Modern Warfare 2 had big shoes to fill, but the campaign includes a large serving of nostalgia and a fun variety of missions making it a worthy rebooted sequel. #callofduty #cod #gaming
@@sheltonpicardo2161 Yea for sure but I felt this one even improved on what made mw19 campaign great or at least in my own opinion cause I enjoyed stealth missions over all else.
I won't lie I'm 50/50. I played on Veteran, beat it and I gotta say... I'm disappointed. There were some cool things I liked, like the crafting stealth mission with Soap, and the visuals are amazing. However, its just not that good compared to MW19's campaign. MW19 blew me away, with both the story telling, the characters, the missions themselves, especially with the mission where you have to shoot the lights to stay in the dark and stealth the whole mission. You can't even shoot lights in this one. I did like that you could wall bang enemies in the Ghillie mission during the final phase. Most of the missions are either very short, like the Amsterdam mission, or very long, like the ONE mission with Farah. I don't like the enemies in this one, its basically Warzone if it had a campaign. This game tries to do one of everything, and that's kinda why it has no replayability, because there's only way to play most of the missions. Sure, you could stealth or go loud in the Ghillie mission, but it ends the same way, and its not much different.
i liked it but it was kind of weird/funny how they just copied sections from uncharted 4 and the last of us lol. That whole crafting segment where you solve a safe puzzle by looking at a calendar in a room. funny homage. tho it did kind of highlight how those games did those segments much better.
Incredible campaign I enjoy every part of it. Though truthfully I enjoyed the rescue mission of Lawrence the least... Jumping from car to car on a 5 mile chase that lasts 30 minutes made me rage quit and had to complete the campaign in two sittings...
Depends how they handle a vehicle mission but a vehicle mission itself is certainly not of place for a COD game, going back to the original in 2003. COD 2, 3, World at War, MW2, Black Ops 1 and also others afterwards.
@@Floppa-oz1kp I used the throwing knife for the majority of the mission and kept running to pick it back up and then hide! 🤣 Glass Bottle throwing knife meta! Also trying the open up the second safe in the garage while there are like 9 Shawdow Company troops patrolling was brutal.
the addition of armored enemies is super immersion breaking. they literally take entire clips sometimes. i played on hardened so i have no idea if their health changes depending on the difficulty
The only thing I really missed are the cinematic final boss aspects that made the original MW games so memorable. Killing Shepherd in MW2 and Makarov in MW3 was so badass I replayed the missions countless of times just to have that feeling again. Nonetheless, this campaign and story was amazing. Can't wait for MWIII
For MW3 Reboot's single player campaign I would love for either Farah to finally become a playable character as a new member of the now International-based Task Force 141 since it's pretty clear for this reboot of the fan-favorite trilogy she's set up to be the lead female protagonist counterpart to Captain Jonathan "John" Price's lead male protagonist, or having a improved version of Black OPs 3's CaC so we can create and play as our own custom recruit into Task Force 141.
Agreed. The last mission being primarily stealth based was a risky call. Personally, I would have rather had a more bombastic action-movie-style ending mission with a final confrontation with the boss. At the end of the final mission, I literally was shocked when I saw the completion achievement pop because I didn't suspect that that was the last mission. Aside from that though it was a very strong campaign and a lot of fun.
@@anotherhappylanding4746 really? I passed that pretty quickly tbh! Maybe I got lucky. My hardest mission was the ghillie suit one, only because my auto checkpoint was just before I get killed, so I was stuck for a bit ahahha.
@@chrisbowlesy I agree. The hardest mission for me on vet was the ghillie mission, only because it took me over an hour to clear the very last house Once it clicked though I was good to go
I’m about to finish the story on veteran gotta say I really loved the story. Gonna go back and play it again on the easier difficulty’s for the achievements.
One of COD best campaigns and loves how they let fans favorite ghost shine and the “Alone” mission was brutal took me quite a few try’s and many deaths to beat it
I felt a few levels were buggy and were unfun to play through for it. Alone, the car jumping one, and the point where you fight the tank. It's like beating your head against a wall. The story was predictable, but most the characters are likeable. Game didn't do itself favors by crashing 3 or 4 times during my playthrough, frame rate stuttering, and screen tearing. I get it's early, but this needs a lot of work. Hope MP is better. **Edit this was on my $2000 PC with all drivers updated.**
See that is more respectful, y’all give this an 8 while ign give it a 6. The game is between 8 -10 there ain’t no question about it, I’m giving it a 9/10
do you still need to add your phone number to your account in order to play this game? I`m only interested in playing the campain but a only have a pre-paid phone number. Thanks for answer.
@@lvfhgevxgkpo Thanks a lot man, I appreciate the prompt answer. I guess I`ll buy the game now that I know it will not require a phone number tied to my account. Cheers
One of my favourite mechanics is the weapon swapping. having an AR as Primary and Sidearm as Secondary and you don't swap weapons, you keep your AR in a side position which you quickly pull out your Sidearm so you can quickly change back to your AR just as fast. something i didn't expect, but loved it.
I miss more large scale combat gameplay. Going too far into 007 territory. Too many sneaking and sniping missions. Also just too much story telling in my opinion. I just want some big cinematic battles to engage in, not watch a movie. Cuts replay value massively.
@@chriswatson3398 Thats fair to some degrees but the original modern warefare 1/2 had far more actual combat. I just don’t think the sneaking around a city building things out of tape and mousetraps will hold up for replay value. I’d rather just be playing as an infantry soldier.
@@ADrowning bro that’s modern warfare for you CIA, Special Reconnaissance, Black operations are pretty much what it is now. If your into that kind of stuff just play Battlefield or Arma 3.
Glad they actually took a lot of the positive feedback from MW 2019 campaign and really emphasized the slower paced stealth/house clearing missions while still sprinkling in enough over the top action that CoD is known for. Solid campaign.
The MW’19 campaign was a blast! And the new MW2 campaign is straight up dialed up to 11! Enjoying the game so far, I’ve been taking my time with this campaign mostly because I’m trying to get the achievements and find any collectibles. But overall, the story, characters, gameplay, and graphics are just wow.
I am so happy they put effort on the campaign! Everyone always says they dont play it blablabla but there is no other semi realistic single player shooter like this. A nice long campaign! Good story! No cutting corners! And good new characters! They could have easily made it short.. and put no effort in it, but they didn’t! And it shows. Its beautiful and releasing this early shows they are proud of it! And they should be. Also in my opinion.. no weird colors no unrealistic stuff.. the modern warfare series reboot is a real boots on the ground call of duty!
This was my favorite COD campaign since the original MW2. MW 2019 also was an enjoyable campaign. It seems like this game will be a breath of fresh air to COD. It seems that they put a lot of effort into this by being more character involved with crafting items and weapons,etc. I haven't been this hyped for a COD game in a long time! Looking forward to MW3 already ;)
It was a reskinned version of the original mw2 campaign on such a smaller scale. It was nothing more than average. The original mw2 campaign literally had america invaded and ww3 started. No main characters died and it lacked any emotional moments. Im disappointed
As someone who played the original trilogy religiously, very much enjoyed MW2019 and had high expectations for this game I have to admit, speaking objectively without letting my love for the franchise influence my opinion, this was disappointing. I would give it a 5/10. The game is pure style over substance and has no soul. Ghost and Alejandro Vargas were the only shining lights. MW2019 was fresh and smart. This felt anything but. It felt like the writers played through the original trilogy once and hashed out an adulterated fan fiction. The story was weak. The dialogue at times was enjoyable but was mostly very poorly scripted and the missions tidious and forgettable. To this day I could go play Shock & Awe, Hunted, Heat, Wolverines, The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday, Contingency, Hunter Killer, Iron Lady and have an absolute blast. I can't say there's one mission in the entire campaign of this game I'd look forward to playing again purely just for fun. I'm sure many people are enjoying this game and that's great that they are. And perhaps my view is a minority opinion. But this game to me is an empty and soulless entry to the MW legacy. As forgettable as its antagonist is.
Can’t believe how everyone forgot how much better mw2019’s campaign was. It’s story had a finesse to it. It truly felt like a passion project where as this feels like a step down.
Sounds like mostly bias when MW2 original had arguably way more forgettable missions which were too much of an action set piece. And MW3 OG had a very floaty story that starts to cross the border of what is actually considered realism in tone. This is more in line with the Original 2007
What are you playing on. My PC has crashed 3 or 4 times, constant frame drops, and screen tearing throughout. My PC is no slouch either. I have a Ryzen 3700x, 2070 Super, and 32GB of RAM.
I really liked the campaign, loved all the characters and really liked Alejandro. The character interactions are great and I'm really liking the way they took Soap and Ghosts friendship. My only real complaints were; 1. The AI. The friendly AI is useless and seems to have complete stormtrooper aim, whereas enemy AI can be quite aggressive at times and has Aimbot aim. 2. The "Heavy" enemies were quite jarring and seemed out of place. They can move pretty much just like normal enemies but are just bullet sponges. At least a juggernaut moves slowly to justify it's strength. 3. The crafting. It was a cool feature to begin with but became very tedious, especially on the last mission.
Been playing nonstop I have three missions left. I haven’t been into a cod campaign since black ops and the old mw. This came is absolutely phenomenal!
Wow! What a COD, absolutely stunning. I haven't felt this way about COD since I was in Highschool playing the OT. Mission variety is balanced and fresh, gunplay is top notch, Sound oh the sound! My nostalgia was on overload throughout the entire campaign. Really loved the banter between characters especially between Soap and Ghost in "Alone" (great level). I loved 2019 Modern Warfare but MW2 '22 brings back that feeling I had back in 2009. Hats off to the development team 👏🏽👏🏽
Alejandro was surprise but very welcome addition to the story. very charismatic and stoic but also caring leader and with Radolfo carrying along as loyal friend is also very nice.
This is a solid campaign right up there with mw2019, mw2 and black ops1 campaign. Every mission in this campaign felt different. It was just not the same old silly point and shoot missions with some cutscenes and dialogue. I really enjoyed recon by fire, close air, alone and that mission in which you guide ghost through the prison. Amazing campaign so far. I havent finished it yet though. Two missions remaining.
Why would Farah join task force 141? She has her own people and country to worry about. She simply lent us a helping hand when we needed it since the bad guys were already on her land.
Man, I found this campaign really disappointing. Weak villain, almost no memorable missions, incredibly predictable plot, no Roach, Sheperd and Shadow Company were super underwhelming, poorly executed and under-baked scavenge/survive mechanic, lame vehicle sections with very gamey-feeling driving and jumping between cars etc. MW1 felt superior in pretty much every way. The only really decent thing was the main characters and their banter.
Thank you! Finally some smart people. I think most never play campaign and they are now for the multiplayer rewards, so they think it's way better then it is
I only used the originals as reference because the campaigns do have high replay value. Where this game went wrong is making a mission like dark water incredibly short and making “alone” bland, tedious and long.
@@ADrowning I don't think they understand what you mean by replay value. Maybe because people are so used to playing a game once while going for most trophies/achievements so they never have to play it again and so they can move on to the next game. Just like rewatching movies I enjoy, I like to replay games to see if they hold up or to see if I still enjoy them as much as I did the first time which is why I still play the Halo campaigns all the time.
I just hate the gimmicky missions…be it driving, swimming or what have you. It’s never fully fleshed out gameplay wise. I also couldn’t believe I already completed 4 missions after 50-60 min
I wish they would sell the campaign as a stand alone disk at half the cost. I don’t play multiplayer so it’s a waste of money to me. I can’t. Be the only one.
Well there's at least 2 of us! I never play MP - the campaigns are good (have not played Vanguard, heard it's an exception) but they are relatively short for a day one purchase.
I was in a room in the second mission trying to open a locked door when an AI closed the door I opened just behind me, chucked a grenade though a hole in the door an ran off really surprised me
Yeah I remember thid, happened to me too! Died a few times, cause I tried throwing the grenade back and it either bounced back in or I couldn't find it in time hahaha
@@dbagdi1998 I think the thing that keeps me going with MW2's campaign is the changes to enemy AI, I actually have to pay attention to them now🤯 I've tried some CoD campaigns over the years, but always quit after an hour or two, they just feels like an on-rails game. With the newere entries it's become a little more cohesive with it's gameplay though. I liked what I played in MW2019, but I got carried away by the multiplayer, haha
@@MetallicA7X92 Each to there own I guess. Iv never really found the campaigns to be too difficult but i’m generally really good at the multiplayer and that translates to the campaign too I guess
Having replayed the OG MW series a few months back, this campaign felt like there wasn't really all that much actual shooting. Half the game was sneaking around or vehicle missions.
the excessive nonstop shooting in some of the older mw's were becoming kind of a slog, especially since they didn't age that well. 2019's campaign perfected it
@@NToniiiii Nah, not even close. Older MWs had far more memorable moments which MW 2019 didn't have enough of like on rails shootouts, and much more scale and stakes to the firefights, even some vehicle missions as well. They never became too much of slog because the campaigns were only 4-5 hours long. The fights were epic, large scale shootouts and had big set pieces to break things up, MW 2019 really lacked the latter of those. COD was never about realism, there are other better series to go to for sure for realistic gameplay. MW 2019 actually became more of a slog because of the lack of many, standout memorable moments and that in turn made it less enticing to go back and replay as well.
Personally, it's probably one of the worst campaign in the series. Horrible writing/story, pointless gimmick and ridiculous gameplay. Hope the multiplayer's great.
it was alright I was expecting more soap and captain price missions and more of ghost kinda takes away frm that it kinda reminds me of Call of duty Ghost at the end imo it was a good game 7/10
i was thinking the same thing. I play through on regular to enjoy the story and have found myself getting killed way more than past CODs. Its still enjoyable and makes you think twice before sticking your head out at times'
game took way too long to get into the story, and once it did it was great, but was short lived and transitioned to one of the most anticlimatic, worst cod endings i ever played, overall id give the campaign a 7.5/10, gameplay wise is solid, but story falls short a lot and how is it we are two games in and have zero characters die? no emotional investment into the story? idk its just bland compared to the original stories
I loved the game! Only three critiques: Car mission was WAY TOO LONG…. Honestly was super hollywood and cheezy and didnt fit the rest of the campaign I wish the boss fight against you know who was a little more practical I wish the campaign was longer My fav missions were the lone survivor type mission in mexico and the AC130 mission
I really enjoyed the one of the later missions when your on the boat and it keeps rocking back and forth and you have to watch the shipping containers that was well done.
First part, chopper, second part hanging from the choper, 3th part, jumping betwen cars, 4th part dodging mines, 5th part dodging bomb drones, 6th part shooting with price in the truck, 7th part driving to destroy the apc. Each part like 6 minutes long…
I think one thing that didn't make a whole lot of sense is why 4 British SAS operators were being ordered around by the United States under the whole TF 141 flag. If they're all British why not just let them be SAS? Otherwise, a fantastic campaign.
The campaign felt kinda meh compared to Modern Warfare (2019 edition): Pros: -some cool new missions like crafting to survive, ghillie mission, AC-130 mission -Morr guns to use and tactics to employ Cons: -odd inaccuracies that feel like it shouldn’t be in the game, for example: -Shadow Company having around 6 Israeli Merkava Mk. 4 tanks in Israel, with no explanation on how they would’ve been secretly moved there or obtained from Israel. -APC in the truck to truck jumping mission that had a laser pointer show up right before it fired, and then launched mines out the back. -Terrorists somehow getting ahold of modern military vehicles and putting them into a convoy of at least 100 or more to protect 1 CIA personnel -Apache helicopters being used in almost point blank fire support: great way to get shot down easily especially with no armor -the truck to truck jumping mission to rescue Laswell felt like an early 2010s video game, rather then a realistic trying to get to Laswell before she gets across the border or something more realistic -it also felt like some of the missions were almost copy-paste from Modern Warfare rather then a whole new mission with objectives -the objectives weren’t really well stated at times and it took me a while to figure out where I was supposed to go and what I was supposed to do Over all it was a pretty good campaign, but some of it (dare I say almost half) felt like a half hearted attempt to make a really interesting campaign with new details and stories to uncover, and felt more like they just wanted to get a new Call of Duty out to make some more profits
I'm in the same boat as you. Although for very different reasons. I never buy digital media if I can help it. I will be picking this up at midnight on the 27th. What's funny is I preordered this game twice because I can't decide which platform I want to play on (Series X or PS5). I'm leaning hard towards the Series X but I could very well change my mind before it drops.
@@Sinn0100 I used to live going to pick games up at midnight, just something special about the nostalgia. Before the days of digital and deliveries😂 no harm in having for both consoles worst case couple of weeks after you'll still get a good price for one
Awesome review! I really enjoyed this game. Some minor lowlights prevent it from reaching the heights of the 2019 game, but "Alone" and the final segment of the final mission hugely stand out as awesome experiences.
