Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III (XS) | VGChartz Review

VGChartz's Lee Mehr: "2023 has been a tough year for quality higher-budget shooters and Sledgehammer Games exemplifies that claim. Unlike other examples, like Redfall & Crime Boss: Rockay City, it's more a bad game in principle rather than in execution. It should be manifestly impossible for a game with this mechanical baseline and punchy audio-visual design to fumble so egregiously across so many avenues. It's almost a feat unto itself! From the opening service agreements to the end credits, anyone can implicitly perceive this feeling like a hurried expansion with an exorbitant retail price ($70). Even by the tempered expectations of this fatigued franchise, Modern Warfare III deserves nothing less than a dishonorable discharge."

[Jin_Sakai]

This score is spot on. It’s ridiculous how they’re charging $70 for glorified DLC.

[coolbeans]

And it sucks for Sledgehammer too. I'm willing to bet real money the creative leads' initial talks with Activision/Kotick about this arrangement was more like a $30-$40 expansion that'd be supplemented by GaaS stuff in the storefront. Everything about it feels like content for an "off year," as a means to afford more time for Treyarch's next CoD.

[Newmanator]

$48.99

[itsmebryan]

@Jin
TLOU2 remaster , Miles Morales , Venom, and countless other remaster and remakes of old games by Sony says Hi!

[coolbeans]

Miles Morales was $40/$50 (PS4/PS5) retail though.

[Gabrielmpf]

Well, I've been having a blast with the multiplayer. If it's DLC, it's the best DLC COD has ever had.

[MIDGETonSTILTS17]

$70 isn’t what DLC should cost.

[Newmanator]

-$48.99

[Crows90]

@LT6i

I guess you also want the next halo, gears, forza, etc ...basically any iteration of an established franchise to be given away as dlc now...

[coolbeans]

I'll grant you multiplayer is the one aspect that *can* deliver some dopamine rushes, but I still think there has to be a tougher interrogation about this being an expansion masquerading as a sequel. Even the fun with certain competitive modes can't distant themselves from the reality of its wholesale recycling of old maps. Plus, it's not like there aren't cheaper ways to engage with CoD's tight mechanics. Warzone 2.0 & DMZ are free and feel way more mechanically cohesive than any part of MWIII.

[purple101]

I’ve also been having a blast but I paid £40 new off eBay
So there’s that

Not worth anywhere near £60/70 they wanted to charge

[Gabrielmpf]

I've also got it for €55 from a key site. Bought Brazilian credit and got it from the MS Brazilian store :P
I don't buy games at full price.

[anast]

They need to charge more, they are leaving too much money on the table.

[Father__Merrin]

its not that bad. the online multiplayer has a robust community and is fun to play. maps are good with free maps being added. i bougght it for £52.99 and to be honest il get my monies worth from it

[coolbeans]

-"maps are good with free maps being added."

But how much credit should be owed to maps originally crafted in 09's MW2? Sure, there's *some* fun in reliving most maps with this movement, but isn't criticism warranted for how that looks along with the obvious shortcuts done elsewhere?

[anast]

Not sure why you got downvoted. I gave you an upvote.

[Ironmike]

Clickbait it's good cod I normally lose interest quite quick with cod this one kept me playing loving it

[Dandizzle]

3 is too generous