Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

 Xbox One
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4.0

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 1375 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 75 out of 1375
  3. Negative: 804 out of 1375
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  1. japtron
    Oct 27, 2019
    0
    The game is made for little kids that have no skill but have good reaction time or are fine with sitting in one room and waiting for people to shoot at.

    Its my first COD since Black Ops 2 and this game reminds me of why I never missed it.
  2. Kittydogg
    Oct 28, 2019
    0
    Ochen protivno igrat v ety klyukvy, eto pzdc prosto po drygomy nikak ne nazvat'
  3. colibri2
    Oct 28, 2019
    0
    Bad game about race harassment got gamer's wrath, not worth of buying and playing
  4. KekcuTo
    Oct 28, 2019
    0
    Moral grey area, my ass, what Activision was thinking about when they made that ****
  5. D007
    Oct 28, 2019
    0
    This game puts Russia in an unsightly light that is unacceptable to me
    FU ATVI
  6. generalofgotei
    Oct 28, 2019
    0
    Worst game of series ever??? What r u doing with cod franchise? What is it?
  7. Eagle1227
    Oct 28, 2019
    0
    Utterly forgettable campaign that made no sense, terrible multiplayer built from the ground up for campers. Racist trash enciting ethnic hatred
  8. Kuzkina_Mat
    Oct 28, 2019
    0
    Activision, я вам, бля, покажу плохих русских!

    Хрен вам, а не моих денег! Из принципа ни цента больше не потрачу.
  9. gogoago
    Oct 28, 2019
    0
    This game is political high. There should be no room for dirty political moves in games. Even in favor of short-term interest.
  10. Sasd101qS
    Oct 29, 2019
    0
    Руссофобский кусок кала. Такого днища и откровенной антироссийской пропаганды я от нее не ожидал.
  11. JunkHalyapin
    Oct 29, 2019
    0
    Outright nazi russophobic product. The country's gaming company which fights for tolerance and equality of all races and nations around the world exposes one of the most numerous nations in the world as cruel tyrants, terrorists, murderers and rapists. It's disgusting.
  12. Zeij
    Oct 27, 2019
    1
    When I pre-ordered Ghosts in 2013, it was a very big disappointment. I played it for no more than 10 hours. When Infinite Warfare came out in 2016, I was happy that I did not buy it, as it was another passing project. And now three years later, this game comes out which is so praised paid-criticism. Terrible level design in multiplayer, crazy story and plastic sounds, all this put an endWhen I pre-ordered Ghosts in 2013, it was a very big disappointment. I played it for no more than 10 hours. When Infinite Warfare came out in 2016, I was happy that I did not buy it, as it was another passing project. And now three years later, this game comes out which is so praised paid-criticism. Terrible level design in multiplayer, crazy story and plastic sounds, all this put an end to the games from the Studio Infinity Ward. If they have not been able to release anything good in six years, then there is no point in waiting for new games from them.
    Treyarch 4ever!    … Expand
  13. Hersir
    Oct 30, 2019
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Had it not been for "grey morality" and "realism" marketing gimmicks, if IW said they make a classic COD plot full of cheesy BS set in a B-movie reality... That didn't happen and now many are spitting from what they got versus the promise.
    It's a COD 4 prequel with a classic crazy BS campaign: there's Kastovia (Donetsk Republic), Urzikstan (generalized Mideastern state retconned to be unnamed country of COD 4), Georgia, Russia and they’re all connected. A baddie Russian general Barkov that has lead a 20 year long Russian occupation of Urzikstan makes his own chemical weapon gas (!) in Georgia (!) and smuggles it to Kastovia, then to Urzikstan to use on civvies. CIA/MARSOC operators raid a Kastovian facility to confirm it but gas gets stolen presumably by baddie Urzikstan terror org Al-Qatala (COD way of spelling Al-Qaeda) but actually turns out to be a baddie splinter group of Urzikstan Liberation Force goodie rebels. Let’s fast forward to Urzikstan where a CIA operative wearing a plate carrier vest disguises himself with a black headscarf (!), openly walks around baddie Russian soldiers who search for rebels (!) and gets away with it (!).
    Enough with synopsis, you get how moronic the plot is from realism POV – same as old CODs, hence B-movie reality, not really your Zero Dark Thirty. It has always been this way to drop the jaw of generic Billy from Oregon and present a clear political message: wars are gritty but necessary and cool, there are baddies and goodies (sometimes goodies are not so goody but then baddies are even worse), NATO troops are generally world’s top goodies and they are almighty because they can pull off almost public black ops like a cakewalk in say Russia (MW shows firefight in Saint Petersburg’s major street because that’s how CIA/SAS operate), BTW you should enlist ASAP if you can.
    There are indeed some hints of "grey morality": that baddie splinter group of ULF goodies that stole the gas to use against its enemies – the baddie Russians/Al-Qatala. Or when NATO operatives do some minor morally questionable things like torturing an enemy for intel, pointing guns at his family to untie his tongue & etc. This kind of "grey morality" isn’t anything new to the series, I remember intel torture back in MW2 as well as other examples. Who is mostly exempt from "grey morality" are the Russians: they exploit, torture, burn, gas, hang and murder Urzikstani civvies for 20 years and we get aplenty exposition to witness it. "Mostly" because there are a few minor characters that are Russian but are goodies, the remaining vast majority are your literal SS Nazis. Plus it's implied several times that the baddie general Barkov is an acting member of the Russian military, though they "disown" him after his death, it’s clear they never did anything to stop him and this "disowning" business (to proclaim him a rogue general?) is obviously a PR damage control move from Moscow. Newsflash: Moscow is a baddie baddie, as most members of the "Nazi" Russian military.
    You don’t even get a trope about some soldiers not sharing the sketchy ideology of their command and showing signs of humanity – like "Nazi" pilot Franz Stigler who spared a wounded B-17 and escorted it to safety, or Cpt. Silas Soule and Lt. Joseph Cramer from First Colorado Cavalry who told their units to hold fire when ordered to shoot Indians during Indian Wars. That would have been *REAL* grey morality, as well as showing that NATO goodies do occasionally commit major cruel atrocities or use a falsely engineered casus belli to start a war. It’s kind of twisted to pretend that things like Haditha massacre or Abu-Ghraib torture didn’t happen by the hands of US in a country invaded after 9/11 without UNSC bill based on a fake chemical weapons sample tube "obtained there". Chemical weapons that were never found, but that ill-founded invasion with all its atrocities helped to spawn ISIS and consolidate many Muslims against everything "western". That generic Billy from Oregon may not know/remember/care for these facts, but I and many others genuinely upset by MW’s deceitful artistic representation of reality do – and the fact that IW markets it as something opposite contributes to the offense.
    If you have played MW, you know my attribution of "goodie" and "baddie" to MW factions is spot on – but in case with *REAL* grey morality that can’t happen per definition. The Expanse is a perfect example of proper grey morality: try to distinguish goodie and baddie factions there. Or Spec Ops: The Line which handles the premise of moral ambiguity like a boss: a feat that means even more if you compare its budget to MW's.
    And fake gun names, seriously? Bobby Kotick didn't spare few $K to license proper names as in the original trilogy? You get a lot of strong womyn though: CIA chief, army general, rebel leader. I’m surprised Cpt. Price isn’t Cpt. Rebecca Price wearing an LGBT patch because she/they/xe is openly lesbian.    … Expand
  14. JohnGaalt
    Oct 28, 2019
    0
    An example of how a technically incomparable game, with amazing shooting and excellent staging of most of the single scenes that really make you feel uncomfortable with the trek, is broken up by the Russophobic script and Nazism of the publishers. It's a shame Activision, it's a feil! I will never buy the games of this publisher again.
  15. uiliam38
    Oct 29, 2019
    0
    We will be tolerant of gays and blacks - but consider another nation to be killers and enemies. After all, we were so ordered at the CIA
  16. qousauitt
    Oct 30, 2019
    0
    A big disrespect to Activision for this stupid Anti-Russian propoganda. This is not a game - this is a political project. It's shouldn't be like that.
  17. Scouts-madesi
    Oct 30, 2019
    0
    Mediocre story with an absolutely broken multiplayer. Caters to campers as well as contains bugs that completely breaks gameplay and leveling.
  18. burov4j
    Oct 30, 2019
    0
    I was a Russian soldier for a year and I exactly know we don't kill children or hang people.
    It's disgusting game.
  19. Krum
    Oct 29, 2019
    0
    Worst MP ever. Campers, campers, campers... Net code... pppppppppppppppooooo
  20. Vasilevs78
    Oct 29, 2019
    0
    To stoop to propaganda in games is disgusting. Or produce games, or engage in politics. And not for the first time already. Russophobia is a bad trend.
  21. Sheepiishly
    Oct 28, 2019
    1
    I will split this into 2 parts.
    Campaign and Multiplayer.
    Campaign: You feel slow and clunky, your health is extremely limited. If you ever wanted to be the equivalent of a paper thin soldier, this is for you. The missions are very short and you can easily play though the game in 4 hours or less depending on how fast you go. It also sucks as the main enemies of the game are either    I will split this into 2 parts.
    Campaign and Multiplayer.

    Campaign:
    You feel slow and clunky, your health is extremely limited. If you ever wanted to be the equivalent of a paper thin soldier, this is for you.
    The missions are very short and you can easily play though the game in 4 hours or less depending on how fast you go.

    It also sucks as the main enemies of the game are either terrorists, or a literal walking propaganda statement against **** Russians.

    Russian lads, I’m sorry this game was just a hate message to you guys, I have no clue why Libertarian Americans just hate you guys but **** would I be pissed too if my own country was dissed through a game in a modern era. I can’t really name anything you guys have done to really **** on Americans. TL;DR **** politics in games, everyone deserves a fun environment to play games in. If you don’t meet that expectation, should it be even called a game?

    Multiplayer:
    If you wanted a camping simulator with the worst maps available and some of the worst TTK I’ve seen since Ghosts, THIS IS FOR YOU.
    You get punished if you rush, but you are rewarded for camping? Your mini-map is also very small and irrelevant! You don’t even see red dots when people fire anymore! Your own guy always says “CONTACT!” when someone is seen and it’s global so they also can hear it. Footsteps are loud and claymores are the most used lethal in the game. My suggested fixes:
    • Nerf M4A1
    • Fix Ghost
    • Make Dead Silence a PERK
    • Up the movement speed
    • Create an awareness like perk so you can lower sounds for footsteps
    • Have red dots show up on map so you can ac to actually have incentive to use the Suppressor!
    • Reduce map sizes depending on the mode
    • Enlargen the mini-map
    • Fix Spawns
    • Add more modes like Hardpoint so you don’t have to camp to win!
    • Let you stay in lobbies after a match
    • Larger party size for modes like ground war or 10v10
    • Fix the Xbox crashing issue.
    • Lobby Map Voting
    • Make some scorestreaks default.
    • End Skill Based Matchmaking
    • Add Deaths and Captures to the Leaderboard on TDM and Domination.

    See the problem? Or should I say problems? Really emphasize how plural that is.

    The only things I like about multiplayer is:
    • Ground War
    • Gunfight 2v2
    • Operators
    • How fluid the weapons are

    This game has a major problem and it needs a fix now.

    If it doesn’t get fixed soon, IW already knows protest may ensue, and we’ll have another Destiny 2 situation on our hands with refunds galore.

    Final Verdict: I’d rather play BF4 for a few more years because it’s still more refined than this game. Scratch that, go play that one, it’s more fun and you’ll have countless hours on there with the lads. Plus you get incentive to grind and you have a lot of content to go through.    … Expand
  22. FckInfinityWard
    Oct 29, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I hope that all infinity ward crew will be eaten by dogs. Пошли вы на@#₽, мрази, такой пропаганды я уже давно не видел. Минус жопа… Expand
  23. EliteSig
    Nov 8, 2019
    0
    PS4 exclusives, greed, sweaty try hards, cronusmax. I miss the days when it wasn’t so main stream. Not to mention they discontinued prestige in favor of seasonal battle passes. It should be called Call of Claymore Modern Window Warfare (respect to GGRELOADED and 402Thunder402).
  24. MuXoMoR
    Oct 31, 2019
    4
    I strongly did not like Call of duty Russians. In this part of the series was not shown the "gray" morality, it is immediately obvious who wanted to do and did the evil. This part of the series turned out to be extremely politicized. If view the plot in isolation from his politicization, then from have extremely weak, characters not interesting (even Captain Price have undisclosed, Yes andI strongly did not like Call of duty Russians. In this part of the series was not shown the "gray" morality, it is immediately obvious who wanted to do and did the evil. This part of the series turned out to be extremely politicized. If view the plot in isolation from his politicization, then from have extremely weak, characters not interesting (even Captain Price have undisclosed, Yes and clear that his all know on CoD MW1-MW3 all, but have us all same restart and individual need to disclose anew). From the good in the game, qualitatively made network mode, improved graphics and shooting, new mechanics. Call-for warm memories of what the series was, about how the gameplay turned out and because of the hope that the continuation will be many times better than that, Call of Duty MW 2019.… Expand
  25. Sairi
    Oct 31, 2019
    0
    I have ate a baby for breakfast and wrote this bad russian review. Yeah I'm so angry.
  26. DrEggs
    Oct 31, 2019
    1
    The latest installment in the shooter game that just keeps getting pumped out annually. Now with right-wing propaganda, featuring the angelic US military/government who apparently do no wrong and other factions (namely Russia) being displayed as irredeemable war criminals. The funniest part is the historical revision of the "Highway of Death," where US troops committing atrocities areThe latest installment in the shooter game that just keeps getting pumped out annually. Now with right-wing propaganda, featuring the angelic US military/government who apparently do no wrong and other factions (namely Russia) being displayed as irredeemable war criminals. The funniest part is the historical revision of the "Highway of Death," where US troops committing atrocities are retconned to be Russians. To further appease the gun-humping conservatives, there is quite the pronounced glorification of guns, especially in the multiplayer.… Expand
  27. WIDEBim
    Oct 31, 2019
    2
    The multiplayer sucks. You can’t do anything if you’re spawn trapped. When you die you spawn all the way in the back of the map which isn’t helpful because these are the worst maps I have ever played on in my life. And that’s including all games.
  28. Xrimm
    Nov 1, 2019
    1
    Poor gameplay. Propaganda only. Racism and nazism in your game - very bad idea to get more players.
  29. Roxan220
    Nov 1, 2019
    0
    Полное разочарование. Ждал игру с первого трейлера. Выглядело очень многообещающе. Но ознакомившись с сюжетом и тем идеологическим посылом, который пронизывает всю историю данной игры, с демонизацией рядовых русских военных... Нет уж. Покупать эту пропаганду нельзя. Это не игра, а идеологический продукт.Полное разочарование. Ждал игру с первого трейлера. Выглядело очень многообещающе. Но ознакомившись с сюжетом и тем идеологическим посылом, который пронизывает всю историю данной игры, с демонизацией рядовых русских военных... Нет уж. Покупать эту пропаганду нельзя. Это не игра, а идеологический продукт.
  30. Hunter27
    Nov 1, 2019
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Il gioco ha un potenziale incredibile , purtoppo gli sviluppatori hanno deciso di buttare tutto al vento . Mappe pvp bruttissime , camper ovunque , armi sbilanciate . Per quanto riguarda le Co-op , modalità non curata e buttata li a caso. Diffidate da questo gioco… Expand
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#41 Best Xbox One Game of 2019
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#2 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2019
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#36 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2019

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80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. Pure Xbox
    Mar 18, 2020
    80
    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare serves up the freshest take on a stale formula in years, with a new engine and revitalised multiplayer mode that takes full advantage of a finely-tuned weapon customisation system and some welcome changes to ballistic mechanics. While Spec Ops fails to deliver much long-term attraction, the story mode proves there’s plenty of justification for a narrative element in a modern shooter. Free maps and updates bring everyone onto the same page in multiplayer, but Infinity Ward's take on the battle pass template still needs some work.
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  2. Cultured Vultures
    Dec 6, 2019
    70
    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a mixed bag. A fantastic returning campaign, some decent multiplayer and terrible co-op makes MW an interesting entry.
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  3. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    Nov 18, 2019
    70
    If you don’t mind being killed by the odd nuke – how anyone can score 30 consecutive kills is beyond our tiny minds – PvP could swallow your damn life. Pair it with a gutsy (if insensitive) campaign, and this tonally conflicted series continues to stay relevant thanks to the best guns in the biz. [Issue#184, p.68]
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