Angry Call of Duty Fans Are Review-Bombing the Wrong Modern Warfare 3

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Poor Modern Warfare 3. No, not the new one. The original one, from 2011. It’s getting review-bombed by angry Call of Duty fans who seem a bit confused about which Call of Duty is which.

The backlash mostly stems from the early access launch of the new Modern Warfare 3’s single-player campaign, which has received a largely negative reaction online. IGN’s review scored it 4/10: “Underbaked, rehashed, and cobbled together from multiplayer parts, Modern Warfare 3’s single-player campaign is everything a Call of Duty story mode shouldn’t be.”

It doesn't help that Activision has decided to launch Modern Warfare 3 as a game tied to Call of Duty HQ, a new hub that appears to have replaced last year's Modern Warfare 2. This has resulted in even bigger file sizes and longer waits to get into the game, and reinforced the sentiment that Modern Warfare 3 is little more than Modern Warfare 2 DLC positioned as a mainline sequel. Remarkably, the PlayStation 5 version of Modern Warfare 3 doesn't have a platinum trophy, either.

While the backlash to Modern Warfare 3’s campaign gets more vociferous, some people are taking their anger out on the wrong game. Screenshots emerged on social media showing negative user reviews clearly aimed at the new Modern Warfare 3, but on the Metacritic page for the 12-year-old Modern Warfare 3.

Metacritic confirmed to IGN it was in the process of removing user reviews left by mistake on the wrong page. “Generally, yes, if someone reviews one game thinking they're reviewing another, we'll moderate that review,” Metacritic boss Marc Doyle told IGN.

At the time of this article’s publication, the Metacritic page for Modern Warfare 3 (2011) has a user score of just 3.6 against a critic Metascore of 88. “This game is