Overview
Developed by Sledgehammer Games and published by Activision, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III Reboot is a video game released on November 10, 2023. The platforms listed in this entry are PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series, Xbox One and PC. The associated genres are action and FPS. The specified game modes are Single player, Multiplayer and Co-operative, and the engine listed is the IW Engine.
Modern Warfare III is built as a direct sequel to Modern Warfare II. This continuity does not concern the campaign alone: it also extends to a significant part of the progression and content accumulated in the previous game.
The campaign alternates the cinematic sequences traditionally associated with Call of Duty with new Open Combat Missions. These missions retain defined objectives while greatly expanding the available space and the ways in which they can be completed.
The same objective can therefore be approached with greater freedom. The player can favor stealth, engage enemies directly, search the area for other weapons and equipment, take different routes or use certain vehicles. Missions can also offer opportunities for vertical traversal, parachuting or moving through water.
Open Combat Missions do not entirely replace the more linear missions. They are distributed throughout the campaign so that two structures can coexist: the series’ heavily scripted sequences and spaces where the tactical approach depends more directly on the player.
The Carry Forward system is another distinctive feature of Modern Warfare III. A large portion of Modern Warfare II content can be transferred, including previously acquired weapons, their levels, various attachments, unlocked items and compatible Operators.
This continuity allows weapons from MWII to join the MWIII arsenal directly. Some interactions also exist between older equipment and new attachments, avoiding a complete separation between the two generations of weapons.
Modern Warfare III also introduces its own weapons and expands the Gunsmith with Aftermarket Parts. These components can alter certain weapons and their behavior more substantially, to the point of changing their original role or configuration.
Multiplayer launches with sixteen modernized maps from 2009’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. They retain their overall layouts while incorporating the systems, movement and game modes of Modern Warfare III.
Mobility is also reworked. Slide canceling returns, climbing is faster, certain actions can be performed during or immediately after a slide, and Tactical Sprint operates differently. These changes restore an important role to rapid movement chains during combat.
The game also introduces Tac-Stance, an intermediate position between hip fire and traditional aiming. It allows greater mobility in certain close-range situations while providing better accuracy than firing from the hip.
Modern Warfare Zombies adopts a structure very different from the series’ traditional round-based format. The mode places players in a large shared open environment, organized around a PvE experience combining exploration, objectives and extraction.
The map is divided into several threat zones with increasing difficulty. Squads can complete missions and contracts, search for equipment, upgrade their weapons and gather various resources before attempting to leave the area.
Extraction plays an important role in this progression. Certain acquisitions recovered during a match can be retained after a successful exfiltration and used in subsequent deployments, giving the mode a persistent structure across multiple sessions.
Zombies also allows different squads present on the same map to cooperate against the threats they encounter. This organization moves the mode away from the traditional closed format and into a broader space where exploration, contracts, increasing difficulty and extraction structure each session.
Modern Warfare III is therefore built around an unusual idea of continuity for the series: rather than completely isolating a new installment, it directly extends the campaign, arsenal and part of the progression from Modern Warfare II while introducing its own mission structures, movement systems and game modes.
Key takeaways
- Makarov returns as the campaign’s main antagonist.
- Open Combat Missions provide defined objectives within spaces that allow greater freedom of approach.
- The Carry Forward system allows a significant portion of weapons, equipment, Operators and unlocked content from Modern Warfare II to be retained.
- Multiplayer launches with sixteen modernized maps from 2009’s Modern Warfare 2.
- Mobility evolves with the return of slide canceling, faster climbing and Tac-Stance.
- Aftermarket Parts allow certain weapons to be modified more substantially.
- Modern Warfare Zombies adopts an open-world PvE structure with missions, contracts and extraction.
- The different Zombies zones progressively increase in threat level.
Conclusion
Modern Warfare III is first distinguished by the continuity it maintains with the previous installment. The Carry Forward system turns Modern Warfare II into a genuine starting point for the arsenal and part of the progression instead of systematically removing what had already been acquired.
The campaign applies a comparable logic to its structure. Cinematic missions remain present, but Open Combat Missions introduce spaces where routes, equipment and level of aggression can be chosen more freely.
Multiplayer combines maps from 2009’s Modern Warfare 2 with a renewed movement and customization system, while Zombies abandons the traditional round-based structure in favor of a large PvE environment organized around missions and extraction.
These different components give Modern Warfare III a particular place within the series’ continuity: it functions less as a reset than as a direct extension of the systems, content and story established in Modern Warfare II.
Good to know
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III Reboot was released on November 10, 2023.
- The game was developed by Sledgehammer Games and published by Activision.
- The platforms listed are PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series, Xbox One and PC.
- The associated genres are action and FPS.
- The specified game modes are Single player, Multiplayer and Co-operative.
- The engine listed is the IW Engine.
- Open Combat Missions provide greater freedom in how certain campaign objectives are completed.
- Carry Forward directly connects part of Modern Warfare II’s progression and arsenal to Modern Warfare III.
