I Rewrote Modern Warfare 3... So That It Is Actually Good 

I think soap did not need to die personally since we only had two stories to learn about the new soap and there needed to be more on him and more of a story with Soap and Price

Still can't outdo the original MW trilogy From the unsuspecting nuke,to no russian's shock value,the unpredictable betrayal of shepherd, the astonishing death of soap to the satisfying demise of makarov Sledgehammer can't fill IW's boots

I think something you’ve missed is that Price didn’t necessarily kill Shepherd because he lied in the court room, he told Shepherd because a couple missions earlier when they were working with shadow, price wanted a positive ID on Makarov, Shepherd dismissed it and basically said that the destruction on scene was proof enough. Therefore, without positively ID’ing Makarov, when Makarov returns and kill soap by the bomb, it’s truly Shepherd’s fault because he wouldn’t let price get a positive ID on Makarov in that scene.

That opening actually gives chills. It sets Soaps foreshadowed death way earlier in the story, making every interaction with him more tense going forward because you know Makarov is planning to see him once more.

You should join the creative team, honestly. All this work covering the game's plot and story, I feel like you'd make one kickass campaign!

The story writer no one asked for… but the story writer we need! Edit: people crying over if the video/ ma comment was a “rewrite” when did people lose not to cry over tiny things?

I find it interesting that throughout the campaign Gaz was the most level headed person, even more so than Captain Price at some points. Doesn't matter if it was intended or unintended, this shows maturity on his end and he's grown a lot as a soldier from MW 2019

This was such a massive improvement. I just wish you rewrote the last mission so Soap survived the end. He’d at least have a real cool looking head scar from that gunshot to the temple and more motivation to kill Makarov, but at least he’d still be alive… and right pissed.

100% better story line than the games playthru tells. You even set them up for MW4 better than they did, just by swapping some levels/scenes! The hero we needed.

I think the alternate ending was great man! One other thing that happened which I feel was never addressed, is that Shepard gave intel to Makarov. In the scene where Makarov and Nolan walk out of the room with the "captive" and Nolan asks what if his intel isn't good. That was Shepard, I'm pretty sure, and I think the whole "don't need to confirm a body" in the mission with Graves was Shepard working with Makarov. This gave Shepard a win because as far as the world was concerned Makarov was dead, only TF 141 would have known different by the last mission. I think that's what Capt. Price realized and partly why he killed Shepard, because Shepard most likely gave Makarov Soap and Price for his own life. Unfortunately i don't think the game did a great job of fleshing this point out.

I'm not even joking, after I finished the campaign, I grabbed a notebook and pen and made alternative to what I played and made it cannon to me lolol.

Your restructuring of the campaign and rewriting of certain elements was definitely leagues above what was actually given to us, but there is one more change I would make to this and it would be to the London mission. I don't think it was the right call to kill off Soap. If I were to change 1 thing, it would be the death scene in 1 of 2 ways: Option 1: Gaz and Price are the ones who clear the tunnel and find the bomb, and Gaz is the one who gets killed. Option 2: Soap and Price do still clear the tunnel together, but you play from the perspective of Soap and Price is the one who dies. Either of those 2 options would have had a much more emotional impact as a whole, because on one hand, Price watching Gaz (who he's essentially mentored to this point, is essentially this trilogies version of the Soap from the original trilogy) die would have been much more emotional to him. On the other hand, with Price being the one to die, it would make the emotional impact for the entire team, as well as the players, much higher as a whole, and it would have been the most unexpected death out of the 4. I thing Gaz dying was what most people expected, with Price being 4th, Soap being 3rd and Ghost being 2nd. What we got was a death that only amounted to poor shock value and kind of discounts Soap's development in the 2nd game from seemingly a rookie looking to prove himself to Ghost's prodigy. It was wasted development in my option and completely ruins Soap's story as a whole. If Price or Gaz die, it doesn't really ruin their character development or story because we've gotten to see them develop over the course of 2 games, where as Ghost and Soap have only really had 1 game in the spotlight. Soap's death was extremely premature, and the only character we really get to see him develop with is Ghost, so if he got more time to develop his character with the other members of TF141, his death would have meant more than it did. I would have even been fine if we didnt see anyone on the team die until the next game, because then we'd have at least seen Soap's character get developed further. Unfortunately, we didn't get that and we're instead left with a poor excuse for a sacrifice that was done to produce shock value and closed the door for future character development, leaving Soap as a glorified footnote on the overall story of the new MW games as a whole.

How come the entire studio full of thousands of people couldn’t come up with a story that is better than one single person’s ?

Only thing I'll add to this is making up a mission with Makarov, Nolan, and Ivan going to capture General Shepard before TF-141 "rescues" him so that it gives insight on how he was captured and how Shepard got some intel on Makarov. Because it still doesnt make sense how General Shepard was even captured.

Honestly one of the only things that disappointed me in the campaign was the setup for a new feud, at the end of the flashback mission when Soap nearly kills Makarov and then Makarov gives the “See you soon MacTavish, I promise” taunt, me and plenty others thought it’d be a cool twist for instead of Price Vs Makarov like in the OG the reboot wouldve been Soap and Makarov having this vengeful hatred considering how it was setup, it’s a shame that didn’t happen BC that would’ve been a cool and fresh twist for this new reboot

This is what it should have been

I would’ve preferred if graves didn’t lie honestly. Would be a good redemption arc for him, and truly go all in on the fact that he’s simply a businessman who will do as he’s ordered as long as he gets paid.

it only changes it from bad to mid, there is still very limited character development. Soap in this timeline has only gotten half a game, thats why his death felt so bland. We saved Soap from death once in the original just for him to die in our arms without a proper send off while he thought we had a rat among ourselves.

Some ideas for thought. 1- When Makarov explodes the airport, there isn't really a connection as to why the players should care. As for a fix? Perhaps have a survivor soldier who is injured, and is dealing with the aftermath of it and the playes play a mission as him. This would replace the hole that "No Russian" has left, and actually show the destruction Makarov is causing first hand and in first person. And it would also shake up the gameplay since you wouldn't be able to just run and gun now since you'd be heavily injured. Then that would make the soap flipping out a lot more personal, while also still giving Makarov a win since he said ghost was supposed to die, but now someone else took his place instead. 2-Price had no reason to not kill Makarov there, other than plot armor Makarov had because without him the story wouldn't have a villain. Fix? We already know from the campaign itself that Makarov is working with extremists from Moscow. Perhaps price refrains from killing Makarov because of that exact reason, because Makarov isn't the end all be all as he is connected to even a bigger circle! and not just "morals" AND that would explain why Makarov would be cocky on getting captured because he knows they wouldn't kill him considering the valuable information he has.

Glad to hear someone say the story wasn’t bad. It just needed a different rearrangement.

What I liked about the campaign is the fact there are a couple of mission where you play as Price. You know, the guy on the front cover of MW2019. Price is a fan favourite character and before MWIII the original MW from 2007 and MW3 from 2011 were both the only games that had him playable in campaign. Otherwise you have to unlock him in the multiplayer modes.

Should have been ghost that killed shepherd. Shepherd shot ghost point plank in the face in the original mw2, and I feel in this rebooted universe, ghost and soap were closer than price and soap

The MW3 campaign is not bad. It is the way the campaign is told and the repetitive gameplay that takes it down a few levels. Edit: nah its bad, yall were right.

Better than it was originally, but the plot still needs a lot more substance to make it logical, compelling, and complete. There should be a series of scenes where Russia invades Urzikstan and some type of resolution after Soap’s death.

Honestly, keeping the Soap death was a bit off, but I do think the reframing of the story really helped. This would work really good as an MWII.5, like it was initially advertised as

I don't think the overall arc of the story is bad and has good things if you look at all the content. However, this campaign was poorly implemented and could of been hashed out better with a few more missions to build the characters and story.

What you have done is amazing. Better than the original. But not enough. They should be made much more for the campaign.

I enjoyed the story of the campaign, its just the missions used to explain them weren’t the best. The main thing I didnt like though was the ending because it felt like the story just ended halfway through the final mission because makarov just runs away and nothing happens after it.

They spit in our faces. The fact they are taking an original trilogy and streching it to 4 games is sad. Then you end the game with a huge character death and nobody seemed sad about it. Price was broken when Soap died in the OG but now it felt lack luster. They had a great chance to revamp the story and all they did was show us you can't top the original. Sad money grab. They deserve to go bankrupt

I know you couldn’t do this but there’s a couple of things I would add: 1.) We know that All Ghllied Up/One Shot One Kill from the OG MW is still canon in the reboot timeline. Perhaps a conversation with Yuri and Makarov like in the OG MW3, Imran gets shot, stumbles to the truck, and the drive away like before. It then cuts to Yuri and Makarov on base in the barracks later that evening. Everyone is sleeping. Yuri wakes up to take a piss where he sees Makarov - the only one still wide awake sitting on his rack. The two then silently speak about what’s wrong with Makarov and he pulls out his uniform stained with Imran’s blood and goes on some anti-west short speech. 2.) A mission right before the London one where we play as an AQ LT working with Makarov on the Piccadilly Circus attacks of 2019. It would essentially be like the OG No Russian with the player doing the massacre and eventually getting shot by Price immediately prior to him meeting and helping Gaz. 3.) Having the Gen Shepherd assassination by Price be the last playable mission. Price gives a call to McMillian like the OG and talks about Soap’s recent death. Mac then contacts Laswell and the three of them workout how Cpt Price infiltrates the Pentagon. It would be a short stealth sequence.

I like how you put the bombing first it makes sense but if it was me I would have put it in mw (2019) and have them capture him and never mention it again until now. Players will think "oh well who's the new big bad since we stopped him already" and kinda forget about it moving forward kinda how soap and price would feel. Like he can't come back we got him already

Kudos to you ink. Its difficult trying to make content with a bad release and i gotta say, your videos have been the best part so far in the 2023 CoD rotation.

nice job with this video man. its crazy how much of an improvement this is on the story just by rearranging some parts and removing a whole lot of bad parts

Thank you so much for redoing this. It's literally made my day alot better and I'm not left looking confused 😅

honestly ink you are downright amazing at the story telling of cod its unbelievable if they would let you do the makarov story going forward itd be truly the best story in cod history much love brother keep it up !

That was a better order and motivation for season one for sure and makes the story make a little more sense than it is in game. Great job. You may have another career in your hands if you continue this great work and showing how much you care for the story. Maybe one day Call of Duty sees your talents and gives you a shot to improve the future campaigns.

Your story and post credit scenes with Makarov was brilliant it’s the perfect tbc in the multiplayer story.

I'm studying story writing in games for my own content and I can't tell you how much I love the idea of this kind of edit. I can't imagine any other circumstance that would generate a video like this in the first place but I wouldn't mind seeing other gaming channels present their own ideas on how their favorite games could have played out differently through cinematic content edited into movies.

I loved the voiceover from modern warfare, 2019, when price was explaining to gas about how sometimes you have to place the line wherever it needs to be to get the job done, it really explains why he would kill shepherd

What i don’t like in media making the good guys get everything done like leave some sad stuff I personally like it when there is touches of the hero’s losing

Here’s what I do with the deaths Flashpoint Mission - Ghost dies Frozen Tundra - Farah Dies Trojan Horse - Gaz Dies This now leaves Soap and Price to take on Makarov both filled with anger and will try to avenge Ghost, Gaz and Farah. But won’t be able to do it alone and the introduction of Roach comes in.

For a Remake, the base story is crazy & can't wait for next story. Mak isn't dead

The best rewrite MW3 Campaign ever!!❤❤

I still think the ending shouldn't be soap dying. Instead it should've been captain price who bought it just as he nearly got gassed from the campaign. But he can still survive in the next story while Soap, Garrick, Alex, Farah, Nikolai, and Ghost will carry on the mission. Also introducing new characters like Gary "Roach" Sanderson, Joseph Allen, James Ramirez, Derek "Frost" Westbrook and others. Maybe fan edit that Makarov has assembled another Taskforce called 971 to rival against 141. Ninth circle of hell, seven kings and 1 Demon. All of their worst enemies from their pasts coming together for vengeance. Just my opinion otherwise, you did a great job.

I wouldn't call it divisive, because of the fact that this game is atrocious.

This is actually much more better than the base one. Why no one in the team ever think of that?

this beginning is so much better its insane, like wow.

Do you think at the end of the game in the credit scene, shepherd was going to write a letter about what he did because the look he had when he was looking out the window, it looked like he was seriously debating something, but at the same time it’s shepherd and he cares about his name, and that’s why he was ok with price killing him, because the world wouldn’t know what he did

Its very well done, obviously the cutscenes would need to be rewritten for certain dialogues but other than that very well done. I'm more so curios on what would you do with the open world missions, would you leave them as spec ops or place it in the campaign under side missions not obligatory for story telling. In any case I look forward to hear your thoughts on the new way their telling stories on MP games nowadays through season passes and all

This was such a top job brother. The flow makes wayyyyyyyyyyyyy more sense. I can't get over those terrible open combat missions tho. HOLY CRAP who thought that was a great idea?

“YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH” best line in the game

Did u notice while entering stadium. There's a paramedics van on our right. If you look closely Makarov is supplying Bags filled with guns out of it.

We are down bad if we're out here creating fanfictions for COD campaign.

This makes more sense in my opinion but I wish the missions and story is a bit more longer and better.

Anything was better then MW3 2023, and this was amazing. A few things that should be added, are a couple more mission, and you play as Soap instead of Price in the Metro Mission, it'd make it hit harder if you played as Soap when he got shot.

We can say anything about the game , but the acting is IMPRESIONANTE ❤ I love what Julián did with "Makarov" , honestly I love it , all of them .

that was brilliantly executed. much better story telling than what we got in the actual game. well done sir.

I like that you've set Verdansk into the beginning of the plot, it shows us that Makarov originated as an Inner Circle terrorist and not a PMC owner straight from the beginning. I also like the position of Makarov's "Return". It attaches well into a cliffhanger, and leans more into a worldwide threat that the original MW3 itself formed up. The twist of the court scene is wonderful. In reverse, it portrays Graves as someone who went rogue to eliminate 141 while Shepard denies everything on his end... With Shepard dead, and the sketchy nature of Shadow Company, Graves might find himself on the list soon enough and be in the deep looking for a way to clear his own name.

Im subbing to you for this man. Didnt like how the campaign was, but u switching up the cutscenes to make it more better is WAY better.

I think roach should make a comeback and betray Shepard/ Graves. It would be a full story for roach to get his revenge in the gulag on makorov. Roach breaks out of the gulag like mason did Verkuta, along the way he makes friends in prison, also known as Nikolai, Kameron and Anatoly

I've gotta say the plot and the characters were spectacular overall I think I love the campaign however my only problem is how short it is and a certain good guy dying at the end

The Verdansk flashback mission would've been cool if you got to play alongside Roze and Lerch as they breach the stadium, giving some plot behind why they breached the stadium to begin with. Instead of opening some new area it would've been to stop Makarov's bombing.

Honestly while the campaign gameplay was boring if it was put in this format and had a little better writing it would’ve been so so much better. I love what you did with this honestly so much better.

I personally liked the story that was told but I do like how you changed the ending with putting Makarov & his Konni soldiers at the end.

Mw2019 was original and good. They made it there own thing then went full nostalgia bait and told a castrated version of the original trilogy

Im twenty minutes in and the story already flows better then the other version. I felt like the writers jumped around the timeline. Its better this way....at least i can see everything coming

Inkslasher don't miss when it comes to game predictions and how the campaign should had been written

Thank you so much for this. I have been absolutely loving the new games, but I don’t play multiplayer much. I genuinely only buy these games for the campaign. I was so disappointed after playing this campaign that I went back to play the original games again. This helps rectify my disappointment a bit, and give me the SLIGHTEST bit of hope for the future. Modern Warfare 2019 was my favorite Call of Duty campaign and I really want the story to stay good.

Make Inkslasher a CoD story writer, NOW!

What’s up Ink, Story wasn’t bad but it was very short I normally run through campaigns 1st night for the story and I’ll replay for veteran trophies. But it took me 3/4 days spread out and still felt very short to me. Gameplay was fine old maps revisited was fun and playing as multiple characters was a good touch for me

Imagine.... Just imagine if the devs took 2 or 5 or 10 years to come up with not just a good COD with a good Campaign or Multiplayer but just a 10/10 Game that they decided to change from the ground up. They have the Money & Tech to create something on the same levels of MGS or Last Of Us but choose not to.

I'm a newer fan and viewer of your channel and man I've been bingeing them for days! You're a great RU-vidr.

I think the story is good but the missions are out of order and some were not needed that was the biggest problem

This story was way way better explained and put together in the right order. Well done on the story that you made your own way cuz it. made me understand it way better that I did when I saw the full walkthrough. The saddest part for me in this campaign was Ghost, as Soap was one of his closest and best friend. They always went on missions together even in MW2 . If another MW comes out in 2024 i wilk never see it the same way again as ill really miss the duo.

You did a wonderful job working on this reimagined campaign. The only thing I would have changed is that TF-141 captured Nolan. The rest is beautiful and you did a good job on this rewriting/telling. I did like how you reordered the Senate's questioning of Sheppard and Graves.

If there's one addition I'd recommend, I think you could insert the mission where the 141, ULF, and Shadow Company team up either after the airplane false flag mission or after Laswell's meeting with Yuri. With your revision, Graves and Shadow Company are mostly forgotten besides mission support dialogue from Graves, mentions during cutscenes, or the Congress testimony cutscene. Adding the alliance mission back in further shows that Shadow Company actually does have skin in the game against Konni and perhaps strengthens Graves' being honest in his testimony to Congress. As for the plot, instead of the mission revolving around a plan to kill Makarov, it would be to repel a Konni incursion into Urzikstan (who perhaps were authorized by the Kremlin to go after the ULF after framing the latter for taking down the plane). The "you can't run from death, taxes, or me" line could be said after taking out either retreating Konni troops or another stolen ballistic missile.

Soap should not have been killed. He died in the original modern warfare 3.

Maybe a time traveler will see this and go back in time to give this script to Infinity Ward

It is incredibly how just moving the mission order around makes that campaign 1000% better.

They should've also had us do more missions playing as Konni group.

Now this is something I would agree! Had it been better formulated, refixed a few things and try to add additional missions to make it longer (like maybe switching perspectives to other characters responding to Konni's attacks), this would have been interesting to the point where the story has stakes and that other RU-vidrs (who only want the game to fail instead of fixing it) lose the narrative just like Konni. If it only this campaign had more time but regardless, this is a better response to bring criticism and solutions.

It was awesome!! Timing and sequence are everything!

😂 I just noticed Makarov in the back of the ambulance as price and soap drive pass 2:41

Even if this cuts the open combat missions and is like an hour or so long id prefer this over what they did

The way MWIII originally played out was good but this was better. I loved the verdansk mission first as it shows how TF-141 know makarov. The storyline was more or less the same but I do like the incorporation of the ULF being designated as a terror organisation from MW19 as it provides some context. Cutting out shepherds testimony was a surprising move and fits in well. If sledgehammer played it out like this, it would get players hyped for the season 1 story. When it comes to price needing a motive to kill shepherd, he had a few. Allowing makarov to live back in 2019, ordering shadow company to betray TF-141 and revenge for soap as shepherd could've told TF-141 makarov' plan the moment he was pulled out of the water, which could've prevented the London/tunnel attack or allowed the SAS to get a head start and have price plus the rest of the team join them in due course. Cutting out the open combat mission where konni deployed bombs and chemical weapons to kill all of verdansk was a good move as it was a distraction setup by makarov. Overall I like this rewrite, it felt more comfortable as opposed to the actual storyline which was a jumble. Original story 7/10 Inkslasher story 9/10 The reason I am giving inkslasher 9/10 is because while the story was better, soap still died in both versions.

6:28 neat detail in the game so when the van crashed I first checked the front and etc. so the cut scene of price checking never appeared for me

So quick lmao, love it

I would add that Makarov has an ally, a new brutal cartel leader, who killed Valeria and Los Vaqueros - Raul Menendez. After credits scene shows TF 141 unite with a black ops team under the leadership of David Mason. Have both universes truly be united this time.

There is so much they could have done with this. Their characters both look and sound great. The setting are very good and tie in multiple reasons for them to simply exist. But holy shit. They did 0 with all of it this game.

Man oh man how important is pacing am i right? This is great. I loved how you started it with Verdansk.

The only thing that didn't make sense to me in the first open combat mission was how did Farah and Graves not know how many missiles the ULF was receiving... if Shepherd and Farah was working together how did she not know there was a third missile missing from shipment?

👏🏽 👏🏽👏🏽 Inkslasher… you killed this video. Very well done.

as much as I appreciate the effort, which deserves the thumbs up, it doesn't change the fact that Activision/Sledgehammer shit the bed by rushing a game that needed breathing time from the last one, so they could prepare a decent story with fun gameplay that remained cannon and didn't take short cuts. yeah, Soap died in the previous trilogy (OGMW), but we grew an attachment to the character throughout the entire story. in this one (NMW), it feels like he was killed for just shock value. tbh, I couldn't care that hes dead, because the devs didn't bother putting any effort into making us care about him. in OGMW, I cared when Gaz died in the first one because he was there as Price's secondhand man and was involved in every operation we were apart of. witnessing the same events that played out as we did. then was killed execution style after being severely injured at the end. in OGMW2, same thing happened with Ghost, except he wasn't in the first 141 mission we played, and was killed along with Roach by being double crossed by the guy we thought was a high-level member of the protagonists. but even up until OGMW3, Soap and Price were together. the last two remaining SAS members of Task Force 141. Price and all of us were devastated when Soap's luck finally ran out. in NMW3, he just dies... yeah, we played him a bit in NMW2, but there still wasn't enough time for us to manifest any shit's to give. they didn't even set up the antagonists properly. Makarov was insanely dangerous and unhinged in OGMW2/3, and Sheppard was an egotistical maniac who was trying to profit off of the military industrial complex. basically working with Makarov to start WW3. this Urzikstan bullshit just ruins everything. why does Makarov want control of Urzikstan? why is he trying to unite Russia and the United States to bring down Urzikstan? because that's essentially what he's doing. the US would sit by while people of a foreign nation su1c1d3 b0mbs a civilian passenger airplane or commit an act of aggression or war by launching chemical missiles unprovoked, let alone wouldn't defend one.. and because it was Russian civilians, Russia is obviously going to get involved, but only to take over Urzikstan. so then what's the point of placing bombs in the channel tunnel? none of it makes sense. the devs know what they're doing too, otherwise they wouldn't involve Yuri OR make MAKAROV prisoner 627. they might as well throw in the whole kit and caboodle by involving Zakhaev, Sgt. Foley, Roach and Kamarov. they offed Soap like a bitch. same with Sheppard. also, Farah's story was cool in the first NMW. I really don't give a shit about her anymore... and I don't see why they had to keep Graves and Alex alive.....

This was amazing ink talk to the cod hq we need you on the frontlines of storytelling

This was really well put together. Maybe someone can explain who Warden is that the Vault edition has a skin for?

That was so much of hard work you did 💛💛👍

At the beginning, when you’re going into the garage, if you slowly pause or if you slowly look to your right as if you’re in the passenger seat makarov is in that ambulance car

I’m disappointed we didn’t get my boy roach in mw3 because I feel like he would go crazy on Shepard and makarov

I swear your the matpat of cod and i love it

Also when soap asks you for the 3rd number and you choose “9” it’s another mini Easter egg saying “nein” in German means “no” meaning makarov didn’t want them to finish defusing the bomb