Modern Warfare 3's Campaign is hilariously bad
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Modern Warfare 3 is probably the worst Call of Duty I have ever played. Let's talk about why exactly the new MW3 campaign is so BAD. And trust me... it's really... really bad. Let's review the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 2023 campaign
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00:00 Intro
02:40 Call of Duty 20 Modern Warfare III (Part 3) 2023
03:42 Operation 627 (Mission 1)
06:00 Precious Cargo (Mission 2)
07:15 Open Combat Missions Suck
08:59 New Makarov Sucks
10:10 Reactor (Mission 3)
12:17 Payload (Mission 4)
15:30 Deep Cover (Mission 5)
17:28 Yuri's Character is RUINED
18:11 No Russian (Mission 6)
22:02 Crash Site (Mission 7)
23:35 Flashpoint (Mission 8)
26:57 Oligarch (Mission 9)
28:44 Highrise (Mission 10)
30:53 Frozen Tundra (Mission 11)
33:22 Gora Dam (Mission 12)
34:12 Danger Close (Mission 13)
35:31 Trojan Horse (Mission 14)
36:55 The Worse Moment in COD History
38:39 Final Thoughts
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is a 2023 first-person shooter video game developed by Sledgehammer Games and published by Activision. It is a sequel to 2022's Modern Warfare II, serving as the third entry in the rebooted Modern Warfare sub-series and the twentieth installment in the overall Call of Duty series. The game was released on November 10, 2023, for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. - เกม
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gotta say, best part of the vid was my comments in your chat. i expect 33% of your income to go straight to my bank account.
hey kelski, would it be possible for you to play Laika aged throught blood?
What is the music at 36:22?
@@atomic_bomba Rooftops from the Black Ops 1 Soundtrack. goes hard.
Soap was actual the smartest character, he knew the plot was ass so he kept letting things happen to get WW3
💀 bro this comment has me dying. i underestimated him
Also the smartest to self-delete himself to escape the horrible pacing 😂
@@tkraid2575Soap: does a shit job, doesn’t elaborate. Leaves and dies.
And then got himself killed in the end so he wouldn't have to be in God knows what comes after this
@@Alex-uq1elwith this level of writing I’d bet a box of doughnuts he gets res’d in the next game. “It was all a ruse and he’s been undercover this whole time”
The best part about the campaign was when it ended.
when the credits rolled i cried (it was finally over)
It's a 3 hour campaign but feels like 20 hours because of how boring it is.
@@Apple_BeshyI felt like it went on for 15 hours because of how boring it was 😭
No
I would argue that the best part was before the campaign started
These writers are idiots if they expect us to believe Ghost wouldn't have taken one look at Soap's body and gone after every single Russian in that tunnel. He is always shown as this legendary powerful character that everyone should be afraid of, but hardly does anything to warrant that reputation. Wasted potential
- _"Oh noo, Makarov gone behind that door!"_
- "Sir, let's just open the door and chase him?"
- _"Nah, we can't do it. Overlord, we have one K.I.A.... One K.I.A. 😔"_
@@DarthErdoganOne main character KIA to be exact, background soldiers die on a missionly basis and nobody bats an eye
@@TheDanks the background soldier respawn so nobody cares
@KABLAMMATS nah apparently it's the main characters that respawn, like; graves, Alex and probably more.
My favorite mission in MW2(new) was the mission after graves betrayal, it was fun and I loved how soap and ghost had witty banter. The fact that ghost wouldn’t be absolutely pissed when he died is fucking stupid
Makarov in the OG game led a terror attack on an airport to frame the US, carried out chemical attacks on Europe, and nuked 30,000 Marines.
Makarov in the deboot appears out of nowhere, monologues for 10 seconds, and then calls in -Shadow Company- Konni goons for you to deal with while he vanishes like a fart in the wind.
Even Imran Zakhaev and Khaled Al-Assad were better villains in just 2007's "Call Of Duty 4 Modern Warfare" alone than anything from the entire reboot series combined.
Well. If you look at the writers of each game-
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2019 writers:
Ben Chaney
*Brian Bloom*
Justin Harris
Taylor Kurosaki
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 2022 writer:
*Brian Bloom*
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 2023 writers:
*Brian Bloom*
Ashley Poprik
Shelby Carleton
Justin Chung
Dana Shaw
Jen Campbell
Yeah….
I always wondered why I didn't feel Makarov wasn't such a badass villain anymore in the new game and that I couldn't take him seriously.
Dang Brian had to write the whole game of Mw2 that’s crazy
I love when Price said "Makarov, you started this Modern Warfare 3 and now I'm here to answer the Call of Duty" truly made me cry a million.
Truly the Callest moment of all Duties.
*Captain Cost
Makarov: Captain you see... There is a Price to pay... And you shall pay it
I love when Price said “It’s Call of Dutying time” and then call of dutied all over the place
this comment section is amazing
The idea that Price and the rest of the gang didnt IMMEDIATELY go after Makorov RIGHT AFTER he shot Soap infuriates me to no end
i was so shocked that honestly the words couldn’t leave my mouth, but i was FUMING
I mean there is a god damn bomb. And there are many other soldiers to kill too. So I guess they did what they should and could.
@@kel_skiif they didn’t defuse the bomb everyone would die so they couldn’t go after him
@@IcyzStarzat least ghost or Gaz should've gone alone to hunt him
@@tarekcat1imagine if they had one of them go past the train and on a solo mission to try to kill Makarov but fails as we see him leave, maybe ghost since he was close to soap or Gaz to build him up and give him an actual reason to be at the funeral
Something in this game that pissed me off..
In the no russian mission, when the woman picks up the phone and the timer runs out, the explosion comes FROM THE PHONE and NOT FROM THE LITERAL BOMB VEST ON THE PLAYER CHARACTER
W H A T ? !
Ah I see. So it was an Iphone 7
@@prometheus1815No, it was a Samsung Galaxy Note 7.
It was so fucking dumb. How did they managed.. to ruin one of if not the most devastating.. the most impactful, and utterly the most heartbreaking mission in the game..
It was so dumb, even worse is that guess what! YOU CANT KILL THE CIVILIANS WHICH WAS THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE ORIGINAL! “But nooo! We can’t do that! That’s too much! Let’s just make it where all you do is walk around in a plane! Let the game to its thing! Oh and btw buy our new bundle that costs $80!” -Activision Blizzard
@@bread_games8114 As a German i couldn't stop laughing, because that was what we (and i think also Japan) got in the original MWII.
Activision couldn't keep the No Russian-mission as it was here and they didn't want to cut it out (would have been a little bit problematic for the story if they did). So players weren't allowed to kill any of the civilians.
And that's how we got a huge mess. At least if the player doesn't know about the change.
Makarov of course knows that the player character is a CIA-agent, but you don't know what he knows. So avoiding civilian casualties would actually mean you blow your cover - which then means CIA-guy would be better off killing Makarov and the others at this point ...
Captain Price became captain Cost well then the other will be
Soap-> Shampoo
Ghost->Human
Yuri->Yaoi
General Shepherd->Gen.Herdsman
Roach(not in this serie yet)->Insect
I hope roach isn't in the new games at all, save one of the poor bastards
Gaz -> Fart Gas
Whats yaoi?
@@christinablixthenningsson3529look it up on your school computer
@@christinablixthenningsson3529 say gex
"Alex wasn't in the building"
"Graves wasn't in the tank"
"Soap's ashes wasn't in the urn" is how I expect the next game to go
I would actually like that, besides it being unrealistic. I want him to LIVE 🥺
"My brain was never in that skull"
Honestly, if the next game actually fixes this shitshow of a story, I would wholeheartedly accept that as long as the next parts of the story are significantly improved. I really didn’t want soap to die yet. And definitely not like this.
“I won in the gulag, price”
100%, its basically guaranteed that he'll be in the next game. Laswell will call everyone into a room and bring Soap out and Price will storm out. It's written in the stars.
The best part of rescuing Makarov? Is that he still has his business suit, AND his body armour on despite being a prisoner. They couldn't even be bothered to give him a costume change.
In og MW2, Price didn't even have the luxury to have such drip. But at least, his introduction in Gulag is more badass than Makarov.
Body armour was given to him by Alpha team, but yeah his suit is a massive what the fuck moment...
Looks like you didnt have the deluxe edition where it contain the prisoner costume for him.
@@budlikycz2445why the hell would someone get the deluxe? it sucks. there shouldnt be a high pay walk for some details in a story mode
@@roastedorangejuice7089 looks like you didnt get it, that was a joke xD because everything is mtx now I dont even know if it has deluxe edition xD
Captain Price: tortures a man and then shoots him when he is of no use anymore, promises a gas mask for information, gives the gas mask then shoots the guy anyway, detonates a literal nuke to knock out the Russian air forces and some American air forces,threatens to kill a man’s family for info then let’s you decide whether or not he lives, captain cost: doesn’t kill makarov, doesn’t torture anymore doesn’t kill shepherd
*Captain Cost:* _Can't open a bag of chips._
*Captain Price:* _Sends a literal nuke to US, white house's atmosphere from Moscow by stealing a submarine, right after leaving a prison he was getting tortured for 5 years._
About “No Russian”
You forgot to mention that Samara could have just, I don’t know, opened the emergency door and sacrificed herself by jumping off the plane?
Samara? Is that the girl's name THIS TIME? She shoulda just gone into a TV screen, would have rendered the explosion harmless.
@@thientuongnguyen2564 I think that jumping out of the plane behind Makarov WHO LEFT HER WITH JUST ONE PERSON WHO PROCEEDED TO GIVE HER HIS ONLY GUN would be a much better choice
@@Paraf0x This is why the gaming industry should fail like 1983 if people think this is ACCEPTABLE when having a controversial point for wars dumbed down to a cutscene written by talentless hacks.
EDIT: I havw not played the game, so i dont know the details other than whats in this video.
You cant just bail out of a passenger jet mid air. The inside is pressurized so opening the door is literally impossible (unless you are landing/just took off)Also planes fly super high where theres freezing temperatures and barely any breathable air, so if the door somehow opened you would doom everyone including the pilots to die from asphyxiation or freeze to death.
That being said Samara could have just dropped the gun...
@@jonhg92 I am talking based on what the game shows to be possible
Because yeah apparently basic physics weren’t invented in the MW reboot universe
Consumers: "So that 235Gb install size means it has a complete campaign, right?"
Activision CEO:
Technically yes! Because it's actually downloading MW2. So the campaign files of MW2 are buried in there.
OPEN COMBAT MISSION
123 gb
Is it really that big?
@@ZackarcoSadly and unsurprisingly yes, they really just want to fill out your storage with this crap
Is anyone really shocked that Activision not only broke their “no more yearly release” promise, but when they did, they completely screwed it up?
I wasn't expecting much. Bought mw2 last year, first cod ive purchased since bo2 because I thought maybe this time it will be different. They deserve to go bankrupt and just let the series die instead of dragging it through the mud.
Nah Activision been doing thiz very long time
This game was made in 16 months, it still follows the old shit formula
@@wile123456Yep yet there's still games that were made on a shorter span of time that were miles better
Think about it, it wasn’t even a decade before they literally ran out of ideas and thought rebooting MW was the best way to proceed with the franchise. Now what’s surprising about the franchise’s continued decline again?
The return of Alex and Graves confusing campaign players is the proof why continuing the story in multiplayer is complete ass.
Well warzone 1 and mw 2019 was actuly good and we knew that Akex returned, but Graves returns and says "I was never in the tank" like wtf
@@cooluxmscool2395 but still. if you have people that never played Warzone or saw the seasonal content, they're left completely in the dark and like many, completely baffled on how Alex/Graves resurrected from the dead like they were Jesus himself. Whether the games are good or not doesn't matter here. The decision to put story into something that the story shouldnt even touch is fucking stupid. and in this case, leads to dumb af retcons too
A good villain isn’t cunning because he has another evil plan of his original fails, they’re cunning because they have contingencies to ensure they succeed if something goes wrong.
Giving Makarov another plan for us to stop every time we beat him does make him look smart, it makes him look incompetent.
It's "all get you next time, Batman!" levels of villany.
"There is no military war vibe", finally someone has said it. For me, this is the biggest issue with the new MW trilogy campaigns.
That’s been a problem since mw2 09
@@staringcorgi6475 why? MW3 2011 literally had WW3, we were fighting a war in Europe.
@@brutaldynamics1909 it was more of a action movie than a military experience
@@staringcorgi6475 I understand what you mean. But there was still a war, there were armies, tanks, APCs, choppers, frontlines. More that what I could say about the new MW trilogy.
@brutaldynamics1909 MW3 felt more like a Micheal Bay movie
The original MW trilogy was very poetic. Started off with price meeting soap as a recruit, gathers the Bravo 6 and 141,one by one died off and finally soap dies. It ends with a suicide mission and only price (and Nikolai) remains at the end. It's very personal and weighty, I feel like i can watch the original trilogy as a movie trilogy.
The original trilogy was a cohesive narrative with a beginning, middle, and end. That kind of self-contained storytelling was clearly abandoned here.
@@AimForMyHead81 The original wasn't that cohesive. We went from "lets burn Russia for invading America" to "hurr durr, save the Russian president even though he literally just invaded America days earlier". I laughed on the airplane mission when the Russian president gives the speech about peace which is completely disconnected to MW2 events.
@@DaveSmith-cp5kj MW2 is an absolute hackjob full of wildly implausible shit (like Russia teleporting a bajillion soldiers directly to the Eastern USA unopposed just a few years after recovering from a messy civil war), which would be fine but it also takes itself deadly seriously.
In its defense I actually like it. It's fun in a B-movie "so bad it's good" kinda way.
The remake, though. It's nonsense but it doesn't have the decency to be fun.
Dude any American player was so pumped to free the suburbs from tyranny
@@rdrrr OG MW2 was 0 to 100 real quick from the first mission. Complete a mission successfully as a Ranger? Now go undercover in the Russian underworld as a terrorist. Not saying it's bad but man it's all over the place if you think more than 2 seconds.
Soaps original death was bloody heart wrenching and the VA for Price did an amazing job with eliciting that desperation and realization in his voice.
What we got in MWIII ..was essentialllllly, a 'Oh he ded? kay cool!'
Yeah, I remember it clearly. Freaking VA got me good. That was some awesome emotion, and we were actually invested in the characters.
Billy Murray gave his all.
@@GingerZombie29 I mean, Neil Ellice does a good job on Soap but if KEEGAN (Brian Bloom) GAVE HIM SOME MORE PERSONALITY we wouldn't be here right now
Some time later in a new MW3 season
"Soap MacTavish? I heard Makarov shot you in the head"
"Well it wasn't my head that he shot"
Remember: No Refunds
this is more scary than the plane level
WE GOT REFUNDS FLYING OVER I95
Activision: TAKE OUT THOSE FUCKING REFUNDS!
Thanks marcus
@@TheSalad666 my man
MW 2019 - We need to stop the chemicals
MW 2 - We need to stop the missiles
MW 3 - We need to stop chemical missiles
Who tf paid these writers?
MW 4: We need to stop
@@pringlecanww3. Wait, where you guys goin? Plz buy our game. Said Activision Blizz
@@DarkLordoftheOldRepublic sad thing is, I think many people will actually buy that game, maybe just for multiplayer
@@pringlecanMW5 - we need to
@@oooko9047MW 6: We need
MW 7: We
Are we not going to talk about how Makarov just walked out of a prison cell he's been in for at least 4 years with a clean shave and hair while wearing a business suit
He kept a shaving kit and fresh suit in his prison wallet
10:42 this game, even at this point, is just "Warzone the Campaign." So fuck it, Konni had a trophy on the helicopter
Fun fact: they REALLY did dirty to the composer of the previous two MW games, so much so that she had to leave after MWII
this makes sense why this game feels like a silent film
Good, she should be recognized in an actual good game
Rip my girl Sarah, did good work on the first two games
What happened?
@@MrHoovy-zo7bcfrom what I remember, she wasn't given freedom as to what kind of music she wanted to make. Just boring generic music and she didn't like that. You'd have to look it up as I don't really remember.
14:43
“You win battles by knowing the enemy’s timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect”
What a perfect quote after getting slammed by a juggernaut that just phased through the truck while you were swapping weapons 💀
holy shit you’re right hahahahaha
The jug followed the advice to a T.
WHY THE HELL ARE YOU GIVING MY ENEMY A TIP GAME!
This reminds me of the death quotes from Activision and Cauldron's 2008 budget FPS "Secret Service." It had such gems like:
"You Could've Survived Anything, Except Death."
"Agent Down. This Time, It's You."
"The Bullet That Gets You Is The One You Never Hear."
"You Took Some Of Them With You. Next time, Take A Few More."
"There's The Right Way And The Wrong Way To Defuse A Bomb. Next Time, Try The Right Way."
37:39 Actually the Police guys who were there actually die before this part, Price even says “Police are KIA” so it’s just Him and Soap. And also Gaz and Ghost were “on their way” so they arrived after Soap gets capsized
Why does Ghost use a bump helmet while everyone else has a ballistic helmet
He wears it when off-duty, too
He wears it in bed
Soap in MW4:
“Well, I was never in that tunnel”
The ashes you dump in the ocean wasn't mine, its just table salt
Soap
"Get in there is no time no explain" and then u get in car while he's driving he explains how he survived
Or a limited time multiplayer event. That way they won't even need to address it in the game 😆
Hudson to Price: "Soap was never with you on that tunnel Price."
@@kool-aidman7454 like Black Ops?
"I hope I saved you $70"
Don't worry, I never intended to buy this game, but you convinced me to not buy it again so techinally I saved $140, thanks Kelski!
I really was hopeful for this tho
I was impressed by the 1 reboot, how it's story went to places we hadn't been to in like ten years. Then 2 played it a little more safe and generic with the guiltless, jingoist, and overall unremarkable campaign.
But when I found out Makarov would show up in this, who was first introduced in one of the most controversial levels in gaming history, I thought maybe they'd make this game a lot more intense.
this makes me think of pirating a game twice so the devs lose twice as much money
hang on
I got convinced to quit buying cods so he saved me hundreds of dollars
I like how at this part ( 20:36 ) they straight up give Samara a GUN, and she doesn’t try to attack the dude holding her hostage, even if it has no ammo SHE IS A EX-SOLDIER I think she should have atleast some experience in melee combat.
19:04 The idea of going through airport security and as you're leaving whispering to the guard nothing except ''You're getting fired tonight buddy'' is so funny to me
“Late is for a little while, suck is forever.” Activision truly needs to hear this, start making something fun and put your heart into it even if you don’t have one.
sadly they just can't and that's modern game design for you. these companies have basically unlimited money to pump into the making of these games but somehow none of it gets spent on decent writing or decent gameplay.
@@tloyp2584 "use OUR money to make something YOU like? fuck no! give us YOUR money instead!"
1) You're assuming that this entire franchise isn't creatively bankrupt. They obviously ran out of ideas after 2013 and have been spinning their wheels in never-ending reboots and retreads.
2) Activision is beholden to their investors, not their consumers. They'll keep pumping out dog shit until their stock price starts to tank. Then they'll start to pump even harder.
We got to this shitheap BECAUSE Activision hasn't listened for years
They really don't..
When I beat the campaign in like 5 hours, steam actually granted me a refund. I said “this game is literally warzone with cutscenes it’s a scam” & 15 minutes later I got an email for a refund lmao
Based Gabe
steam support is goated for letting you refund the game lmao
@@Amokzyy Yea it was odd because usually u cant refund a game with more than 2 hours of playtime
W Valve win
@@KrishnaMusicc I am fairly certain someone at Steam MANUALLY reviews every single refund application. And it depends up to the person reviewing your application to accept it or not. I have tried refunding a game (don't remember which one it was) and I had like 3 hours of play time (mostly installing and trying to get it working) and it got denied. I then tried a few days later and it went through. I think I changed the reason for a refund and wrote a better explanation the second time so maybe that helped?
19:29 Just happened to be sat next to each other and on the same plane together. Who happens to know who she it. And happened to know Farah. Another one of Farah's friend gets killed off, somehow.
20:53 an extremely skinny woman with two separate men getting on top of her? how will she ever get them off of her? I think you forget how strong an 80 lbs woman can be! She'll just use her left hand to lift one man's whole body up and away from her. Oh and when people get scratched, they run away, that's why murderers never have scratches on them. Oh and don't forget, women can also kick men twice their weight many feet backwards and knock them unconscious.
Wait until I tell you that Alex and Graves being alive was “explained”…in timed events for Warzone, so if you didn’t obsessively play and keep up with that mode like daddy Activision wants you to, you just aren’t told that.
I’m so glad I fell off this franchise after the glory days.
bruh… that is absolutely atrocious
reminds me of how Halo had extremely important lore events happen in Halo 4’s spartan ops mode that tied into the next main-line game
im just not a fan of tying lore events to multiplayer. just put it in the damn campaign
@@kel_ski but is it as bad as having to buy and play all 4 bullshit Kingdom Hearts games on the gameboy to understand half of the story? 🤔
@@kyju7093cod is still shit kid
@@kyju7093 and the other half requires a PSP and your phone.
@@kel_ski At the VERY LEAST, the Spartan Ops moments weren't limited time-exclusive, and if you wanted to suffer, you could play them all offline solo. The Warzone events are 1) online-only, 2) multiplayer-exclusive, and 3) time-gated.
I have a friend that pre-ordered the game
He was so disappointed
Yet he still plays the game, I asked him why, he said because he already wasted the money, I asked him if he was having fun
He said no
Imo MP is better now than mw2 and zombies is pretty good so I'm still willing to play this over mw2 after I also pre-ordered. Vault looks cool tho so that's good I guess
Your friend is the problem.
Lmao, I literally refunded the game after completing the campaign and getting lvl 50 in multiplayer. Fuck Activision
He has fallen victim to the sunk-cost fallacy, poor guy probably eats burnt popcorn as well instead of throwing it away. He probably would be happier putting the game away.
i sadly pre ordered vault edition
Didn’t Dena get shot in the prison break mission when you play as Farrah in the first game? They retconned her sacrifice from the current run to sacrifice her… again?
This game's entire campaign is just one long 'bruh moment.' 😑
To be fair, you could actually let Dena live in MW 2019 by telling Barkov what he wanted to hear
She even becomes an NPC during the battle scene
17:13 "Ass shot lets go"
Nikolai: 👍
All of the 'open combat missions' were originally made for warzone events, but instead they decided to try and pass them off as campaign missions. They're basically repackaging Warzone content and MW2 DLC and trying to pass them off as MW3, instead of releasing them for what they're worth.
Alex was confirmed to be alive in the first Warzone, his fate revealed in a season cutscene with a goofy metal foot. The same thing happened with Graves, who was revealed to be alive in MW2 season 5, where he just says "I wasn't in that Tank." (Funny enough, they also said it happened in South America. The writers of MW don't actually know what continent Mexico is on)
I think it's pretty obvious their plan was to have these characters never return to the main story, so they could keep marketing them as warzone characters. But they had to recycle all this warzone content for MW3, they just said "whatever" and stuck them back in the story without reintroducing them. It's not Modern Warfare 3, it's Modern Warzone 3.
They revealed vital plot in MULTIPLAYER SEASONS??? Lmfaoooo
I was gonna comment all this but I decided not to care about the story anymore especially now lmao
@@kel_ski Yes, yes they did. There are entire plotpoints that won't make sense to you, if you are not aware of the corresponding cutscenes/lore in Warzone and DMZ. It is beyond ridiculous.
Having a bad story due to writing is one thing. To make WHOLE STORY SEGMENTS depending on the player remembering a cutscene from some random season of a multiplayer many probably stopped playing two years ago is just idiotic.
But hey, at least now whe know why there are unscippable cutcenes when booting up warzone, they want us to know about the L0rE
@@kel_skialso just to add a little more confusion Alex did re-appear in mw2 in the spec ops storyline that took place BEFORE mw2 campaign, and subsequently each season random story stuff happened like Valeria just getting out of jail lol
Stuff like this is why I generally oppose the introduction of a battle royale game mode in FPS games. Once they're introduced, the game mode attracts a bunch of players since it's a popular genre (which makes it understandable by publishers push for a battle royale mode in their games) and the game's identity begins to erode as it just becomes a platform to play the battle royale.
COD multi is dead, no one cares about it anymore and it clearly isn't the focus. Now even the campaign, which used to be a bright spot in COD for me is being eroded by lazy "open world" levels that area really just warzone maps populated with bots.
It's a bummer because I used to really enjoy the multi grind on COD, but now all my friends want to do is play warzone, and when we're not playing warzone we're grinding nothing but TDM on shipment to farm exp.... for warzone. It's a bummer.
Soap was so dense in this game that it actually took two headshots to put him down ☠️
best comment
Brutal XD
With the plane section, they still could of placed in player agency by trying to shoot. They could of given her an empty gun and let the player realise in their own just how futile it was.
To summarize, old MW was a big stupid Hollywood blockbuster, and new MW is that crappy Netflix series they tried to base on said movie, minus all the big budget action.
The Cod Devs are actually very talented. To turn a dlc into a "full" game in just 16 months takes a lot of work.
That makes us players appreciate Dragon Age 2 even more
Imagine A New DLC for MW3 2023 💀
If This Was A Game , Then I Don't Know What Kind Of Thing They will Release as a DLC )
@@tourbean790 A lot of time passed since Dragon Age 2, never thought anyone would bring up this irrelevant franchise ever again in such a context. Kudos.
@@ChadVulpes the context being a lack of time for game developing. As far as I know DA2 lacks a variety of locations. But in terms of story and characters it's great, not as great as dragon age origins. It shows that you can write a good story even in short amount of time but it was rare for CoD to have a decent story with some exceptions like bo1, bo2, bo cold war. But Activision decided to be pussies who can't write anything decent nowadays, and yes, the whole rebooted MW Trilogy had shit story without any grey morality
@@tourbean790 I thought Dragon Age 2 was boring as hell despite having a pretty good premise. The plot of mages vs templars was interesting, but it had only a handful of plot points stretched across the entire game, so you had to wait until the end with almost nothing in between, save for padding. The companion banter was nice, but the characters themselves didn’t do it for me. I didn’t mind simplifying the combat, but they went a bit overboard with that.
I thought that Inquisition was boring also, and it left me thinking that Origins is the only good game in the entire series.
I kind of dropped off CoD after BO2, but I caught up to the campaigns until Infinite Warfare two years ago. Mostly watch videos like this for entertainment. Anyway, I agree with your assessment. To this day I maintain that BO2 is the best-designed campaign in the franchise - great story, good gameplay choices, unprecedented(for this series) replay value. The fact that no other CoD game has this many mechanics in its campaign is just sad.
"You mean in six hours he managed to capture missiles and chemical weapons?"
At least that would explain why the other characters were so eager to abort their mission and go back. Makarov works dangerously fast it seems. XD
He is SANIC 2FAST4UUUU 😂😂😂😂
Yeah it makes sense. Price knew how obsessed with timing Makarov is (even if we never get to see how because a huge part of the story happens between the games) so he immediately leaves to prepare for any move by Makarov
@@whitezombie10I wonder what the mission was though I mean it would’ve been cooler if we actually were in the mission when price heard Makarov got freed
36:12, that bo1 music tho. Chefs kiss to bo1
Perfection
16:39 i love magical video game silenced weapons. You definitely wouldn't need a silencer the size of a horse to be that quiet
Adding onto No Russian;
The scene were Samara is getting armed with the explosive device shows the fact that they are currently in the front of the plane. Now, the best thing is that Makarov and his team parachute OFF the plane, FROM THE FRONT. Something that would end in slamming against one of the plane's wings or going straight into the engine.
Also, for some reason, Makarov breaks laws of physics and jumps out with air PUSHING HIM FORWARD instead of backwards.
It just tells you alot about the state of COD right now.
If you managed to jump straight down would you miss the wing? Or would you just get sucked into the engine?
@@SolProxy i think the second option
Pretty sure he got pushed backwards when he jumped out of the plane
@@SolProxythat would work if the plane wasn't traveling at 600mph
Typically the more writers there are the worse a story becomes. Anything created by committee is the worst possible version of itself.
Half of the writing staff were women with woke background
@@Masa. Let me guess, affirmative action hires? 😂
i have searched all those names for the writers, and only TWO* that is a game writer. the highlighted name is mainly a voice actor turns into a writer (somehow), one actually has game writer background, one other write only both new MW3 and MWVanguard, one of them are novel writer, and the rest are obscure peoples that i can't find their work or profile
@@arxeha and each one has their own styles and desires and emphasis on specific points, which is how stories written by too many people come off as sounding almost schizophrenic.
@@Masa. women bad 😂
Open combat missions are the laziest euphemism for "we can't be arsed to design an 8 hour campaign with setpieces worth a fuck"
Soap is coming back in season 4 so apparently his brain wasn't in his skull I believe XD
If there’s one thing this rebooted series did right it would be getting me to go back and play the real MW trilogy.
REAL
Most reboots tend to have that effect
I never played any of this reboot series, seems like i did dodged a bullet... 😅
Exactly. Everything was so much better in the original trilogy. The story, character design, dialogue, vocal casting, voice acting, mission design, gameplay mechanics & features, and amount of on-disc content were all superior in every way.
@@matiasfpmThe first reboot was pretty good especially compared to the previous few COD’s but afterwards the entire franchise was like a burning car flying off a cliff.
This 40 mins was better that 80$ MW3
incredibly based comment
@@kel_skiand I paid the 80$ anyway because I had hoped that it would actually have a story and conclusion
@@macaroni12 oh you Naive and sad child of the crescent moon...
@@kel_skiFunny think is that they added Godzilla g Kong new empire budles (4 of them) and if you buy all of them you will get Kong robotic arm as blueprint and it sucks, if we cound all of bundle it cost 80 dollars.
4:30: I still find it funny that Makarov, the Soviet hardliner, would have the gual to say his call sign is Czar. Like wasn't the point of the revolution to kick the tsar out of power lol.
11:47 so we all agree that Soap is the prettiest of all of them. Was.
The worst part of the No Russian mission is that you aren't playing a member of Makarov's group who willingly went along with massacring civilians, nor is there any sort of sudden turn in tone when the player realizes whats happening.
Instead, you play as a random person forced to wear a bomb in a long, drawn-out scene before not touching a single other person and fumbling the detonator. It doesn't even make sense in-game why it's like this- all those people are 100% dead, who cares if you force a random person to desperately try and diffuse 50 pounds of c-4 strapped to their chest? Is it just to show off Makarov's sadism? Because he isn't one - the original No Russian was Makarov being ruthless to do a setup. That's WHY the mission is called "No Russian." It's not Makarov waking up one morning, going "I wanna set up a budget saw trap" and then somehow expecting it to work.
It's so silly and stupid and god is modern COD so trash.
Maybe it's more for sending a message
@@brezzendorf Whose recieving it? Because no one on the plane would've lived to tell what happened, or are we assuming a bunch of people recorded her and then sent said videos before everything exploded?
@@RaeIsGaeeyup, they picked member of Farah's group to blame them for the attack and made sure someone was recording and sharing it (either relying on civilians recording or had another dude from their gtoup taking one for the team amd dying on the plane while recording). You can even see the cellphone footage in the video as you see Samara from another angle.
Except No Russian is about blaming yanks/CIA for attacking Russian civilians. Shepard sold out Joseph Allen to Makarov, as the future evidence of US involvement, and the attack happened right before security check, making it plausible. It was thought out to work with the story of the episode - Makarov and Shepard work together to pit US against Russia. I have no clue what MW2 remake Makarov's goal is... He is like a Russian Joker I guess? IDK, blaming Farah's group does nothing to advance the WW3 plot...
@@VanBournerfunny thing is Makarov accomplishes in making the ULF a designated terrorist group which should’ve surely helped his plans like maybe he has the Russian government backing him but instead nothing happens
did you purchase modern warfare 3?
It’s a depressing reflection of our modern world sliding down the drain when everyone is deciding all media should be “rebooted” and they proceed to make it absolutely miserable. Man just send the gamma burst on us already.
Fuck that, I don’t wanna die because of these idiots.
They could put all that money and effort into making a new idea or a new IP or something, but nope. So many remakes/reboots nowadays.
“Modern world sliding down the drain” is quite a negative way of thinking about it. All these remakes suck, sure (well, there are exceptions; the Resident Evil remakes, for one, have been good to excellent so far, and in terms of movies, the new Dune movie is a marked improvement over the old one, to give but a few examples), but that’s hardly a reason to whine about an apparent decline of modern society, as if literally everything was better in the past.
@@jordinagel1184real
@@jordinagel1184exactly. there are talented game makers out there still, but greedy companies are the ones making games suck. they constantly push for unreasonable deadlines and dont listen to what the fans want.
One of the lamest ways to tell the story to your audience is telling it through seasonal videos for the game as a service part. No one learned anything from Halos 4 and 5 failures
36:03 The Act Man in his Call Of Duty reviews when that one reference rears its head:
The most egregious comparison between the two MW3 campaigns are the death scenes for Soap. In the original, you fight through a whole army carrying him on your back, avoiding helicopters and APCs on foot, only for it to all be in vain as Price goes like “stay with me son” and he drops the plot twist about Yuri. In the new campaign, he just gets shot in the head in a cutscene and Price goes like “one KIA” completely disrespectful in comparison to the original and manages to replicate the same story element without any of the emotions or dramatic emphasis
God, when I first played that I genuinely cried as I Stand Alone started playing. I'd been playing the series in chronological order, and Soap was my favourite character
I feel like thats a problem with the reboot since MW2022. Its overuse of cut scenes for the important moments. a lot of the good stuff is done through a cut scene. You dont get to kill Shepard, you get to watch someone kill Shepard.
Yeah, they ruined one of MW best scenes...
It's like we got the cliff-notes version of the same story.
@@undercover1790I heard from somewhere that execs decided video games are basically where all the film school grads who aren't good enough for hollywood go.
I rather play the original MW3 campaign and it got balls which the MW3 remake doesn’t
Modern Warfare 3 (2011) my beloved
@@kel_ski I miss it too 🙁
"remake" more like a demake
@@kel_skiwhy do ppl even hate mw3 its such a good game and It even had phenomenal setpieces , THAT FALLING TOWER
@@sourlab people don't really hate it , they didn't like the multiplayer because it apparently was copy paste of MW2 and there weren't many changes. (Talking about the original trilogy not the new garbage)
THE DISRESPECT THAT THEY DID ON MY BOY SOAP IS INFURIATING. I thought my boy gonna have a redemption arc on this reboot.
And Captain Cost didn't even care, shii he didn't even do anything for the entire campaign. What a shit game
33:50 fuuck... When I saw this two letters, I was just triggered, not angry, but, you know x)
And btw you miss one more letter, and it's "O"
I like how the campaign has "Never wound a snake. Kill it." as a death quote, but Makarovi & Cheese is still alive somehow.
"Makarovi & Cheese"💀
LMFAOOO 😂😂💀
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Those death quotes are close to the same writing level as the death quotes from Activision and Cauldron's 2008 budget FPS "Secret Service." Definitely not on par with the death quotes from the original Modern Warfare trilogy.
Ya know another thing I just thought? Makarov was just able to able to kidnap a *four-star* United States Army General, hold him for an indeterminate amount of time, and either:
A.) Nobody noticed.
B.) Nobody cared.
C.) They just didn't think it was that important to affect the story.
Well you also have a high ranking government official that has let multiple tragedies occur all under her supervision whilst also being directly responsible for them, and nothing happened to her. You also have multiple military individuals that have broke ROE, killed either directly or indirectly civilians, and disregarded jurisdiction/sovereignty of free states. Can't forget the sister to a known terrorist that assisted them in directly killing American troops, but she gets to walk away scot free with another American who assisted her, and somehow survived 3 stories blowing up and falling on him.
"i kidnapped you because it's important to my plans but i guess nobody cared. so now what?"
WAIT, WAIT, your telling me the guy who voiced Nick Reyes and William Joseph Blazkowicz is one of the writers?
This is what happens when video game companies become huge and hire a ton of people who don’t care about the games they make and just want to make a pay check as soon as possible. I can’t really blame the writers either. They did their job but when it comes down to it they are just there to get their money so they can go home and do things they are interested in.
Exactly. Studios with a DEI policy cannot make good games because they base hiring on skin color/sex/ethnicity
This guy has been so mentally scard by these open combat missions the next time he goes to a big open space like a park hes gonna have a mental breakdown
Open Combat Missions-induced agoraphobia
He's gonna hear a documentary use the term "open combat" and start screaming in fear 😭
7:25 Being fair to the poor Russian conscript, that is an infrared laser. It’s designed so that you can see it really well while wearing night vision, but it’s invisible to the naked eye. The unit that projects it also probably has an IR illuminator (essentially an invisible flashlight), but the game never lets you use it.
oh that’s really cool actually, thank you for the knowledge!
Yep bingo. Dare I say Jack is a fellow combat arms soldier of some kind?
@@nicholaskinkaid I simply know things
Good stuff either way.
Unfortunately for me, my knowledge was only acquired via the hard and miserable way 😂 @@jack.attack
@@jack.attack you can see them when you take off the nvg
would be great if we can play as the good guys for once in CoD
also 9:58 is how you pronounce 'missiles'
I like Nolan was hyped up for this game to being Makarov big right hand man but then we chase him in circles on the rooftop as dudes protect him like the president.
And then all we do is sucker punch him and dont hear from him again
Man.
I've been seeing some of the IGN "documentaries" on the old CoD missions like All ghillied up and No russian, and the thought process behind them. These guys were making new animations, messing with the AI, putting months of work into a single mission just to make something great and memorable.
If you, as a writer, are afraid to kill off a character, whether good or bad you are doing something wrong.
Like there is a writter behind this, this games are generally made with the most basic idea for a story and a about a month cook some cut scenes to make the story make a lick of sense after they finished the game
You can thank Infinity Ward for that, the original crew I mean, the one that worked under Activision up to the original Modern Warfare 2, same people who later made Titanfall.
lots of writers are scared to kill of characters in anything these days, movies, video games, TV shows, because those characters become popular and they want to use that to manipulate you for the next time they show up, why kill off a character when you can shove them in the next game and use that as trailer bait.
Killing off a character (especially if it's a good character) is like breaking a complex LEGO figure that you've invested a lot of time and passion into. Of course you're gonna be afraid of killing them. Your statement at the end makes no sense.
@@boring_incarnateThe problem is somebody else made the lego figure. You just made rip-off it.
I feel absolutely terrible for the devs, imagine getting your dream job as a game developer and getting hired by a big company like Activision then having to make shit like this
Worse than death to be honest
Genuinely. I can only imagine how some, if not all of those devs feel. This was an unbelievable betrayal.
I blame the consumers honestly. They keep consuming this annually released garbage like hot cakes. Why would Activision do anything different? Their plan works, despite the criticism
bobby kotick pulls out the whip and begins hitting you so you work faster
Imagine, the graphics of this modern warfare 3, combined with the music and sounds of world at war, and finally with the destruction and fighting of the original modern warfare series, that'll be amazing
Why was Makarov's new design beased off a "trendy heartthrob"
Didn't he y'know
Kill people?
The moment when Makarov gets on that plane reminds me of that one top gear Osama Bin Laden Skit.
"Oh why its Osama Bin Laden, the world's most wanted man..." 😂
so the thing I really dislike about modern CoD is that the campaigns no longer have any stakes because they want to sell operator skins. that's the whole reason they brought back Alex from the dead, people wanted to play as him in multiplayer. Expect more of this going forward, I wouldn't be surprised if Soap somehow survived and returns in MW4
141 defeats Thanos to use the infinity stones to bring Soap back. Honestly wouldn’t shock me.
If Activision somehow makes Soap survive a bullet to the dome, I’m gonna cry lmao.
Or more likely they just don’t care he’s dead and still release skins for Soap
They're going to introduce the Dragon Balls, which Makarov immediately gathers all seven of within hours.
Then why not just sell skin packs of all the old characters? Oh wait, more game releases = more money.
@@bignate6568 they already have some shit like this in the canon. There's operators that are basically "returned from the dead" using some system they call Lazarus, because that's obviously super creative and not ripped off from anything -.-
I sure love generic villain:
Ben Shapiro
Oh come on. Ben Shapiro is a much more compelling villain than anyone Activision could cough up.
You misspelled "BIDEN"
@@kimbercustompro1911Biden is cute
@Angel-kj4ku You find pedophiles to be "cute". What does that say about you?
@@Angel-kj4ku he isn’t cute when he uses his “biden blast” on you
or his daughter idk
Hey, remember when every person you played as died? Apart from one guy (Ramirez) and Price? Man...I missed those games.
about the no russian thing, the security guard was a konni soldier that you see later on the plane. He's the one that says "are you a terrorist" and they were able to get a gun on the plane because it was made of a bunch of small 3d printed parts as seen in the ending of MW2.
I dont understand open combat missions. Where is everyone? Why am I alone? Why is there an endless supply of enemies attacking me from every angle? Was I supposed to be stealthy? Is stealth even an option considering the enemies always know exactly where I am?
Seeing the new modern warfare campaign (2023) made me wanna play the modern warfare campaign (2011).
the correct choice
You didn’t need to add the years lmfao that’s literally redundant information
"Seeing the new modern warfare campaign made me wanna play the modern warfare campaign" See how that doesn't make sense?@@Frankthegb
bro i wish i can pirate it it's still full price on steam 😢😢😢
sure go pirate a 230gb of 3hours worth of solo DMZ garbage@@someonewhospams0w0inchat16
This is what happens when bad writers think they can make a half decent Hollywood summer action blockbuster movie.
The captive that Nolan and Makarov interrogate in the very poorly written cutscene isnt Makarov. It is a random member of Shadow Company who surrenders Sheperds location which is where Makarov flies off to at the end of said cutscene. Because the cutscene starts so abruptly, it actually skips over the beginning of it where it pans out the interrogation room. The prisoner is hanging upside down in full gear and everything.
Soap's death scene is absolutely heartbreaking. You can feel the lack of emotion in that "One KIA" line from Price. Man, it hits you in the feels.
In all seriousness, this game's campaign is a travesty that tries to promote multiplayer experience when some people just want narrative. This is a campaign where things happen JUST to happen and maybe reference something from the last game.
I’m fairly certain sandman’s death in the original mw3 got a more of an emotional response from price than soaps death in the remake.
i couldn't help but soaps death got me dying lol and nah it's not heartbreaking i didn't pay 70 bucks just do see soaps death bec's that's all that happens in this abomination soap's death but the way he died in the og game hit diff
So fun fact; one of my friends was working for a security firm and one of the things he had to do was sneak a fake bomb through security to see if he could. This dude was able to just walk though security no problem with what I believe he said was "a very obvious looking bomb" and he would have been able to board had it not been part of his job to go talk to security after. So if that's anything to go by, they probably just walked on.
Sounds like a possibility, but I believe one of 141 said that the staff was in on it, after they recognized Makarov
Given that i just walked out of a store with a tablet, yeah. Security is a lie
@@dodojesus4529What store was it?Like Walmart or
@@Konni321 german store, "mediamarkt"
Homeland security/ATF regularly do “tests” to see if they can get a fake bomb/gun through security at American airports. They have a consistent 95% “success” rate. It’s always been known that the TSA provides nothing but an illusion of security.
To quote the act man who summarised the plot of this game for me since I never play the last few games.
‘WHERE ARE MISSILES, I SMELL MISSILES!!!’
That last mission could’ve had an interesting gimmick where soap would live if you kept a certain amount of ai, but that would require activision to actually put in effort
Call of Duty's slogan use to be "No one fights alone", so MWIII made sure to have most of the game just be you fighting alone
MW4: soap i wasn't in that urn and i dont need a brain to live cause i dont use it
My brain wasn't in my skull.
BTW Graves explained (in a warzone cutscene) he wasn't in the tank...there's no explanation for Alex, he literally just appears (in a warzone cutscene)
It's absolutely insane seeing the difference in quality between the new and old modern warfares. Every time there was a clip from the old trilogy I was like, "Damn, that looks cool as fuck." but MW3 never has anything cool or interesting. The whole fucking campaign is just a collage of disappointment. Take every single scene in this game and I guarantee you the OG modern warfares 2 and 3 did it at least 3 times better.
The OG MW3 was the only war game that i really felt i was testifying a World War of catastrofic proportions.
Buildings colapsing, cities crumbling, thousands of people dying, planes falling, tanks, helicopters roaming inside cities.
It truly felt like the world was falling apart.
I remember playing " Hunter Killer " and submerging for the first time and seeing NY falling apart.
Seeing the Eiffel Tower fall in " Iron Lady " was a moment that i can't forget.
IMO MW3 2011 had the most epic and saddest Campaign of all CODs.
Price acomplishes his mission but he ends up alone.
I stopped playing after Modern Warfare 2... I Abandoned the entire franchise.
After seeing how this went down, I think I should go back and finally finish the story I avoided for well over ten years.
Cod world at war has the most disturbing cod campaign by miles.
@@thewizard1 Indeed.
By far the most pessimistic COD campaign ever.
WAW portrays WW2 as pure horror and death. No heroic sacrifices, no honor, just death and misery.
@@matheusblancosoares7610It also gives you differing outcomes in the journal depending on how you act in the game at certain points.
If you brutally execute every german prisoner you come across the russian guy who gets flamed near the end (i don't remember his name sorry) views you as a monster and wonders why the hell some view you as a hero.
It's no bo2 levels of choice depth or spec ops the lines self reflection but its still nice knowing that you're actions do have some kind of consequences instead of just freely commiting casual gamer acts and actually making you think about them for a second.
@@houseoftoussaint9609I did the same - after MW2, my older brother convinced me to get battlefield 3 and I was hooked to that for a while. I should go buy the original mw3
Another confusing thing is that in the first mission they mention Makarov was in prison only for 22 days, but the flashback is 4 years before
Thats how long the trial took bruh
I thought they meant they planned it in 22 days
I just checked and they did say it was 4 years
How about stop reading too deep into the story. The franchise is fuked up and ruined. If ur an OG u would be smart enough to know the story makes no sense. If ur not OG ur clearly a noob gen z vape smoking scrub and DESERVE a one way trip to Mars 😊. Your welcome
So like, Shepard would have died in like 2 minutes of hypothermia from being submerged in frozen water then sitting outside in the snow.
*gruff British voice* “sorry but we can’t extract the package”
“Why what happened? Did you get ambushed? Did he get shot?”
*gruff British voice* “No, he died of being too cold. Ghost forgot the heated blanket”
3:21 Damn. It is great that you can kill as much as friendly people as you want as long as it's not an important character in the OG MW series.
37:13 How Makarov got enough strength to break Soap's arm after taking a knife in the same shoulder still beats me, wtf?
Because... modern gaming
You need some level of cognitive dissonance to be invested in modern storytelling.
They have yet to one-up that one time in one of the Star Wars sequel trilogy movies where an enemy's dagger disappears between shots when it would have easily stabbed/killed Rey in that moment.
Its that cod villain strength they pull out at the end of their games
@@kewlkat2712for real
How did Shepard, an old fucking man, beat the shit put of Price in the original series?
The original had its problems, but it felt like an escalating global conflict, the reboot just felt so small in comparison, instead of fighting WW3, youre fighting fucking Cartels and terrorist attacks. The original had nukes and an all out Russian invasion of Europe.
What I never liked about CoDMW titles is how the main villain, Makarov, is treated with such reverence and dread with how people talk about him. Yet what I never understood is how nobody could seem to kill him, despite multiple scenarios where it would have been so easy. He is a mortal man like you and I. He feels pain, he bleeds, he dies. The player character can tank bullets shot by mooks all damn day but when it's a bullet from Makarov it puts him down, for some reason.
special anti main character rounds
Also despite managing to steal both missiles and chemical weapons in six hours, all he managed to actually accomplish is instant transmissioining next to soap and killing him.
I mean CIA struggled to kill Castro for like 50 years...
15:26 lol
Price: Kate!
Kelski: Kait!
Price: Kate!
Kelski: Kaiiit! KAIIIT!