moments. I play COD campaigns because they’re like highly polished scripted action movies. The campaign is just DMZ with cutscenes in between. Fucking lazy.
I really wish they would sell the multiplayer separately. I’ll never pay $70 for the whole game because I give zero shits about the campaign, but I’d pay like $20-30 for the multiplayer by itself.
Fuckin knew it, Microsoft spent however many billions and legal battles in the EU for complete garbage. As good as Spencer is with gamepass, whoever does their IP acquisitions is dumb as bricks.
For the campaign, apparently so.
Wait for multiplayer reviews.
tbh the campaign hasn’t been a selling point in the last decade of CODs
if youre buying it for the campaign you kinda deserve this shit tier story
A better question is, when was the last time a Call of Duty game was actually good?
A ton of games dont even get campaigns now so I’ll take it. I won’t be happy but I’ll take it.