Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is Pathetic (Review)
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
- My Review for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Campaign
Call of Duty Modern Warfare III (MW3) 2023 is the latest Game in the Call of Duty Modern Warfare Franchise from developers Infinity Ward, Treyarch, and most importantly in this case Sledgehammer Games. Modern Warfare 3 follows the story of Captain Price, Soap MacTavish, Ghost, General Shepherd, Vladimir Makarov, and the rest of Task Force 141. In this latest entry, Makarov, General Shepherd and Captain Price are out to either start or prevent World War 3. In this game we get the reimagined version of No Russian which turned out to be a massive disappointment compared to the original No Russian Mission in MW2. The story of the game is very bad and down right trash at times and the campaign only lasts for a little over 3 hours with 2 of those hours being taken up by cutscenes making Modern Warfare III feel like a glorified movie game. To put it frankly, Modern Warfare 3 Absolutely Sucks and is a Pathetic excuse for a game trying to live up to the Modern Warfare 3 name, at least in terms of the campaign. The verdict is still out on MW3's Multiplayer, Zombies, and Warzone 3 if they pan out to be better than MWII 2022. Only time will tell but I wouldn't waste your time playing the campaign for Modern Warfare 3 on PS5 Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, and the PC. The Modern Warfare 3 Full Campaign Playthrough is only 2 Hours and Modern Warfare 3 all cutscenes is 2 of those. Not to mention the Modern Warfare 3 ending is HORRIBLE compared to the original.
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Intro: 0:00-2:10
The BAD MW3 Warzone Gameplay: 2:10-122:22
Story TLDR: 12:22-16:26
MW3 Story Summary & Explained: 16:26-49:42
Do NOT Buy This Campaign: 49:42-53:27
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Multiplayer Review: ua-cam.com/video/6Q096-2euho/v-deo.html
I went in with zero expectations and still left disappointed. I hope Modern Warfare campaigns can go back to how they were during the 360 era and not this pseudo Warzone mission crap. Fingers crossed multiplayer delivers cause that’s all I care about when it comes to Modern Warfare these days unfortunately.
Hope? Nah man, won’t happen, don’t let that hope turn to cope.
I only played this dogshit for the double xp tokens would have rathered just play an enhanced version of the original campaign.
Play goldeneye or perfect dark if you want a good shooter campaign
@@buffgarfield3231or Robocop
Keep it up with these reviews Griffin. I like you critically bashing these shitty modern horse glops.
After that ending, I got up, went my local Whataburger and just ate in silence after how bad that was.
At least you got Whataburger.
What
I just replayed the original trilogy. Which I highly recomend.
Should have been in silence wondering why you even bought it in the first place tbh
@@TacoMan850For the multiplayer, I didn't buy MW2 so I might as well buy this one.
Man, imagine what a COD game would be like if they crafted a well paced 8-10 hour story with developers who arent driven by a lust for money
So, COD4, WaW, MW2, BO1, MW3, and BO2?
It's kinda impossible with how cod is. The games cost hundreds of millions to make and they need to generate billions
@@ProjectSh4dow those campaigns were not 8-10 hours, but my main point is what if they put the majority of the focus into the story for a change instead of multiplayer and monetization
@@randomchannel323 TBH, i dont believe the campaign is what is eating the majority of that budget. If they spend even half the money on the campaign that they spend on the multiplayer and monetization, i am certain we can at least have a somewhat longer story than 3 hours
Even Infinite Warfare, which otherwise has a very simplistic plot, worked by its absolute certainty in committing to its themes. Much of the new MW's story feels forced and pretentious, and it gets progressively worse with every new instalment.
They have the audacity to call this a "campaign" when 95% of it feels like warezone training
That's why I'm glad I just watch a campaign playthrough. Saved me my money.
Lol
1 HOUR of campaign gameplay?! Holy hell I didn’t think we could hit a new low like this. Charging $70 for that is straight robbery
Actually 70$ for mp and zombies, campaign is their extra 😂
Could probably be speedrun in 10
I didn't for one second believe they would do the no Russian mission in the new cod. Call of duty and Activision don't have the balls to do that kind of stuff anymore
Thanks again ESG 🤡🌎
CoD is a franchise that needs to make as much money as possible and is essentially the largest game that's part of the American Military-entertainment complex so there is no way they are going to do anything that would come close to the original No Russian mission.
maan i remember when cod used to be that edgy cool game that ur older cousin would play…now its just…
@@anenclavetrooper9707now it’s trash sadly. I miss the old CoD’s.
Well they had a start in 2019 then they dialed it back for some reason
Smuggling a bomb onto a plane and scapegoating a passenger is as easy as turning in your jewelry at the metal detector. 10/10 writing by ChatGPT.
and people had the audacity to say that was a more realistic scene than the original no russian lmfao.
In the end credit scene of MWII you see that they infiltrated the crew as well. If so, it should be easy.
I think these writers want more pay you guys
@@Monday2203 i just had a lot more in mind for the false flag when they introduced Alex in MW19. He’s already been on the frontline with the ULF. He would get ingrained with Makarov’s cell with some nefarious deep cover choices, then lured onto the plane to take the blame. But when it came down to it, we got a glorified cutscene, five minutes with a random civilian, and Soap had one of the least impactful deaths in franchise history.
@@jesterjay420soaps death is one of the most realistic military deaths in cod history. Irl soldiers don’t bleed out for a ten minute shootout and then have some courageous last words as dramatic music plays, no, in real life the best of the best soldiers get shot in an artery or the brain and are dead, in an instant. soaps death reminds you how fragile humans are and how quickly life can be taken away
27:00 side note. I worked on those helicopters in my Navy days. There’s no way in hell you could ever have a conversation like that let alone not be wearing hearing protection. It’s sounds like 1000 blenders going off at the same time in there realistically.
Soap's death was just like a metaphor for the whole game. They were just like fuck it let's get this shit over with.
Call of Duty is basically the Fast & Furious of video games: each new instalment is more unnecessary and more ridiculous than the last.
That's an insult to F&F.
New cod games are trash lmao
Just play Cod 1,2,3, Mw1, Waw, Mw2, Bo1, Mw2, Bo2 and Mw3. Also bo3 if you want to play zombies
@@weplo1597 I'd rather play Hitman, Deus Ex, Metal Gear Solid, Crysis, Far Cry, Dying Light, Dead Space, Resident Evil, Assassin's Creed, Ghost Recon etc. At least they know how to write a story and make a competent game.
@@SkyForgeVideosyou can’t say that when there’s tragedies like Far Cry 6 and the RPG AC games
@@SkyForgeVideosubisoft and competent story lmao
This review is longer than all the gameplay sections of the campaign combined
Sad but true
Deadass
It's true. It's why I'm hoping Xbox let's the cod devs make the game they really want to make.
Instead of just a cash cow. Of course Xbox wants to take the cash in but I think THEY think it's important for the gamers to actually enjoy the game ..based off everything Phil Spencer has said and done. If true, it will only make cod better for all of us on all platforms.
We can hope right?
Xbox baby>
@theseventhdman - don't worry there is always someone that moans about a length of a video aka you
@@chrismassey7783 L
I honestly liked it when it was still from the point of ordinary frontline soldiers, caught up in whatever horrible situations, than this over-the-top spec ops bs.
I remember there was a scene in the beginning of old MW2, it was pretty much the first mission, where after defending a bridge, a jets came by and dropped some bombs, leveling a building. You could notice other soldiers actually recording it on their phones!
Just that detail itself felt far more realistic than anything else. Soldiers are still humans and recording cool stuff is very human-like.
Nowadays COD just portray bunch of spec-op edgelords. I think ghost's mask speaks for itself.
CoD has somehow managed to hyperfocus on realism, but also not at the same time. Like it tries to be both a tactical fps and an arcade shooter and fails to be either.
@@undercover1790 to be fair I don't really see the tactical part. Even the way your character runs shouts arcade shooter, the speed of vaulting, opening parachute, taking it off, aiming down sights etc.
To be fair COD never truly was tactical fps, it was always run and gun with some minor exceptions, but it used to at least feel realistic/tactical.
Now most missions feel like warzone, as the guy said, and those which actually feel like call of duty? They're good but not at all comparable to the old ones.
@@dauphongii that's what I'm talking about. You can see it in mw2019s campaign but they ditched most of it in the latter 2.
@@undercover1790 it feels like they develop the multiplayer and try to fit the campaign around that sand box. They absolutely could have a more grounded single player but everything they add needs to be reused for warzone and multiplayer. They need the campaign to feel similar to how multiplayer feels because making it too different would be too much of a risk
@@Why_Blue you can play this very realistic campaign like it is multiplayer. Sweatfest jumping, sliding and all.
In old cods they basically put their heart into the campaign and then turned their set pieces into multiplayer maps. Thats what made both experiences so great. Now they just create battle royale maps and then fill them with bots, calling it a campaign…
This is a good example of The problem with modern video game writers, someone said something like this in another comment section, they don’t know how to write for video games. That’s why we get these movie games that rely solely on cutscenes to tell the story. They write a generic tv show script and stick gameplay in between, no cohesion with the game designer. Back then most of the game designer were the writers so they were better equipped to tell the story through gameplay.
Oh, I've heard that before
i think thats also why we have so much cringy marvel dialogue in games now
@@Zay_WVTTZyep
@@Zay_WVTTZ I fucking hate marvel dialogues and people thinks its good dialogue when it just outright cringe as fuck
@@Zay_WVTTZ Marvel managed to ruin entire media if you ask me.
We went from the World at War campaign, which was a grizzly look into the horrors of World War II from the Russian and American point of view and the impact it had on the world. To just play a few rounds of warzone and the campaign is complete. Call of Duty is nothing but a joke now.
it wasnt warzone , if it was you would have lost for sure . no dubs
cant lie it was nothing like warzone. only thing it has is plates. many games have armor or health system dude its not insane to think about. also its weird u say world at war when cod 4 modern warfare literally came out before that. almost as if u dont know what the fuck ur talking about
@@xseptitstfu
He didnt say mw1 campaign was bad
WaW was the best campaign thats why he talked about WaW
Avid World of War camper checking in!
it's US military propaganda pieces now, and bad ones at that
The way you kill shepard in the original mw2 is masterclass. This was like drinking a flat Dr. Pepper
Is it me or this campaign has the same tropes COD Vanguard had?
1- Invincible uber powerful girl boss character that makes no mistakes, and is not accountable nor likeable
2- lots of plot holes
3- character deaths having no impact or meaning
4- not properly concluding the story or the character arcs
5- teasing a sequel no one asked for (sequel bait)
I miss the old days when COD was a game about respecting and preserving the memory of our grandparents. Playing as a nameless, faceless soldier in the Red Army, crossing the Volga river while getting strafed by the Luftwaffe, moving around in trenches until you finally find a Mosin, waiting for the MG42's to reload to move from cover to cover. The massive infantry charges which at least ATTEMPT to show us the horrors of war. Now we have Saturday morning cartoon Avenger squad dropping anywhere in the world at any moment as if they have actual teleporters at their disposal, awful one-liners, and a plot that makes absolutely zero sense. Also, Ghost keeping the mask on at the end has to be the most cringy thing ever.
Agreed. Your post gave me the feeling of nostalgia that made COD great. It had a sense of purpose and depth .. not the rinse and repeat feeling of what it is now. Miss those days when I couldn't wait to play the campaign and got swept up in the story and immersion. 😔
every soviet mission in CoD is just really silly propaganda about le unarmed russian meat waves. Same thing is happening now, le russian soldiers have 1 AK and 1 shoe per 1000 soldiers, thats why there is endless mobilization in ukraine and none in russia. 10 trillion russian casualties every single nanosecond
Exactly, I mean CoD WaW was a borderline historical masterpiece for the time, Black Ops 1 has such a cool, conspiracy, espionage, dark vibe, now like you said, it’s like some bs marvel cringe fest for kids
I think a huge problem is the setting. In the original trilogy, you were literally in the middle of world War 3. This trilogy is all about preventing it.
Rip Brooklyn and the big red one, still in my opinion the best cod campaign
40:32 i found this part to be SO goofy because why is ghost still wearing his mask? hes literally in the middle of the desert with 2 people who have already seen his face in the last game. ghost taking off his mask out of respect for soap would have been a cool and meaningful way to reveal ghosts face.
In the ending cutscene of the last game, they’re literally out at a bar drinking and he is still wearing the mask. It’s ridiculous lol
And his new mask looks so stupid. It's a Halloween mask.
No man fuck. What is with people trying to unmask shit, unmasking kills characters like this, Ghost, Snake Eyes, etc its so unnecessary
@@seba2tiansalazar ok then but it’s still goofy that he has his mask on when he’s literally in the middle of nowhere with 2 of the people that already seen his face lmao
@@seba2tiansalazar like he could’ve taken his mask off out of respect but they could’ve panned the camera away
Congratulations, Activision. You managed to not even meet my lowest expectations this time.
I haven't played COD in years. At most I watch videos like this just to stay informed.
Are they intentionally trying to kill the franchise? You would think they would listen to the fans, and actually care about their cash cow franchise.
Well their fans aren't too bright. Based on the fact they keep making these shit games, that means people keep mindlessly buying them. CoD simply will never die, there's millions of people who buy the game every single year no matter what
@@sparkyspinz9897 True, maybe the people who work on it have come to resent it, like it's embarrassing to be put on the next COD project or something lol.
@@lando8913that sounds like a real possibility, tho its still sad what the franchise turned out to be
This is why giving the people who brought us the Vanguard campaign, one of the worst campaigns, one less year of development was a bad idea
Atleast vanguard had a full campaign and did something different from the last game
It was infinity ward that made the campaign judging by how short and lackluster the "campaign" is. Sledgehammer is taking over multiplayer since infinity ward can't take feedback and provide/ change the multiplayer based on the massive amount of feedback given from mw2019 and mw2022.
Hell, most of the weapons are from mw2022 with maybe a few mw2023. It's clear that Infinity Ward was working on it, but failed to deliver a continuation of the story that is already botched in mw2022 campaign.
@linkspooky yeah that was my last cod as well. The multi-player felt like a copy paste from mw 2019, campaign was decent, and they had the last good zombies mode. Vanguard looked like shit and I was right lol
Sledgehammer is the worst
it took even Vanguard down to its knees. Vanguard: "i offer you the crown for the worst cod in history"
The orginial mw3 campaign was so awesome. That beginning shot in the city and then the submarine section is something i will never forget. Ridiculous things happen in the old cod campaigns but they dont seem ridiculous while you are playing. the game treads the line between crazy and stupid really well. Its over the top fun where you never know what might happen next.
MW3 > Modern-gamers Warfare III
That's why they need to do a remaster of MW3 already.
@@mac1bc MW3 2011 holds up really great. No remasters needed, imo
@@cvldblvvded4071 u don't have a ps3, so I have no way to play it now
@@mac1bc I feel sorry. I have it on steam so I'm good. Still, graphics go after the story and the plot, so I would play mw3 even on potato and have much fun.
Glad you liked Makarov in this game. I thought his writing was extremely weak, and none of his plans worked out due to good planning. They worked out due to insane coincidences. The only things he does to be "bad" is to kill people, but he has NO motivation, and nothing that makes him feel like a real character. He's a simple clown makeup away from a bad russian Joker cosplayer. The actor did very well with what he had, but what he had was shit. Plane sequence was the saving grave for him, in my personal opinion.
This Makarov is the one recast I feel like they dropped the ball with
"saving grave" is a fantastic typo - will use this in the future.
even the plane mission doesnt make sense ...like there was no point to it at all...oh boy urzigistan is gonna go ww3 on russia.....sureeeee
The Warzone like gameplay looked appealing for newcomers. But now that I know it's taken from warzone I see the problem. They could do something with this if they do it right, the openness allows for some really nice missions. What I think they could do with this is have a recon stage for higher difficulties first where they could use that to enhance the story and plot. You can reuse the dialogue wheel that is underutilized to talk to teammates as you're scouting. So you could ask the your a.i squad mates to setup here or there, setup the overwatch and spotter at this hill or tower, and tell your other squad members where we go in, and whos gonna be doing each task in the squad. Then the next step is the operation itself, had you not planned, you'd be in a hell of a firefight, and it offers a challenge and appeases the casual. On higher difficulties, that recon stage becomes more and more important. Lets say on the 3rd highest difficulty, you have the freedom to be as experimental as you want with the mission with a small amount of planning, On the 4th or 5th highest, you'd have to play like a real spec ops solider, watching the patrols, where our targets are, and where we can infil, setup, and exfil.
The writer who self inserted as mary jane in spiderman 2 was heavily involved in the writing of this campaign. I'm not even joking.
Wait for real?
Goyslop transcends platform
I was apathetic towards Farah and Laswell by the end of II; I actually started harbouring contempt for them at the end of III.
I'm getting a sense that this game's rendition of Shepherd did what he did simply because the game feels the need for an evil counterpart of Laswell. His motive for turning on TF141 when Price would have just agreed to help covering up his blunder judging by even the 2019 Price's characterizations makes no sense. They did Glenn Morshower dirty, man.
The “writer” was an intern and only made a side mission. You’re spreading fake news about that self insertion crap
You can tell the females were being propped up in the game. It was annoying.
I really wish the "no russian" level let you play as 141 in the first half and then play as the bad guys in the airport in the second half.
That would be too much critical thinking for the writers, lol
In the original MW3, I cried at the end after everything that happened but left satisfied for experiencing such a masterpiece of a trilogy
After the MWIII reboot campaign ended, I legitimately let out a Mutahar ass laugh at the fact they just speedran the last 20 minutes
I did NOT expect the credits to roll... An awful campaign that once again proved that Warzone is the worst thing to happen to this milked series.
Something which doesn't sit right is Makarov's line "there is no bad luck, only poor planning" then the game proceeds to show Makarov's plans being foiled at every turn and corner.
Man. Showing the Original death of Soap deadass made me tear up. I don't understand how they butcher making any kind of story THIS bad when a primary main character dies and it doesn’t even matter
Exactly thats how i felt
we need a new series bro , its getting old
The original Shepard fight was the best ending to a Call Of Duty game. I thought I was dead then it prompts me to pull the knife out that s**t was insane.
@@ryans413 and the music made it intense and perfect!
that's what he was talking about, how the story felt like a movie which makes you feel the characters pain when someone died. the OG Modern Warfare campaign made more of an impact compared to current CoD campaigns...
The moment it was pointed out that it’s 3 hours of campaign and 2 of those hours are just cutscenes, all I have to say is, ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND ACTIVISION!?
Seriously? LMAO Thats fucking abominable.
4 HOURS !?!?!
*Insert AngryJoe Inflections*
@@buzter8135ARE YE….ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!!!!
DLC coming soon
To be honest, the original MW3 campaign nailed it, everything was so epic, it seemed like you were actually in the middle of something big. Right at the first mission, the pacing felt like you are in an actual war, and then the one in Paris where in the end you see the Eiffel falls. Now that shit was really cool compares to this crap!
Drives me crazy, they’re so focused on warzone and trying to get everyone to play it that even the campaign is based on that, it’s so annoying, I played warzone once in 2018 (when the whole battle Royale fad was relevant) didn’t like it and never bothered again, I just want to play classic 6v6 😭
Another big thing I noticed was that unlike the old MW games, the new ones don't have is the big war missions. MW3 (2012) first mission was New York being invaded. It is all just spec ops shit, sneaking around, and small engagements. Another thing is that none of the important "main" characters really die. Even if they kill them off, they come back somehow. -Prez
I loved that atmosphere of war like multiple squads, chaos everywhere, people shouting in the radio, building’s falling.
And now everything resolve’s around 1 squad and “stealth missions”
I bet because it's too hard for them to optimize larger battles with this graphical fidelity
wait mw3 came out in 2011
I thought the story was heading in that direction from mw 2019 but nope it went so far into secret special forces that by this game most of the missions you are alone.
@@simplysmiley4670 What? They literally did that in MW2019 when Alex rolled up with the Marines. You're part of why the campaign is ass. Stop defending lazy works while a sheep.
33:12 One thing I have to critique about this review is that you said Ghost is "2nd only to Farah", while Price said "Next to Ghost, she's the best sniper I know". Minor misinterpretation, but Price is saying Farah is #2 and Ghost is #1
*ESG score -15*
Absolutely correct !
Playing with the main characters is part of whats messing up the campaign. I didnt think of it like that. In the older CODs once Soap moved up in rank you rarely ever played with him again and almost never played with price, so whenever you did you knew the mission had some sort of significance. In this campaign every single mission was played by a main character or leader. So they just drop you in there by yourself like some sort of super soldier and basically tell you "do whatever you want just complete these 3-4 objectives and we'll come back and pick you up when you're done". Then after you wreak havoc and leave you go and do the exact same thing again in a different location, and the AI act as if they're completely unaware of how you just obliterated one of their other posts. It's laughably bad thinking about it now.
One of my favorite moments in the original MW3 campaign is finally getting to give Makarov what he truly deserves while playing as Price for the last mission, it was a nice way to bring an awesome story to a final close and it makes me sad to see the state they have degraded it to.
Can we just appreciate how Makarov litteraly turns into a puff of blood after being hit by the train. Like they didn't even code him a proper path so he gameplay canonically dies by a train.
Pffff are you serious
@@firefly56embers33 36:21 yeah i caught it too, literally explodes into gore
@@thedeergod435 wow
I think the problem is that they tried to go from big bucks action movie to paperback novel poli sci thriller. To make it seem more “realistic” its a lot more mundane.
MW2019 was focused on potential war crimes in the middle east. cod 4 concluded with the Eastern Coast of the US almost getting nuked.
Dude, you were very personal with Farah.
If so, what do you think of Valeria?
I hate her personally, but what do you think?
Can we mention the fact that that ending scene with price and sheppard is basically a british special forces operator assassinating a high ranking american general on american soil? That's the kind of stuff that starts wars.
Also unlike in the original, Price has no reason to do this. Shepherd is screwed either way. Laswell hates his guts so as CIA she can publicly dump all the classified info on him to make sure he goes to prison and stripped off his rank, even his only ally Graves turn against him. Him assassinating Shepherd will end up looking worse for Price since everyone will suspect that Price hands are dirty so he needs to quiet Shepherd quickly
Topkek
I can see the comparison of the new Modern Warfare trilogy to the Star Wars sequel trilogy. The first one was a new start to a new system that had some flaws but had a lot of hopes and expectations. The second completely destroyed the momentum by trying to incorporate new concepts and just pissed off the viewers. And the third one was heavily rushed turning into a complete mess.
The fact that they are perfectly willing to sell a videogame for full price with a three hour long campaign tells you how little they think of the people that buy it.
Pretty much every cod campaigns only last 3-4 hours… maybe 4 and a half hours. And campaign isn’t the main thing cod is known for
Makarov was far more intimidating in the OG, mostly because he killed at least, what, 40,000 people to start with? I know that he nuked the city in the first Modern Warfare, gunned down an airport, gassed France, and essentially started WW3, only to be hanged by Price.
I know it’s cod and all. But I was shocked the campaign was this awful
ik it’s a multiplayer game but I was shocked the single player was not the best
@@melvinbriggs205i played most of the cod campaigns. While i enjoy multiplayer, "old" CoDs never had haphazardly put together campaigns until ghosts.
@@melvinbriggs205cod literally god popular for its over the top campaigns and it’s multiplayer so acting like they never had decent campaigns Is just wrong on your part
@@FlameOfRoyeca Ghosts campaign was good. I was hating on that game in 2013, and never played it until 2019. I loved it when I finally played the game. Not the best, but better than what we have now.
@@FordHoard it is certainly enjoyable. But it was the first cod game that was broken and buggy, the story centered around cosplaying that character in MW and made them essentially the equivalent of halo spartans. Not to mention the engine was aging badly in the visuals department. The story and some of the sequences (especially the ending) were bordering on soap opera level contrivance. It was all around sloppy for the legendary IW. I guess it was a rushed release and the yearly cod wasnt sustainable. But still. They redeemed themselves with infinite warfare but we know how that was received. Shame
3 hours campaign!!!??? And they charge $70 for the game??
That's outrageous!
I feel like call of duty could make open missions feel good if they took the time to perfectly craft a sandbox that ties in with the story. I mean in advanced warfare you had that open esc mission that was a blast to play. They honestly should take a little inspiration from games like bad company where you had a squad that followed you and you completed objectives in a more open environment
With the lack of checkpoints the open environment missions seemed to cater more to stealth because if you die you have to start all the way over
I hate Soap's death because it just felt like they ran out of budget at the end of the campaign. So they just waived the grief and emotions for the "hardcore" Call of Duty fans that would think it was about realism and that this is not a dramatic franchise. Just one scene after his death, nothing more.
Fell asleep during the stream but Griffin even said he wasn’t gonna like the campaign before it came out and i found it funny that there were morons telling him “i thought this was your game of the year” that shows you they don’t pay attention to what he said before he hasn’t liked the CoD campaign since Advance Warfare. But he still plays CoD because of the multiplayer and even then he’s still honest about the multiplayer
I love the franchise but definitely not every game in it.
@@GriffinGaming same not every game in CoD is good. Oh did you see IGN gave the MW3 campaign a bad review lol i typically don’t like they reviews but this one the score i agree with
@@TheDorkKnight824ya ign gave it a 4 lol
@@TheDorkKnight824 And Xbox fanboys are calling IGN biased against Xbox for giving MW3's campaign a bad score, when they've been hovering around that neighborhood score-wise for the past few years.
Some were praising the "open world" I'm like I had more fun playing turok.
especially that mission in the big building loading in with a super shorty pissed me off so much XD
I don't like the new campaign style but if that is the route they are going, they should at least let you build a custom loadout you can start with so you can start the mission with the guns you want for your play style .
Yeah, like I said on other videos, this Modern Warfare reboot is just a CoD equivalent of Fast & Furious movies.
Price and his team of superheroes saving the day and foiling the plans of cartoonishly evil villains (don't even get me started on that scene where new Makarov shot one of his men for arguing with him in the elevator just to show everyone how evil he is) from one game to another. Shepherd is a complete joke now, and the story of this game treats it like joke, Makarov acts and speaks like a villain from old comedy movies with Leslie Nielsen, and the writers are keep shoving Farah and Urzikstan down our throats as if someone besides said writers give a shit about them.
Also, this MW made me not give a damn about Soap's death, which is an achievement of it's own.
The cutscenes are GORGEOUS and the mocap/facial animation is phenomenal BUTTTTT why the heck is there so little gameplay in a CALL OF DUTY campaign?!
I think there gonna add to it as it goes , maybe during season drops
I would pay money for the original trilogy of MW with the graphics, gameplay and animation of the reboot trilogy.
@@MarioSanchez-lh7wobruh so release an unfinished campaign and start finishing it after release 😂
@@MarioSanchez-lh7woyall cod shills will never fucking realize that's not happening. This is your campaign bro.
Yall said the same shit last year. 2 year support. Mw2 campaign DLC. Etc etc. Same shit, different year.
Equating Soaps death to Joel’s literal torture porn scene and Niel Druckmans self insert character taking part in it is a bit of a stretch. Joel’s death will stand as one of the biggest FUCK YOUS to players in gaming history
you know what i find funny is that if they did release a campaign like the past most people are gonna realize that they hate it or find it boring because their only basing their love off the nostalgia when they were younger, I know this because ive seen it multiple times.
My favorite missions in COD were the ones where you felt like an actual soldier. Like "Wolverines!", "Exodus", "Of Their Own Accord", "Second Sun" and "Whiskey Hotel" from the OG MW2. You feel like you're apart of an army, not just running and gunning with 1-3 other "bad asses" the whole time. Not that there's anything wrong with those types of missions, but when it's the whole game.. they get tiresome.
I loved the American missions in particular because they nailed the "USA under siege" better than any other game I've ever played. Everything from the suburban setting to the ominous dark lighting and haunting music sold the vision of DC on fire. Sure it's massively unrealistic and the story is actually ridiculous when you think it over, but it's also cool as hell and done with such intensity that you can't help but buy into it. I'd kill for an entire campaign with a setting involving America suffering an invasion, but since COD has opted for the realistic, no-fun-allowed avenue of campaigns, I doubt it'll happen.
I'm really liking these review style videos Griffin is dropping lately honestly.
I’m amazed you are able to make a video longer than the campaign itself
i dont understand how or why people say the MWII campaign is the "worst cod campaign they've ever played" it was amazing
9:42 "Now this one is great, it's basically non-stop action, you're always going to have something to shoot at." "its a much more traditional call of duty ac130 mission where the primary goal is just to kill as many people in a short a period of time as possible." i understand why you didn't like the second game now, you are a caveman who wants an 8 hour shooting gallery 😂 No innovation or nuance just let me shoot things for 8 hours!!!1!!
19 minutes in, and all of your gripes about Farah are that she is a girl, she acts the same as the other 141's its just that she has tits, i see nothing other than sexism lmao. same with the comment you made about that other girl you play as.
37:45 why did you even say this?? please leave your echo chamber and get some sunlight, nobody would actually think this.
Blops2 was the last COD campaign i highly enjoyed
I loved Infinite Warfare's campaing.
They should've just made it into a new game instead of calling it CoD, but the campaign was damn good.
For me either b02 or ghost or ww2
The cold war campaign was pretty good too. It is probably the most unique campaign from the cod series
And last best CoD
@@Yautja_Shadow true
When I played the beta for MW3 I knew that it would be a cod.
It’s vanguard with a modern warfare mod to it
That is the truth! The same crapness, but with a modern twist!@@knightalice12
I personally hated when Price, after dumping Soap ashes, said "Well guys, if that wasn't a Call Of Duty!"
Really ruined the moment
Do you know how can I play again modern warfare 3 2016 on ps5 or psn ?
My theory. The previous owners / investors wanted to spend as little money making this game to maximize profits before the sell off to Xbox
That is a great theory!
That actually makes a lot of sense, it wouldn't be surprising considering how predatory these people are.
I know for a fact that not only that gaming companies want to make more cutscenes than actual gameplay cause they want to look the best but they also want us to lose taking control of certain actions or scenarios cause they don’t want us to be violent against evil people so they take away our decisions to judge.
Lmao what
As a long time player of this game and seeing everyones take on it and the reviews coming out, I can honestly say this will be the first time I avoid CoD for the year.
The cutscenes should have at least had dialogue options. Even if they didn’t change the outcome, having the option to pick the character’s words and see the N.P.C’s different responses would have made the cutscenes *FAR* less tedious.
Paul Haggis wrote the OG MW3.....
He also wrote Million Dollar Baby.... (won the academy award for this one, this is back when the academy awards meant something too)
He also wrote Crash (also won the academy award)
He also wrote Casino Royale (the best or near best Bond film)
Do you see the difference.
But does he have a gender studies degree?
Crash was fucking terrible man
And the OG MW3 is one of the worst in the franchise. A huge step down from the first two classics.
@@randomguy6679Massively disagree. It’s not the greatest, but it’s one of my favourites and it was an awesome game and made a great ending to that trilogy.
The 21 savage music at the end of the game was funny
Just because of that song and how hard it made me laugh ill boost the score up from 1/10 too 2/10
After this video,i am feeling even more happy completing all my og cod campaigns again. Till now i have finished the black ops series (including waw) and now i am moving to cod mw series (OG)
I went through TSA. I have a card-sized multitool that I use as a bottle opener. It got confiscated for having a small serrated side. They can notice that, but not a literal put together suicide vest? Absolutely not
I understand what this is. It's a throw away CoD to get Activision out of the marketing Contract with Playstation. It was supposed to be DLC to MW2 at first.
They needed to make one more CoD and this was it.
You just saved me 60 bucks. I miss solid SP engagements, especially given Activision's patents on altering game outcomes real-time (explaining why one map you're sweaty and the next you turn to utter garbage)... nevermind the oh-so-fun experience of voice comms COD is famous for...
I may just tinker around for free in WZ to get my fix for FPS...
Thanks again @Griffin Gaming!
That's 70$ champ.
He might be in Europe it is 60 there or another country not every cod player is American
@@kirillshvedov3283In Canada, it's $ 110 after taxes.
@@kirillshvedov3283 at least you acknowledge my greatness, peasant.
$60 is nothing if you got good paying job 😂
I was waiting for someone to make a Video like this. Side by side comparisons to the original trilogy and everything. Good job! 😎👍
I really like what he mentioned about the "scale" of what you do affects the game. Unpopular opinion but thats what I really liked about the Ghosts campaign. Particularly the space missions because they kinda switched the views to see the effects of what you were doing. It was super cool. Old cods kinda had this cinematic were you could see the effects of what you were doing from different perspectives.
I cant fully remember but the satellite/massive space cannon basically fell from space when you blew it up and then it panned the camera to the ground and you could see the debris fall. It was super cool, and i havent seen anything like that in the latest cods. Its a shame because the campaigns were truly masterfully crafted and well written. MW3 (2009) was a cinematic masterpiece and still feels like a movie, with the music and action. It's honestly a shame that we dont get to experience this shit again in higher fidelity / better engines.
It honestly feels like if you forgot you have an assignment due today and just rushed and did the bare minimum
I hope most of the developer time went into the multiplayer since the aftermarket parts they hyped up isn’t in the campaign
There’s more emotion and stakes in a geometry textbook than there was in the entirety of this campaign.
bro!! i swear to god we’d have the craziest equipment like a damn skyhook, NVG, plate carrier C4, but then they give you a no attachment shotgun or a DMR with no silencer on it
With the passenger mission there was a easy oppertunity for the woman with the vest to just run and jump out of the door to save the plane, maybe even catching makarov with the explosion, she just get dragged by 1 arm through the plane by that guy and then he tosses the phone, which tbh I think that was a cool concept, and yeah Farah is just a joke... if she didn't have that stereotypical bb attitude, spoke less, maybe an eye patch, just made some clutch plays in the cinematics she could of easily been implemented into COD without too much fuss, but no... we are at an era where they literally get sassy to the SAS
My biggest complaint about this campaign is the lack of checkpoints. On veteran, you gotta restart the entire thing in the open area missions.
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Yeah I noticed that too and I couldn't figure it out. It pissed me off deeply, and I'm someone who will often restart whole stealth missions if I'm discovered even once. It gives my immersion a small boost knowing that the enemies just simply never spotted me and that's how I pulled the mission off, instead of running around getting spotted 9 times and the enemy apparently being too lazy to chase me 50 meters back the way I came from and tighten security & send out search teams: like what would happen in real life.
Thanks for this. I bought MW2 when it came out even though i had no real desire to get it because i only play COD for the campaigns anyway. I've been having buyer's remorse with it ever since. The campaign was poor and I completed it in two days tops. I tried to make an effort with the multiplayer and Warzone/season update content but it just gave me a migraine and I realised i didn't care enough to waste what little free time I have in trying to figure out how any of it worked. I see no reason based on this review that MW3 will be any better, especially since I watched a play through of the campaign the other day and it was absolute crap. Once bitten, twice shy.
The day COD gets rid of War Zone is the day COD will be great again.
Soap's death being on par with Joel is a very good comparison. In the OG MW Trilogy, there was build up before he died at the big reveal that Makarov knew Yuri. Here Soap basically got demoted from "Protagonist" to "Mauve Shirt" status and died like one.
The "No Balls" movie energy exuded throughout Reboot MW Trilogy is foul asf.
The COD campaign's were the only thing that made me go "I'll buy it in like 3 years when the price goes down"
Now knowing that this campaign is terrible I saved myself a good £10-20
Bold of you to assume cod ever lowers the prices of their games
On eBay cw is 20
@@Bryer_the_keeperthey drop in price not even a year after release typically ?
@@Bryer_the_keeperthey always drop in price months after they release. I got MW2 2022 for $40, about 4 months after it released
@@MccaiggBro at my local retail place, MW2019 and cold war are STILL 59.99
Are u telling me the campaign is shorter than the others. I'm kinda worried incase mw3 on 360 had a longer campaign
A great man once said “all you had to do was follow the damn train, CJ.”
You already had the characters & great actors, you had everyone in your corner rooting for you, and you delivered steaming pile after steaming pile. It’s lower than the bottom of the barrel.
You got to love call of duty we like Fortnite edition🤓
Man Modren Warfare 2019 was so good what a shame…
Cw was awesome
Dude this video is great you should keep doing reviews like this. Good job
The armor aspect is a great shout. It breaks flow, it breaks immersion (no armor on the planet can do what the COD armor can do), it essentially breaks weapon balance too. Agree with your points and your assessment of MW2 except to say that I actually liked the AC130 mission quite a lot. Was rewarding and seamless if you were rly into maintaining ROE. Fun for somebody who enjoys that but not fun in a traditional way.
Man you are speaking True Facts about this Campaign. I'm still confused and disappointed in what I just played. This just makes me appreciate and love The OG Modern Warfare series it was definitely a time to be alive during that era. #Make COD Great Again
The open combat missions feel like cheap attempt at a spec ops mode. I think in knowing the campaign was very short, they added this mission type to slow the pace of the campaign so it would feel longer overall.
Do three things and your done!
They should ask a survey at the end of each mission / campaign to get peoples feedback, although I doubt they’ll care
24:26 I always thought that animation of the player character throwing off the second attacker looked odd and vaguely familiar and I just realized and am like 99.9% certain that's the same animation from WAW when you throw off a banzai'ing enemy.
I'm also just now realizing I already watched and commented on this video, neat
Mfs tried telling me “cOd WaS bAcK” and now here we are….. again
I really hated the open missions and absolutely detested the juggernaut enemies that were basically bullet sponges. What happened to these COD campaigns?
the armor, it has no place in a call of duty campaign or at least visually as a blue icon, when I shoot someone in a campaign and see the armor icon pop up and hear “ding, ding, ding” it just kills the immersion immediately and feels like I just decided to play DMZ solo for six hours and I’m the kinda guy who’s spent a lot of hours playing mw2 co op solo and thinks that’s one of the funnest parts of the game lol
I was hoping to see something like the museum from post game on mw2. They can do some cool shift with that little gem.
I treat CoD like I treat sports games. Only buy every 4-5 yrs
Bro i don’t even buy sport games, it’s beyond me how can anyone buy them in the first place
@@blakbear6528 I like playing NHL couch co op with my wife and friends. I buy those on discount every 4-5 yrs. Never pay full price for roster updates
@@blakbear6528 Yo exactly lol. Especially the people buying them every fucking year even tho its the same shit.
I picked up NBA 2k23 for 3 dollars on steam when it went on sale, thats when I buy sports games. You are INSANE if you buy them at full retail price
@@MidniteMeatBus indeed. And to think there’s people out there who dump $$$$ into ultimate team annually 💀