What's really funny to me is that in the original MW series, when Soap dies, Price is fucking devastated, he just lost his best friend and dumps all his anger on Yuri immediately after. Here he just fucking looks at the corpse and does nothing, as if he already knew that Soap had to die just because it happened in the original series.
no fr this !! like mans was broken after his death in the original, the only one who showed any emotion in his death in this campaign was ghost which is ironic since ghost is portrayed as this character with no emotions and dark soul or whatever. this was extremely upsetting. like I showed more devastation than all three of them combined- I have been crying for over an hour and still am like what 💀💀
To be somewhat fair he had to disarm the bomb and he has to put his feelings aside to finish the mission. In original mw3 the mission was compromised and the only thing was to get out alive at that moment in time. So we either hesitate and mourn soap and we all get blown up by the bomb or we focus stick to our mission and mourn later. That being said it’s a video game with characters from the original and while the situation price was put into is realistic for a special operator we are playing a game and we want to have the feeling of immersion while also playing a game and from a “civilian” mindset we think we lost our best friend nothing else matters. I’m not excusing how they did the game but I am somewhat excusing the why price acted the way he did in that scenario
I like how the final mission has ZERO reason to take place. Why is Makarov bombing the Channel Tunnel? Why does he show up in person? Why does he try to stop them from disarming the bomb just to give up and run away? Not to mention he literally just TELEPORTS AWAY, like he doesn’t disappear past the train, he’s literally standing in front of it and blinks out of the way. And then he just shoots Soap after overpowering him and Price effortlessly because reasons.
He already said it him self. They literally had no ending. The game (assuming it had even any sort of tiny amount of story boarding) was clearly only half way finished at best. After the boneyard mission there should have been another 5 missions at least. Eh who am I kidding when you remove the warzone "missions" from this campaign it has about 45 minutes of actual campaign play time. Get ready for mw4 the game that no one asked for. It's just gonna be them putting the guys in a warzone map and saying look around to find makarov and kill him game over.
Okay I will say there was a yellow door behind the train that makarov runs through at the end. No, I am not commenting on the rest of the campaign so don't start grillin me thinking I'm defending it. Just saying he doesn't teleport.
Nothing in the whole campaign made sense. After Makarov broke out of prison and rallied his troops to invade Urkzikstan nothing made sense. Why is he launching red flag attacks if his nation is already engaged in a war and clearly already anti western. If anything he needs the west to stop using proxies and start using their own military so he should have attacked them. The flash back made no sense either as to how Makarov ended up in a gulag. It’s never explained how Shepherd spontaneously knew what Makarov was doing next. And then his final play as explained made no sense. The story grew more and more incoherent the longer it went on. And just chalked together a bunch of action movie cliches in hopes it would make sense. All because Sledgehammer pulled out early and they couldn’t bare the thought of going one whole year with out a release so they rush production on a game that should take three years to develop into a few months. Truly the most disappointing COD ever.
The contrast between old and new cpt Price in this game is insane. Old Price would've blown Makarov's brains out the moment he had the chance. The whole point of MW2 and MW3 is that Makarov was straight out impossible to find. The 2 times they had the slightest clue of his whereabouts they inmediately planned an assassination mission.
I guess they're trying to make Price more "marketable" as a hero, but it still makes no sense since he's always justified to kill Makarov. He just, doesn't. Price makes the hard decisions nobody else can, they threw us a bone with the assassination at the end but even that felt cheap.
Makarov in this game is almost like "omg he's so bad and so good at being bad" or some shit like that. It's a really embarrassing story and the characters arent shit without their prior continuity
That's a general issue with the whole remake series tbh, It feels like it's trying to present itself as edgy af with everything covered in pitch black and all the characters speak like they have a bad throat but it comes off cleaner than ever for the sake of making the game more marketable. Like what was the last game where you could blow a guy's arm off with explosive weapons? It's like they now know their major audience is composed of teenagers who are not old enough to play it. Remember when Price tortured a guy with poison gas and then blow his brains out despite not being authorized to do so?
@@Tgungen XxL33TProSniperboixX and all his highschool buddies would have a heart attack if they were forced to play through Call of Duty World at War nowadays. As much as people cried over brutality in videogames, under the right context and through the right medium it can be very educational and instill empathetic feelings where otherwise one would take it as mere gratuitous violence. CoD grew up understanding this alongside Medal of Honor yet somewhere along the line (probably after BO2) it forgot all about that. New Price is just a parody and a lens of what Call of Duty has become. Put the old one side by side with the new Price and it's pretty obvious the latter is written to be some edgy action figure bloke to put on the forefront of covers, not the wisdom speweing and grounded yet harsh fatherly figure he once was. Still, at least he was vaguelly bearable in the last two entries. Seems like he's gone full derp in this one.
Even MW 2019 Price: You wanted the gloves off? Theyre off!! MW 2023 Price: Dont kill him soap, put your gloves back on and hand this terrorist who blew up a stadium and an airport to a non US/UK country where theyre sure to keep him locked up for life
The original MW3 ending went so hard. Storming a high rise in juggernaut gear as Price and then fucking hanging Makarov from the roof before you sit down and smoke a cigarette while watching his corpse swinging from the ceiling. This is embarrassing in comparison.
There's going to be aa mw4, that's why this game's ending feels incomplete. But MW2 (2009) has an amazing ending even with a guaranteed sequel so MW3 (2023) has no excuse being this bad Edit : Guys I'm not saying the MWII (2022) ending was good, I was saying the MW2 (2009) ending was good
And OG Shepherd's death too in MW2. You chase him down a river, get stabbed in the chest, pull the knife out and chuck it at his head before he can kill Price. Here, just shoot him while he's unarmed behind a desk in a cutscene. So lame.
The fact they killed off Soap when you have Gaz literally right fucking there is mind blowing. They definitely only killed him off for “shock” factor and nostalgia. Gaz’s story is wrapped up. Soap had potential to have a really good story this game or the next and they completely fuck it. The last game deadass sets that up when he was with Ghost.
It would have given the story an actual direction to go if they killed Gaz too, getting rid of the guy who's pretty much been the moral compass of the group for the last three games would lead well into 141 going off the rails.
Gaz’s story is wrapped up but you can’t kill the only Black kid. Not that anyone had to die, because this last mission was totally random. We’re bombing the Chunnel now? For…?
It’s genuinely impressive how a massive gaming corporation, with billions of dollars to their name, can somehow create games that are much worse than indie games with less than 1% of the resources
Mw3 wasn't supposed to release until a few years, following the usual release cycle. But activision got greedy and wanted this one right away. I was so excited for the conclusion, but now, it's just not worth it
They've become Apple in terms of development. They know people will just buy cod titles just for the sake of it. And will make barely enough effort now. People are just stupid for continuing to support triple A gaming companies like this.
Makarov just seems like that secondary bad guy that doesn't talk at all but gets killed at the 2nd act of the game. He's the equivalent to De'falco and Krevchenco.
He also sounds much less menacing here. No offense to the reboot Makarov’s VA, but Roman Varshavsky’s performance as OG Makarov blows him out of the water.
Why? This wouldn't even be a dent in their wallet with how much they'll make. It's not like they're a small time streamer living in a one bedroom apartment and they barely have money.
It's kind of funny how the remake series presented itself as the darker and edgier version of the original yet it comes off as more clean and ready for the marketing
That’s honestly one of my biggest complaints with this reboot trilogy. The writers take themselves waaaayy too seriously with their stories., thinking theyre edgy cool and smart just because they wrote some half arsed attempt at political commentary while at the same time committing historical revisionism with their highway of death mission. Call of duty is at its best when it doesn’t take itself too seriously and has fun with ridiculous set pieces and events while also keeping a somewhat realistic footing. Russia v USA. Ridiculous, but they did it because it was entertaining and was a really great spectacle to go through, also a natural escalation of already established tensions set from the events in the first game. The Washington DC invasion arc in the original is one of the most atmospheric and memorable missions in my opinion. Killing shepherd with a knife pulled from your chest. Over the top , yes. But was it totally badass … fuck yes.
The 3D modelling of real live actors also looks completely ugly. Somehow i find the original MW3's character not nearly as stiff and creepy as i find the 'real' faces.
@@miZuZYN Thats it. Its in that weird limbo where the faces mostly look realistic, but their facial movement and eyes just look very uncanny and robotic. I take classic 3D models all day over this weird hyper realistic modelling from real actors.
@@Naz-xk6hq its almost like they arent focusing as much on telling a story as they are trying to sell their "dark and gritty" world. Some of the best cod campaigns (the black ops ones, including cold war imo, the original modern warfare, even infinite warfare) all focused more on telling a story than being some realistic gritty shooter.
Nevermind wtf ghost and gaz were doing on point... not seeing a group of enemies approach... why was makarov even there in the first place, SECONDS before the bomb was going to explode?
Bruh i didn't even think about that, the bomb was about to explode and makarov went "oh shit i forgot to kill soap", came back and killed soap then left
@@SpartanSouls256 fr. Mw2 2022 ended with ghost landing a headshot from like 500m during a windy ass night with no nods, and shitty construction lighting AND avoiding hitting Johnny in the process. How the fuck could he not hit Makarov's slow ass speed walking to his getaway?
@@kengiro0599brother didn’t even have time to leave. Pretty sure they explained the bomb would actually kill anyone within 10 miles of it. Even if he’s on a train he’d have about 20 seconds to get away and the train would need 3 minutes
I love how they have been so afraid to kill anyone that even Gaz is alive in the third game and then they just unceremoniously shoot soap in the head and just move on 😂
That 2011 MW3 was still way better than whatever behemoth of garbage Activision came up with this time. That game felt like an actual Call of duty with a real and enjoyable storyline. This game is literally a DLC, that too a disappointing one.
MW3 was one of the best CODs of all time - people were just picky back then. The story was brilliant, it didnt top the OG MW2 but it was great nonetheless so many iconic moments like Soap's actual death, '50,000 people used to live here, now its a ghost town', price's final scrap with makarov. Those were the days man
@@avay8726 a campaign that is short because a triple a dev team was lazy, this is a game that costs millions to make and everything was recycled with a new coat of paint even the zombies is the same, only thing that looks promising is the multiplayer, you have to also think about the fact there is multiple of the biggest companies working on this game and it’s in this state yk
Soap's death was arguably the worst part. An amazingly written and loved character killed in the most disrespectful ways just to fill in the status quo of needing a main character to die.
In original. In reboot no one cares about soap, I have no feelings for him, only his gay relationship with ghost. I actually don't about anyone here, that so bland and cliche, they have no personality, just again, cliche characters from old movies, one grumpy, other angry, third mysterious, meh. Hope the call of duty die with battlefield, tired of this clownship
@@0DanteMayCry0 first of all, that seems like a you problem so don't speak for everyone. Second of all, what at all could have made you think Soap and Ghost were gay?
@@justaserbiandoomer497 In this day and age, people make assumptions and head canons just for the sake of complaining. "Two guys are good friends? Must be gay and this is woke bullshit" - That guy probably.
@@justaserbiandoomer497 the gay thing is a bit just look at how they banter to each other in mw2 but also theyre not the only one, i enjoy soap but their death was so last second and tasteless. not to mention no real build up or tenson, they just wanted soap to die in this because he did in the og mw3. at least in that one soap wasnt going out so easily, they we fighting to keep him around but just couldnt so a character with so much fight ended up burning out while in this it just seems like baby face wanted to kill somebody on the main list so he took soap cuz he actually hurt him instead of shooting price. sry for the rant there but this campaign compared to the og mw3 is just pathetic in SO many fuckin ways, it's just wildly disappointing that this costed 70$ for a 30$ (or even 20$) campaign.
Only way is to completely zone out for the whole stream then suddenly catch them shitting on the story and randomly choosing to defend it... You have to be that ignorant
hold on a moment, 19:36 when ghost crouches behind that blue cover thingy his weapon is still firing, you can see it eject and hit the ground next to soap it never stops firing up until like he is completely out of frame BRUH Also did soap just despawn from his initial down position and then respawns out of frame and just runs into makarov? that whole cutscene feels like thats where development ended, like thats not the end of the campaign but the actual point in time where they stopped developing the campaign
Very late reply, but also: why didn't Soap just fucking SHOOT him!? Why did he come up to him just to get shot? Also what did he even do to Makarov? It looked like he stab him in the throat but it didn't do anything to him?
Shepherd's death is so rushed in this campaign. Like the writers are almost done with the story but they forgot to kill Shepherd so they pushed this little cutscene of him getting shot in his office. At least in the old games, there's a wild chasing mission and you get to have an awesome fight with him.
Yeah, at least give us playable mission like in COD4 where you play another mission after the credits. Oh actually, the idea of infiltrating Langley would be fun and a tribute to mission where we'd infiltrate KGB HQ in the BO:CW
They really should have deal with the whole Shepherd thing in the second game. The tension with him was more intense bc the betrayal was recently done, and overall just get him out of the sight for a new villan to come and take the place. But man, they made this whole story so bad that it would feel rushed either way lol
The fact that the campaign ends with Ghost and Gaz apparently just watching Soap get fuckin executed right in front of them with no intervention is probably the most idiotic plot move ever 💀
@@peruvianpuffpepper904 I mean that's better, but still 😂 the way it comes out after the cutscene makes it look like they just watched while one man was almost executed and the one was quite literally executed
Dont forget the original MW3 had the battle of new york, remember that badass scene where you force a russian sub to surface by detonating charges near it in the new york harbour, then you exfil by driving a RHIB boat into the back up the ramp of a sea knight which is like a little chinook helicopter.
Why do people follow this guy's UA-cam account? Serious question? He keeps popping up on my feed yet he is the most unfunny uncharismatic person I've ever watched
i love paying 100 dollars for a boring story, no personalities to the characters anymore, and a random death of a beloved character that was completely unneeded in the story
Ghost and gaz were never there with you in the final mission, they were away in their own gun fight, not standing and watching soap get killed. They only showed up in time to save price. But that's admittedly a very small detail to not notice in all the shooting
For once, i agree with IGN. Usually, idc about what people said. When i played mw3 reboot and watching the rest of vtuber gameplay, i think i understand why people dislike it
Especially the Actor that played Soap. He was a great choice for the Remake Series yet they kill him in this and in such a Cringe and Pathetic way. All the Actors did a bang up job but jesus this was bad. Hope they all got paid good.
Imagine having such good campaigns in Modern warfare 1, 2 and 3. And then 10 years later making games with the same name to kinda shoo away the old ones, but making them so bad
For some reason, the actor who plays Soap unfollowed Activision and all the other actors on social media. He barely promoted MW3 and deleted his Soap promos from the previous game. So my theory is that he saw the bullshit Activision is spewing and decided not to participate anymore. Don't know if that's the reason Soap's death is so sloppy but it still doesn't justify it.
That campaign was so disrespectful. Soaps death felt terrible. That is fucking embarrassing, especially when you see how he died in the OG MW3. After playing through 2 1/2 games as Soap or working with him, you are at one of the most important moments in the campaigns story. During a failed assassination attempt on Makarov, Soap gets critically wounded during an explosion. You proceed to carry his dying body though a hellish warzone, packed with action and emotional music. After finding a safehouse, Soap dies whilst receiving medical attention in which he drops a massive bombshell on Price with his final words. Price proceeds to give one of the most emotional performances I have ever seen, in all forms of media, crying over the death of his best friend and closest ally. Afterwards, he proceeds to beat Yuri's ass down a flight of stairs and delivered one of the most hardcore and memorable lines in Call of Duty history. In this new game its just, Makarov shoots Soap in the head. Then the team mourns the death of Soap 1 cutscene later. Very little emotion. No theatrics. nothing. That is insulting to Soap as a character. Imagine if they killed Mason or Woods like that in Black Ops, just a big, disrespectful FU to the fans. Fuck this game.
"There's a clocktower in Hereford where the names of the dead are inscribed. We try to honor their deeds even as their faces fade from our memory. Those memories are all that's left, when the bastards have taken everything else." This campaign is a genuine disgrace to the MW3 name
Fun Fact: When you try and reinstall MW2, the MW3 campaign is actually listed in the game as an add on. They aren't even trying to hide that this was originally supposed to be a DLC.
The fact that they did Makarov's fake out death the EXACT SAME WAY as Graves' fake out death in MW2 is fucking abysmal, like they really thought they can pull the same trick on us twice
@@frankiemoulder3521 It was earned though in the original MW3. OG Soap was Price's catalyst to finally trust and work with Yuri. His final words send Price on that rampage that ultimately ends with Makarov's demise. New Soap was so unceremoniously just...not even killed, just removed from the game it felt that disrespectful.
It's not the same soap, one is a character who existed to make you feel something while playing a game and the other is a premium character for a multiplayer game nobody should play
If Activision kept their word on no annual releases, this campaign would probably have been a lot better. Shame Activision is one of the most greediest companies out there
Honestly anything Sledgehammer Games touches is shit even if they had 5 years they'd fuck it up I genuinely have no actual hope for Multiplayer because they're doing it.
Honestly. It's also the people's fault. They just keep buying games from this shitty company. Ea still rakes in millions of dollars each year just like cod does.
That's how they kill soap?? That was just plain awful, his death in mw3(2011) was more impactful, literally had you fight an army while carrying soap to a safe location just for all your effort to go to waste as he bleeds out on the table. I can't believe they would take him out in such a mundane way, literally spat on the fans.
@@aircraft2 not saying it is, putting words in my mouth is a L, im saying is that why does it matter, why we shitting on this game when the Original MW3 did the same thing, if not worse, started off with a beloved character just dead for fun, no reason, no one bitched back then, cuz the reality is that back then people didnt care, now poeple give a shit a bit too much
@@xmebutt7707you’re not making a ton of sense. Objectively, this game is actually problematic in price-to-presentation. Like activation showed up at your house, asked for 70 dollars, then slapped you in the face. Soap being dead previously was a poorly executed plot device. Soap being killed is actually meaningless, a total letdown. I bet soaps voice actor saw an early cut and thought it was so bad he just peaced the fuck out. You see, they didn’t HAVE any more dialogue of soap recorded, so they just have him executed poorly. 😂
As someone who was led on to believe and almost promised that MW2 would last more than one year and don’t plan on playing this, I see this as an absolute win
The last call of duty I enjoyed was BO2 The last Call of duty I bought was Infinite Warfare. COD really just died for me when I couldn't to split-screen with friends anymore. Like a bunch of other franchises.
Soap's death in the original trilogy actually meant something because we've seen he and Price's relationship evolve firsthand throughout the three games. In this series, Soap's seen connecting most with Ghost - so having them separated during the death scene was a huge misfire on an emotional level
Yeah, never mind the one "Jhonny" from ghost and no emotion afterwards. Maybe it's me seeing too many soap/ghost fanarts, but I expected him to atleast go slightly insane
@@selenophile5256 you're right. the fact that soap was the one who got ghost out of his shell, bantered with him over comms and showed more of his witty and sarcastic side, and got ghost to actually bump him on the shoulder was already a lot of development for a character who was first perceived as distant. also him being the only one who can call him "johnny" definitely lets you in on the emotional level of their relationship. yeah he's a distant and crumbled guy but soap definitely did something for him, if not on a romantic level at least as a friend or emotional support or something.
Same, I remember sobbing over Sandman, Woods (when he jumps through the window and the grenade goes off) mason (if you kills him as the hostage) and the entire infinite warfare cast. Hell even elias I shed a tear for but damn.... This campaign (though I spoiled myself on accident) dropped the ball hard.... Especially with someone like soap...
The crazy thing is i watched a couple of videos of people talking about the story and one of those videos showed the scene of soap dying in the og mw3 and i was ready to cry JUST BY LISTENING TO IT lol but ive never played the og mw3 campaign and too see how soul less and lazy his death was in this game was is soooo depressing cause i know how legendary that shit was😢
The only excuse I’ve given myself for buying the newer CoD games was the campaign, thank you for giving me final justification to not buy anymore CoD games
Ikr I use to do that for Zombies but than that game mode became dogshit after B03 so now all I have is the campaign but now that it's also shit their is no point in buying COD because the Multiplayer isn't good or worth spending $60 - $70.
MW3 story line in my head is a week long war fought in the warzone map where despite reinforcements being down the road you have to do much of the fighting alone. As for the ending I would have changed it to the shooting down of Makorvs helicopter where you take control of the ground team. You have to confirm the kill and are informed that Makarovs forces are convergin on the site. They are using saws to say cut open the crashed helo ala black hawk down. Bam explain why they dont just pull him out and give you a timer to stop them before they finish cutting a hole to him. You get there and as you cut the hole yourself the door falls in, soap is shot dead and you return fire killing the shooter. Perhaps its Makarov perhaps it was just a guard.
at least in sports and racing games u get what u expect, MORE sports and racing lmao. In blockbuster titles like CoD consumers have more expectations in the campaign side
Casuals just buy the games every year. Doesn't seem to matter. Most consumers aren't plugged in to these things. Doesn't matter if the product is objectively regarded as poor quality as long as they had their "fun". It's just the nature of the beast.
The fact that the crew didn’t just shoot Makarov is so stupid. Imagine if Seal Team 6 finally found Bin Laden and then just handcuffed him and brought him on a helicopter.
Game designer: "But it's not long enough for a campaign." Producer: "What you talking about? It took me 8 hours to beat it." Game Designer: "That's because you don't play games."
I was so mad at how short it was, I didn't even hang out to see that post roll scene when I beat it. I wouldn't have even know it existed if I didn't watch this video
They did soap so dirty in this campaign. The original soap death was such an emotional scene. There was no possible way plot wise that Soap could’ve been saved, and Price’s actor did an amazing job in the scene where he dies. It felt real, seeing someone break after losing one of their closest allies, and it still makes me tear up to this very day 12 years later. Soap’s death in THIS campaign is actually insulting. It feels like they just killed him off to get a reaction out of Soap lovers again. There was no buildup to his death, no emotion, absolutely NOTHING. And it just ends right after. Bo3’s campaign was disappointing. Vanguard’s was boring. But this campaign is the first that’s actually INSULTING to fans of the series.
Preach brother! One of the stages of grief is called denial and when Soap died I could not to believe it. The original game wrote the storyline so well! After Soap died, there was a mission to avenge Soap that ended the game, not this baloney. If the CoD community ever wanted to draw the line, this game is where we need to draw it. The original campaign is leagues above the 2023 remake. yeah Im not buying this game either.
I swear his death in this game is the equivalent to gaz's death in call of duty 4 like he was just shot in the head by the main villain and nobody really cared
@@kevingarcia6746because its one of the worst campaigns in the whole series especially for a black ops game. Matter of fact it was so bad bo 4 didn't even got a campaign
10:51 is so stupid that it's hilarious. Makarov is unarmed and tied up, yet he magically frees himself and kills you instantly with a single stomp while Price just stands there and watches, all because the devs didn't want to give their players the freedom to take even the SLIGHTEST deviation from the campaign that they made. You don't just have to follow Makarov, you also have to keep looking at him the whole entire time.
Man they really did a great job with 2019 mw. They showed that giving a game time can make it great. But they fell into old habits by releasing reheated crap every year.
@@Dar1uszlmfao yeah the multilayer was absolute shit and all the pros feel the same way. As for the campaign. It was good. You’re just wrong on the point.
@@Dar1usz nah 2019 was the best one we've had in YEARS, the maps it came with were hot garbage tho, but when old maps came in and some good new ones it was actually pretty good fun, but sbmm was still shit, cold war was pretty decent but undercooked, then vanguard, mw2 and now mw3 are garbage again
its so weird watching call of duty games go from focusing on their story and having the multiplayer maps be based on locations from the campaign, to, the multiplayer map is now developed first and we have a campaign based around the multiplayer map.
Well technically they did take a big unique turn with warzone in itself. I’ve been playing warzone for a long time and haven’t played any other cod in forever.
Open world missions on a cod game was just about the worst decision they could ever make. I’m not surprised anymore either, literally half of the campaign was filler, and I should have known from the get go that it was going to suck. There was absolutely no story what-so-ever. Call of Duty 2019 worked and was fresh because of how all the missions felt and how they flowed together. It was a new take on an extremely popular series and it just felt good, the gun play was excellent, the visuals incredible, and the story made sense.
I think one of the worst parts of this campaign is how they handled Soap’s death. It’s emotional in 2011 because you’ve had three games fighting as and alongside Soap. We saw him as the private, saw him grow with Price, and have him tragically die with a memorial to when he saved Price in COD4. In MW19, he’s a cameo name at the end of the game and has a side role in MWII. His death comes out of nowhere, has little fanfare, and has no attachment to the character. He only dies because he did in 2011 and the MW reboot series is based on appealing to gamers’ nostalgia for the original trilogy. It’s almost like what they did with Ghost in MWII (2009), where he was a character that had no development and was killed off during the ending - however, we cared about Ghost because he had a cool design and it was tied to a genuinely surprising plot twist. We know Makarov isn’t dead and we know, since they copied everything else, that Soap was likely to die - so not only is it predictable, it’s a shameless ripoff.
@@theghost4lifei play the OG too but when they died i was like "Ah shit here goes another one lol" he was right the soldier feel so generic....the OG were good but its more of the gameplay and the story is just meh for me its a generic hollywood writing
I feel so bad for the people that work on these games that genuinely try to put their heart and soul into something that gets ruined by the corporations they work for
price killing shepherd at the end with no gloves or anything other than a silencer kills me. everyone instantly knows who it was when they look at that door handle
The worst part about it too is they undermined Soaps death so badly! Like a nothing burger, no dramatics or anything. I still remember Price's performance on Soap bleeding out. I can still hear Prices 'NO NO NO!'
@@goodtimesgamingtm1316”Soap trusted you. I thought I could too… SO WHY IN BLOODY HELL DOES MAKAROV KNOW YOU?!” I loved this line and it really hits different.
They are supposed to be the best of the best, they wouldn't stand there and scream his name after he dies. I feel like this is one of the only positives from that scene honestly
It really wasn't incoherent they just pieced together missing pieces and tried something new and remember Infinity Ward was the people who made the campaign, not sledgehammer
So like, how the fuck did Ghost and Gaz NOT kill Makarov? It was just Makarov and like 3 other guys, Ghost and Gaz had the element of surprise and they only "injure" Makarov? Literally just shoot him in the head, he doesn't have a helmet or anything, NONE of them do, why does everyone aim for the body when they're SO CLOSE
$70? ✅ Reused maps? ✅ Reused animations? ✅ Reused assets? ✅ Capitalizing off of your nostalgia? ✅ Millions will still buy it anyway? ✅ Yup, That's COD alright.
Well said dude I haven't played cod since the skid mark black ops 4 and I payed 100 for this because people said finally we might get another decent enough campaign and let me tell you it's not even worth the price no is really worth the name it was given at this point it's borderlands the pre sequel all over again this should have been either a dlc or called call of duty modern warfare the pre sequel 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@ErrkNjerkYou say this as if OP bought the game. What if they didn’t and is just watching the chaos unfold from the sidelines? Please don’t draw conclusions with a lack of information.
It’s just 70$ DLC. The Multiplayer is also probably just gonna be a Copy Paste of MW2’s. The thing that’ll probably be worth buying this game for is Zombies.
I hated this campaign. It was super quick, had no sustenance to it, and they killed off Soap with no emotion and for no reason at all, and the bad guy just gets away like nothing was worth it.
Wdym no emotion? They literally have a scene about them spreading his ashes and saying their final goodbyes. And no reason? At the stadium, Makarov tells them to never Bury their enemies alive, which Soap let's him live. Makarov tells him he'll be back again. Makarov's real plan to bomb London was just a ploy to kill Soap, which is what he does and then books it rather than defending the bomb. While I agree OCMs were trash and the length was really short, the story was still pretty decent
What I would've liked to seen was a level where you have to fend off konni spectre gun ship. Seeing as they have a sub and some sort of air transport to do air insertions in the first level.
Also cod modern warfare 1 remaster was so good it looks like I was in actual war. Here you can't even destroy light with gun fire. Like super hard degredation
When I finished the campaign my first initial thoughts was "That's it, its over?" it felt like the biggest gut punch ever, its much worse than the previous COD
Ghost wearing his OG mask as formal wear as they spread their best friends ashes is quite possibly one of the funniest things in the whole series
But he is soooo cool with hIs Tactiskull wear. He even has tactiskull loungewear in his downtime.
litterally his old mask from 09
@@colonelcorey8652 literally even funnier that that’s his idea of formal wear
@@apieceofbread1 I didn’t even notice that none of them are in suits? Tf isn’t that supposed to be the spreading of his ashes
@@apieceofbread1i mean thats the OG mask so idk what you're talking about
When Soap turned to the camera and said "Good, that's one less loose ends" before killing himself by eating soap, I felt that.
WTF 😂😂😂😂
make sure to stretch before you reach that hard
@@ForeverImmortal198great work protecting a corporation from this scary joke!
😐
Actually would have been better than the way they did it
What's really funny to me is that in the original MW series, when Soap dies, Price is fucking devastated, he just lost his best friend and dumps all his anger on Yuri immediately after. Here he just fucking looks at the corpse and does nothing, as if he already knew that Soap had to die just because it happened in the original series.
no fr this !! like mans was broken after his death in the original, the only one who showed any emotion in his death in this campaign was ghost which is ironic since ghost is portrayed as this character with no emotions and dark soul or whatever. this was extremely upsetting. like I showed more devastation than all three of them combined- I have been crying for over an hour and still am like what 💀💀
Wait what lol I thought these new ones were prequels. They just retconned the story?
@@Dmenjivar22 they’re reboots, completely new story
@@Dmenjivar22Dude, what world were you living in the past few years?
To be somewhat fair he had to disarm the bomb and he has to put his feelings aside to finish the mission. In original mw3 the mission was compromised and the only thing was to get out alive at that moment in time. So we either hesitate and mourn soap and we all get blown up by the bomb or we focus stick to our mission and mourn later. That being said it’s a video game with characters from the original and while the situation price was put into is realistic for a special operator we are playing a game and we want to have the feeling of immersion while also playing a game and from a “civilian” mindset we think we lost our best friend nothing else matters. I’m not excusing how they did the game but I am somewhat excusing the why price acted the way he did in that scenario
I like how the final mission has ZERO reason to take place. Why is Makarov bombing the Channel Tunnel? Why does he show up in person? Why does he try to stop them from disarming the bomb just to give up and run away? Not to mention he literally just TELEPORTS AWAY, like he doesn’t disappear past the train, he’s literally standing in front of it and blinks out of the way. And then he just shoots Soap after overpowering him and Price effortlessly because reasons.
He already said it him self. They literally had no ending. The game (assuming it had even any sort of tiny amount of story boarding) was clearly only half way finished at best. After the boneyard mission there should have been another 5 missions at least. Eh who am I kidding when you remove the warzone "missions" from this campaign it has about 45 minutes of actual campaign play time. Get ready for mw4 the game that no one asked for. It's just gonna be them putting the guys in a warzone map and saying look around to find makarov and kill him game over.
......Script for MW4......
*Price wakes up*
"Jesus Christ, what a nightmare.... Phew!"
*The End*
Okay I will say there was a yellow door behind the train that makarov runs through at the end. No, I am not commenting on the rest of the campaign so don't start grillin me thinking I'm defending it. Just saying he doesn't teleport.
Nothing in the whole campaign made sense. After Makarov broke out of prison and rallied his troops to invade Urkzikstan nothing made sense. Why is he launching red flag attacks if his nation is already engaged in a war and clearly already anti western. If anything he needs the west to stop using proxies and start using their own military so he should have attacked them. The flash back made no sense either as to how Makarov ended up in a gulag. It’s never explained how Shepherd spontaneously knew what Makarov was doing next. And then his final play as explained made no sense. The story grew more and more incoherent the longer it went on. And just chalked together a bunch of action movie cliches in hopes it would make sense. All because Sledgehammer pulled out early and they couldn’t bare the thought of going one whole year with out a release so they rush production on a game that should take three years to develop into a few months. Truly the most disappointing COD ever.
@@marvelander2022HAHAHAH
The contrast between old and new cpt Price in this game is insane. Old Price would've blown Makarov's brains out the moment he had the chance. The whole point of MW2 and MW3 is that Makarov was straight out impossible to find. The 2 times they had the slightest clue of his whereabouts they inmediately planned an assassination mission.
I guess they're trying to make Price more "marketable" as a hero, but it still makes no sense since he's always justified to kill Makarov. He just, doesn't. Price makes the hard decisions nobody else can, they threw us a bone with the assassination at the end but even that felt cheap.
Makarov in this game is almost like "omg he's so bad and so good at being bad" or some shit like that. It's a really embarrassing story and the characters arent shit without their prior continuity
That's a general issue with the whole remake series tbh, It feels like it's trying to present itself as edgy af with everything covered in pitch black and all the characters speak like they have a bad throat but it comes off cleaner than ever for the sake of making the game more marketable. Like what was the last game where you could blow a guy's arm off with explosive weapons? It's like they now know their major audience is composed of teenagers who are not old enough to play it.
Remember when Price tortured a guy with poison gas and then blow his brains out despite not being authorized to do so?
@@Tgungen XxL33TProSniperboixX and all his highschool buddies would have a heart attack if they were forced to play through Call of Duty World at War nowadays.
As much as people cried over brutality in videogames, under the right context and through the right medium it can be very educational and instill empathetic feelings where otherwise one would take it as mere gratuitous violence. CoD grew up understanding this alongside Medal of Honor yet somewhere along the line (probably after BO2) it forgot all about that.
New Price is just a parody and a lens of what Call of Duty has become. Put the old one side by side with the new Price and it's pretty obvious the latter is written to be some edgy action figure bloke to put on the forefront of covers, not the wisdom speweing and grounded yet harsh fatherly figure he once was.
Still, at least he was vaguelly bearable in the last two entries. Seems like he's gone full derp in this one.
Even MW 2019 Price: You wanted the gloves off? Theyre off!!
MW 2023 Price: Dont kill him soap, put your gloves back on and hand this terrorist who blew up a stadium and an airport to a non US/UK country where theyre sure to keep him locked up for life
The original MW3 ending went so hard. Storming a high rise in juggernaut gear as Price and then fucking hanging Makarov from the roof before you sit down and smoke a cigarette while watching his corpse swinging from the ceiling. This is embarrassing in comparison.
There's going to be aa mw4, that's why this game's ending feels incomplete.
But MW2 (2009) has an amazing ending even with a guaranteed sequel so MW3 (2023) has no excuse being this bad
Edit : Guys I'm not saying the MWII (2022) ending was good, I was saying the MW2 (2009) ending was good
cigar*
I don't remember fucking Makarov while he was hanging
And OG Shepherd's death too in MW2. You chase him down a river, get stabbed in the chest, pull the knife out and chuck it at his head before he can kill Price. Here, just shoot him while he's unarmed behind a desk in a cutscene. So lame.
@@Azurek1991 And that fact that you don't even get to pull the trigger is just insulting. You just watch a cutscene play out.
The fact they killed off Soap when you have Gaz literally right fucking there is mind blowing. They definitely only killed him off for “shock” factor and nostalgia. Gaz’s story is wrapped up. Soap had potential to have a really good story this game or the next and they completely fuck it. The last game deadass sets that up when he was with Ghost.
It would have given the story an actual direction to go if they killed Gaz too, getting rid of the guy who's pretty much been the moral compass of the group for the last three games would lead well into 141 going off the rails.
Gaz’s story is wrapped up but you can’t kill the only Black kid. Not that anyone had to die, because this last mission was totally random. We’re bombing the Chunnel now? For…?
@@xo_ectophylla_alba_xoOriginal gaz was white I just remembered they race swapped him
is soap in zombie mode???
@@ScaredWatchedprice said to go dark. So he did
OG Makarov: *Attacks an airport with only 3 people*
New Makarov: Bro needed 8 people to hijack a plane💀
OG makarov had 5 people plus the 2-3 getaway drivers
@@kengiro0599 Ah
I only counted like 3 gunners and I also forgot about the getaway drivers
@mrreaper9626 makakrov had 5 gunners including allen, but only 3 of them actually make it to the getaway vehicle
I mean, they had machine guns. The new game only gave them 3D printed pistols.
Fr
It’s genuinely impressive how a massive gaming corporation, with billions of dollars to their name, can somehow create games that are much worse than indie games with less than 1% of the resources
And staff lol.
All about that sweet esg rating. That stuff kills creativity.
Mw3 wasn't supposed to release until a few years, following the usual release cycle. But activision got greedy and wanted this one right away. I was so excited for the conclusion, but now, it's just not worth it
They've become Apple in terms of development.
They know people will just buy cod titles just for the sake of it. And will make barely enough effort now.
People are just stupid for continuing to support triple A gaming companies like this.
@@shiguriyamamo6730if I was to read this comment a few years ago I would disagree, but now yea I’m not buying anymore cods
2009 Makarov actually looked like a villian, 2023 Makarov looks like someone tried to clone Ben Shapiro and failed.
Makarov just seems like that secondary bad guy that doesn't talk at all but gets killed at the 2nd act of the game. He's the equivalent to De'falco and Krevchenco.
He looks like the Twink from Spider-Man 2
He also sounds much less menacing here. No offense to the reboot Makarov’s VA, but Roman Varshavsky’s performance as OG Makarov blows him out of the water.
Yeah, his face change was pretty mid.
Makarov from wish
“Nick Fury recruits soap mactavish’s corpse into the avengers” took me out 💀
The MW3 campaign is like if you were having a really bad story in your dream but it ended early because you woke up
Huge respect to all the reviewers who wasted their money for us
Why? This wouldn't even be a dent in their wallet with how much they'll make. It's not like they're a small time streamer living in a one bedroom apartment and they barely have money.
@@SirDankleberryalot of people including me bought it. You think everyone had money?
this man understands
@@selturtgod bless you
@@selturt So you're a reviewer? Otherwise what about what I said is wrong?
It's kind of funny how the remake series presented itself as the darker and edgier version of the original yet it comes off as more clean and ready for the marketing
That’s honestly one of my biggest complaints with this reboot trilogy. The writers take themselves waaaayy too seriously with their stories., thinking theyre edgy cool and smart just because they wrote some half arsed attempt at political commentary while at the same time committing historical revisionism with their highway of death mission.
Call of duty is at its best when it doesn’t take itself too seriously and has fun with ridiculous set pieces and events while also keeping a somewhat realistic footing.
Russia v USA. Ridiculous, but they did it because it was entertaining and was a really great spectacle to go through, also a natural escalation of already established tensions set from the events in the first game. The Washington DC invasion arc in the original is one of the most atmospheric and memorable missions in my opinion.
Killing shepherd with a knife pulled from your chest. Over the top , yes. But was it totally badass … fuck yes.
The 3D modelling of real live actors also looks completely ugly. Somehow i find the original MW3's character not nearly as stiff and creepy as i find the 'real' faces.
@@CODA96uncanny valley, not human but not especially not human either
@@miZuZYN Thats it. Its in that weird limbo where the faces mostly look realistic, but their facial movement and eyes just look very uncanny and robotic. I take classic 3D models all day over this weird hyper realistic modelling from real actors.
@@Naz-xk6hq its almost like they arent focusing as much on telling a story as they are trying to sell their "dark and gritty" world. Some of the best cod campaigns (the black ops ones, including cold war imo, the original modern warfare, even infinite warfare) all focused more on telling a story than being some realistic gritty shooter.
Nevermind wtf ghost and gaz were doing on point... not seeing a group of enemies approach... why was makarov even there in the first place, SECONDS before the bomb was going to explode?
Bruh i didn't even think about that, the bomb was about to explode and makarov went "oh shit i forgot to kill soap", came back and killed soap then left
Also somehow Ghost and Gaz didnt hit makarov AT ALL
@@SpartanSouls256 fr. Mw2 2022 ended with ghost landing a headshot from like 500m during a windy ass night with no nods, and shitty construction lighting AND avoiding hitting Johnny in the process. How the fuck could he not hit Makarov's slow ass speed walking to his getaway?
@@kengiro0599brother didn’t even have time to leave. Pretty sure they explained the bomb would actually kill anyone within 10 miles of it. Even if he’s on a train he’d have about 20 seconds to get away and the train would need 3 minutes
They asked chatgpt “if you were to write a COD campaign, what would you write?” 💀
Gotta love how they took a break from yearly releases and ended up making it shorter and worse at the same time. Pure genius.
They didn't take a break
They just turned the dlc into a game so it's been constant yearly releases. You are misremembering
OG Price: Executes Al-Assad when he's no longer useful.
Nu "Price": Won't even shoot Makarov lmao.
Infinity Ward is a joke now. Wot a focken shame.
I mean who tf has cared about a call of duty campaign for 11 years
they never took a break
I love how they have been so afraid to kill anyone that even Gaz is alive in the third game and then they just unceremoniously shoot soap in the head and just move on 😂
they literally did the meme
(shoots Soap)
"oh no"
"anyways"
they couldn't risk killing off the token character and price/ghost had the essential tag.
i mean we already saw him die before.
@@sussy_6998Counter: Soap is the token Scottish guy
@@wolftamer5463 🗿
Soap: sTay WitH uS SiR!?
price: dies from cringe*
Ironic that MW3 was criticized for being a $60 DLC to MW2, and now MWIII is being criticized for being a $70 DLC to MWII
That 2011 MW3 was still way better than whatever behemoth of garbage Activision came up with this time. That game felt like an actual Call of duty with a real and enjoyable storyline. This game is literally a DLC, that too a disappointing one.
That what you get for not appreciating the real good thing
and that's why ladies and gentlemen, Valve hates the number 3
MW3 was one of the best CODs of all time - people were just picky back then. The story was brilliant, it didnt top the OG MW2 but it was great nonetheless so many iconic moments like Soap's actual death, '50,000 people used to live here, now its a ghost town', price's final scrap with makarov. Those were the days man
@@all-caps3927the story was lame, the campaign was monotonous and boring the same thing over and over again
you know a game is bad when you can fit the entire campaign with multiple clips from each mission in 22 minutes
Genuinely, you miss nothing in this video. Usually in Cr1t's vids you can't make sense of the story because how it's edited. Not a problem here.
@@billbill6094the only thing we missed was the court scene but that amounts to nothing as well so there was no point in that being in the game itself
Why the campaign is short ?
@@avay8726 a campaign that is short because a triple a dev team was lazy, this is a game that costs millions to make and everything was recycled with a new coat of paint even the zombies is the same, only thing that looks promising is the multiplayer, you have to also think about the fact there is multiple of the biggest companies working on this game and it’s in this state yk
@thenutman9524 They weren't lazy, they were rushed into it. Just remember that this game was made in 1 year.
Soap's death was arguably the worst part. An amazingly written and loved character killed in the most disrespectful ways just to fill in the status quo of needing a main character to die.
In original. In reboot no one cares about soap, I have no feelings for him, only his gay relationship with ghost.
I actually don't about anyone here, that so bland and cliche, they have no personality, just again, cliche characters from old movies, one grumpy, other angry, third mysterious, meh. Hope the call of duty die with battlefield, tired of this clownship
@@0DanteMayCry0 first of all, that seems like a you problem so don't speak for everyone. Second of all, what at all could have made you think Soap and Ghost were gay?
@@justaserbiandoomer497 In this day and age, people make assumptions and head canons just for the sake of complaining. "Two guys are good friends? Must be gay and this is woke bullshit" - That guy probably.
@@0DanteMayCry0bruh learn to English
@@justaserbiandoomer497 the gay thing is a bit just look at how they banter to each other in mw2
but also theyre not the only one, i enjoy soap but their death was so last second and tasteless. not to mention no real build up or tenson, they just wanted soap to die in this because he did in the og mw3. at least in that one soap wasnt going out so easily, they we fighting to keep him around but just couldnt so a character with so much fight ended up burning out while in this it just seems like baby face wanted to kill somebody on the main list so he took soap cuz he actually hurt him instead of shooting price.
sry for the rant there but this campaign compared to the og mw3 is just pathetic in SO many fuckin ways, it's just wildly disappointing that this costed 70$ for a 30$ (or even 20$) campaign.
"Are you just ragging on this for engagement"
Jesus, imagine watching a stream like this and then thinking "How could he hate this?"
Only way is to completely zone out for the whole stream then suddenly catch them shitting on the story and randomly choosing to defend it... You have to be that ignorant
hold on a moment, 19:36 when ghost crouches behind that blue cover thingy his weapon is still firing, you can see it eject and hit the ground next to soap it never stops firing up until like he is completely out of frame
BRUH
Also did soap just despawn from his initial down position and then respawns out of frame and just runs into makarov? that whole cutscene feels like thats where development ended, like thats not the end of the campaign but the actual point in time where they stopped developing the campaign
Very late reply, but also: why didn't Soap just fucking SHOOT him!? Why did he come up to him just to get shot? Also what did he even do to Makarov? It looked like he stab him in the throat but it didn't do anything to him?
I think that’s gunfire hitting the cover but yeah Soap definitely fell in the death pose and then got up 10 feet away and got death posed again
Shepherd's death is so rushed in this campaign. Like the writers are almost done with the story but they forgot to kill Shepherd so they pushed this little cutscene of him getting shot in his office. At least in the old games, there's a wild chasing mission and you get to have an awesome fight with him.
They did him in like the dude in the opening of Casino Royale, when he should be more like a John Wick villain.
I forgot he died in the game.
Yeah, at least give us playable mission like in COD4 where you play another mission after the credits. Oh actually, the idea of infiltrating Langley would be fun and a tribute to mission where we'd infiltrate KGB HQ in the BO:CW
They could've made his death more cinematic. This is just boring af
They really should have deal with the whole Shepherd thing in the second game. The tension with him was more intense bc the betrayal was recently done, and overall just get him out of the sight for a new villan to come and take the place. But man, they made this whole story so bad that it would feel rushed either way lol
The fact that the campaign ends with Ghost and Gaz apparently just watching Soap get fuckin executed right in front of them with no intervention is probably the most idiotic plot move ever 💀
I dont want to defend this trash plot but it is explained that they were being attacked by Konni which was preventing them from getting there on time
@@peruvianpuffpepper904 I mean that's better, but still 😂 the way it comes out after the cutscene makes it look like they just watched while one man was almost executed and the one was quite literally executed
@@peruvianpuffpepper904you haven’t played it so shut up
Soap dying did not need to fucken happen, they did it just to twist your heart but with how poor this whole campaign is you feel nothing
Disney Star Wars' Sequel trilogy aint got shit on this one 💀💀💀
Dont forget the original MW3 had the battle of new york, remember that badass scene where you force a russian sub to surface by detonating charges near it in the new york harbour, then you exfil by driving a RHIB boat into the back up the ramp of a sea knight which is like a little chinook helicopter.
Nope
The fact they left it on a cliff hanger is the worst part, its what made me hate it
Cod ghosts had a WAY better cliffhanger
Because This was supposed to be a DLC
That way they have more of a "Reason" to once again recycle the game, and sell it to those who even care lol.
I died at “can you atleast play the campaign with friends?” Charlie: “Of course you can, if you invite them over and force them to watch you play it.”
Why do people follow this guy's UA-cam account? Serious question? He keeps popping up on my feed yet he is the most unfunny uncharismatic person I've ever watched
So sorry for your death 🙏
i love paying 100 dollars for a boring story, no personalities to the characters anymore, and a random death of a beloved character that was completely unneeded in the story
so fucking true
Why would you buy Call of Duty? The franchise has been trash for a decade now.
@@RepublicOfWesternCanadaNOWafter advanced warfare the game went to shit
@@Colin-xy4xbgame went to shit when the original MW3 released
@@masterweapon334Couldn't play past the OG MW3.
Ghost and gaz were never there with you in the final mission, they were away in their own gun fight, not standing and watching soap get killed. They only showed up in time to save price. But that's admittedly a very small detail to not notice in all the shooting
When even IGN gives you a 4, you know you screwed up big time
And yet people will still play this garbage
For once, i agree with IGN. Usually, idc about what people said. When i played mw3 reboot and watching the rest of vtuber gameplay, i think i understand why people dislike it
I truly feel bad for all the actors who had to deal with this shit show.
MIission Failed, we'll get em next time.
At least they got paid...What a disappointment this was :(
They got paid but will it be worth it
Especially the Actor that played Soap.
He was a great choice for the Remake Series yet they kill him in this and in such a Cringe and Pathetic way.
All the Actors did a bang up job but jesus this was bad.
Hope they all got paid good.
@@D4rkKn1ght311 Let's hope not. CoD needs to die imo. Activision completely ruined the whole industry.
This campaign gives me the same feeling as writing an essay the day before it’s due.
😂 yo this is accurate as hell bro
real
Accurate and relatable af 💀
Imagine having such good campaigns in Modern warfare 1, 2 and 3. And then 10 years later making games with the same name to kinda shoo away the old ones, but making them so bad
Soap didn’t die twice for this💀
For some reason, the actor who plays Soap unfollowed Activision and all the other actors on social media. He barely promoted MW3 and deleted his Soap promos from the previous game. So my theory is that he saw the bullshit Activision is spewing and decided not to participate anymore. Don't know if that's the reason Soap's death is so sloppy but it still doesn't justify it.
Has it been the same actor all along
@@Marshmobilise No, the reboot has a new voice actor playing him
There’s definitely something fishy
they definitely did my man Soap dirty, the big greedy corps are evil and destroying good games and many people's childhood.
Neil Ellice or Kevin Mckidd?
That campaign was so disrespectful. Soaps death felt terrible. That is fucking embarrassing, especially when you see how he died in the OG MW3. After playing through 2 1/2 games as Soap or working with him, you are at one of the most important moments in the campaigns story. During a failed assassination attempt on Makarov, Soap gets critically wounded during an explosion. You proceed to carry his dying body though a hellish warzone, packed with action and emotional music. After finding a safehouse, Soap dies whilst receiving medical attention in which he drops a massive bombshell on Price with his final words. Price proceeds to give one of the most emotional performances I have ever seen, in all forms of media, crying over the death of his best friend and closest ally. Afterwards, he proceeds to beat Yuri's ass down a flight of stairs and delivered one of the most hardcore and memorable lines in Call of Duty history.
In this new game its just, Makarov shoots Soap in the head. Then the team mourns the death of Soap 1 cutscene later. Very little emotion. No theatrics. nothing. That is insulting to Soap as a character.
Imagine if they killed Mason or Woods like that in Black Ops, just a big, disrespectful FU to the fans.
Fuck this game.
They do not have any care for TF 141 and the story...the devs from OG mw and mw2 put soul into the story and loved it.
And his old wound from stabbed isn't well yet
I couldn't have said it better.
"There's a clocktower in Hereford where the names of the dead are inscribed. We try to honor their deeds even as their faces fade from our memory. Those memories are all that's left, when the bastards have taken everything else."
This campaign is a genuine disgrace to the MW3 name
I liked mw3 campaign. It felt a lot more open with the warzone mechanics. The other cod games were very limiting with how you can approach a mission
cannot believe it ends with soap being shot in the head and then them throwing his ashes off a cliff like what were they thinking
I love how the ending to Charlie's video had just as much thought behind it as the campaign ending 😂
Fun Fact: When you try and reinstall MW2, the MW3 campaign is actually listed in the game as an add on. They aren't even trying to hide that this was originally supposed to be a DLC.
Yikes…
thats because of the new "COD HQ" thing they're doing, every game will be listed as an add on now
The kinda did the same thing with vanguard.
Lol same noticed da earlier on the ps5 storage trying to re install mk1 “ it literally just says it next to it” Lmaooo
Yea because they're both on the same application you muppet
The fact that they did Makarov's fake out death the EXACT SAME WAY as Graves' fake out death in MW2 is fucking abysmal, like they really thought they can pull the same trick on us twice
Even the characters knew the second time around. This campaign is just a big cliche most of the time. Not surprised the community is hating on it.
@@asrieldreemurrthebestestbo1716not the community, they're all happy eating their $70 cashgrab justifying everything on other YT COD channels 😂
They're leaving clilffhangers so they can pump out another full price game to the losers who are still paying for it
@@FallenHerald311 I won't be surprised if they even make a mw5
@@dybixs1400 last cod I bought was ww1, got Gifted mw2019 and mw2. Kinda hoping the zombies will be better than the campaign.
I just love how you chase makarov across the world and he just crosses a train track to get away from you
9:21 crazy how price doesnt care makarov is in the ambulance
The fact they killed off one of the best characters in the worst campaign is so enraging
And even that wasn't original either, they did the same thing in the original MW3.
Price bareky cared that he died
@@frankiemoulder3521 It was earned though in the original MW3. OG Soap was Price's catalyst to finally trust and work with Yuri. His final words send Price on that rampage that ultimately ends with Makarov's demise.
New Soap was so unceremoniously just...not even killed, just removed from the game it felt that disrespectful.
@@Robin503 he barely cared because he understands and thats how war is people die and it happens
It's not the same soap, one is a character who existed to make you feel something while playing a game and the other is a premium character for a multiplayer game nobody should play
If Activision kept their word on no annual releases, this campaign would probably have been a lot better. Shame Activision is one of the most greediest companies out there
Honestly anything Sledgehammer Games touches is shit even if they had 5 years they'd fuck it up I genuinely have no actual hope for Multiplayer because they're doing it.
@@Atrosoniinfinity ward made the campaign
@@tenderize8779sledgehammer made the whole game :) do your research please
@@tenderize8779 how the mighty has fallen
Honestly. It's also the people's fault.
They just keep buying games from this shitty company.
Ea still rakes in millions of dollars each year just like cod does.
I just got done and I’m so pissed at how it ended 🤦🏾♂️ way too short and the missions were stupid af
6:50 imagine that gun in multiplayer, the gun isnt moving at all while shooting?
Miculek, is that you?
That's how they kill soap?? That was just plain awful, his death in mw3(2011) was more impactful, literally had you fight an army while carrying soap to a safe location just for all your effort to go to waste as he bleeds out on the table. I can't believe they would take him out in such a mundane way, literally spat on the fans.
Cod is a cash cow no effort into these campaigns now
Price casually said "one KIA" as if his close friends die everyday lmao
They’ll reboot the game in a year or so and bring him back Dw, then they’ll kill him again
they treated Riley getting shot better in Ghosts 💀
@@semkok7759agreed, the old code are more enjoyable 💀
They made Soap's death meaningless. The amount of plot holes in this campaign makes it look like Swiss cheese.
Bro forgot at the start of og mw3 soap just dies, just dies for fun. like stfu kid
@@xmebutt7707 You call this better than that? You're joking right
@@aircraft2 not saying it is, putting words in my mouth is a L, im saying is that why does it matter, why we shitting on this game when the Original MW3 did the same thing, if not worse, started off with a beloved character just dead for fun, no reason, no one bitched back then, cuz the reality is that back then people didnt care, now poeple give a shit a bit too much
@@xmebutt7707you’re not making a ton of sense. Objectively, this game is actually problematic in price-to-presentation. Like activation showed up at your house, asked for 70 dollars, then slapped you in the face.
Soap being dead previously was a poorly executed plot device. Soap being killed is actually meaningless, a total letdown.
I bet soaps voice actor saw an early cut and thought it was so bad he just peaced the fuck out.
You see, they didn’t HAVE any more dialogue of soap recorded, so they just have him executed poorly. 😂
@@xmebutt7707 soap doesnt die at the beginning of og mw3, the campaign was split into 3 acts and he dies in the 2nd
In MW4, the campaign will be 2 hrs, there will be one multiplayer map, and Ghost will die by jumping into a tree shredder or falling into it somehow
As someone who doesn't plan on playing MW3 i see this as an absolute win
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Same
As someone who was led on to believe and almost promised that MW2 would last more than one year and don’t plan on playing this, I see this as an absolute win
Me neither, I don't know why people play these games. I rather play atari games.
worst part is that price barely even cared that soap died, he was just like "dam i lose good soldier, oh well"
Danm...Facts. The devs really did this game dirty.
When it was Price who stopped Soap from killing Makarov and Soap sacrificed himself to save Price. And the guy as no feeling about it...
Makarov looks like angry kid that hasn’t got robux from his mother and hates his mother😂
The last call of duty I enjoyed was BO2
The last Call of duty I bought was Infinite Warfare.
COD really just died for me when I couldn't to split-screen with friends anymore. Like a bunch of other franchises.
The last cod i bought was cold war, every other cod game before was at least decent in one way or another
Charlie should try out the Black Ops 4 Campaign next!
Hi Eric!
I know, I cannot forget how absolutely fire Black Ops 4 campaign was. It shouldn't of existed for how mastercraft it was.
Good one.😂
It was the most impactful campaign of this generation
BO4 campaign is a 10/10
3 hours full of glorified spec ops missions... What a masterpiece
It shouldve been a movie if its that short lol.
Truly a game
I enjoy short games over long ones, people being extremely obsessed over it is silly.@@UltimateInkling
@@al112v4short and great can be acceptable, short and bad for full price is insulting
@@al112v4 ok but it's not good either so it's just short and bad.
idk if he mentioned it but why tf is alex alive???? bro got incinerated in that factory explosion 😭😭
Charlie's got the halo warthog mind set where if you tried enough you could fit through
Can confirm this is a real thing. Played Halo 3 with some buddies. They managed to fit a fucking warthog in a forerunner stairway.
Soap's death in the original trilogy actually meant something because we've seen he and Price's relationship evolve firsthand throughout the three games. In this series, Soap's seen connecting most with Ghost - so having them separated during the death scene was a huge misfire on an emotional level
Yeah, never mind the one "Jhonny" from ghost and no emotion afterwards. Maybe it's me seeing too many soap/ghost fanarts, but I expected him to atleast go slightly insane
@@selenophile5256 you're right. the fact that soap was the one who got ghost out of his shell, bantered with him over comms and showed more of his witty and sarcastic side, and got ghost to actually bump him on the shoulder was already a lot of development for a character who was first perceived as distant. also him being the only one who can call him "johnny" definitely lets you in on the emotional level of their relationship. yeah he's a distant and crumbled guy but soap definitely did something for him, if not on a romantic level at least as a friend or emotional support or something.
@@dellmonitor985DEFINITELY not the romantic level, but they were close friends
The entire point of MW2 was to show how gay they were for eachother. What was all that sexual tension for?!?!
Yeah the SOAP/GHOST Dynamic was truly amazing..it sucks how it wasn't used to its best ability, that sucks :(
I remember when characters deaths in cod games actually had reasons and meant something
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Same, I remember sobbing over Sandman, Woods (when he jumps through the window and the grenade goes off) mason (if you kills him as the hostage) and the entire infinite warfare cast. Hell even elias I shed a tear for but damn.... This campaign (though I spoiled myself on accident) dropped the ball hard.... Especially with someone like soap...
@@pikapi7429Soap dying in og mw2 or 3 cant remember, is my saddest moment in a game lol. Idk why, it just hit me when I was like 5.
Price flying back when the Semtex blew up killed me man😂😂😂
The crazy thing is i watched a couple of videos of people talking about the story and one of those videos showed the scene of soap dying in the og mw3 and i was ready to cry JUST BY LISTENING TO IT lol but ive never played the og mw3 campaign and too see how soul less and lazy his death was in this game was is soooo depressing cause i know how legendary that shit was😢
If you have gamepass/pc you can download it. Worth finishing that storyline as it should have been finished
@@kennethward5564 Activision games isn't on gamepass though, at least until 2024
When IGN gave a COD game a bad score you know it's abysmal.
somehow it’s sitting comfortably at a 95% for google users, at least it’s not woke eh?
@@iamnotthatguy7166 Bots, Google deletes a lot of real player reviews especially with gacha games.
Does anyone care about IGN these days?
@@koleszgdanska7149 well, I always liked their older reviews, and I feel they are getting better again!
so stop buying these games idjits
The only excuse I’ve given myself for buying the newer CoD games was the campaign, thank you for giving me final justification to not buy anymore CoD games
bro really bought full price call of duty to play five hours of mid singleplayer fr
You’re lying to yourself, lmao.
Wait till the next one comes and the cycle repeats all over again.
Me too lol, I'll probably just pirate it
Ikr I use to do that for Zombies but than that game mode became dogshit after B03 so now all I have is the campaign but now that it's also shit their is no point in buying COD because the Multiplayer isn't good or worth spending $60 - $70.
MW3 story line in my head is a week long war fought in the warzone map where despite reinforcements being down the road you have to do much of the fighting alone. As for the ending I would have changed it to the shooting down of Makorvs helicopter where you take control of the ground team. You have to confirm the kill and are informed that Makarovs forces are convergin on the site. They are using saws to say cut open the crashed helo ala black hawk down. Bam explain why they dont just pull him out and give you a timer to stop them before they finish cutting a hole to him. You get there and as you cut the hole yourself the door falls in, soap is shot dead and you return fire killing the shooter. Perhaps its Makarov perhaps it was just a guard.
What?
12:21 you not being able to reload that weapon gave me immeasurable anxiety
At this point, COD fans deserve this like sports games fans. As long as you keep buying shit, they'll keep making shit.
at least in sports and racing games u get what u expect, MORE sports and racing lmao. In blockbuster titles like CoD consumers have more expectations in the campaign side
Casuals just buy the games every year. Doesn't seem to matter. Most consumers aren't plugged in to these things. Doesn't matter if the product is objectively regarded as poor quality as long as they had their "fun". It's just the nature of the beast.
That’s why I stopped buying both
THANK YOU! My sympathy is ZERO.
@@Albus_RexI mean that’s how it’s supposed to be, having fun. Not having a hive mindset
The fact that the crew didn’t just shoot Makarov is so stupid. Imagine if Seal Team 6 finally found Bin Laden and then just handcuffed him and brought him on a helicopter.
You’ve awoken all of the totally expert fact checker Wall Street journalists with that Bin Laden statement 😂
Too many characters nowadays gotta act like Batman putting the Joker in 5 minutes time out for blowing up the 567th children's hospital this week.
@@HundredPercentPlayeryou mean 362nd
@@Wonder_Blurgsright
I mean we are supposed to arrest people not kill. And if we had arrested Osama bin laden it could've been very useful info wise but ikwym
Can we all acknowledge that Ghost couldn't even take the mask off FOR SOAP'S FUNERAL!
"The Mask stays on during sex"
The cuts in the video actually feels like how the game plays out, a fever dream.
Game designer: "We got a DLC."
Producer: "Turn that into the next game!"
Its what tou get with these yearly titles i never bought them
You got one year!
Game designer: "But it's not long enough for a campaign."
Producer: "What you talking about? It took me 8 hours to beat it."
Game Designer: "That's because you don't play games."
Idiot gamers: "let's buy it anyway'
Kinda how Saints Row 4 was created
6:57 dude not even reacting to having a gun nearly shot at him lmfao
I was so mad at how short it was, I didn't even hang out to see that post roll scene when I beat it. I wouldn't have even know it existed if I didn't watch this video
They did soap so dirty in this campaign. The original soap death was such an emotional scene. There was no possible way plot wise that Soap could’ve been saved, and Price’s actor did an amazing job in the scene where he dies. It felt real, seeing someone break after losing one of their closest allies, and it still makes me tear up to this very day 12 years later. Soap’s death in THIS campaign is actually insulting. It feels like they just killed him off to get a reaction out of Soap lovers again. There was no buildup to his death, no emotion, absolutely NOTHING. And it just ends right after. Bo3’s campaign was disappointing. Vanguard’s was boring. But this campaign is the first that’s actually INSULTING to fans of the series.
Preach brother! One of the stages of grief is called denial and when Soap died I could not to believe it. The original game wrote the storyline so well! After Soap died, there was a mission to avenge Soap that ended the game, not this baloney. If the CoD community ever wanted to draw the line, this game is where we need to draw it. The original campaign is leagues above the 2023 remake. yeah Im not buying this game either.
I swear his death in this game is the equivalent to gaz's death in call of duty 4 like he was just shot in the head by the main villain and nobody really cared
We were expecting characters to die but this was just shameless. They just killed him off for, not even plot purposes.
Right? At the very least it shouldve been Gaz
@@kevingarcia6746because its one of the worst campaigns in the whole series especially for a black ops game. Matter of fact it was so bad bo 4 didn't even got a campaign
I genuinely feel like this was written by AI. I feel like the scene following Soap's death solidifies it for me.
Lmao now that you say it, i see what you mean 😂
@@Skateandcreate9 20:19 20:19
It wasn’t but yeah very mediocre at best.
Thank you, it’s so Marvel-ly
Bro AI would have done a better job
The fact people say how each new COD is trash yet still support it just by purchasing the game amazes me. We’re our own worse enemy.
10:51 is so stupid that it's hilarious. Makarov is unarmed and tied up, yet he magically frees himself and kills you instantly with a single stomp while Price just stands there and watches, all because the devs didn't want to give their players the freedom to take even the SLIGHTEST deviation from the campaign that they made. You don't just have to follow Makarov, you also have to keep looking at him the whole entire time.
Man they really did a great job with 2019 mw. They showed that giving a game time can make it great. But they fell into old habits by releasing reheated crap every year.
Read these nuts@DontReadMyProfilePicture.233
yeah yeah people been complaining about 2019 as well, this toxic community has not changed since 2009
@@Dar1uszlmfao yeah the multilayer was absolute shit and all the pros feel the same way. As for the campaign. It was good. You’re just wrong on the point.
@@Dar1usz nah 2019 was the best one we've had in YEARS, the maps it came with were hot garbage tho, but when old maps came in and some good new ones it was actually pretty good fun, but sbmm was still shit, cold war was pretty decent but undercooked, then vanguard, mw2 and now mw3 are garbage again
2019s campaign was also mid
its so weird watching call of duty games go from focusing on their story and having the multiplayer maps be based on locations from the campaign, to, the multiplayer map is now developed first and we have a campaign based around the multiplayer map.
Well technically they did take a big unique turn with warzone in itself. I’ve been playing warzone for a long time and haven’t played any other cod in forever.
9:22 ambulance on the right, isn't that Makarov?? it looks like him
"soap you can wake up now!"🤣🤣🤣
Open world missions on a cod game was just about the worst decision they could ever make. I’m not surprised anymore either, literally half of the campaign was filler, and I should have known from the get go that it was going to suck. There was absolutely no story what-so-ever. Call of Duty 2019 worked and was fresh because of how all the missions felt and how they flowed together. It was a new take on an extremely popular series and it just felt good, the gun play was excellent, the visuals incredible, and the story made sense.
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It feels like a spec ops mission from MW2019 running around verdansk with menial objectives to make up a mission :/
attention desperate edgelord loser @@ChrisShafferOfficial
Yeah, i want to know what they were smoking when they made this god awful game 😂 the only people that did good was the gun animation team 💀
I think one of the worst parts of this campaign is how they handled Soap’s death.
It’s emotional in 2011 because you’ve had three games fighting as and alongside Soap. We saw him as the private, saw him grow with Price, and have him tragically die with a memorial to when he saved Price in COD4.
In MW19, he’s a cameo name at the end of the game and has a side role in MWII. His death comes out of nowhere, has little fanfare, and has no attachment to the character. He only dies because he did in 2011 and the MW reboot series is based on appealing to gamers’ nostalgia for the original trilogy.
It’s almost like what they did with Ghost in MWII (2009), where he was a character that had no development and was killed off during the ending - however, we cared about Ghost because he had a cool design and it was tied to a genuinely surprising plot twist. We know Makarov isn’t dead and we know, since they copied everything else, that Soap was likely to die - so not only is it predictable, it’s a shameless ripoff.
Its comparable to the live disney movie remakes. Its the same compay yeaa but no like you said its a rip off
I'm blown away that anyone cares about any of these characters at all. They're all extremely generic, gruff soldiers, and always have been.
@@danwaldkirch5455If you seen or play the OG MW series, you see why
@@theghost4life I did, when they first came out. But I wasn't a preteen so interchangeable buff dudes with gravely voices didn't do much for me.
@@theghost4lifei play the OG too but when they died i was like
"Ah shit here goes another one lol"
he was right the soldier feel so generic....the OG were good but its more of the gameplay and the story is just meh for me its a generic hollywood writing
I wouldn't even consider that ending a cliffhanger, it just ends. Terrible, just terrible.
Did anyone else notice Makarov in the ambulance on the right at 9:23?
I feel so bad for the people that work on these games that genuinely try to put their heart and soul into something that gets ruined by the corporations they work for
there is no soul on a cod game
The people that work on those games knew what they were getting into but only cared about the paycheck
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@@pipe1860soy soy soy
@@jacobsnipes6244soying soying soying
Soaps death was so anticlimactic and embarrassingly disappointing, unlike the og MW3, it was emotional and gut punching
price killing shepherd at the end with no gloves or anything other than a silencer kills me. everyone instantly knows who it was when they look at that door handle
The worst part about it too is they undermined Soaps death so badly! Like a nothing burger, no dramatics or anything. I still remember Price's performance on Soap bleeding out. I can still hear Prices 'NO NO NO!'
Don’t forget his reaction to Yuri, throwing you down a flight of stairs and full of rage. As opposed to this where he was over it almost immediately.
@@goodtimesgamingtm1316”Soap trusted you. I thought I could too… SO WHY IN BLOODY HELL DOES MAKAROV KNOW YOU?!” I loved this line and it really hits different.
@@goodtimesgamingtm1316price really hit him with a damn that’s crazy and left 😂😂😂😂
They really fucked up the only thing that mades COD decent enough to play it
They are supposed to be the best of the best, they wouldn't stand there and scream his name after he dies. I feel like this is one of the only positives from that scene honestly
The MW3 campaign is like an incoherent mesh of warzone limited time events
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Real comment here. It looks like why I stopped playing mw2
It really wasn't incoherent they just pieced together missing pieces and tried something new and remember Infinity Ward was the people who made the campaign, not sledgehammer
I lost interest in cod after probably black ops 4
I just realized, if you look at the ambulance to the right at 16:58, you can see Makarov right then and there.
So like, how the fuck did Ghost and Gaz NOT kill Makarov? It was just Makarov and like 3 other guys, Ghost and Gaz had the element of surprise and they only "injure" Makarov? Literally just shoot him in the head, he doesn't have a helmet or anything, NONE of them do, why does everyone aim for the body when they're SO CLOSE
$70? ✅
Reused maps? ✅
Reused animations? ✅
Reused assets? ✅
Capitalizing off of your nostalgia? ✅
Millions will still buy it anyway? ✅
Yup, That's COD alright.
Well said dude I haven't played cod since the skid mark black ops 4 and I payed 100 for this because people said finally we might get another decent enough campaign and let me tell you it's not even worth the price no is really worth the name it was given at this point it's borderlands the pre sequel all over again this should have been either a dlc or called call of duty modern warfare the pre sequel 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Modern COD
@@ErrkNjerkYou say this as if OP bought the game. What if they didn’t and is just watching the chaos unfold from the sidelines? Please don’t draw conclusions with a lack of information.
It’s just 70$ DLC. The Multiplayer is also probably just gonna be a Copy Paste of MW2’s. The thing that’ll probably be worth buying this game for is Zombies.
@@Jxshua19 i didnt
I hated this campaign. It was super quick, had no sustenance to it, and they killed off Soap with no emotion and for no reason at all, and the bad guy just gets away like nothing was worth it.
Substance. Sustenance is food.
Get ready to give them 70 more dollars in a couple years with MW4 Markoravs Black Cell boogaloo.
Wdym no emotion? They literally have a scene about them spreading his ashes and saying their final goodbyes. And no reason? At the stadium, Makarov tells them to never Bury their enemies alive, which Soap let's him live. Makarov tells him he'll be back again. Makarov's real plan to bomb London was just a ploy to kill Soap, which is what he does and then books it rather than defending the bomb. While I agree OCMs were trash and the length was really short, the story was still pretty decent
@@SRHv2 Shut up
@@SRHv2 The entire campaign was a warzone map.
What I would've liked to seen was a level where you have to fend off konni spectre gun ship. Seeing as they have a sub and some sort of air transport to do air insertions in the first level.
The way both the title and description contradict each other is simply 👌👌👌
Love the “open combat” where your vehicle magically explodes after going over an invisible border for a couple seconds
they were too lazy to change the warzone map for the campaign
🤣🤣
Also cod modern warfare 1 remaster was so good it looks like I was in actual war. Here you can't even destroy light with gun fire. Like super hard degredation
When I finished the campaign my first initial thoughts was "That's it, its over?" it felt like the biggest gut punch ever, its much worse than the previous COD
you actually pre ordered it? and had expectations?
i am so sorry
@@Royy2004why feel sorry for an idiot
@@Royy2004literally they should have known it would be trash😂
@@Royy2004 sorry I forgot to add the word "watching" no I didn't preorder the game
yeah same! what an actual shitty campaign.
9:00 let that moment sink in…