Why Is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 SO BAD?! (2023) 

Try Rocket Money for free: rocketmoney.com/actman #rocketmoney #personalfinance Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is an abomination. It's a Frankenstein monster stitched together with bits and pieces of previous game. It's clear this was meant to be an expansion but Sledgehammer was forced to turn it into a full-priced premium game. But does MW3 deserve to be the WORST reviewed Call of Duty game? Lets find out... Join The Act Clan Discord Server discord.gg/actman

The reason they didnt recognize makarov at the airport is because he was wearing a shirt. They only had the picture of him shirtless so they didnt recognize him in clothes

“My last years speech was longer than Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 campaign.” -Kratos

Farah admitting to working with Shadow Company is so brainrottingly stupid it had to have been written as a joke that got taken seriously. Remember when Price drew a GUN on Yuri after punching him down a flight of stairs because Makarov said his name once??? And now Price is just cool with Farah dropping the fact that shes working with the enemy like its nothing. What?

Ghost in 2022: "Hey, tell us what we want to know, or we'll drain your bank account" Ghost in 2009: "Hey, tell us what we want to know or i'll blowtorch you until the skin melts off your bones"

If you weren’t happy with the way Soap died, don’t worry. He’ll be back next season of warzone when it’s revealed that the person who was shot was actually his twin brother Shampoo

I miss the days when the campaign was the drawing point of the cod series

"sURe THinG, faRAh! lET's gO GEt tHoSe MiSsiLEs!!!" 😂😂😂

I love how Farah explicitly tells Price that she's hiding secrets from him then instantly asks if he trusts she's being honest as if she didn't just admit she's not???

I think one of the reasons why there’s no Music is because Sarah Schancher, the soundtrack designers for MW2019 and MWII, actually left Call of Duty after the latter came out. Yes even the soundtrack designers had toxic workplace issues.

So they say that the gas they use in the campaign is "highly concentrated sarin gas." Sarin is a nerve agent which means that it blocks the enzime in your body that tells your nerve receptors to deactivate, meaning your muscles can contract but not release. Direct expose to sarin like breathing it in will cause you to be symtomatic in less than 60 seconds (general paralysis of limbs)and dead in 4 minutes (from paralysis of heart or lungs). However there is a "antidote." Atropine works by filling your system with what is basically an artifical version of that enzyme from earlier, filling your body with so much of it that it dilutes the nerve agent and shuts off your muscles nerve receptors. So all your muscles relax, including your bootyhole so you will crap your pants. After that you need to keep up with regular injections of another chemical until all of the nerve agent is out of your system. So Price should have either died painfully over several minutes, or been hit with an autoinjector, shit his pants then spend serveral days in a hospital. Also this was done in a 10 minute google search, they had 16 months.

Never has The Act Man been so wrong in his review. You see, the reason why Alex survived the explosion, Graves survived the tank, Price immediately got back up from the gas, and eventually Soap will be revealed to have survived from getting head-shoted, is all because… They had FAMILY

COD should have unique timeplace every year Tryarch - history/past Infinity ward - modern Sledgehammer - sci fi

Funny thing about Graves' reveal he was still alive: Alex says that the tank incident was in South America. MW2 took place in Mexico, which is in North America. The writers don't even know basic geography and think everything south of the US is South America.

Something that I really loved about og soap is how selfless he was, even after he heard Makarov call Yuri "my friend" he still made sure to get Yuri out of the building before himself. I was not expecting this to blow up, I even got a like from the Act Man himself!

27:05 "Did you forget when you ordered Graves to kill all those civilians? I guess the writers did" That's the best part. Every entry in the MW reboot has had a near-total staff turnover in the writing department. Just compare the credits sometimes. It's maddening. The only person who has stayed on board since the beginning has been Brian Bloom, co-writer and actor for the guy you play as in Infinite Warfare (campaign in that was good from everything I've seen and read). I don't know if Activision has a gun to his head, or if he's doing his damnedest to save this nosedive of a campaign which is why he lasted this long, but it's not working out anymore. By comparison the original MW trilogy was written by one guy, Jesse Stern. He had a co-writer, Steve Fukuda. Underneath them they had a team of proofreaders whose jobs were to do clean up and polish. The structure stayed the same on all 3 games. The reboot is being written by a writing committee of 4-6 people depending on which game. You know what happens when you have 4-6 people with equal power working together on one story? You have 4-6 stories trying to be told at once, _and in this particular case, only ONE guy has been on with the plot since game one._ Edit: 29:12 Can someone PLEASE inform IW/Sledge/Acti that SHADOWS DO NOT SHOW UP ON INFRARED GOD DAMMIT. How are we 3 games in and they are still screwing this up??? The original trilogy managed to be closer to reality than this game has attempted to be. If anything, buildings radiate ambient heat stored from the sun. They should be glowing faintly, not blacked out! FAHK. Edit 2: 31:52 it still pisses me off that Acti is pushing the soundtrack with Hans Zimmer as the showrunner. I'm getting tired of explaining to people that Hans only did the main theme. Lorne Balfe did literally everything else. The intro sequence and credit sequence? Hanz work. The loading screens, combat music, and multiplayer stings that we all consistently heard throughout the game? That's Lorne's work. Hans is more of a traditionalist. Lorne is more experimental. That's why you hear electric guitars mixed in with middle eastern drums. I mean FFS on the cover of the CD cases sold back in 2009 it says in plain text the main theme was Han's work and Balfe did the rest, but the encoding was screwed up and Hans got credited for EVERYTHING. Hans is fantastic, don't get me wrong on that, but clerical errors - especially when they mis-credit artists and composers- upsets me greatly.

my biggest issue with this game's campaign is that you're always sent in with no support. the characters dont feel like soldiers, they feel like superheros. i recently played trepang² (its really good but obscure) where you are a *SUPER SOLDIER* and they STILL SEND YOU IN WITH A SQUAD TO BACK YOU UP

23:24 In the original game, the airport massacre is the event that puts the campaigns plot into motion, in 2023 it’s just another attack that has no repercussions at all

The moment I realized there was no saving MWIII’s campaign was the moment when Price woke up and immediately shrugged off the gas he passed out from. The best word to describe this campaign is *betrayal.*

Full disclosure. When i finished the campaign, i was so disappointed that i ignored the credits sequence, went back to the main menu, and COMPLETELYA MISSED the bit where shephard gets shot. Didnt know until this review he was even dead

Compare “five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye, and the world just fucking watched” to “im not going out like this, i want my name on a win”. It’s the most neutered tactless downgrade in character and the whole game reflects that

“To play a wrong note is insignificant, to play without passion is inexcusable.” A quote by Beethoven that can loosely be applied to game development at this point. “To mess up one line of code or release behind schedule is insignificant, to develop a game with no passion is inexcusable” or something like that.

What’s funny is that they actually managed to mess up what was probably the easiest trilogy to remake. They could have done the exact same story with minor changes and everyone would have been happy.

Cold war zombies: we made an open world mode and still intend to make round based maps, to experiment! Vanguard zombies: we made cold war's side mode into the main game, and only made round based maps after the masses hated the release with no wonder weapons! MWIII zombies: we proved that we didn't learn anything from vanguard's failure.

Brining back Alex was so insulting cause his death was supposed to be a heartfelt moment with a lot of weight

Honestly, this isn't a game. It's a litmus test for just how cheap Activision can pump out a CoD. I think it's obvious that they were 100% aware of the controversy this game's quality would bring, but they're banking on the unaware or uncaring casual market being so strong that they didn't care. It's amazing that they've basically given up on goodwill towards their dedicated fans and are making games for people who don't know or care about their history. Since MW3 is already 30% off on sale, it seems like they realized how bad an idea it is.

Consumers: "So that 235Gb install size means it has a complete campaign, right?" Activision CEO:

Makarov in MW3: A legitimate threat to society; a villain with genuine goals willing to resort to brutal methods to reach them. Makarov in MW3 2023: "NYEEEEEHEHEHEHEHEHEEEEE" *twists mustache* "Behold, foolish Captain Price! MY MISSILES OF DOOOOOOOOOM!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA" *Soap, Gaz, Price, and Ghost then chase him around like it turned into fuckin' Scooby-Doo while the Benny Hill theme plays*

Imagine the kid who cried over Alex's sacrifice only to learn 4 years later it was pointless and he is still alive.

I love how each "worst call of duty" somehow manages to get one upped. Never thought it was be worse than vanguard

Imagine if Shepherd came back alive in OG MW3 and was like, “Better keep an eye out Price.”

Imho Price should've killed Farah in that forest because it was clear back then that he couldn't trust her. You can't just mess around when people's lives are on the line.

8:48 it’s funny you mentioned call of duty being grounded in realism because that was the same thing with the Tom Clancy’s rainbow six franchise before it became call of duty slash Fortnite in the form of siege!

"You can enjoy this, but don't defend it." Legendary words.

After the recent incident involving the entire COD team getting pissy over a light joke made by Christopher judges at the game awards I've officially lost any and all respect for the team behind these games All the dude said was their game was short but they act like he broke into their house and lit their living room on fire Really shows how inflated their egos are

“Soap, you got shot in the head” “No” My prediction

It's just Modern Warfare (2019) with a second reskin...

One thing that bothers me about the campaign is how task force 141 deals with LITERALLY EVERYTHING that happens. They go all around the world with no problem whatsoever. What happened to playing as other factions, like when price in the og mw3 needed delta force to capture volk in France since he was busy in a different part of Europe. Or the SAS trying to find makarovs gas themselves,and many other examples it makes the setting feel really limited.

Our hero returns when we needed him most

ChatGPT could've written a more compelling story

OG MW3: *Have like 12 different photograph of Makarov during briefing cutscene.. (DLC) MW3: "Sorry, Price. We only take this one photo back then. So we will use it every single time".

Its always funny to see Ghost just standing there in cutscenes, gives this "hi yes I'm the mascot" vibe for some reason

No word of a lie, I felt more emotion seeing 6 seconds of Coco than I did in the entire MW3 campaign. (14:00)

7:04 "looks like desserts gonna have to wait" fucking sent me 🤣

Also on the warzone side of things, zakhaev didn’t actually die from getting knocked down into the missile pit but we didn’t even get the “I wasn’t in that missile room” because he just comes back in the zombies cutscene and is just…. There. The new rule for cod: nobody is dead and nothing matters anymore and there are no stakes because warzone solves everything.

This campaign was 100% AI generated 💀

Everyone: How is this not just a DLC posing as a sequel? Activision: We changed the font on the UI. $70 please

35:58 This reminds me of something... Oh wait, Mortal Kombat 2011 when most of Earthrealm's defenders die to Sindel, as they go fight her one at a time, just hanging backing and watching their allies get killed, oh and they don't use any of their abilities.

8:40 I seem to recall that destroying that tank in that mission to be rather annoying, and it's now even more aggravating because he's supposedly not in it at all? Well done COD.

Can’t wait for Soap’s death to be retconned in Modern Warfare 4 like: “I thought you were cremated and had your ashes scattered?” “Well I wasn’t in that urn”

MW2019- we need to find the gas 😡 MW2- we need to find the missiles 😡 MW3- we need to find the ‘gas filled’ missiles😡 Ingenious original writing

⁠its literally meant to be a MW2 expansion DLC. its campaign clearly shows that too, but activision got a bit money hungry so they were like “you know what, just make it MW3, make it shorter, oh and add soaps death so it can be similar to the original MW3, and add zombies too so people can buy this game, oh and market it like Treyarch (the goats) are the ones making this game even though its us. also just add some new movement to make it feel unique and add an open world mission bc story gamers like open worlds and story gamers are also gonna wanna buy this game” tbh that was sledgehammer/activision’s strategy

What made Soaps death in this sad to me was Ghosts reaction and not only that but their duo was so good in MW2 and they tore it apart too soon.

The open combat missions totally could have worked. Let us pick our kit, brief us on the plane, let us jump out into a dark area we've never seen before and get everyone coordinated to do exactly what we were briefed to do. Small problems could have cropped up to make things interesting, then everybody moves in. Could have been amazing, but no. They didn't want to do that.

Plot Twist: Cpt. Price: "Soap? I thought Makarov Domed you in the London Mission?" Soap: "No, you see, that wasn't me in that Mission."

21:29 No shot they just reused Adler and gave him slightly skinnier sunglasses lmao

"Exfil to trivialize the level 1 area" Even that was screwed up cause if you notice, you dont keep your good guns. If you exfil with an orange gun, you go back with a white quality gun. AKA, you have to find a new higher quality gun...every...single...match AND within 45 min.

They killed Soap out of malicious compliance cuz we complained that no one stayed dead. But the worst part of it to me, was the scene where they spread his ashes. Soap's original death scene properly stunned me the first time I played it. Price's horrified cries, knowing him to be the most composed man in the story, that was ACTUAL emotion. They just kinda walked away after saying some mugged up lines. I hated the entire storyline from the bottom of my heart cuz they ruined one of my favorite characters in gaming entirely. Price was literally SENILE in this game. Remember the price who held a warlord a gas mask and then point blank shot him with a desert eagle? This wasn't Price dude.

You piecing together and explaining the campaign’s plot was more entertaining and cohesive than the campaign itself

13:32 "Where the fuckin' missles? Oi smell MISSLES" 😂😂😂

A friend of mine pointed out that this video is a quarter length of the campaign. Honestly quite incredible.

Best moment of the month When Act man uploads a cod review

Oh, my God, I am so happy. I found this channel because I've been watching and I'm 16 minutes. And I can barely breathe for laughing so fucking hard at everything because it's all true

No modern trilogy ending today will be as satisfying as finally killing Makarov in MW3(2011)

“Modern Warfare 3 this year is the complete package” it’s impressive how the directors can get up on stage and lie like that….

I love how that 40mm grenade launcher round that went past you was literally the entire round. Shell casing and all. Good job devs.

Great job on this video, the editing is fucking hilarious, so good lmao had a big laugh watching this video. No round based zombies is a crime, ok i understand the devs idea of mixing different elements and putting them all on warzone map, but at the same time, can also add round based zombies seperately for people who are not looking to run a marathon in a match just to get some objectives done and some zombies kills, it also makes the camos grinding more time consuming than it should be.

They REALLY fucked Captain Price in this game. They set him up so well for MW2019 but fast forward four years later and he’s just any other cod protagonist. Like he doesn’t feel like CAPTAIN PRICE, he feels like Cpt. Price(iykyk)

This years COD is the perfect example of blatant corporate greed. It’s like they’ve tested the waters for so long and determined people really will buy anything lol

Crawling through the abandoned ruins of Pripyat in a ghillie suit with a silenced rifle, channeling the specter of death itself to silently cut through such a crazy number of enemies, is a core memory for me. How the mighty have fallen.

"halo 5 was better than this" damn... that hit hard. but you know what? your right

Bro, I still shed a tear on that Ghost scene from mw2, it was so fucking good. I knew that new mw3 campaign is short and bad but holy fuck I wasn't prepared how bad it is, those open missions are complete bullshit and I hate them with my whole entity.

"Halo 5 was better than this" Those are powerful words coming from the man who made several videos about that mess of a campaign.

Worth pointing out that sledgehammer also didn't even make the MW2 maps themselves, they were for the cancelled MW2 Remastered Multiplayer. They just slightly facelifted those maps and put them into MW3 so they had something.

Glad to see i had a cameo in your vid 😂

The Modern Warfare III campaign is weird. It's like they took Warzone and put it in the story mode on several missions. (open map) For all the people that wanted to avoid Warzone but liked playing the campaign in general...they are basically forced to play single player Warzone...unless they just simply leave the game. Also, I don't like the way Makarov looks in the game compared to the original MW2 and MW3 games.

Do people forget that in Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, that we killed General Shepard. Gaz Dead, Soap Dead, Roach Dead? LIKE WHERE THE FUCK IS ROACH NOW!?! They brought everyone back but left him out?

“One side only gets the upper hand when the other does something stupider” that’s the most accurate description of this campaign I’ve ever heard

I could see the zombies working as a sort of S.T.A.L.K.E.R./DayZ (oh dear God not vanilla DayZ) based on the guys with guns/merc’s, but because it’s supposed to be Zombies it falls apart. If it wasn’t replacing Zombies but some sort of Retrieve & Exfil, Take & Hold, and or some sort of mode where you have to clear enemy compounds while avoiding zombies/anything else you can think of (similar to Going Dark in 2019), then it would have been pretty interesting and cool to see, maybe even have some cool dystopian story. Overall, huge wasted potential.

“Actually my brain wasn’t in my skull” this has me rolling.😂

My favorite part about Laswell risking her life for a thumb drive is that whatever info is on it could have probably been sent digitally over secretive, obfuscated means. This isn’t 1980 anymore

My favorite part of MW3 was when during release, I was having a hard time connecting to any matches and when I did, every match was an unbearable lag fest. Menus were taking forever to load, create-a-class wouldn’t show the weapons, operators weren’t loading correctly. Everything was a mess. *except for the in-game store*

Ah modern writing where an English degree and a sonic fanfic under your belt make you qualified to work in the big leagues

This video is so hilarious 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂 I love your videos! Keep up the great content

What they did to this franchise I have no words.

imagine how cool it would’ve been if instead of a cut scene of the “abort” moment, it puts you in a mission like any other with a normal intro and halfway through the mission you get the message that he escaped and then you have to exfil early

The campaign for MW3 hurts my soul. It’s exhausting to see such utter incompetence for 4 hours straight. I thought Vangaurd was the worst these campaigns could get. Until MW3 2024 proved me wrong

Gameplay good and fun but the story is terrible short and the game sucks. We need Treyarch back. There’s a reason why BO2 was so good, because it had actual methodical time and thought.

In 5 years we're Gonna come back to this game and reminisce about how we thought it was the worst that COD was going to get

I think it's pretty obvious that Alex and Graves were never originally intended to return to the modern warfare storyline. They were going to be in a sort of shrodinger state, so they could have their ending in the main story, but at the same time they'd be revealed to have survived in a Warzone cutscene so they could market them as an operator and sell them. It's also probably why no player characters flatline during MW 2019 and MW 2 2022. But they just didn't have any choice but to use Warzone story elements, because they had to asset flip all these scrapped warzone missions and mask them as single player content.

-“hey I thought you died on the toilet” Elvis: “I wasn’t in that toilet”

Yo the DBZ jokes hitting hard after Akira Toriyama passing rn 😢😂❤😭😢😭💀👌😝🔫

the crazy part is that just 12 liters of sarin gas was put in a subway station in a terrorist attack in japan and it made some people convulse so hard they broke their own spine and in the end killed 13 people but also hospitalized about 300 more for weeks and for the writers to just have price be fine 20 seconds later shows how bad the writing is

14 years ago i played the original MW2. Even though i wasnt big into the series and played the campaign only once i still remember the EMP cutscene showing the ISS station with dramatic music, the explosion and then effing helicopters raining down like flies while the main cast frantically tried escaping fallen Washington. I vividly remember the goosebumps i got when Cpl. Dunn just screamed HOLY SHIT. And now this. I'm tired boss...

i really love how in 2017, cod ww2 was the worst cod game Act man has reviewed. But ever science he has given it more and more credit for games that have done it even worse for comparison

Another thing is that apparently mak & cheese said he bought out everyone who could stop him, but NOBODY, absolutely NOBODY had a moral compass and just “Oh sure thanks for the money bro, I don’t care like at least 30 people and maybe more will die. Later!”

I think you should read about the story of Vince Zampella and Jason West. Under different company/studio names they created Medal of Honor: Allied assault, before creating Call of Duty 1 & 2. Then they got screwed by activision who gave COD 3 to another studio, so they made Modern Warfare to stay ahead. After creating MW 1 & 2 they got fired by Activision, who was pumping other COD games through treyarch (the Black OPS) and co. MW 3 was made after they got fired and was a c/c of previous MW, that's when it started to feel bland. Also, since the beginning Zampella and West had the plan to make a "futuristic shooter" with jetpacks and wallruns, but got fired before they could implement it. When they went to Respawn to create Titanfall 1 & 2, Activision who knew what they wanted to create (and knew how good they were) started pumping futuristic CODs that were just "meh" to compete against them and ruind the market in advance. So all along, all the good good ones are made by these guys (and the rest of the team that followed them everywhere) while every COD that was "meh" was actually just average copy/pasted crap to make money and exploit the franchise that built a good reputation through their games. And when Activision ran out of ideas (because they just want money and don't care about quality), they rebooted and just printed MW, MW2 and MW3 again. Now they have nothing left to copy and Kotick left, so I honestly don't know how they'll be able to survive. Anyway, this whole story is crazy and I really invite you to read about it, since you seem really invested in the franchise.

After you said that about the characters being in a discord call, i can imagine Soap or/and Ghost spamming that one Makarov image the whole time while everyone is like "guys, could you stop"

I found it really funny how boring the game was when you played this game on your stream, alongside how you needed to play the “Black Cats” song from WAW in order to stay awake on that turret rail level

Got it for free at Reddit and the dude who gave it to me said "It's shit but here u go" just to laugh of how fucked it is and it will be