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  1. Nov 13, 2020
    6
    After years of asking "PLEASE!!! Enough futuristic shooting games, bring us Modern stuff back with the new generation graphics, that's all we want!!!", the fans were finally heard... in a way, at least.
    The more pleasant the idea could be to the fans, CoD MW was a double-edged sword for all gamers. The franchise is surely a money-making machine that can bring most of its fans back to
    After years of asking "PLEASE!!! Enough futuristic shooting games, bring us Modern stuff back with the new generation graphics, that's all we want!!!", the fans were finally heard... in a way, at least.
    The more pleasant the idea could be to the fans, CoD MW was a double-edged sword for all gamers. The franchise is surely a money-making machine that can bring most of its fans back to new-made games, but it is really disappointing how some simple things that can easily be fixed are just ignored.

    Even after one year, for example, how come the Spec Ops mode wasn't fixed? One of the most epic and cool features of the previous games was turned into a nightmare. I've played CoD for years, finished most of the campaigns on their hardest difficulties and I could play the multiplayer decently as well... and my gosh! Even playing with friends who are good players and had microphones as well we couldn't have any fun playing the Spec Ops/Co-Op missions. It is so broken and hard that the only reason why people still play it is to get new skins or some kind of achievement for XP points and etc.

    As for the Multiplayer, which is the most catching part of the game for most gamers and has been in the hearts of so many FPS fans... how could it just be so annoying and frustrating? I won't be hypocritical here and say "wow the multiplayer sucks but I still play it every now and then" nor claim that the mode isn't good at all due to some mechanics changes and me not being able, somehow, to follow these changes. I can be frank and say that the customizations, gunsmith, sound and map designs, playthrough, and the removal of loot boxes are to be congratulated and can provide hours of fun alone or with friends. The crossplay is very welcome as well and all the objectives aside from winning the matches make the game way more fun. But all of these seem to not be important at all when every match you play feels frustrating and painful to so many previous CoD players. The franchise always had "issues" with campers, for example, it is a regular play-style and there is nothing really wrong about tactical camping nor trying out different weapons that require this way of playing, but the huge problem here is that CoD MW literally rewards people for camping! From the level designs to game mechanics a shooting game that used to be so exciting and frenetic full of gun-fights was reduced to a sniping/hide-and-seek game. The sound of footsteps is so loud that players avoid running around looking for enemies and, instead, sit still on corners and respawn areas with long-ranged weapons to shoot them. Also, most of the weapons/perks unlocked in beginning levels give an advantage to campers, not to tell that mounting weapons on walls and other surfaces increases a lot the precision of all guns, making it really hard to avoid and spot these players. The results of these are that "regular" players no longer enjoy the game as much as they used to, spending more time running through all the enormous maps and dying instead of being into gun-fights having fun. It is also demotivating that every new Season hasn't been able to fix properly the weapons' balance, forcing players to play with certain weapons such as M4A1, MP5, etc, instead of what they want... and bringing new and more overpowered sniper rifles such as Barret and SPR 208 when camping is already broken... Really?!?!

    And last but not least, the Campaign. The graphics and mechanics work really well, the voice acting sounded much better than many games, the playthrough is full of surprising moments where you are caught off guard, it shows violence as it is, in a way that can make you feel guilty and not always heroic. Also, many of the missions feel really immersive, the world-building through dialogs and gameplay is good, and the variety of missions and scenarios feels pleasant for an FPS game. Seeing Captain Price again felt quite nostalgic and the usage of real-life events to build the story was a great touch. But a big downside to the Campaign are the facts that not only the villains feel really generic and lack backstory/motivation, but also the game has regressed to that same lame plot: "Russians are bad guys, and since we don't wanna say it's Russia's fault let's say they are terrorists...from Russia!!!". Gosh, CoD developers really need to turn this page. So many executions for the only sake of shock-value and blaming Russia as a villain again?! Where are the villains like Raul Menendez, who is rememberable with great character development and makes the gamers want to kill the guy so badly through the game? Terrorist groups with a "good" motivation, posing as a "real" threat to the world and not just dumb folks who throw bombs at random places? Other countries working Together to deal with big threats and save the world Together, and not just the USA being the only heroes?

    Anyways... a good game in a way and promising for a MW2, but a lot could be changed to make it better.
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  2. Nov 10, 2020
    1
    Expect countless updates of 20gb+ every month, expect a 100 gb+ download, expect them to cater to pay-to-play and snipers. The entire game is ptp and ultimately they've ruined the series by constantly going after the wrong crowds. The actual users of this game are not important to Activision, all they care about is making money and that has become apparent. Worse would be the way metaExpect countless updates of 20gb+ every month, expect a 100 gb+ download, expect them to cater to pay-to-play and snipers. The entire game is ptp and ultimately they've ruined the series by constantly going after the wrong crowds. The actual users of this game are not important to Activision, all they care about is making money and that has become apparent. Worse would be the way meta critic pander and sells off ratings to companies, it's clear we can no longer trust, ign, or meta critic any more, because when the users score is so far from the metacrictic score it's clear there's a major disconnect. This is trash and people deserve better. Expand
  3. Nov 10, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Даже не собираюсь затрагивать сюжетную кампанию и то, почему она так ужасна. Поговорим про мультиплеер.
    1. Баланс. Он просто отвратителен, в эту игру невозможно играть в связи с таким ужасным балансом. Будучи игроком с 65 уровнем, я всегда попадаюсь в игру, где мне приходится играть против 120-155 уровней. Играть просто невозможно.
    2. Карты. Карты сделаны ужасно, они неудобные, непонятные, да и "нычек" для кемперов настолько много, что все карты буквально ими кишат, невозможно нормально играть, ибо повсюду кемперы.
    3. Оружие. К оружию в общем и целом нет претензий, но есть некоторые просто конченые обвесы/чертежи/оружия, из за которых всю игру может заруинить один урод. К примеру, есть некоторые особи, которые используют нож и на второй слот ставят полицейский щит, в итоге сзади его невозможно подстрелить, а с переди ты просто по нему не попадешь потому, что при подкате он развивает такую высокую скорость, что ты его и заметить вряд ли сможешь.
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  4. Nov 9, 2020
    0
    Just replace russians with americans. That's the truth. Don't buy their products, don't support them.
  5. Nov 8, 2020
    8
    A lot of people hate on this game but it's revived the fun of Call of Duty for so many people. While some of the metas are irritating and multiplayer seems neglected because warzone is their new baby, it still brings back the old good era of call of duty.
  6. Nov 8, 2020
    7
    This game has many bugs, bad graphics, impossibility of entry and bad sound design.
  7. Nov 8, 2020
    10
    Its not a 10 but i feel that the treatment and lack of respect for this game is horrendous this game was perfect company during lockdown and shall be praise for it grandeur it clearly isnt russophobic properganda and if you think this the you clearly cant comprehend and great story that has many refences to real life. Russia as always been the to usa this comes as no shock i feel this itIts not a 10 but i feel that the treatment and lack of respect for this game is horrendous this game was perfect company during lockdown and shall be praise for it grandeur it clearly isnt russophobic properganda and if you think this the you clearly cant comprehend and great story that has many refences to real life. Russia as always been the to usa this comes as no shock i feel this it is expressed with great maturity and precision Expand
  8. Nov 8, 2020
    10
    It’s not 10 but I just wanted to balance things out. People who rated this game 3.3 are brain dead lol
  9. Nov 7, 2020
    0
    Am I the only one who just came here just to see bad reviews about multiplayer being campy and slow and instead saw more about campaign being more russiophobic and full propaganda some people are hating on campaign being too controversial and some people hating on multiplayer just for being campy so it means mw 2019 is the worst call of Duty at all? Bruh making Russians as bad guys makesAm I the only one who just came here just to see bad reviews about multiplayer being campy and slow and instead saw more about campaign being more russiophobic and full propaganda some people are hating on campaign being too controversial and some people hating on multiplayer just for being campy so it means mw 2019 is the worst call of Duty at all? Bruh making Russians as bad guys makes the campaign more fun I am not being racist and I don't hate Russians also warzone is hack fest and spec ops is boring Expand
  10. Nov 6, 2020
    7
    After playing through the story, I thought this was a good entry into the series. It features some of the best visuals of all COD games and the acting is quite solid. I don’t play multiplayer so that’s just a disclaimer here. The controls are as tight as ever and the missions were also very enjoyable to play through. This is the only COD game I got a Platinum for, which says a lot. I amAfter playing through the story, I thought this was a good entry into the series. It features some of the best visuals of all COD games and the acting is quite solid. I don’t play multiplayer so that’s just a disclaimer here. The controls are as tight as ever and the missions were also very enjoyable to play through. This is the only COD game I got a Platinum for, which says a lot. I am hoping Cold War is just as good. Expand
  11. Nov 5, 2020
    0
    Multi-player is the worst cesspool of tryhards I've ever seen. MMR turns this game into a esports competition every time you get a decent score
  12. Nov 5, 2020
    10
    Esse jogo é incrível, com toda certeza esse é um dos melhores jogos de todos os tempos.
  13. Nov 5, 2020
    0
    This is the worst 8 months of my gaming life. This game crashes every 5 minutes and says "Server Disconnected" when i have good internet connection. I have good stat PC (gtx 1660 ti and ryzen 7 16 gb RAM) and this dog *** says to me (Server Disconnected). i bought this game fot full price and i want game, not crashes and lags every 5 minutes.
  14. Nov 5, 2020
    0
    Ever since the game first started, I **** liked it. But now, it has just become trash with all these overpowered weapons. It's just garbage now. Oh and with the campers and people using shotguns, you can't have no fun
  15. Nov 2, 2020
    0
    Worst **** cod ever awful multiplayer camper have all the advantage for camping you get **** nothing if you play normally
  16. Oct 29, 2020
    0
    I just made an account on this site so I could give this peice of **** **** game a zero. How is this game 280 gigs big what the **** I literally can fit this and one other game on my ps4. It's the same **** thing as every release before how is the download this massive. Nah this is probably just a ploy to try and pressure people into getting bigger hard drives, so seriously **** you forI just made an account on this site so I could give this peice of **** **** game a zero. How is this game 280 gigs big what the **** I literally can fit this and one other game on my ps4. It's the same **** thing as every release before how is the download this massive. Nah this is probably just a ploy to try and pressure people into getting bigger hard drives, so seriously **** you for this Activision. What really broke the camels back was it crashing for the third time and me having to spend the 4 **** hours redownloading this steaming hunk of **** garbage. And what a nice release for 2020 you guys really hit the nail on the head there, go **** yourselves. Expand
  17. Oct 27, 2020
    8
    This is one of the best CoD in a long time. Campaign is solid, fun, interesting and gets you really hooked up and the graphics are simply amazing! I don't get it why there are so many people upset because the Russians were the bad guys. It's a game ffs and it was great. Don't really care for the multiplayer, but I gotta say it was fun. My only regret is that the campaign is as short asThis is one of the best CoD in a long time. Campaign is solid, fun, interesting and gets you really hooked up and the graphics are simply amazing! I don't get it why there are so many people upset because the Russians were the bad guys. It's a game ffs and it was great. Don't really care for the multiplayer, but I gotta say it was fun. My only regret is that the campaign is as short as always, but at least there is one. Expand
  18. Oct 27, 2020
    2
    Unfortunately this is the best call of duty game I’ve played in a very long time, but the absolute embarrassment of space it takes on my console is so frustrating as it has made it unplayable. It’s well over 200GB now? It’s frustrating because I wish I could play it, but the fact I would either need to buy more memory or just play nothing else is unacceptable to me. In the future I will beUnfortunately this is the best call of duty game I’ve played in a very long time, but the absolute embarrassment of space it takes on my console is so frustrating as it has made it unplayable. It’s well over 200GB now? It’s frustrating because I wish I could play it, but the fact I would either need to buy more memory or just play nothing else is unacceptable to me. In the future I will be very cautious when buying a call of duty game. If I can only fit it and one game on my console, then it isn’t worth it. I only played pvp, so i can't comment on the campaign. Expand
  19. Oct 26, 2020
    1
    I give one for the graphics of the game it was tolerable. I have around 100-150 hours in the multiplayer parts of the game including warzone. This game is a hot bag of **** and everyone who hypes it... well im dissapointed in you. worst servers, worst mechanics, it wants to be a tactical shooter, except its not. the sound of the footsteps and the sound engine is horrible, the hit registerI give one for the graphics of the game it was tolerable. I have around 100-150 hours in the multiplayer parts of the game including warzone. This game is a hot bag of **** and everyone who hypes it... well im dissapointed in you. worst servers, worst mechanics, it wants to be a tactical shooter, except its not. the sound of the footsteps and the sound engine is horrible, the hit register is catastrophic. YES you have ghost bullets in every multiplayer mode, even in coop. they cant and wont do anything about it. they just give you more and more cosmetic content, and payed cosmetic content to try and fill the gaps they just refuse to care about, like the feedback of the multiplayer community. if they put in a new gun, just prepare for the grind because that gun will be the most dominating in every mode avaliable. they usually fix it in 4months when every one is running that abusive loadout. Unfortunatley only guns get to be "fixed" that "fast". usual game breaking bugs get fixed in more than 4 months or not at all. its what season 6? or so. still you cant cash in contraband contats if you reclaimed it after you got killed while carrying it. bugs on bugs on bugs every day, since launch. it could be a great fastpaced battleroyale, only if it was not by activison. the campaign is flat, bitter, and unintresting. pls cod dont try to be a mil. sim. you are not that realistic.
    if you want a battle royale go ANYWHER ELSE. you will thank me.
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  20. Oct 24, 2020
    1
    Spent all of my Saturday night trying to find a match on warzone but could not for the life of me get into a match. Even tried creating a new account but it would not work either. Apparently it is because I have been shadowbanned?! Even though I am not a cheater/hacker. This game is a steaming pile of un-optimized sh**. Even when I was able to play it, it was a buggy mess. Never going toSpent all of my Saturday night trying to find a match on warzone but could not for the life of me get into a match. Even tried creating a new account but it would not work either. Apparently it is because I have been shadowbanned?! Even though I am not a cheater/hacker. This game is a steaming pile of un-optimized sh**. Even when I was able to play it, it was a buggy mess. Never going to purchase a call of duty game or give activision another penny of my hard earned cash again. Avoid like the plague. Expand
  21. Oct 24, 2020
    0
    I’ll start with multiplayer. The map design is horrible, heavily encouraging camping. They brought back maps from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) and they added new buildings and objects to create more camping spots around the map. Now for weapons, and perks. There is riot shields, and you can have snapshot grenades (snapshot grenades allow you to see people through walls and otherI’ll start with multiplayer. The map design is horrible, heavily encouraging camping. They brought back maps from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) and they added new buildings and objects to create more camping spots around the map. Now for weapons, and perks. There is riot shields, and you can have snapshot grenades (snapshot grenades allow you to see people through walls and other objects) you can also have a heart beat sensor, dead silence (makes all running and walking sounds completely silent), spotter (allows you to see and highlights enemy mines or traps through walls) tracker (tracker allows you to see enemy players footsteps), and with specialist on you can have all of those on at the same time. Along with horrible map design and all of those noob and broken perks it makes multiplayer a horrible experience. There is also skill based matchmaking which is horrible and creates horrible laggy lobbies, there is also no map voting. Now to gunplay. The gunplay in modern warfare is one of the worst if not the worst in any Call of Duty. It is extremely inconsistent. For instance, I have multiple video clips of someone cross map one shot killing me with a shotgun yet I hit marker them with the same shotgun from 5 feet away. I also have a video clip of me hit markering some kids head at least 5 times and he did not die. Now to spec ops, spec ops is an absolute joke and it’s horrible. You can tell they didn’t even try on it. There is not much to say other than that it is a **** and is utterly bad. Now campaign. The campaign in my opinion had good ground, it had great potential, and in many of the cutscenes had excellent graphics. But the campaign ended up not being really good at all. They really messed it up. There is a total of two or three decent missions and all the rest are either meh or just bad. The campaign overall was short feeling for me, didn’t really make sense, and at times very basic, cringey, and cliche. Overall the best thing about the game is the graphics other than that, it is complete garbage. Expand
  22. Oct 24, 2020
    4
    - Campaign: 1/10
    - Spec-Ops & Survival: 3/10
    - Multiplayer: 7/10
    - Warzone: -/10 (No BRs for me)
  23. Nov 8, 2019
    2
    So this is a quick summary of Modern Warfare 2019 :

    Multiplayer : was really good in the beginning now it’s has a bunch of horrible maps and the game is just people sitting in corners waiting for people to walk by. ( also fire shotguns , dead silence bad , doors , ect. ) Spec ops : a gamemode barely played due to it being a way worse than the spec ops from MW3. Also it’s filled with bugs
    So this is a quick summary of Modern Warfare 2019 :

    Multiplayer : was really good in the beginning now it’s has a bunch of horrible maps and the game is just people sitting in corners waiting for people to walk by. ( also fire shotguns , dead silence bad , doors , ect. )

    Spec ops : a gamemode barely played due to it being a way worse than the spec ops from MW3. Also it’s filled with bugs and glitches anf impossible levels ( note this is from the last time I played spec ops which was early on the game , also it hasn’t been supported that much )

    Campaign :

    A pretty average campaign but does have a bunch of misinformation about the wars and it has another russian villain ( reason for complaint is because we have gotten around 6 - 8 russian villains in the whole series )

    Warzone :

    Depends if the person likes battle royale , i personally don’t like battle royale so it’s on you to see if you like the experience.

    Overall it’s below average for a cod game and the series keeps on falling , can’t wait for more rushed games.
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  24. Oct 22, 2020
    0
    "If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself." (С) Joseph Goebbels

    I don’t want to see you lie for big money.
  25. Oct 19, 2020
    6
    Good multiplayer. Horrible spec ops at launch, campaign was pretty good but was just another "hurr durr, Russians bad" type of game. They didn't give the enemy any personality or human like characteristics. (not to mention they changed the country who bombed the Highway of Death from NATO and not the Russians). A decent game at most.
  26. Oct 18, 2020
    8
    I'd like to start of with the negatives before the positives and firstly want to target the story. Overall it was a good story but to reboot something is no longer a fashionable thing. Every franchise has been getting a reboot/restart since the early 2000's and it's kind of getting stale. Luckily for this game, the story is nice and it's a great way to present the story but I don't want toI'd like to start of with the negatives before the positives and firstly want to target the story. Overall it was a good story but to reboot something is no longer a fashionable thing. Every franchise has been getting a reboot/restart since the early 2000's and it's kind of getting stale. Luckily for this game, the story is nice and it's a great way to present the story but I don't want to disrespect the original writing/writers for the first 3 MW's. I like how it has been made relevant to modern times and issues which could have just basically been a 4th game to the series with Price leading some new recruits or something but overall it's alright. I'm not racist nor do I care about the color of people but I don't see a point in making Gaz black. He was white in the first game and I think it's completely unnecessary to do that. Might as well make Ssgt. Griggs white right? Of course not. Anyways for the mulitplayer, I feel like there's no more good Call of Duty maps. The first 3 MW's maps as well as World at War and Black Ops 1 had these unique maps but now it's just regurgitations. I feel that the neglected child in this game was definitely the Co-Op mode. There were no players due to the immense difficulty throughout the missions as well as a more boring, static gameplay. To be honest all we need is Survival mode and maybe a co-op version of the campaign or even a side story that takes place throughout the main story line. For me Warzone was great and what sucks is the options for games. It's like every Call of Duty gets good when its 3/4ths it's cycle but by the time that happens, a new Call of Duty is announced and anything built up for it is gone. Take a look at EA's Battlefield series. Sure there's plenty of criticism and especially with how money hungry EA's upper echelon is, but there's definitely more to build on. What I like is that at least CoD isn't a pay to win kind of thing like Star Wars Battlefront 1 an 2. I don't mind microtransactions for cosmetics since they don't give an edge or anything. But Warzone is definitely my main go to now. I applaud them for making the Battle Royale feature a more stable yet fast paced game with a lot to do. My only complaint there is, is that there's only 1 map. I'd like for maybe 2 or 3 if that's not too much or at least a permanent night mode too so it feels like there's 2 maps. I'm gonna just assume that since my PS4 is sounding like a jet taking off everytime I start the game, it's because of the limits of the hardware. Hopefully in the next generation, we can have less loading times/quicker startups and more smooth games as we advance into the next generation of consoles. Expand
  27. Oct 16, 2020
    8
    Franchement j'ai adorer ! Le jeu, le gameplay simple mais efficace WARZONE ! Pourtant ya quelque truc qui tue l'expérience comme le nombre de mis à jour incroyablement élevé c'est dingue ! Ou les Maps vraiment très moyenne ( heuresement qu'il ya shot house shipment hardat rust ) qui favorise beaucoup trop les campeurs. Pour moi warzone sauvé la face de ce jeu qui naurn'aurais pu seFranchement j'ai adorer ! Le jeu, le gameplay simple mais efficace WARZONE ! Pourtant ya quelque truc qui tue l'expérience comme le nombre de mis à jour incroyablement élevé c'est dingue ! Ou les Maps vraiment très moyenne ( heuresement qu'il ya shot house shipment hardat rust ) qui favorise beaucoup trop les campeurs. Pour moi warzone sauvé la face de ce jeu qui naurn'aurais pu se défendre qu'avec son multi. Expand
  28. Oct 16, 2020
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is look good at the graphics and realstic weapon but is have one problem can we block the hackers or close the cross play on on pc Except playstation and xbox because theres no hack in the conosle Expand
  29. Oct 15, 2020
    0
    Not only is this game complete trash, the constant huge updates and the fact that this game has managed to be so bad it crashes it's launcher every day is a statement it's self, there is no redeeming quality about this game, do NOT buy this **** fest of a game.
  30. Oct 12, 2020
    7
    the story is pretty cool, it felt good to play a part in a movie ;) I played online afterwards, which is a lot of fun at the beginning, the longer you play you are getting used to the community...there you see this game is owned by 16 year olds. further the gameplay online is annoying as people just jump around and shoot which has nothing to do with any kind of realism. I went back tothe story is pretty cool, it felt good to play a part in a movie ;) I played online afterwards, which is a lot of fun at the beginning, the longer you play you are getting used to the community...there you see this game is owned by 16 year olds. further the gameplay online is annoying as people just jump around and shoot which has nothing to do with any kind of realism. I went back to Battlefield which is more for adults and tougher to play as well. Expand
Metascore
80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 78 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 67 out of 78
  2. Negative: 0 out of 78
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 28, 2020
    80
    Everything is upside down. Call of Duty has a better solo campaign than multiplayer after many years. We will remember a perfectly scripted war with a dense atmosphere, but we’ll forget about the unbalanced online multiplayer. [Issue#298]
  2. Jan 29, 2020
    90
    After a multiplayer-centric episode, the COD fans will be delight with the return of a nervous and strong solo campaign. Modern Warfare is back with old-fashioned gameplay that is more grounded and efficient. The generous amount of content adds some depth to one of the best chapters of the saga to date. Magic!
  3. Jan 7, 2020
    75
    Overall Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a good title that is marred by the expectations that the Modern Warfare name brings with it. The campaign has some really stellar gameplay moments that are brought down by the mediocre plot. Multiplayer was fun but felt a bit like the competition’s output (despite there being no Battlefield release this year) which may be a turn off for some. I don’t think Modern Warfare 2019 has done anything to make me rethink waiting for substantial price drops to play Call of Duty campaigns, because clearly multiplayer is still Activision’s main focus and that’s just not where I get my kicks.