Rumor: Every COD Modern Warfare III Map Is From Modern Warfare 2 – From 2009

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There’s an interesting new rumor about Call of Duty Modern Warfare III that is absolutely not what you think it is.

The new rumor is that Call of Duty Modern Warfare III’s first maps are coming from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. No, not Call of Duty Modern Warfare II from last year. We mean Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, the game developed by Infinity Ward in 2009, that was published in Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows, macOS, and later on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Now, casuals may not see the connection, but those Call of Duty players who followed the franchise for years will see where Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty Modern Warfare III intersect.

As the most recent Call of Duty Modern Warfare III trailer has shown us, this new upcoming game will be all about the chase for Vladmir Makarov. Makarov is the head of Russia’s Ultranationalist party, and in the events of the original Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, Soap MacTavish and company attempt to stop him from starting a world war between Russia and the rest of the world.

It goes without saying that there are a lot of unusual and unfortunate parallels with that original storyline that is now well over a decade old, and some real life events going on in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine today.

On a gameplay level, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 has some of the most memorable, perhaps even beloved, maps in the entire franchise.  Aside from a conventional story campaign, it also had multiplayer and a separate spec ops mode that we could see return today.

We should acknowledge here that one of the maps that has long made Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 infamous, not just in the franchise, but in video games in general, is the “No