CoD: MW3 Launch Oversadowed by Controversy; Average Rating is 53/100

Source: Activision Blizzard

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from Sledgehammer Games has officially debuted on the market - all fans of the series have already been testing the campaign for several hours now, and it turns out to be surprisingly short, which has already been reported by early access players and reviewers.

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - official website

CoD: Modern Warfare 3 - poor ratings and controversy

Currently on Metacritic Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has 26 reviews, including 21 reviews for the PS5 version. However, the website does not show ratings on a traditional scale, as reviewers only had access to the story campaign. The situation is slightly different on OpenCritic.

1. When it comes to OpenCritic, here we can already know the average rating for Modern Warfare 3. It is not stunning - the title currently has a score of 53/100 based on 15 texts.
2. In the case of the single-player mode, reviewers agree - the campaign in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is short, boring and not very engaging.
3. The game also receives first ratings on Steam. As of this moment it has accumulated 304 reviews, of which only about 44% are positive..

Such notes are apparently not a coincidence. According to Jason Schreier, a journalist at Bloomberg Agency, Activision Blizzard was to have given the developers very little time to polish the game, which inevitably had to result in a weak product, which is now very harshly evaluated.

CoD: Modern Warfare 3 - price

The latest installment of Call of Duty can be purchased in two editions - the standard edition and the so-called Vault Edition.

The richer variant includes: Operator Pack: Nemesis consisting of four operator skins (Makarov, Warden, Price and Ghost), two weapon vaults, the Black Cell in Season 1 (its contents include Combat Pass, advancement by 20 Levels, 1100 CoD points) and skip 30 levels, as well as the Soulreaper weapon blueprint with tracer bullets

1. Steam: Standard edition - $69.99; Vault edition - $99.99 (on all platforms).
2. Battle.net
3. PlayStation Store
4. Microsoft Store

If you opt for the standard edition, but later change your mind, you won't lose anything. In Microsoft Store and on Steam, you can buy an upgrade to the Vault Edition - in both stores this option costs $19.

Premiere patch and details of Season 1.

Although the developers are taking flak from the community, they are not giving up. With the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 they released a patch, which brings changes to the campaign (e.g. bug fixes for loading some missions), gameplay (e.g., fixing a bug that prevented a chest from opening correctly the first time) or multiplayer (e.g., improved visibility of player names). The full list of changes can be examined directly on the developers' website.

In addition to the first patch, more news about the upcoming Season 1 was revealed. For now, no official date for its launch has been announced, revealing only that it is "just around the corner."

We do know that season 1 will include, for example, three new maps for twelve players, interesting secrets to discover or Christmas events.

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Let's also emphasize that the developers have improved the anti-cheat system - RICOCHET. In order to catch rogue players more effectively, new features have been added to it and a machine-learning function has been used to help it better identify cheats and operate with greater efficiency. You can read more about anti-cheat's improved performance here.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - minimum PC requirements

1. Operating system: Windows 10 64-bit
2. Processor: Intel Core i5-6600 / AMD Ryzen 5 1400
3. RAM: 8
4. Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or GTX 1650 / AMD Radeon RX 470
5. DirectX: 12
6. Disk space: 149 GB (SSD) or 78 GB if CoD HQ and Warzone are already installed

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - recommended PC requirements

1. Operating system: Windows 10 64-bit / Windows 11 64-bit
2. Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
3. RAM: 16
4. Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti or RTX 3060 / AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
5. DirectX: 12
6. Disk space: 149 GB (SSD) or 78 GB if CoD HQ and Warzone are already installed