'It's a horrendous and shameful scam': Modern Warfare 3 plummets to one of Steam's rated games as fans bombard it with Mostly Negative reviews

pcgamer.com:

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's launch weekend has been… unfortunate. Between a "rushed campaign" and bizarre launcher woes, fans have channelled their frustration into critical  Steam reviews. It's seen the game plummet to a Mostly Negative rating, getting it onto SteamDB's chart for the 100 worst games on the platform.

It's sitting at a 27% approval rating right now, with many fans calling it «overpriced DLC» and claiming that Activision should have released the content as a cheaper expansion for Modern Warfare 2 instead. «It's a horrendous and shameful scam,» one reviewer wrote, while another called it «the worst game I have ever seen dropped in 2023 as far as a multiplayer title.» An awful lot of reviews are simply the words "$70 DLC."

The campaign continues to draw ire too, with complaints about its short length being at the core of many fans' frustration. «As a CoD fan for the last 15 years, this was the single most awful campaign I've ever played. Surface level storyline that was incredibly forgetful, and is insanely lazy on Sledgehammer's part,» one Steam reviewer wrote. «Was looking forward to a fun and conclusive campaign, but was left thoroughly disappointed,» another wrote. «Would not recommend.»

Other common complaints appear to be with the game's armory challenge system, which requires completing daily quests to unlock a myriad of weapons and perks. One reviewer called it «the single worst addition in CoD history,» with others complaining that a system which already had a poor reception in Modern Warfare 2 has been made inherently worse. It helps even less that the challenges don't seem to be tracking properly for a lot of players, something that developer Sledgehammer has saidit's currently working on