"Warfare That Feels Dated" - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Campaign Review
The previous king of nail-biting FPS campaigns has proven it needs some time off from annual releases with 's campaign. Sledgehammer Games has helped develop many titles since 's original release on generation three consoles in 2011, but 2023's 's campaign fails to include exciting features to help it stand out.
The immersive action of the series once helped set the standard for FPS story modes. Dramatized world events, large-than-life set pieces, and intense situations that were not afraid to put players in unsurvivable situations made a series other shooters tried to emulate. While 's campaign does include each of the features that helped the series become prevalent, it doesn't have enough of those grand moments to warrant being the twentieth game in the franchise.
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2023 features a short story mode that should take players around five hours to complete. Linear stages in classic fashion and combat missions that attempt to introduce an open-world approach both feature in the campaign. While many of those stages do offer multiple paths and supply crates to find overpowered weaponry, sandbox stages take away the set pieces that positively characterized the series' campaigns in the first place.
The 2023 campaign includes exciting moments during its linear stages. Those moments work because the game's narrative and linear level designs focus on its epic moments. A particular stage during a chemical bomb attack is an intense race for survival while players witness well-designed, well-organized chaos. That organized chaos is not replicated in open-ended arena stages and, unfortunately, limits how cinematic those missions can be.
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