Activision unveils 1st gameplay for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare lll got its gameplay reveal today at Opening Night Live at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany.

The developers showed off Operation 627, an underwater mission that is at the very beginning of Modern Warfare III. In it, Task Force 141 members dive underwater and emerge in front of a castle on the edge of the Kostovian Sea. They scale the walls in the rain and use night vision equipment to see.

They fire a line up to the top of a turret and zip up to the top. They use silencers to take out the first guard they see, and they start clearing the castle as more stealth paratroopers land on the parapets. Then they go weapons hot with sharp but quiet-sounding machine guns. It turns out the place is a prison, and the soldiers gun down a bunch of the guards as they move deep into the prison.

Last week, Activision unveiled its big reveal inside Call of Duty: Warzone as players became the first to find out details about the big game coming on November 10 as part of 20th anniversary celebration of the franchise.

Modern Warfare lll is scheduled to release on PlayStation 5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC via Battle.net and Steam as a direct sequel to last year’s record-breaking Modern Warfare II. Beta tests will happen on October 5 and October 6.

Players will experience a rich and immersive campaign with unprecedented player choice, picking up directly after Modern Warfare ll, a new open world Zombies mode set on the largest Call of Duty Zombies map ever, and one of the