Was Modern Warfare 3 Just DLC? (Final Review)

The year has come to and end and with it marks the end of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. This whole year people say that MW3 was just $70 DLC. Today We give Modern Warfare III a final review and answer that question. I hope you enjoy!
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[@GrandCanArt]

Just makes me realize how great the OG modern warfare 3 campaign was

[@sleekelegancesuave]

facts, cinematic storytelling masterpiece to the end of a trilogy

[@j.m.a6045]

I also thought the Multiplayer was good.

[@Slimreaper444]

@@j.m.a6045 multiplayer from mw2, 3 & Black ops 1 & 2 was peak Cod , coming home from school playing with the homies all day, taking a break, going outside , coming back in the house to play again. The clans everybody had omgg . Don’t make me get started on the maps 🔥🔥 the guns 🔥 story mode 🔥

[@monotypical_]

Idk original mw3 wasn’t that good either lol

[@alexsilva28]

@@sleekelegancesuave ok calm down. It's a fantastic game but a masterpiece? Nah bro

[@DragoM9]

As much as MW3 sucks, I liked the first mission where you free Makarov from the prison

[@GhostC01MMA]

i liked that one and the ghost and soap one

[@pscyokilla]

Yeah it was certainly the only finished campaign mission

[@LimeDrake-0]

flashpoint and operation 627 might be the best mission in mw3 2023

[@wohturmeloon8424]

Thank gosh someone agrees the first mission is actually a mission that was good and made sense for the plot

[@MattChew2]

Probably the only mission that was from the original script

[@Inkslasher]

One thing I forgot to say about MP. The Prestige Camos where you just need a billion XP on all weapons were boring. Concept was good but XP challenges are just BORING. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

[@EXD-flicxy]

Why u trashing on cod and still play them after

[@alexsilva28]

@@EXD-flicxy Yeah! Having negative opinions on something should not be allowed here... 🙄

[@Techn9que]

@@Inkslasher Riot Shield was brutal, surprised I didn’t get banned 😭

[@EvilXero359]

My biggest disappointment was that the idiot devs didn't bother to add more maps to Ground War like they did for MWii and how they kept patching the glitches in zombies that made it more fun and easier to play

[@Anthony20084]

Ugh idk man multiplayer had good gameplay but zombies and campaign flopped harder than a burger patty on a grill.

[@nbalongboi9738]

Not trashing on this youtuber but this guy might be paid off by Activision/Treyarch to promote the new games and bash the previous one, Activision has been having youtubers do this since bo3 with advanced warfare even though everyone knows Advanced Warfare's campaign was way better than bo3s. Expect Activision to let hackers in on purpose to mw3 these next couple weeks because they do not want you playing it anymore.

[@trucctrucc245]

​@@nbalongboi9738 schizocommenting at it's finest lol

[@nbalongboi9738]

@@trucctrucc245Nah pretty sure your mad at the truth lol, Treyarch wouldve been fired years ago if not for zombies and the youtubers they pay off to market their games.

[@test-yd6br]

i need what ur smoking​@@nbalongboi9738

[@hotsauce4169]

You are a mindless consumer. You're a main part of the problem

[@ArtSelmani777]

I didnt buy mw2 so for me mw3 was LITERALLY a new game🤷‍♂️

[@ghostnaz913]

Is not a new game lol if there no platinum trophy/achievements

[@ArtSelmani777]

@@ghostnaz913 i can tell you like cod ghosts, nostagia and trophies and all that but does that even change anything about the game? No

[@KingShibe]

Fundamentally the same game. MW3 runs off of MW2

[@ghostnaz913]

@@ArtSelmani777 just say is a dlc

[@coreyanderson7252]

I wish I was you lol

[@O_thisluis_o]

MWIII wasn't a DLC for MWII MWII was a paid beta for MWIII

[@LucasFishel-p9e]

So true tho

[@ivanmartinez743]

Lol, but i can picture it perfectly 😅

[@j.m.a6045]

That's certainly one way to put it?🤔😄

[@pscyokilla]

@@O_thisluis_o then why is mw3 so much worse

[@vaquero141]

Mwiii was a movement patch to mwii

[@lllll1836]

Campaign was honestly just way too rushed, I really hoped they were going to continue the story with valeria rather than some season cutscenes and that disappointed, the MWZ was and is so boring to me but the multiplayer, although I’m bored of that too cause being on the better end dealing with sweats every game kinda bores me fast, it was good in the sense that they really updated it a lot and made it feel somewhat fresh with the weekly events and cool camos

[@carlitoguidroz608]

They should just remake the whole mw3 campaign and start all over again

[@sleekelegancesuave]

thats not gonna happen they missed so many storytelling points that made modern warfare, modern warfare‼️ we only got one of the four horsemen Makarov, i do know Imran was said to be dead in modern warfare 2019 so i wasnt expecting him but al asad i wanted to see for sure, i wanted to see more of kamarov as well, everything was so mediocre man its sad… even the new villians we really didnt care anything about why because they left us in the wind, we wanted to see some OGs return, they gave a clue but never fell through with it and dont let me get on the hackers😮‍💨 thats what really driving cod to a terrible place right now

[@soundwave3977]

They need to redo mw2 as well

[@indian_crocodile]

@@soundwave3977 nothing wrong with mw2s campaign.

[@eliteprotojay]

I was literally thinking about this earlier and idk how they could do it successfully but if they revealed that everything after Price “woke up” from being unconscious from the gas in the helicopter was a nightmare and nothing beyond that point actually took place causing Price to be more rash in his decisions and causing him to delve into the darkness they were aiming for with what we got I feel like they could kinda save the franchise but with the way they retcon every death in this game series anymore I feel that would be a cheesy cop out

[@soundwave3977]

@@indian_crocodile the entire game didn’t feel like a sequel to 2019 and they just keep blue balling us with the rockets and felt like a filler due to nothing happening and the villain was so forgettable

[@one_official_kenny]

In the end, I’d say they definitely gave us 70 dollars worth of dlc by season 6

[@Aj-cv1vy]

They added all the guns from mw2 (2022)and half the maps 😭😭

[@one_official_kenny]

@@Aj-cv1vyfrrr like they put so much time and effort into

[@iam_747]

@@one_official_kenny you're missing the point, most of that "$70 dlc they gave us" was rehashed stuff we've had before. nothing new. 8 different versions of shipment doesn't justify as "lots of dlc"

[@brucealmighty3268]

@iam_747 Because Vista, Meat, 6 Star, Greece, Stash House, Bait, Yard, Checkpoint, Grime, Drive-Thru among other maps, dozens of new weapons, constant challenges for aftermarket parts that essentially were new weapons, along with changes to movement, the perk system, and so on, none of that actually counts as effort or new. Campaign sucked, zombies was mediocre, and big game modes were left to dry, but they absolutely delivered in 6v6 content, which has always been the franchises bread and butter. Bringing up the Shipment variants and pretending that was all they did is massively disingenuous, and is a disservice to proper discourse.

[@pscyokilla]

@@one_official_kenny not even

[@immortalghost443]

Furthermore in the OG MW Timeline, Makarov hated the West. If you hear the last story dialogue of MW 2019 which is the Spec Ops briefing, Laswell says that Verdansk was rebuilt by the West and Russia as a joint effort after the Cold War. Makarov hated that about the City so he attacked Verdansk at first out of hate and then later on he decided to frame Farah and her ULF Forces

[@MrJohnathon55]

I like the concept of MWZ and hope it returns in non-Treyarch games.

[@j.m.a6045]

I agree

[@NorthMillionaires]

They should replace mwz with and extinction mode with he same concept. That be so much better

[@markymarc2149]

I never understood why mw2 got so much hate. Personally it was one of the best cods in my opinion. It was one of the few games I kept coming back to over and over throughout its year. Every other cod it’s fun to play for a week or 2 then it gets boring and probably won’t get played for another couple months. And I know it’s my opinion so other people will have theirs.

[@David-A.]

I personally had fun with mw2 2022, but I won't defend it.

[@night_wolf9734]

People were mad bcz of the slide cancel removal

[@Soliderboy-04]

I don’t think I had fun on mw2 2022 ones the only thing I liked about the game was the campaign

[@j.m.a6045]

I also really enjoy MW2 but even I have to admit that MW3 is just better, multiplayer wise.

[@Soliderboy-04]

@@j.m.a6045 Fr the mp was so bad

[@DavidsDives]

DMZ has been my favorite video game ever haven’t played anything else since, the strategic fights and gunplay was absolutely amazing. so sad they canned it, I’m just waiting for them to bring it back

[@alexsilva28]

I hope you aint serious

[@nbalongboi9738]

@@alexsilva28 DMZ was the best mode in mw2 imo

[@aidan_the_demon]

From my understanding MW23 was supposed to have a few extra campaign missions that were supposed to take place in Mexico and it was supposed to be a DLC for MW22, so yeah the campaign for this was different.

[@excrist1274]

mw22 just filter DLC game for 2019 too, for only missiles and side villain for introduce ghost, mw23 just back in line of the story.

[@aidan_the_demon]

@@excrist1274 MW22's campaign was better to be honest though.

[@excrist1274]

@@aidan_the_demon It just long cutscene and some of them really long map so that's good but story looks like side story from mw 2019.

[@aidan_the_demon]

@@excrist1274 True but still story felt better for MW22 than 23.

[@KynixYT]

​@@aidan_the_demon I wish they made a Las Almas spin‐off to cap off the Alejandro ‐ Valeria story. But going back it makes sense to not follow up on it anymore. I believe Val said "As long as there is a war on terror, there will be no real war on drugs". Currently Makarov is on the loose, why would 141 go after Valeria when they're busy with Makarov. Sure Alejandro could but it wouldn't feel like actual warfare to me.

[@Japangf2345]

It definitely was. The campaign to me felt like spec ops missions pathed together by what would have been season cut scenes. This game burned all the good will I had with cod the fact they ruined modern warfare’s name with 2 and 3 really gave me a disgust of cod now, that being said I commend the multiplayer they at least tried

[@K-qq3ku]

@Inkslasher can you make a video putting these two(MW2 and MW3) in one game and also explain it in your own way like you always do. Take these two game story and put it into one in perfect order. Then answer further as if you had these two game as one then how are you going to set things up moving forward from here? What you're going to change and what you're going to add or minus from the game? I really hope you pick this topic and make a video on it cause i really like the way you explain campaign stories cause many youtubers dont do that except you ink!!! Take care💜

[@frostburn3736]

So 1 year later we've just confirmed what we all knew since the very beginning: *_>_* I still pray that Activision and the rest devs will somehow fix MW IV, or any kind of sequel to that story, but my hopes and expects are low. And that Black Ops 6 premiere will end up as good as they make it to be, I keep my fingers crossed for you guys who pre-ordered/plan to play it. Cause after MWIII I'm done with Call of Duty, at least for the year or two. But for you folks, I wish good luck and GG's all the way~!

[@jasonblundelldobebussing]

The answer is *Yes.* Saved you 26 minutes, you're welcome.

[@Lycanvenom]

The answer is actually *Yes. Every Call of Duty Game is DLC.**

[@RawwRex]

@@Lycanvenomno there are distinct differences between black ops, black ops 2 and black ops 3. All 3 of those games are different, it’s still COD but none of them play the same or even look the same. It’s multiple videos of mw2 side by side with mw3 and it looks exactly the same

[@alexsilva28]

@@Lycanvenom Every day is DLC for the day you were born

[@trilogy3x]

Infinity ward better never do open combat missions in campaign again. Mw3 campaign was worse then the bs black ops 4 did for not having a campaign

[@idkmyname530]

They aren't brainless like SHG

[@nbalongboi9738]

@@idkmyname530 Sledgehammer is the best studio just because bought out treyarch youtubers are telling you otherwise doesnt mean its true, play the game for yourself and see for yourself if its a good game or not.

[@idkmyname530]

@@nbalongboi9738 imagine calling shg the best studio 🤡🤡🤡

[@nbalongboi9738]

@@idkmyname530 imagine listening to corrupt paid off treyarch youtubers and being part of the problem with whats wrong with this community

[@jakehall8048]

Man dmz would have been sooo great if they wouldn't have given up on it. They need to come out with a dmz game by itself and get updates forever. It would be bigger then warzone is and open up a game mode they could have been going on threw all the games they come out with

[@MrPepeLePewPew]

Ink, I honestly believe they watch your content religiously. You should start doing these kind of reviews before BETA for the next game so they can actually listen and not repeat mistakes. They needed to hear everything you said in this review and they also need to stop rushing and pulling the developers off the games.

[@Wolverine1992-z5m]

did you all know that all cod titles move forward are dlcs for Cod HQ

[@abrt31074]

im convinced that if MW2 didnt release and we got MW3 this year with MW2's campaign with the rest of MW3's content stream and post-launch support it would be a top half cod

[@Techn9que]

I started a fresh account just to play more DMZ till BO6 drops. Fingers crossed they’re working on a follow up; I still can’t believe they supported DMZ (a beta) waaay more than MWZ

[@josuegutierrez1553]

Not untill end of 2026

[@toon_angel7811]

I don’t think MW3 “fixed” anything with MW2, they just reverted the changes and marketed it as a new update to convince people who were sour about MW2 to buy this new product that is essentially a MW 2019 reskin

[@KingShibe]

Yup they waited a year to just make the MW2 weapons as OP as they were prior

[@krisdegrusha2350]

Reverting the changes of mw2 is fixing it. Why would improving gameplay and fixing poor game mechanics be considered a bad thing.

[@ariaz16]

I believe theres truth to this, the community really wanted changes and IW just kept ignoring it, and not by choice. I really think that was due to Activision wanting all said changes in MW3 to market that so they made IW stay quiet

[@alexsilva28]

@@krisdegrusha2350 You missed his point

[@alexsilva28]

Sure but this game wishes it was half as good as MW2019 was. The only thing 2019 fucked up big time imo was the SBMM

[@filippospezaros5876]

I think at this point we can give sledgehammer an A for effort for this game . I appreciate the changes they made but overall I think it would be better off as a dlc for mwii . Just imagine that if that expansion was meant to be the 1/4 of mwiii ( like movement, maps and guns and challenges) we could possibly be talking about one of the greatest comebacks in cod history.

[@OneNateS]

I’m actually playing the Campaign for the first time rn, and my biggest gripe is the open combat missions. It feels like just Warzone incorporated in the campaign. And that looks like it is being a reoccurring theme in cod today. A lot of ppl call MWZ Warzone Zombies cuz it’s essentially WZ just instead of a PVP BR, you’re going up against AI. Tbh I think that was the problem with DMZ in MW2 As well ( along with going up against AI only to get sniped by a bush camper and he steals all your loot). Idk what Cod is going for, are they trying to ease WZ players into playing other game modes they offer? Or is it vice versa? Either way they gotta stop making the base of their game modes WZ. It’s a huge turn off, if I wanted to play WZ, that’s what I would’ve done. The worst part is it seems that the community is afraid they are going to do the same trend in BO6 w/ Liberty Falls. The Devs need to just understand that WZ isn’t your cash cow. This isn’t the same as Fortnite.

[@westinandfriendsadventures9074]

I give it a 3/10

[@hansob_yt]

8:37 one more mistake in the story that I can point out right in this cutscene, you cannot open a flying airplane's door. it's simply just physically impossible. because of the air pressure differences. so in reality, Makarov just planned a suicide mission 😂

[@juand.g.2602]

Yes it was They tried to make the same thing with the OG MW3 where it corrected all of it's prequel mistakes But didn't justify paying $70

[@chad.chester7876]

13:14 the exfil farming was patch because it would cause the entire lobby to lag and would cause the exfil choppers to take 10-15 mins to come in after being called which can be a pain if you are in a hurry to leave the storm

[@agentlinrov1474]

Every information about Makarov and his actions were readily available since the start. We know he's loyal to Roman Barkov, he hates both America and Russia for actions he deemed a stab in the back (Russia not backing Barkov), and Verdansk was a stepping stone for East and West relations... something he despises. They were readily available for all players.

[@fentonace9818]

yeah but we shouldn't have to buy the vault edition and look at his bio (about him) in the mp section. it should explain it in the campaign really..

[@agentlinrov1474]

@@fentonace9818 That's the fault of the devs for locking the bios on locked characters. Even then, the COD wiki would have that information so that buying the Vault edition isn't necessary.

[@fentonace9818]

@@agentlinrov1474 oh okay I see, but I agree with you that it should be in the campaign without having to go into a different game mode. idk why they didn't explain his reasons for doing what he did. it's like they expect us to think it's the same as the OG MW series

[@agentlinrov1474]

@@fentonace9818 Thinking about it, the devs either assume we may feel like the information is redundant (which is absurd as it's for campaign purposes) or they didn't have time to figure out how to explain it and it was supposed to be a bonus story so that it sets up Modern Warfare IV (they're not ending in trilogy). I honestly think there should have been more missions in the campaign; to flesh out the characters you'll be seeing. Maybe have us play more as the Konni Group.

[@fentonace9818]

@agentlinrov1474 yeah when I saw the cutscene of scattering soaps Ashes, I thought "that's mad, are we gonna have 5 more missions finding and then killing makarov? then I saw the credits and I thought "umm that's the end?"

[@XARAY10]

Sport games are literally a DLC to me just slightly better graphics and some people moved around idk why ppl enjoy buying something like NBA year after year (Ironic)

[@Selucus1Nictor]

As a purely 6v6 player, if this was a £70 DLC it was the best value DLC I’ve ever bought. 1000’s of hours of entertainment and absolutely tons of content. I’ve really enjoyed it.

[@unfiltered577]

Remember IW worked on campaign. Dont blame sledge for that part.

[@I--benn--I]

Sledge made the levels (which is excusable because of the fact they weren't given enough time) Infinity Ward are the ones that refused Sledge's request for the Campaign to be a small spin off story in Mexico, they wanted to bring in Makarov and wrote the narrative.

[@tannerhudgens4282]

That post launch support all should have happened with MW2. Sledge doesn’t get a pat on the back for updating a crappy game. MW3 is nothing more than a huge patch that reverted all of MW2’s horrible changes. Good on them for the post launch support. But to access that content, you had to spend an additional $70. It would be as if there was a game breaking glitch that crashes your game every 30 seconds in NCAA and the only way to fix it is to buy NCAA 2026 and then download the patch for it.

[@LUCAS420BLZ]

My major issue with the campaign wasn't about the campaign but warzone and raids You're just needlessly complicating the lore for no reason condense it Into a single campaign ffs

[@agentlinrov1474]

Raids was fine. Warzone, on the other hand, can be iffy considering that anything in Warzone (besides the obvious non-canon ones that aren't COD related) is all Canon, including Zombies.

[@LUCAS420BLZ]

​@@agentlinrov1474 most people didn't even play raids is the problem they don't know hadir died!

[@I--benn--I]

​@@agentlinrov1474 Raids goes against one of CoDs strong suits with it being accessible to anyone since it excludes people who play solo either because they like to or because they simply don't have friends that play CoD. And Spec-Ops got sacrificed for it. Same issue plaques DMZ and to a much much smaller scale, MWZ. DMZ becomes an insanely unfun and punishing game if you play solo. I never touched Building 21 more than 5 times because of how unfair it is to me playing Solo. And the worst is that Infinity Ward in their many ways of being a dogshit studio simply refused to address this by either adding Solo or adding a PvE toggle even after being practically begged to.

[@JumboChuckWagon]

Damn. I’ve been watching this guy since 2015.. I’m 22 now it feels weird

[@captainkill21]

MWIII Multiplayer wise is probably the best since BO3 and MW19 to an extent. The amount of post launch content we got + solid gameplay and constant updates and fixes made it really fun. 8/10 in my book

[@Requiem123-S]

If you don't have mw2 buy this and leave mw2. If you have mw2 don't buy this.

[@nickie115]

if you have mw2 buy mw3 anyway cuz its the better game

[@immortalghost443]

Makarov’s Motivation for his actions is simple to understand. If you replay MW 2019; Gen.Barkov invaded Urzikstan to destroy terrorism, something which Israel is doing. But in the end if you see Barkov was trying to get help, but he never got it. This made Makarov to go Rouge with his own Inner Circle Organisation.

[@Officialjacobplays]

17:22 Modern Warfare II as a whole game was a masterpiece

[@Lyons_T-BAG]

The EOMM system destroyed the game and will destroy BO6. The fact people can now access BO6 MP for just spending 1$ watch the amount of cheaters that will be in BO6!

[@christiancervantes4264]

For the last time, they had one job of MWIII of COD Franchise Games, but NOBODY GOT ACCEPTED UNDERSTANDING FOR THE PAST YEARS, NOBODY LISTENING, IT'S EVERYBODY PROBLEM, UNFORGIVABLE!!!!!

[@jwaximus1113]

I personally think BO3 had the best post game support, but MW3 as a game felt different and better every day and week. Merkmusic calls it modern playlist and that’s so true. Having a new playlist made each one feel unique almost like a game mode

[@GMBoyYT]

This game was a Huge Utter Mess from the start because of poor decisions and money that caused all of this.

[@senseisifu7382]

What also doesn't make sense about Operation Flashpoint is that they're making us think that the whole Verdansk thing was Makarov's doing and he was the mastermind but I guess they forgot that the reason Verdansk was attacked was because of AQ led by Hadir teaming up with Zakhaev. And I'm pretty sure in MW2019 it was AQ who orchestrated everything even the airport bombing

[@bigalgames7963]

I wish we lived in the timeline where everything included in MWIII was a free update for MWII instead of its own game and we actually had a year without a new COD before BO6.

[@karolclark791]

If only MWZ got the same support that DMZ had in MWII. It was so fun at launch but got smothered from the lack of good updates. We needed more maps, contracts and wonder weapons

[@Rizz710]

As much as I shit on mw3 for being bad I have to respect SHG for taking all the bad mechanics that the previous game had and fixing them in mw3 it was impressive and I have a lot of respect for them

[@kamian6677]

I didn’t like how in the open combat missions where you don’t have like a squad to assist you it felt more like spec ops than a campaign

[@artez0584]

I felt like the open combat missions were playable MW multi-player commercials. Like you'd be playing the campaign and then it would cut to a commercial which was the open combat and completely took away from the story telling

[@Bruiser576]

I love the content Ink and hope people realize you aren't a shill.

[@teogg2252]

Zombies was goated. Ik it wasnt roundbased and was on the warzone map but in the end the overall experience was not bad at all. This mostly applies when you are starting to understand how this zombies works

[@pulsexoxo]

Sledgehammer did amazing with post launch support, I understand the zombies and campaign were terrible but the multiplayer was phenomenal

[@ROCBOI-wr3uh]

I love when cap says “you didn’t even kno you were the fkn target” 😂

[@StrickerRei-Chn]

Yes, DLC

[@kusanalithedendroarchon]

No. No matter what the story and content was, it was a standalone game and not dlc

[@Anthony20084]

​@@kusanalithedendroarchonRrrriiiiiggghhhhttttt 🤨

[@radhoodini9802]

​@@kusanalithedendroarchonit's a standalone game if you're looking at it by base (steam, game banner & logo), but it's a dlc for mw2 when playing.

[@agentlinrov1474]

@@kusanalithedendroarchon I can agree in some extent, especially if it was to improve the prequel's mistakes. MW3 is like this and it was a classic in its story.

[@aronalaniz3685]

MWII was a $70 beta, MWIII was a full game

[@jayday187]

During Covid all I played was Hardcore Cyber Attack. With MWII they took it out of MW19 and conveniently left it as a LTM. When I gave IW shit on Reddit, they cried like bitches to Reddit themselves to get me banned off the platform. Every single post by SHG for MWIII I'd demand HC Cyber Attack return. At this point I was just being annoying, but SHG actually went out of their way to add it. Huge props to them where IW acted like stinkers.

[@quinton5072]

I can’t be the only one who actually enjoyed the campaign but thought it was just left half finished with a botched ending to set up a potential mw4

[@KynixYT]

I semi‐liked it after going back after a few months of processing the story, it kinda made sense. I would argue that it's main issue was the way it was written. The story they were trying to present wasn't the problem, it was the writing. I've seen other people's rewrites and they came out surprising better than what was given to us by SHG.

[@RholynjayLim]

MWIII is supposed to be the Revenge of the Sith of Star Wars, like Ink said, down to darkness similar to what Anakin had, but Captain Price instead, What a wasted potential.

[@ck3plays]

I’m actually going to miss this game. It was great playing remastered maps from MW2 (2009) for the most part. Haven’t played campaign yet. But I feel the movement was great in this game. I just wish it had better matchmaking for pubs, fixed servers and focused on controlling the cheats. Other than that, I mostly play multiplayer and I felt it had pretty good map content from seasons 1-5. Considered we went through MW2 (2022), Vanguard and Cold War, I think this game gets more shit than it deserves.

[@roasted_potato22]

Makarov did not hate Urzikstan, he hated the ULF because (i think) they liberated Urzikstan from Russia

[@youngknight5589]

Thats what it was supoosed to be but the time line makes no sense cause the verdansk attack took place before MW2019 events if this attack was after, it wouldve made even more sense

[@javarjv]

One thing mw3 nailed was the constant drip of content throughout, I really hope bo6, plans to do very similar, maybe even drop more content, more often.

[@ivanmartinez743]

Well, clearly they won't do it often, since they confirmed there is no weekly challenges anymore, seasonal stuff seems the go to for them, so they'll probably increase the quantity of it

[@TB4_Truth]

The way I look at MWIII, Sledgehammer tried they’re best to make the most of a bad situation bc if I’m right they had a very short window to make this game. But, they made the best of a bad situation with multiplayer but the campaign and zombies were terrible. It does suck to see that, but it’s definitely one of the better cods we’ve had the last few years

[@Gute_Nudel]

I think you made a good point about how wether MWIII is DLC shouldn't be the question but wether if it is worth 70$. I try to think that way more often when buying anything, asking myself: Is this product worth its asking price to me or am I just thinking about buying because it's cheaper than its competitors or other products in general. (e.g. buying a cheap gadget before considering how much I'm going to use it) Personally I'm not going to buy BO6 at launch. I did buy CoD at launch since WWII but Vanguard, MWIII and MWIII all disappointed me and even though I think BO6 will be great I'll just try it at a friend's place who is gonna buy it anyway My own little Review on MWIII: 1. Campaig Story: Didn't like it, just running after Makarov and never catching him, only to have him runaway as an ending Gameplay: I like ego shooters and cod at that, but especially open combat missions felt kinda pointless as campaign missions 2. Zombies Played it twice, ran around the map while my random mates cleared everything without me really getting a lot out of it. It was boring for me, but I never really got into Zombies 3. Multiplayer To me, it felt really fast and that's why I really liked it. I'm probably an average to below average player, so games never get that sweaty

[@FabTBC]

Isn’t Makarov’s motivation against Urzikstan caused by a longstanding feud / conflict between Russia and Urzikstan? At least that’s what I vaguely recall from the campaign. As it relates to Makarov’s attack on Verdansk, yeah, I have no bloody clue what the point of that was.

[@I--benn--I]

Yes, I'm pretty sure the reasoning he wants to pin the Plane Attack on Urzikstan is because of Barkov's failure in the region.

[@wilkensdolce1719]

Great content 👏🏾

[@Duke_Nuke]

It was a 70 dlc. Yeah, mp progressed past that, but I'm going by how it was RELEASED. The only reason I got it was because I had enough rewards points to get it for free and I wanted to try zombies... Which despite its issues was the only part I enjoyed. I won't be missing the weekly challenges and am not a fan of having to do the battle pass to unlock new weapons. That makes it feel more like a 2nd job.

[@jwaximus1113]

After season 1-and of bo6 beta, I just did not play mw3. I tried playing it almost everyday but would quit after a game. After bo6, I initially thought oh yeah that’s why I hate this game. As soon as season 6 started, everything changed. I fell in love with mw3 multiplayer and even started doing the mastery camo grind last week which I’m 10 guns away from. I realized I had most guns max level all ready and just needed to grind just a bit to get that mastery. I also have been in a gaming drought which has made me play more

[@SurajGrewal]

Open combat sounds a lot like hitman series. you have an objective and multiple ways to complete them.

[@eduardorafaelficetti409]

The mission you are in on the plane in the MW III is nothing like Russian 2.0, the real mission it refers to is when Price and Soap go to the Verdansk stadium and capture Makarov and eliminate the group that is killing civilians.

[@eruanned.9687]

Yes adn it does matter - as the saying goes "The standard you walk pass is the standard you acept". And just because EA does it worse with the sports games (which is a good example why monopols are a bad idea) doesn't really make it better

[@adzzzzfrmdgreen]

Its sad how they didnt care about mw3 story in post launch seasons and just left us on a messed up cliffhanger its really a jumbled mess the characters have no meaning the missions are unfinished or finished and the plot weakens as the story goes on like its that bad

[@onetimes582]

That plane cinematic was unreal tho

[@hatedamongmany4688]

Open combat missions are just another way of saying here's mini DMZ

[@sunmoon7437]

The thing is because cod releases new year is the main reason why people bish and moan about cod not changing because franchise fatigue. But I'm gonna be honest here yeah it is a paid dlc that were marketing on mechanics and gameplay that they effed up with mw2 and just fixed those and made them look like they were actual selling points of the game.

[@TecraX2]

11:30 - It's not a coincidence that both those campaigns were made by Sledgehammer WWII Games...

[@raidenthenctzenwithinsomni4961]

Is your title meant to be like that or did you forget the question mark?

[@crickcrackcricketycrack5501]

The cell shaded maps are an absolute eye sore. Having non cell shaded characters running around is such a mess of visuals it hurts me to look at

[@MarioKaiba]

Tbh, I probably would never have bought MWII if I knew about Carry-Forward for MWIII. Then again, I bought it on discount in March of 2023 with birthday money from my mom and a friend. But hey, I did have some fun with friends. As for MWIII... it felt slightly different. I mainly got it for MWZ, which I enjoyed for a few months. In truth, I avoided the MWIII battle passes for seasons 4 and 5 because I felt burnt out. I'm probably gonna wait to get BO6 until it's on sale, despite the fun I had in the beta.

[@theretroaiden2107]

I am not gonna lie I played cod mw3 on free to play version I didn't buy it .. as money is scarce these days affecting our lives and I didn't think $70 was worth it I could buy alot of things like cyberpunk 2077 or save it up for next ubisoft game ( I heard about the recent star wars outlas and Avatar frontier of pandora hope ubisoft change it for the better).. also I didn't like one thing about mw2 and mw3 .. it both had 8 missions I felt there coulv'e been more missions like 12 or 13 to had there and I felt mw3 shouldv'e come out 2 more years or 3. I felt there shouldv'e been more cutscenes and variety introducing characters from warzone in 2019 or those who are relevantly known as I felt there was an empty space there in the middle that couldv'e been had.

[@Schregger]

Concord had a lot of issues, issues that really should have been caught at some point during the horrendous 8 year development period.

[@whiskeypete88]

Campaign I agree was underwhelming but other than that great. The ranked play I wish didn’t ban snipers and combined old mw2 ranked maps into rotation. Like a ranked mw2-3 weapon pool. But that’s just me.

[@TecraX2]

15:55 - They are also afraid of making a game which isn't set in either the PAST or the PRESENT...

[@immortalghost443]

This was Bobby Kotick fucking with us before he left Activision

[@Thekid-rv4jh]

I think “alone” from mw2 was a open combat mission done right

[@Wolfie_2045]

Regardless how you feel about MW3 at the end of it’s lifecycle I personally believe the campaign left a major stain on the Name by itself that they shouldn’t even try/make MW4 if those rumors are true. They should just move on and make a new IP instead. Can’t believe they fumbled it this bad, could’ve been a nice reboot if they didn’t mess a lot of shit up.

[@justinnguyen3918]

Verdansk was committed because he was trying to send a message on how weak Russia became after the humiliation they faced after the loss of Barkov

[@ninjalemon9082]

Why are we not talking about the fact that Soap shouldn't have even died this time around? I would argue that a descent into darkness for Soap would've made a lot of sense, and would be very entertaining to see. We already see him lose his cool with Makarov like never before. Then what, Makarov just offs him? He has to die again? This new iteration of him, wasted. That really rubbed me the wrong way. I get that repeat deaths are almost impossible to avoid, but killing this new version of Soap was just silly in my opinion. He and Ghost were a fucking power team, and his personality in this series is a lot stronger than his OG version.

[@AncientKing9197]

No, it wasn't, and frankly speaking, I found mw2 and mw3 better than mw 2019

[@Thcmaster710]

Outro was fire

[@holyrock6133]

DMZ was so good.

[@GadroGaming]

DMZ wasn’t in mw3

[@holyrock6133]

@@GadroGaming yeah but it should of been continued and not just used as test for mw3 zombies. DMZ was so good and had a good fan base. Really wished they continued it.

[@GadroGaming]

@@holyrock6133 I agree I liked DMZ much more then the Garbo zombies mode we got

[@MUSTAFAAlfadhilMustafaGhost]

In my opinion It deserve less price than 70$ like 40$, I had fun in campaign about 30%,Multiplayer 85%,Zombies 90%

[@1cowboyr512]

If only COD games lasted on a 2 year cycle but no, they can't just get away from releasing a COD every year.

[@SgtOmega121]

My reasoning for why MW 2023 will always be a $70 DLC is because of how every weapon attachment, all the operators, and cosmetic bundles from MW 2022 just transferred over. Plus, that fact this game also launched the awful Cod HQ thing. It justs makes it even more obvious that it is a $70 DLC.

[@SgtOmega121]

Doesn't matter how much you polish garbage, it's still garbage.

[@elijahsaucedo5337]

MW3 didn't have a storyline after the campaign like MW19 where it went into warzone. MIIW went somewhat into warzone due to DMZ but lacked how MW19 did and continued with coldwar

[@SundrySun90]

Yes it was. Idk why this needed a near 27 minute video

[@boostedflame999]

As fortunate as I am to be able to purchase these yearly Call of Duty games, I can’t deny that they were worth the money. The time I’ve spent with friends and my brother has created great memories. Sure, Call of Duty games may vary in quality, but even something as bad as Tranzit can be fun with friends. Does it make it right to create subpar content for a whole year, expecting people to waste money on it? No, it doesn’t. Not every Call of Duty or game is worth buying just for the potential of having fun. However, if you found even a small amount of enjoyment playing it, then maybe it was worth your investment. This is just my experience with these yearly games. If you truly feel it was a waste or that it’s irredeemable, nothing will change your perspective-and that’s okay.

[@Samtember14]

Altogether, MW23 multiplayer is number 4 for me, behind MW2, MW3, and BO2. Following MW23, for me is WW2. Edit: I didn’t buy MW22 so the game didn’t feel like DLC to me. And I also skipped out on BO4 which introduced aftermarket parts. So the game to me felt fresh. Almost a modern adaptation to WW2 on the multiplayer front.

[@Xuniz_]

they should release books or mini-series about the story of Makarov