Undoubtedly, Call of Duty is the most anticipated video game franchise offering you traditional FPS experience. The series introduces its sixteenth installment, serving as a reboot version of the Modern Warfare’s Sub-series released in 2019 for PC, Xbox, and PS4. This time, the game takes you to a realistic and modern environment, where you are introduced to a campaign revolving around a CIA agent and British-based SAS Forces as they join rebels from Urzikstan, a fictional country, to battle against Russian forces who are threatening the territory. Special ops mode of the game comes with co-op play missions that follow up the story of the campaign. You can experience the multiplayer mode on cross-platform, and the cross-platform progression system was introduced the first tie in the history of the series.
Revised Graphics and the Introduction of New Features
COD: MW features revised graphics that make you feel playing the traditional Call of Duty games, but the addition of new features and tactical gameplay aspects take you to a new journey. The game brings new modes, such as Realism Mode, that is responsible for the elimination of HUD as well as the Ground War mode that allows up to 64 players simultaneously. The ray-tracing feature is introduced to offer you better, realistic graphics. In the campaign, it seems the game took influence from real-life battles, including the Syrian Civil War and terrorist incidents happened in London. For multiplayer mode, the game removed loot boxes and scrapped the traditional season pass of the long-running franchise. That’s the main reason the game is offering you free post-launch content in the shape of seasons.
Multiplayer/Warzone
The game features several playable multiplayer modes, and each one will let you experience unique gameplay with a set of missions to complete. The Warzone mode reveals the starting operations that happened in Verdansk, where a military force starts to deploy agents on different missions against opposing forces, known as Al-Qatala. The mode revolves around two playable factions, such as Coalition and Allegiance that comes into battle when they try to chase out to reveal a chemical shipment is going to deliver in Urzikstan. Next to that, the opposing forces “Al-Qatala” start to fulfill their unholy plans by making chemical attacks all over Verdansk, forcing two powerful factions to battle against each other for their survival as dangerous gas starts to surround the city. Amidst the critical conditions, Coalition operator “Ghost” and SAS soldier request the character named Price to send reinforcements to help them.
Introduction of Battle Royale Mode
The craze of battle royale genre is increasing day by day as every anticipated game isn’t going to introduce Battle Royale mode in its series. The same thing had done in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, which introduces a battle royale mode, known as Call of Duty Warzone, pitting up to 150 players against each other either in the form of a squad of four players, three, or solo. Unlike PUBG and Fortnite, Call of Duty throws up to 150 players onto an island where they must scavenge for weapons and start the battle against each other to be the last standing person to win. Although Call of Duty isn’t a pure battle royale game, he tried its best and did an excellent job as the battle royale mode was also introduced in previous games with title The Blackout.
Introduction of Plunder Mode
The game features two new playable modes, such as Battle Royale and Plunder Mode. Battle Royale mode is described above, and similar to it, the Plunder mode starts with you as the main playable character and your teammates struggling to make infiltrator into the given large map. The mode doesn’t feature any shrinking zone like other Battle Royale games, and it’s on BR mode, allowing you to navigate the world your way freely. Upon dying, you won’t be permanently eliminated from the match as you redeploy after a specific time. If we talk about objectives, which is quite simple and force you to collect the most cash than other teams to win. The game introduces a board under your health bar to display the amount of cash you collected during the game.
The Verdict
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare brings ray tracking technology to PC, the best thing mostly players await for. Upon playing the game, you will discover the most mechanics formula is the same as the previous titles, and it seems the game rewrites the history in lots of places; however, the game is changed in format and tone, and lots of multiplayer modes are there.
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Graphics / Art Design / Visuals
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Realism
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Story / Storytelling
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Gamemodes
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Customise / Cosmetics
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Multiplayer (Steps to loud)
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Size (150+ GB)