I tried the 'MW3 Campaign' to see if it's THAT bad...

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is a first-person shooter video game developed by Sledgehammer Games and published by Activision. It is the twentieth game in the Call of Duty series, and third entry in the rebooted Modern Warfare sub-series, serving as the direct sequel to 2022's Modern Warfare II. The game is scheduled to be fully released on November 10, 2023, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
Modern Warfare III retains the realistic, modern setting of its predecessors and continues the sub-series' storyline. The story follows multi-national special operations unit Task Force 141 tracking down Vladimir Makarov, a Russian ultranationalist and terrorist planning to trigger a third World War. The game's multiplayer includes all 16 base maps from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009) remastered, with new maps planned for inclusion post-launch. A Zombies mode built around an open world with a player versus environment experience is included, making Modern Warfare III the first Modern Warfare title to include a Zombies mode.
After developing Call of Duty: Vanguard (2021), Sledgehammer Games were assigned to develop an expansion pack for Modern Warfare II. During development, however, Activision chose to make the project a full, standalone entry in the Call of Duty series. Sledgehammer utilized the 9.0 version of the IW engine when developing Modern Warfare III. Treyarch, the lead developers of the Call of Duty: Black Ops subseries, also co-developed the Zombies mode. After a series of leaks in early-to-mid 2023, the game was officially revealed in August 2023,[5] with a showcase event and public beta also taking place in October.
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[@LukeStephensTV]

Sub to my 🔴 Live Channel: www.youtube.com/@LukeStephensLive -- If you don't I'll make you play this monstrosity yourself...

[@palaashatri]

Yeah I can play this, because I haven't touched any CoDs since Black Ops 1 :) They've always been way too expensive for a 6 hour campaign for a middle class person to afford.

[@drinnerd8532]

@@palaashatri ... don't really get your point here. Is it sarcasm? The reason I ask is because you start off saying "Yeah I can play this..." then finish with saying "They've always been way too expensive for a 6 hour campaign for a middle class person to afford." ... ... but this campaign is also, 70 DOLLARS!! It's still the most expensive that COD has EVER been. Are you saying you can afford it now? That doesn't make any sense, man. Seriously, I'm not trying to troll or be condescending or anything, just really confused.

[@speider]

Correction: The people who have already played the campaign didn't spend 70 dollars. The early campaign access is in the Vault Edition, which cost 100 dollars.

[@palaashatri]

@@drinnerd8532 Luke said "If you don't I'll make you play this monstrosity yourself...", since I can't afford it, if he has to honor his word he would have to buy it for me :) So, I can play it, (if Luke forces me to play it) but I can't afford it, so he'll have to buy it for me.

[@deathbunny3048]

Not everybody knew it was just a DLC SCAM.... THE DEVS WHO GOT FECKED INTO MAKING THIS TRASH IN LESS THAN A YEAR... thought for the longest time it was going to be an expansion pack and then Activision sprung it on them 3 months before LAUNCH that it'll be a full game release.... and for some reason people still give them money every single year.... like pathetic little abuse victims with stockholm syndrome or somethin'.... and guess what.... COD fans have nobody to blame but themselves, they should've seen it coming DECADES AGO, every single release there was less and LESS and LESS and LESS, EFFORT, CONTENT, INNOVATION and they all told activision, here!! Take my money, I APPROVE, so now they don't GET TO BE PISSED, they wanted the GARBAGE and they GOT THE GARBAGE.

[@ToastyMcGrath]

For a game series whose first motto was "no one fights alone," you spend basically all of MW3 fighting alone.

[@freephoenix1292]

Yep noticed that as well

[@shikihayate]

It like when they " call of duty" but you the only one who answered

[@landoncallahan5040]

Agreed, lets hope treyarch gives us a classic worthy game

[@likeandsharedeeznutsbruh2845]

​@@landoncallahan5040that's the problem with call of duty fans. No matter how awful a game is, y'all will sit there and be like "let's hope next year's game is better". We keep getting mediocrity because you guys keep buying it

[@linkfreeman1998]

That "no one fights alone" thing is just marketing gimmick from the beginning. If it is real, then why would my game would have mission failed if I die? It's as if I fought alone and the mission is solely on me.

[@Boss_Fight_Wiki_muki_twitch]

Consumers: "So that 235Gb install size means it has a complete campaign, right?" Activision CEO:

[@Exhalted1]

it means it has warzone content preinstalled lol

[@anthonykaruri6430]

Padme: It has a complete campaign, right?

[@InternetMouse]

Consumers : RIGHT? 😰

[@ozzy_vxx]

*Activision leaves chat room*

[@SordidusFellatio]

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[@Gunnumn]

The worst part is Activision is probably going to get away with this and nothing will happen. The news will die down until the next Call of Duty, and the cycle repeats itself.

[@fak3id824]

Cycle 😂

[@thelitmanftw]

Yep literally every yearly triple A today, NBA 2K, cod, madden, fifa, etc they underperform every year to overhype and overpromise on fixes the next year to hook people in

[@mitch6651]

At that point is it the developers fault or the people who buy it? Realise it, harness that knowledge and improve your own life. You don’t need to worry about all the other idiots continuing the cycle.

[@deadnorth8648]

​@thelitmanftw You just listed all the main gotcha games from the west... I can't help you if that's your line up

[@jesusblanco7657]

@@thelitmanftwevery franchise that has an annual release

[@HowdyHowdy_]

It blows my mind that despite having the blueprint for one of the best CoDs of all time, they make a remake of it and pump out one of the worst CoDs of all time.

[@chrissolace]

Facts. Their remakes have been great so far and this next one should’ve been an easy layup, but they bombed this release so hard, I can’t think they could have done this unless they were trying to intentionally do so. It’s easily one of their worst releases.

[@kriskater]

@@chrissolacelazy cash grab… and they made MILLIONS of dollars

[@chefshivers3019]

I’m still waiting for a BO1 remaster or something. If they just listened to what games and fans want we’d all be happy to a point

[@bryanwouters443]

mw 2019 is the worse cod game of all time

[@wlot28]

This isn't even close to being one of the worst CODs of all time, please stop with this overblown bullshit hyperbole

[@gr33n007]

cmon give them a chance they're just a small startup indie team

[@OrionDawn15]

Yeah guys, it ain't fair to bully them, it's their first outing and they only have shoe-string budget :(

[@TheShoxter]

It all makes sense when you look at it this way: - Campaign originally only had the main “traditional” missions and was going to be MW2 Year 2 expansion, introducing Makarov and setting up for a slammer of a campaign in MW3 where there would be real stakes and real story telling. - Open Combat Missions were added to double campaign length when daddy Activision forced a full game release, none of the dev team actually wanted this or thought they were a good idea. It was not a central design direction, came solely from up top. It’s the only way they could possible even create the illusion of a stand alone game. - Another huge tell of this original plan is how the MP maps are all MW2 remakes. Because it was a planned DLC for MW2.

[@awesome3139]

Instead of releasing one of the classic MW2 maps with each update for MW2, they held them up for MW3. This is the exact reason content has been so sparse.

[@funtourhawk]

Yeah MW3 is just a mash-up of recycled content put into a "new" game so they can get another sale...Activision learned something from Bungie I see

[@faizalbaito]

💯💯💯 Especially on the OCMs.

[@abbe9641]

there were rumors a year or two ago that mw2 remastered was shelved and the maps were already done and waiting, that explains why mw3 has all mw2 maps remastered from mw2 2009, it also explains why campaign is just an asset flip of verdansk, they had to do very little work while charging 70 USD, geniuses but i ain't buying it at full price.

[@bears2life366]

Campaign length didn’t get doubled it got cut in half

[@jstsmakestuff]

miss when campaigns were actually their own thing, almost like a movie that you could play.

[@davidstinger1134]

I mean, MWII last year was just that. Only games where the campaign isn't like that is MWIII and Black Ops 4, since it didn't have one at all.

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

Still is. Not sure how exactly that has supposedly changed.

[@lukedstaten]

If the only compliment you can give to a new game in today's world is having good graphics, it literally means nothing. Indie games can have great graphics. But 15 years ago the number one thing people cared about was the experience and the story. Wish Activision got their priorities straight with what gamers actually care about

[@Gimmemi]

Gamers do not care about quality or good experience. Most gamers got major Stockholm syndrome and they’re now the problem, we can complain all we want. What has it done? People are still buying it.

[@TheRixtah1]

Their priority is money

[@threefiveseven]

Sadly the people who buy cod only care about graphics. They're casual console players. Only want the graphics they dont care if the game sucks it looks good. Look at sony fans. Their games are boring walking sims, but they look good. So they sell millions of copies.

[@Gimmemi]

@@threefiveseven yeah but that’s just a opinion. Some people prefer graphics. But that doesn’t change the fact the main problem is people are now aware what game/companies are predatory but they don’t have any thought into change. They think not buying their content won’t do anything when the only reason we’re in this predicament is that people are buying their content! It doesn’t matter our preferences. The bottom line is if you know a game doesn’t value your time and only sees you as a cog in the money machine, which is obvious nowadays. Then do not support it, no views on videos, no articles, no preordering, no buying $20 skins, no dumping 100 hours just have a “valid opinion”. You can buy a game because that’s your Freedom, but you cannot complain that things are bad when you’re contributing. Me included. Although watching these videos trashing these horrible games feels good. We all know we’re only feeding the game’s popularity. We gotta be better in unison is all and that takes time, effort, discipline and self value.

[@MrMooMoo088]

Yea my buddy got MW3. Seemed disappointed but was still baffled I don't have it. I explained that I lost interest in the franchise a long time ago and I don't like how heavily monetized the games are. He didn't really understand. Before I could explain what I am playing ( AC6 and Lies of P) he says " oh you just like that zombie monster stuff right? It's cool I guess but Dragons are fake." Like what do you even say at that point?

[@yurasdrake7915]

"Why does it all have to be warzone?" Because battle-royals have forever ruined the game market. The first modern-warfare reboot showed me that the whole series was borked from the start.

[@Seoul_Soldier]

I really wish Battle Royale games never got popular. They have irrevocably reduced shooters to lame battle pass grinding bullshit.

[@yurasdrake7915]

@NC_Legend Yeah just about all of them hopped on the band wagon. I guess the only thing positive that came from ruining shooters is the love for indie games that I found.

[@trickvondoom2354]

Activision knew they'd get away with this when they released Black Ops 4 without a campaign and people still threw their money at them.

[@MrMooMoo088]

Exactly. We're still the minority here lol. My friend was completely baffled that I have no interest in MW3, and he had no idea what I was talking about when I said I don't like how heavily monetized they are. He gets a little angry and says "oh so what are you playing?" I put on the Armored Core 6 trailer and Lies of P trailer. He barely watched either and said " oh its like zombie monsters. It's cool I guess but Dragons are fake." I just ended the convo lol. No idea what to say after trying to explain microtransactions to him 5 minutes before that. Even trying to explain to him that he's just pissing his money away he didn't care.

[@spasticpanda8933]

​@@MrMooMoo088cod is incredible ...at brainwashing people. They happily throw their money at it because they can't branch out to play different games because cod was what they played growing up. Straight fact

[@spoiledsalad1851]

@@MrMooMoo088It’s hilarious he says “dragons are fake.” When there’s legit fucking zombies connected to the campaign storyline now. Because of BO4 zombies

[@MrMooMoo088]

@@spoiledsalad1851 I mean yeah not to mention everything that happens in Call of Duty is on par with Fast and the Furious levels of over the top stupid. Which is fine but don't talk to me about realism.

[@fanovaohsmuts]

A multiplayer only COD isn’t a bad idea, but it should also not cost as much as a full package COD. Just as this set of DLC missions should not cost as much as a full package COD.

[@kennethfocarino7075]

I swear if they just marketed all this as an MW2 dlc in its current state, people would’ve been happy with what they got, instead of people being disappointed at what wasn’t there.

[@Rnerdy197]

Should have just stayed as what was planned no cod new this year and the new game as just dlc

[@vincentmartineau2006]

That’s what I said to myself. A 3 or so hour campaign expansion would’ve been good. Not this

[@SordidusFellatio]

It’s Lightfall’s scam all over again

[@davidstinger1134]

It WAS DLC, it's just MWII had so little content, so many bugs and so many patches that just delivered even more bugs that the game bled too many players and decided to just cut their losses and release this as a new game. They expected MWII to have the same player retention as MW2019, but it just didn't. Honestly, not just sticking with MW2019 and just updating it along with that first version of Warzone is probably the most stupid move Activision has ever done, not just from the player's perspective, but also their income''s. MW2019 and the first Warzone were lightning in a bottle, and they just let it rot and die.

[@michaelmach9515]

They had to market it as a separate game so they could charge $70

[@brandonreyes7113]

As an old school cod fan I gave up in 2019 and now I realize these games aren’t made for me anymore if you are still buying cod for the campaign you’re playing yourself. Activision could care less if the campaign sucks as long as the mp sells. Also the casual gamer couldn’t care less about the campaigns anymore we are actually the small group who care about the campaign

[@cxngo8124]

I agree. I stopped playing after mw 2019. They removed the grind of multiplayer to make you buy skins, and Im not willing to pay 90 CAD for just a campaign, let alone this one.

[@QuellTheHeresy]

Casuals just want to be force fed rip offs of films with tacticool cutscenes and they love eating that slop

[@drinnerd8532]

This 👆 is what upsets me the most about this. Everything you just said is absolutely true and it sucks. I don't think this amazing game's campaign is ever coming back.

[@user-sm1zk8ur3h]

All they care about is quantity over quality in games nowadays

[@ryangosling3331]

Mw2019 had an amazing campaign tho

[@BennyLlama]

CoD is amazing. What other game would crash while restarting 😂

[@misberave]

This is pretty standard and can happen with every other game you launch for the first time

[@OrionDawn15]

@@misberave No. No this isn't standard. I've NEVER encountered this at all, and I doubt many people have. And nobody said anything about launching a game for the first time until you brought it up, so where'd that come from?

[@Kal_El_429]

​@@OrionDawn15if you have never encountered this before. You're either lying or haven't been playing games that long. Hell Bethesda games are notorious for crashing until someone creates a mod and fixes it for free.

[@Hypersense-gv2ve]

​@@misberaveyeah come on man lmao you trynna cover for them

[@Kuroiikawa]

@@misberave Name the games that you have had this happen to you. Let us see the "standard".

[@drinnerd8532]

And their startup interface?! EVERYTHING about their new approach to Modern Warfare is an absolute catastrophe. The UI of the main lobby/hub is utterly atrocious and completely confusing. I have NO IDEA where I am half the time, what the hell I'm even looking at or how to simply navigate the damn thing and when I finally get to the "Campaign" section that they have buried under all their Multiplayer & microtransaction BS, IT MAKES YOU RESTART THE GAME!!! Absolutely, MADDENING

[@drinnerd8532]

@guyincle126 I didn't. I did however, buy MW 2019 and encountered this same nonsense, so I know what Luke is talking about

[@dior5454]

Even though we’re getting some of the greatest games just this year, let alone the past 5 years. Gaming, along with other entertainment mediums, is suffering VASTLY from corporate greed. Video games used to feel like passion projects from people that care about what they’re making from the janitor to the head of the company. Now video games are seen as a lucrative money maker so the suits are sticking their little grubby hands on these games. It’s disheartening tbh.

[@mikelitten7489]

Honestly, I have a hard time saying corporate greed. They only do what sells, because they want the money. If gamers weren’t paying for garbage all the time, they wouldn’t do it. Gamers are enabling the downfall of gaming. If garbage like Fortnite and other micro transaction nonsense wouldn’t sell, everyone wouldn’t be trying to copy the model to get a piece of that pie. In summary, their “greed” won’t let them do something that people aren’t paying for. Stop Buying Bullshit

[@deadnorth8648]

We only have fomo entertainment and Stan consumers

[@ronel7836]

Ah, a comment that doesn't say how shit gaming has been for the past 9 yrs, very refrshing. I do agree, but at this point, I blame the gamers. We have the power to change how these greedy corporations think, but guess what happens? They buy into it. One example is Ea lol, people will complain about a new madden game that literally is an updated verison of the last year's version, but guess what people eat that shit up and make them tons of money aka ultimate team. It has come to a point where I don't really blame the devs, there basically giving the dumbass fans what they want

[@mikelitten7489]

@@ronel7836 Exactly! If it wasn’t making them money they wouldn’t do it. Why is it making them money? Dummy’s still buying it

[@TheMarcHicks]

​@@ronel7836hence why I am *very* picky about the games I buy and play.

[@REKONZE41]

The campaign felt like chores. I was putting the difficulty on the easiest to basically see how fast I can speed run all missions.

[@tifapanties25]

Sheeps follow never lead

[@REKONZE41]

@@guyincle126 I thought since xbox bought them it would of been better

[@fezzy5591]

@@REKONZE41 To be fair they developed this game before they got officially owned by Microsoft

[@REKONZE41]

@@fezzy5591 I wouldn't know I don't follow them. But thanks for letting me know. Hopefully Microsoft can make a better game. And I know they will

[@dylanstassen8708]

​@@REKONZE41name a game published by Microsoft that was actually good

[@ItsThyboBE]

Devs are literally laughing in the face of the consumer and the worst part yet, they'll buy the next COD without hesitation

[@dr.loomis4221]

I'm sure the devs wanted this to be a DLC, but Activision got greedy

[@MPH_Racing]

Don’t blame the devs but the ceo

[@spasticpanda8933]

The beauty of cod is the majority will preorder the moment it's available without waiting for actual gameplay and reviews. That's what's dumb. Just to get a cosmetic they will never use haha

[@HappyDude1]

When ign is saying its bad That means its atrocious

[@The_GlitchWitch]

I love how, during a year where we had several new games coming out that were criticized as being glorified “DLC” of their previous games in Tears of the Kingdom and Spider-Man 2, we get a game that is quite literally DLC packaged as a full priced experienced. At least the other games facing that criticism showed that they innovated and built upon what came before, both expanding and enhancing upon the previous experiences. Smh.

[@issahumps]

Assassins creed mirage

[@shirox11]

Yes, if any person criticized TOTK or Spider-man 2 as being glorified dlcs but defends this (looking at you XBOTS) they’re massive hypocrites.

[@D..S..]

Idk Spider Man 2 feels like almost the exact same game all over again

[@trad5887]

@@shirox11spider man 2 is literally a copy and paste of the other games ; same characters same map same gameplay just a little prettier on the ps5 . I’m glad you’re having fun w your new dlc tho

[@trad5887]

@@shirox11and before you even retort w some Xbox bullshit , just know I’m happily waiting for this game to go on sale on Steam 🖤 my pc will run it better than the consoles can

[@Marco49511]

No matter what people complain about they’re still gonna buy this COD.

[@DavidRomanKC]

Unfortunately true. I won't be one, at least. I've bought the last 5 😅.

[@killerratchet1973]

Not me last one I did buy was MW 2019.

[@shirox11]

Have not bought a cod since BO3

[@ExpectedBoy]

I won't be. Last one I bought was MW2019 and that was years after release and on the cheap.

[@zachcanter3279]

Last CoD i actually played was CW and i still have yet to unlock all the weapons.

[@daman825]

That sucks! Because I loved MW2 2022. It was fun to play a video game version of Sicario. Fighting modern cartels in Mexico is such an interesting concept

[@lutherheggs451]

So what your saying is that you haven't actually played a COD then......Its hilarious how many people are trying to make this a thing and trying to pretend they're outraged about how "short" the campaign is LMFAO....Its literally been a 3-5 hour campaign since the PS3/360 days, so people really need to STFU and quit pretending this is some new thing. The only time the campaign is longer is when your playing it on veteran. There has literally NEVER been a lengthy COD SP campaign, the OG MW was 4hrs and its been around that since

[@BourbonBandit-]

@@lutherheggs451this one in particular is shorter than every other one but ok, pop off bro

[@_General_Grievous__]

@@lutherheggs451People aren’t just mad that it’s short though, they are mad that the remake didn’t improve the story whatsoever and not only that but the mission layouts are lazy and lack creativity. That shit is ass compared to the original

[@QuellTheHeresy]

@@_General_Grievous__ these games are such an absolute insult to the original mw trilogy, they aren't even CLOSE and it's such a shame.

[@drinnerd8532]

Honestly, I really didn't mind the segway away from the original storyline either (even though they totally misled us with the conclusion of the previous game...) I still loved the characters, mood, setting and many other things! THEY STILL HAD ME... then they pull THIS out of their arses...

[@Paladin1034]

People called me stupid when they first announced the changes for mw3 and I said "this feels like expensive dlc". Yet here we are, a few months later and that's exactly what it is.

[@ItsNNJA]

Nobody called you crazy bro everyone called it

[@flatlander4527]

Everyone believed that it was gonna be dlc, then when it was announced everyone suddenly flipped and acted like a full game was expected all along, cod community isn’t very consistent

[@Seoul_Soldier]

Literally everyone said this. The only people who would have disagreed with you are too far gone to matter anyways.

[@GordonHammer]

1. Luke is quickly becoming one of my favorite gaming channels to check with each release because he legitimately attempts objectivity and giving the benefit of the doubt while still offering entertaining subjective opinions, as well as calling out bullshit when he sees it. 2. 6:30 "We'll just keep going" and "We'll just keep moving" crashed together at the intersection of brain and mouth. "We'll just keep mcgooving." 😂

[@wlot28]

This is one of the least objective takes he's ever had, he starts the video going into the game believing all the internet ragebait is true and looks for anything he sees to validate that opinion, including completely nonsense points like it being completely unacceptable to reuse a small section of a previous map in a mission (I guess having continuity in video games is illegal now) and immediately hating on the idea of open missions with multiple paths and ways to complete it... how is having more variety of choice in gameplay a bad thing? The COD hate train this year is completely blown out of proportion and is the best possible proof that the internet will hate things just to hate with zero credibility

[@charlesqbanks]

Just because you disagree with him doesn't mean it's not objective. Being happy with 4 hrs of recycled content resold as a full game for full price doesn't make it good. He also never said having multiple ways to progress a mission was bad. Would he have to call out every single positive aspect of the games design in order to come off with a negative impression? Having new content and better AI are measurable goals that the game did not fulfill, objectively.

[@jujuthethird4602]

​@@wlot28you actually gotta be trolling💀

[@wlot28]

@@charlesqbanks What about it is recycled? One small section of a big ass map? The rest is new content lol. If you played the game yourself you would know that. The guns carry forward from MW2 yes but PEOPLE HAVE LITERALLY BEEN ASKING FOR THAT SINCE MW19. And the AI is nowhere near as bad as it seems if you don't play play the game like a chicken with its head cut off, no shit it's gonna seem bad if you run out into the open around corners, if it turned around and one shotted you then wow all of a sudden the AI sucks because it's too hard! Come up with a real argument and actually play the game next time before replying with a take like this

[@wlot28]

@@jujuthethird4602 The only people trolling are the ones who hate without playing the game lmao 🤡

[@Ashbrash1998]

Its kind of impressive just how many people they have upset on all sides. The old fans were still upset and now even the group of people who liked and were invested are also upset.

[@seanjones9473]

Sure, but as Luke said, it'll still sell millions of copies and make a fortune.

[@KillaD69]

Xbox's newest acquisition is off to a great start. 😂

[@Perseus7567]

Not really relevant though considering the deal only went through 3 weeks before the game came out. You don't make a game in 3 weeks. They probably didn't even finish the re-organisation and legal aspects in those 3 weeks. Microsoft/Xbox buying ABK had nothing to do with how bad the game turned out. This game was in development months before the deal went through, the game being announced 2 months before the deal. If anything, it sounds like ABK investors, including Sony at that point, wanted to cash out on this game as quickly as possible, giving one giant F you to fans before it moved to a new house.

[@The.flower.club.pmc17]

Average gamer take

[@andilemtwana1871]

Pains me seeing that for the past couple of years games have moved from being about a story driven single player experience to a hollow and shallow online battle royale. Sucks big time

[@Drickster007]

The open combat missions were trash but the worst thing about the campaign was how the characters were utilised and just the story in general. The game had interesting plot points that led nowhere like cap. Price getting hurt by the gas. That whole scene was literally made so that they could tease his “death” in the trailer. I thought that maybe price would be at least out of commission for a while and the hospital or something but you literally play the next mission as him as if nothing happened. Another massive point of critique( SPOILER ALERT if you care about spoilers) is what they did with soap at the end. Soap out of all the task force members was the one with most character development potential and killing him off is just honestly idiotic. It’s clear that his death was purely for shock value but if you want shock value then kill someone off who completed their character arc and dident have much development left like gaz or captain price. Instead of really developing soap from a wise ass sergeant into a hardened captain that was tutored by ghost they completely wasted that and for what exactly? My problem isent the fact that they killed him off, but it’s the fact that they did it before he could complete his own character development story arc. Another point is how irrelevant the story of mwii feels because of narrative choices in this game. Graves being alive and task force 141 even working with him is a glaring example of that. The whole “betrayal” scene from mwii feels irrelevant now because they literally end up working again with him later

[@Ashbrash1998]

Exactly, a lot of people have even complained about how Soap was really lackluster too. Especially compared to the og game's version where Price had more of a reaction. Here they just say his name and yet his skin dust off a cliff. It just lacks any emotion, character or even funness.

[@teeman7137]

This sucks so bad….glad I didnt pay for this bs. I watched the Soap scene on youtub and wow, they completely butchered his moment.

[@ale13442]

Cant blame the COD developers. Its the customers that are stupid . As already said a thousand times by others, as long as we support this shit by buying it , nothing will change. I think this should be a wake -up call for even the biggest deniers and COD fanboys.

[@itavero3563]

-Come on, Luke, cut me some slacks! _Tim, the creative director of Call of Duty._

[@Tadicuslegion78]

OG MW3: You're playing as Yuri with Price and Soap, disavowed and hunted on all sides trying to find Makarov during a war between Russia and the US. WMD attacks on Europe, being Delta force operators in Paris, tank battles in Germany. Hunting Makarov down to a Middle Eastern resort in a Juggernaught suit. Reboot MW3: You threaten to take a Russian woman's money.

[@BiboyEats]

The worst thing is they won't even let you make a desktop shortcut for MWIII

[@BiboyEats]

@@guyincle126 didn’t, my brother did cause he’s a glazer and I leeched off him

[@cjheumiller6311]

@@guyincle126cuz I like cod

[@tonydeluna8095]

I skipped this and played ROBOCOP instead. It’s fun and brutal reminds of the 1987 movie.

[@adnanasif9538]

And that is from a small AA Dev team that also made the underrated gem Terminator Resistance.

[@TheErikjsm]

also a bad game. it only appeals to robocop fans, hiding jank behind the fact that youre a robot is not acceptable. they as a dev are making progress with every title so ill give em that. they do care about being lore acurate too which is nice (besides the gameplay). maybe a game or two more and they will produce something up to par.

[@OrionDawn15]

@@TheErikjsm Have you not played the game at all? It's perfectly fine, it's good. There's a bit of jank but the game is at least fun and isn't overpriced. And... yeah, it appeals to Robocop fans because it's a *Robocop game.* That's not difficult to understand, and even with that being the case you can still enjoy it as a fan and non-fan.

[@bushmonster1702]

@@TheErikjsmpoor take. Edit and try again.

[@vvstwo]

I’ve been playing it and it feels very dated like I’m playing a Fallout 4 mod it feels very Bethesda inspired which isn’t exactly a good thing and the AI is extremely dumb for modern standards I like the dismemberment but before their limb falls off the enemies act like bullet sponges because a lack of any response to being shot other than saying something like “he shot my arm off” after he’s already dead on the ground. Where’s the limping, stumbling, crawling away after being shot it just feels like a major step backwards.

[@Salerias]

It is pretty obvious that they are remaking Verdansk, we have Military, part of Downtown (the part where you drive through), stadion, the Gulag and the dam and through it in the game for more missions. The normal missions are what I expect from a CoD (or part of what I expect. I still miss missions where you are just a marine and are part of a larger army. Retaking the white house or being good old Ramirez). The idea of the open missions is something I think has a lot of potential and something I hope for years that they do. Give you options on how you want to complete a mission. They are here just being done in a strange way. They give you parts of the new Verdansk and give you most of the time one objective like defusing 3 bombs at the dam. If you just shoot though they are maybe 5-10 minutes long. I tried to stealth play them, which was a bit of fun. The open mission design can work but they need to do more then just throw a few weapon boxes in the area and nothing more. Go all in with it. They have very few alternative routes. The only one I remember is when you can go through a cave to get to a higher position. Give me more routes, maybe let me crawl through an air vent if I need to get into a building. Let me climb the building and go through an open window or through a door on the roof, multiple doors I can use, go through a wall with explosives. Something like that. Maybe give me secondary objectives (maybe even small secondary missions inside a mission/area) that give me alternative ways to complete my main mission. For example give me a secondary objective where I need to help someone and in return I get a key card which I can use to open some doors in a building I need to enter. Maybe combine that with another secondary mission which allows me to get some cloths of the people that work in the building and I can sneak into the building that way. Both missions on themself would give you a benefit on their own but you can also combine them. If the cloths are from some construction workers I can go down in the basement and disable the electricity and it helps me to go through the building more quiet. Maybe give me also the option to get into that room with an air vent. So I can even do that when I just shoot through and still give me an advantage or do it if I don't have the keycard. The keycard would just give me more easy access in the building or some areas I can't access without it. Maybe a weapon storage. They could also place an option to disable the electricity in a sewer system so that you can disable it there. Maybe let the AI react more alarmed if I disable it from the outside so they are more prepared. Give me some extra fire power through secondary objectives if I want to shoot through these missions. Maybe give me air support if I do them or explosives to do some door breaches/wall breaches. Give me a tank maybe if I need to go into a military base if I do secondary objectives, we already have tank mechanics in the game. That is just a few ideas for one or maybe two missions with an open mission design. It wouldn't even hurt if they gave you a loadout system before the start where you can decide how you want to handle a mission. Want to go undercover and stealth? Well take a pistol with a silencer. Want to be stealthy but not undercover? Take a silenced smg and a sniper. Want to shoot through? Go with a shotgun and ar. I don't want them to drop the open mission design. I just want that they use the potential of these missions.

[@tjroelsma]

I've ran into that weird loading sequence on other games as well. It looks like the developers really want to push you towards playing the multiplayer game instead of the campaign.

[@mysticriff]

The fact that Luke hasnt reached a million subs yet absolutely blows my mind. The number of nights i have relaxed and played a game while a Luke Stephens video plays is countless. In depth, fair, unbiased and tells it like it is. I appreciate this man. Please keep it going.

[@chacharealsmooth941]

He emerged fairly recently and achieved quite a lot in such a limited amount of time. Not a million, but not underestimated for sure.

[@armedwombat6816]

The thing where you had to start the game, then start it again to access single player, was also in MW2. Already hated it back then. Was especially ridiculous, given that I only ever had the single player part installed.

[@howlingwolf7280]

Sadly i think finding out what was lazy or what was a terrible time pressued decision the devs had to make is unlikely to be categorically known. Regardless the result is the same.

[@solidsnake6405]

Activision knew they were getting bought so the higher ups said screw it and put in as little effort as possible.. thats extremely scummy imo.

[@Daniel-ll2cl]

Omg is that true?

[@Perseus7567]

@@Daniel-ll2cl Probably. Many of the top Execs for Activision probably assumed that they might lose their jobs under Microsoft's new ownership, so decided they'd go for one last final game to cash-out as much money as they possibly could before they are forced to jump ship.

[@BlackGrailKiara]

@@Daniel-ll2clit makes sense. The deal only went through very recently

[@Daniel-ll2cl]

@@BlackGrailKiara it makes sense for share holders yes. But gamers are getting fucked over

[@solidsnake6405]

@@Daniel-ll2cl the industry has not cared about gamers for ages now. Activision knew MW3 would sell regardless because gamers are stupid so they hacked up MW2 (which was already a hacked up version of MW 2019) . Id bet money that the full games of MW2019 and MW2 are still fully playable within the MW3 install with very minimal work needing to be done. Now its on Microsoft to fix this mess,but over the past 8 years Microsoft has been more then happy allowing lazy ass incompetent devs to Mooch off of them.this is why Xbox games have been shit lately, the devs know they can sandbag to extract as much money as possible for themselfs by holding a games release hostage and Microsoft will foolishly foot the bill with an unlimited budget.

[@qrowing]

It really is a shame what's happened to both Call of Duty, and Halo.

[@spasticpanda8933]

343 ruined halo is what happend

[@briansmith4520]

No splitcreen either =greed

[@irshadtyo]

Didn’t Infinite make a comeback recently?

[@dakotaDklunsford]

When you keep the textures from the original MW2 maps and leave out all the good stuff this is what is left.

[@AmericanCock]

They should have just made all 3 games into one MW with all 3 campaigns into one of the longest campaign on cod history

[@bobbiggle4390]

But then the consumer wouldn’t pay a combined $210!

[@KC_Money]

FACTS

[@2112zoso1]

Glad to see the random minimizing/rescaling issues weren’t just me. What a train wreck

[@Northstar-Media]

The campaign doesn't feel like your part of a bigger sqad it feels slightly disconnect with each character trying to reach an objective.

[@JamesOKeefe-US]

Luke's ability to narrate while playing still just blows me away. Dude has 2 brains :)

[@scadoodlemusic3682]

I will never understand how the made MW2019 which had a good starting point for a story, awesome multiplayer, perfect gunplay, and the original war zone, and then somehow ended up here. They had the blueprint for the best COD trilogy in years and still fucked it up

[@mikesmith145]

Because Sledgehammer

[@Helios8170]

Remember when you could just double-click a shortcut on your desktop and start playing a good game?

[@OrionDawn15]

You *could* still do that. Unfortunately not with this game.

[@cjheumiller6311]

Doesn’t bother me if I just want to play cod

[@christophercrimson3490]

Bro imagine asking someone to pay $70 for what amounts to be an expansion pack for an already ok ass game. The only reason they get away with this is because little kids and grown men who refuse to grow up and stop paying for this bullshit keep giving them millions. Just to defend a billionaire company that’s screwing them in the ass. It’s truly pathetic.

[@nickcoker4293]

I like all of the call of duty campaigns although I haven’t played this one yet, but the only complaint I ever have with them is they are always too short, but then again, I’m more of a single player guy not multiplayer

[@shirox11]

This one is short even by COD standards and boring.

[@Nick-qh6rp]

Man I don’t even buy COD every year, but I really loved the MW 2019 and MW2 2022 campaigns, I was so exited for this one and they really pulled this off☹️

[@marrrrrrrrrrrrry279]

Same, I knew when they announced this one so soon after MW2 it was gonna disappoint me

[@malcolmdavis9638]

I played the first "Open Combat" mission and immediately got a refund. I got so sad and just went to sleep lmao

[@SomeDigitalGhost]

I quite like 2019, but I was a little disappointed with 2022. I won't even bother with this one.

[@bobidybilly]

Love it when Luke is flabbergasted by bad games!

[@operationthrash9645]

Unpopular opinion- Soap’s death should at least get points for being jarring and surprising. In the old MW3 he took so long to die that you could get mentally prepared for it

[@dylanpalton3331]

That doesn't make it good, that just makes it shock value.

[@jinxx44]

I just find it so strange. They improved the gameplay from last year, and had built some really nice foundations for the story over the course of two games, and then just COMPLETELY threw it out the window for this game, which is a shame. The actors did a great job and none of them are to blame, nor should they get any hate. But the writers? My god. So much didn't make sense, so much potential was wasted, it was way too short, and they just kept reusing the semi-open world mission type over and over again when it should have been just 1 or 2 of them, and it just overall ruins it. CoD campaigns may not be masterpieces, but they are supposed to have huge set pieces, good, cohesive stories, and fun, unique missions like Clean House. CoD games used to have a great story, and then multiplayer comes after with maps FROM the campaign. Nowadays its the opposite. Im sure the multiplayer will do great based on the gameplay, but still...

[@foggyvhs8790]

Too bad there was only like 3 set piece missions. Was getting the feeling I was just doing Warzone missions, then I got a chopper kill streak but it said airspace is too occupied. That really exposed it

[@wlot28]

Half the game is regular missions, half is open combat.

[@frankieb9444]

What really exposed it was is when I knifed a bot, it called me a fa**ot over a early 2000s headset.

[@death-thresh9548]

I'm glad you tell us the answer in the thumbnail so I don't even actually have to watch the video

[@DevoEhtDemon]

It also sounds like them trying to make an open world campaign caused some of the issues you mentioned with weapons de-spawning and random deaths.

[@jfncho]

I know it was in development before the acquisition, but it is releasing as a MS title which isnt a good look for them especially after Redfall.

[@mikeclark4480]

They proposed the purchase 18 months ago. This just screams Microsoft/Xbox

[@ryangosling3331]

@@mikeclark4480 key word - proposed

[@Perseus7567]

@@mikeclark4480 They proposed it, but didn't actually get the deal passed until TWO months after this game was announced, and only 3 weeks before it launched. This isn't anything to do with MS/Xbox. If anything, it's more likely that the top Executives for Activision assumed they might lose their jobs under Microsoft' new ownership, and so saw this as their final opportunity to try and cash out one last time and jump ship, before they were forced to go. -Very little marketing. -Full priced game that should've been a DLC. -Reused assests and other shortcuts made in development. -Low quality, lacks innovation. This all just screams "spend as little as possible, to earn as much as possible before we go".

[@ChrisGarcia-wr1lp]

How. Is. This. 70. Dollars.

[@foggyvhs8790]

Well you still get 2 other games basically, zombies and multiplayer

[@cxngo8124]

@@foggyvhs8790 multiplayer is just a dlc/remake in one. Zombies have been overdone

[@andermendz]

​@@foggyvhs8790bro is considering a basic boilerplate zombies and multiplayer "games" HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@foggyvhs8790]

@@andermendz still the value is in 3 portions.. multiplayer being the longest lasting I guess

[@andermendz]

@@foggyvhs8790 You're paying for a copypaster of MW2 MP, MW3 was supossed to be a DLC we all know that

[@casparbenjaminseymour]

this just sums up major gaming companies in 2023. we have seen EA gradually ruin FIFA and Madden by pumping out copy and paste efforts year on year, rts gaming giants Creative Asssembly destroying their total war series by doing the same copy and paste efforts. Im nervous about gaming gods Rockstar as GTA V was 10 years ago and RDR2 was 5 years ago- i hope they havent fallen victim to this complacency in gaming. In an era where more people are into gaming than ever before and the profits have never been greater games should be getting greater not worse. this is what happens when major studios get run by the money men who only care about profit and not the developers who are the heart and soul of gaming

[@lordfreezpop8916]

This feels like what the battlefield 42 campaign would have been.

[@Catastrophic_Cat_]

Can you upload a campaign walk through of the original MW3? We need these videos to compare and contrast whether Activision is living up to its reputation.

[@tan2im456]

Played original MW3 recently. This garbage does not compare. That was arguably one of the greatest campaigns

[@lilstyxxx]

Not defending cod but it’s supposed to be the same gulag

[@memewizrd]

Price and Soap tell how they captured him in Verdansk a few missions later, that means if he finished the campaign he paid no attention

[@the_seer_0421]

What's crazy is that just about 3 years ago cold war came out. How did we go from that game's campaign to this? Just baffling.

[@Daishi0861]

The texture quality stuff is because call of duty downloads additional HD textures in the background and streams them in when available - the game doesn't do a good job indicating this, but the quality you saw at the start is not actually the 'correct' high end setting. (not that it's on you to know that, the way they handle it is bad)

[@Frwxz]

I think the problem is that they need the campaigns to feel more connected like the no russian on the plane could have been a really cool mission you on a plane and you goal is to get some objective with stealth and your completely alone with no help. That would have been sick of course I haven’t played it but yeah just saying

[@hectorlopez9453]

Damn man, I loved cod campaigns. What a shame

[@bryanwouters443]

said no one ever

[@QuellTheHeresy]

Cod campaigns were always dumb fun, but they were REALLY dumb AND really fun, the new ones are neither, they're trying to be a "tacticool" action film.

[@hectorlopez9453]

@@QuellTheHeresy exactly

[@hectorlopez9453]

@@bryanwouters443 besides me

[@Perseus7567]

@@hectorlopez9453 and me

[@86themadhatter27]

This almost remind me of the coop missions in MW2 but like you were doing them solo.

[@EianJolin]

the newest cod release has become a staple of the holidays for me and my brother we played since cod 2 and it’s so sad seeing call of duty bled for all its worth

[@cjbrown1979]

I don't feel bad for the people who want to shell out $70 for another Activision COD cash grab of utter garbage. Just sucks they're continuing to support and enable the status quo and allow companies to do predatory stuff like this. It's unacceptable.

[@QuellTheHeresy]

Even worse for the cretins buying skins and bundles, they are actively killing the gaming industry.

[@TheOnlyTaps]

Great watch as always 👊🏿

[@cscott3401]

Absolutely lasers an ally - hard cut to cover up the mission failed 😂

[@rikkubeans]

I think I know what they're trying to do with the campaign. It's basically a PvE Warzone tutorial, with a plan to convert as many people into it or since Warzone has been around and it's evolved so much that beginners get confused and give up. With this, when the campaign is over, they're like... hey so you know how Warzone works now... would you like to try it out with real people?

[@Xiox321]

I feel like my childhood is repeating itself. The original MW was my all time favourite game when I was a kid, and I replayed the campaign at least 50 times. MW2 was pretty good, but I only played it once. But then I never played MW3 and lost interest in the franchise until Infinite Warfare. Now the same thing is happening with the reboot lol.

[@landoncallahan5040]

Crazy how the mw2 campaign left us with a good ass cliffhanger and they give us this...

[@zombifiedpariah7392]

Literally NOTHING happened in MWII. Wtf are you talking about?

[@thomasffrench3639]

They pulled a Wizardry II, but like that was acceptable being in 1981, and it was more of another challenge where you would use your previous save so the enemies scaled with you.

[@technicalgamero9701]

😂😂😂 may be this first mission.. Getting into game.. man that's hilarious

[@carlgeder947]

MW2019 campaign was phenomenal up there with the best campaigns ever made, everyone loved it and then they just completely change it…. The decision making at activision is baffling. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it

[@johnjohnson7259]

MW was looking so good at release, campaign was amazing, they had night vision goggle modes which were my absolute favourite and super innovative. And then they took out all the night vision goggle modes to occasionally put them back in the game for like two days at a time, wtf? As this was happening, they revealed battle passes and all the autistic skins starting coming out and just like that they killed the game for me lmao

[@zombifiedpariah7392]

What are you talking about? That wasn't even a cod campaign. It was Farah: The Video Game.

[@sai4real893]

Who else thought the campaign was gonna be fire 😔

[@thetincanman2363]

Me, I was really excited actually since I enjoyed mw1 and 2's campaign and was absolutely hyped when Makarov was shown at the end of 2. Then we got this shit

[@Yohhan_here]

​@@thetincanman2363Yes I'm so disappointed

[@QuellTheHeresy]

Why would you possibly think that lmao

[@AvengedHate26]

"were gonna try giving it every benefit of the doubt." great way to review things. i like that

[@D4rthyyy_]

I believe this entire campaign is a result of the COD teams finally being stretched too thin due to the number of core game systems they must maintain and revitalize with each yearly delivery cycle. In the past, their primary focus was on a campaign, multiplayer, and co-op/zombies. However, since 2019, they have had to maintain a live service alongside these elements. This will lead to shortcomings in terms of priority treatment. If we want a return to a more quality-driven COD release, I think they will have to separate Warzone into its own product or release. This would provide the development and design teams with the capacity to build those experiences.

[@frankkent5567]

It's only going to get worse now that Xbox owns the franchise.

[@jimjones9631]

After playing the beta its clear that they spent all the time into multiplayer and they had like a ragtag group of random devs from across the studios to slap together a barely functional campaign

[@Hepheat75]

I thought I was watching Luke playing the campaign for COD MW 3 not the campaign to GOT season 8.

[@vanceg4901]

Any COD with Sledgehammer sticky fingers on it is a no go.

[@dimasdaffa5510]

Actually if they just put the open combat mission ⅓ of total mission or maybe optional but affect the story as in BO2 Strike mission it will be interesting

[@DRGEngineer]

since the release of Modern Warfare 3 i went back and played CoD4R and MW2R on veteran and i am shocked at how they have managed to lose everything that made CoD games great.

[@DhirC35]

Man i was actually looking foward to it as well

[@99mage99]

At this point we have no one left to blame besides gamers themselves. It has been a guaranteed money maker annually for Activision for well over a decade, why would they stop?

[@ras_alhim]

I want somebody to love me the same way Luke loves bad AI

[@ryanf7596]

i did the same. i was like "oh this is ok" for the first level.. then the second level just ruined the game for me and i hopped off the campaign halfway through. lol

[@JamesOKeefe-US]

"Maybe this is the first mission, so meta" That was brilliant 😂😂😂

[@PENNYTRATION99]

An established franchise with a 20 year formula and releasing stinkers like this is crazy

[@usonlyus7148]

When you swap graphical settings to ultra you need to restart the dlc in order to make changes.

[@berastis4431]

Finally someone said it. The texture quality was horrible in the last years entry, too! Even on the highest settings! Some parts looked like it was a game from 2012. Idk what they did, but Cold War (2020) and the 2019 Modern Warfare both looked way better.

[@Phillipgraves869]

It’s not the worst imo opinion, I’m actually enjoying it but I understand the frustrations

[@scrublifegames3630]

ive been getting the same resolution problem with MW2, when i close the game everything looks smaller on my 4K HDR monitor.

[@cellcube618]

Can someone explain to me how we went from one of the best FPS experiences ever in 2019 with Modern Warfare and Warzone and then immediately jumped off a cliff with Vanguard, MWII multiplayer and Warzone 2.0, and now all of MWIII?

[@HalfEclipsed]

The restart to get into campaign reminds me of the old cods with separate campaign, mp and zombies exes

[@imniallg]

COD has never stopped doing that.

[@HalfEclipsed]

@@imniallg i know specifically with bo3 and mw 2019 they were all in one exe

[@Travisman123_]

11:51 to be fair, you could also do that in Black Ops II's campaign

[@FruitLadyFruzi]

When the trailer came out a few weeks ago, I watched by Bf's eyes light up more than ever before. When we talked about the campaign last week, it sounded like someone killed his puppy.