Review Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 PS5 Bloated Undercooked and Outdated All at Once
Nostalgia trick.
We've reached a point in time where one can be nostalgic for the PS3 generation, and Activision is banking on that with all its might to sell Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Rather than a new line-up of multiplayer maps, this year's entry is a strange amalgamation of the past, as all of the weapons and playable characters from 2022's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 have been ported over for play on classic locations from, well, 2009's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The usual single player campaign and an open-world spin on Zombies are what Modern Warfare 3 can call its own, but when remastered maps from a 14-year-old game is the best you've got to offer, maybe it really is best to just take a year off.
Heavily speculated to have started life as a DLC pack for last year's instalment, never has a standalone Call of Duty game felt more like a contractual agreement all parties regret signing. The campaign stitches together Open Combat Missions that feel like adverts for Warzone, the multiplayer is bloated beyond belief with little in the way of original content, and Zombies comes across as a tired trick failing to justify its existence.
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