Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III Campaign Can be Finished in 4 Hours - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 November 2023 / 4,434 Views
The single-player campaign for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III can reportedly be finished within four hours, according to people who have been playing the game in Early Access.
Call of Duty streamer Marley13 beat the campaign in one sitting and it took him four hours to complete it.
Another player took to Twitter claiming to take their take, but was able to beat it within three to four hours and described it as "lackluster."
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam and Battle.net on November 10.
Tried to take my time with #MWIII but it was over in the blink of an eye (3-4Hrs).
— James - JGOD (@JGODYT) November 2, 2023
I know 99.999% of people do not actively buy Cod for the Campaign, but one word to describe it is Lackluster.
Basic Missions and Graphics are what you expect, but how is there no Sniping Style… pic.twitter.com/lRUC2n2zO5
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"I know 99.999% of people do not actively buy Cod for the Campaign."
If you repeat a lie over and over it eventually becomes the truth, I guess. Where do people get this from? The only mainline COD game to ship without a campaign was Black Ops 4, which is one of the worst selling games in the series. I don't doubt the MP is the main reason for the popularity of the series, but it is hardly the only reason. There is probably still a substantial market for SP FPS experiences, otherwise Activision would've sacked the campaigns years ago.
This is more of a bummer to me. I'm probably one of the few that actually care more about the campaign FPS than the multiplayer mode.
I hope more/better FPS campaign games come back. I would love it if EA brought back Black.
Did people pay for this? That practice needs to stop right now but people will pay for this shit.
I wish they'd just release a standalone campaign without multiplayer online. I was never interested in the online side of it. I only want good single player campaigns. Just like mw1 and 2, which I just finished and enjoyed, i'll wait for this to go to 10/$15 .
Its not that COD campaign is short because they usually are short. From my memory most can be completed in about 5 to 6 hours because ABK usually do not pad their campaign with a lot of busy work, backtracking and other things a lot of FPS do to extend the length. Usually COD campaign is a scripted set piece type of affair where they get to go big which is what I always like about COD campaign.
With that said, the real big knock for MWIII is that its just a bunch of Warzone missions which would be a big knock down on previous COD campaign. If that is the case they I can see the disappointment for a lot of people including myself.
This sounds like an hour shorter than usual but still in the same ballpark one expects with a COD campaign. Just a question of how good those 4 hours are and whether there's any replay value incentive.
Hasnt that been the case for the last 10 releases?
I believe one release didn't have a campaign at all, but most of them have been in the five to seven hour range, as I understand it. Also, some of them have been pretty good. So if this one is both not very good, and significantly shorter than many of the others, I can see how that would be disappointing.
I know pretty much everyone only buys it for the multiplayer anyway but 4 hours? Damn. I remember way back in the day, the first COD game (when they used to be set in WW2) lasted me around 8h at least.
yah this is quite short lol. I have no interest in the campaign what-so-ever and only play multiplayer but this is very short. At the same time; if they know that nobody is really interested into it, I'm fine having them focusing on the MP (resource wise) instead.
no surprise here
This should reinforce Microsoft to hold off COD for every 2-year release, to give more time for bigger campaign
You have to remember that this MW3 only got 2 years of development instead of the usual 3 years, and was originally planned to be an expansion for MW2 instead of a full game. Usually each of the 3 main CoD studios operates on a 3 year rotation, each studio getting 3 years to make their game, however, in 2020 Sledgehammer was supposed to release a CoD game on their own, but Activision leadership was unhappy with how it was shaping up and in 2018 Sledgehammer were removed from the game and Treyarch got brought in to finish the game, which became CoD Black Ops Cold War. Then Sledgehammer developed CoD Vanguard from 2018 to 2021 when it released. 2023 was supposed to be a Treyarch CoD in the now changed 3 year rotation, in development from 2020-2023, but for some reason their next CoD got delayed to 2024, and instead Sledgehammer's expansion for 2022's COD MW2 got turned into a full on CoD MW3 for 2023, with only 2 years of development since Sledgehammer released CoD Vanguard.
So does it not cover/reimagine the full MW3 original campaign?
I think it is an new campaign, just like MW (2019) and MW2 (2022) had new campaigns afaik. The new trilogy shares main characters and some plot elements with the OG MW trilogy, but is mostly new afaik.
Yeah this had to have started out as an expansion that Activision decided to get some extra bucks out of.
Can't blame them when most people don't bother with the campaign myself included.
Makes Spider-Man 2 seem like a long game in comparison.
What's this got to do with Spider-Man?
People were mentioning about how short Spiderman 2 was in it's campaign. This campaign is shorter. Was referring to game length.
Fair enough, are they also mentioning how short Alan Wake 2 is or any linear game for that matter?
I'm sure somebody is.
About 30hr+ story and side content! Plenty of content.
The complaints came from xboys looking for something to complain about!
Yes spiderman should had been more long, they should put loading times for everything in the next one, maibe shove some loot management too and shove loading times too, loading times for spiderman to take his suit and piss, make the map unreadable or dont even make one, make players waste time as much as possible. That way we can brag game is long !!!
I'm receiving half the love you are usually gifted. When I awoke today, I knew it was going to be a doozy.
Bro you want to be at my level? Impossible.
First you love the wrong brand ,
Then sometimes i post and reload the page and its not 5 seconds i have already 3 downvotes. You need to be rent free in like 10 peoples heads, people that spend their days in this site xD.
They want the game as long as starfields loading screens hahaha
