Modern Warfare 3 campaign can be finished in 3-4 hours, it’s claimed

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The single-player campaign for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 can be finished in 3 to 4 hours, according to players who’ve been playing the game in early access.

The campaign was released on Thursday for players who’d pre-ordered the digital edition of the game, giving them access to the single-player portion a week ahead of the full release.

But now, following that release, players have reported that the campaign is clocking in at around 3 to 4 hours in length.

Prominent Call of Duty streamer Marley13 played through the campaign in almost exactly four hours.

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By comparison, according to the website HowLongToBeat, which collates how long it took members of their community to complete games, the campaign in last year’s Modern Warfare 2 took around eight hours to beat.

While some older Call of Duty campaigns clock in at around the 6- to 7-hour mark, Modern Warfare 3’s campaign seems to be one of the shorter campaigns for a mainline COD.

The main obvious exception is Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, which didn’t feature a campaign atall after it was dropped, reportedly due to technical concerns, timing issues and negative tester feedback.

Several other players took to Twitter to highlight the Modern Warfare 3 campaign’s brief length and to criticise the new open-combat missions, which see players play through larger, open maps as opposed to traditional linear Call of Duty environments.

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The game’s relative short length could be explained by reports that this