Call of Duty Modern Warfare is a must-have for players who miss old Call of Duty games. With the important innovations and changes made, the absence of Season Pass and the effect of Cross play support, it has been a production that will be played for many years, will be remembered with its magnificent story, and will always be remembered with its legendary episodes. If you missed old CoD games, you can definitely give Modern Warfare a chance.
Call of Duty, which represents a very large part of the history of the FPS genre and has been coming up with a new game every year for years, has failed to meet the expectations with almost none of the games released from 2011 to this year. The fact that such an important and great series always turns a blind eye to the wishes of the players and constantly takes them either to the past or to the future was criticized by the players and deemed worthy of low scores by the critics. But in 2019, Infinity Ward finally heard the cries and set out to bring Call of Duty back to its greatest time, glory in Modern Warfare. After waiting for the game for a long time, the production took its place on the shelves last week and we started playing the game directly.
Pluses
Immersive storytelling
Long-term multiplayer mode
Cross-Play support and lack of Season Pass
Quality graphics and sound effects
Cons
Serious optimization issues on PC
Balancing problems in multiplayer mode
First of all, I would like to clarify the allegations of ypg, terrorist propaganda and portraying terrorists as heroes, which we often heard before the game was released, in order to eliminate the question marks in the head. There is no element in any part of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare that supports any terrorist organization such as ypg or pkk. In fact, in the game, the female character representing the insurgents is an Arab. Although the region where the game takes place is launched as the Middle East, it takes place in Urzikistan, a fictional country created by filling the Black Sea in the west of Georgia on the map before the episode. If we had ever encountered such a situation in the slightest, we had decided not to review the game at all. After clarifying this situation, we can now start the examination in its full sense.
Let's remember the times when Call of Duty games were at their peak. The first Call of Duty 4, which is usually engraved in our memories with the characters in the game, impressed us with its atmosphere, although it was not realistic in terms of gameplay, as if throwing us into a movie. The first 3 Modern Warfare games had become legends, while the ups and downs of the past games, dramatic scenes, memorable episodes. Infinity Ward, on the other hand, will have realized that these are the things that the players miss at the end, that in the new Modern Warfare, it brought back the Captain Price, which we all admire, and also managed to give us the dramatism we missed throughout the story. There are some surprises, especially about the characters, but I won't tell them to avoid spoilers.
It's hard to tell the story of Modern Warfare without spoilers. But I can give a brief summary to help you master the main subject and more or less what to expect. Modern Warfare, which is about the aftermath of the occupation by Russian forces of a fictional country called Urzikstan, is about our struggle with a radical terrorist group called Al-Qatala, which later sprang up in that country. Of course, we also have insurgents fighting both Russia and Al-Qatala. The leader of these resistance fighters is Farah Karim, the female character we see in the trailers of the game. Infinity Ward put Farah Karim in the lead role in the full sense of the game. The operation of the story usually proceeds through this character. We learn about Farah's motivation, who fought with his brother to clear his country from the Russians and the Al-Qatala organization, in the later parts of the game, with perhaps the most dramatic and impressive episode in the history of Call of Duty.
I would really like to tell you about such an ambitious episode with all the details, but spoiling your experience with spoilers is the last thing I want to do. However, I would like to implicitly tell you a few things that you will remember when you come to this section. If we were to ask the most important episodes in the past when Call of Duty is mentioned, you would probably think of the Sniper episode in Modern Warfare 1 and the No Russian episode in Modern Warfare 2. This episode is so impressive that it puts the shoes of these two episodes into the atmosphere. The episode that makes you think about drama, tension, horror and the people who actually experience them today may even win Call of Duty: Modern Warfare the game of the year award. Infinity Ward, which makes us feel what innocent civilians are going through in the Middle East today, and what difficulties especially children have to overcome, has done an impressive job that will draw the attention of the international community and initiate a movement to prevent wars. I congratulate the developers who showed us firsthand that innocent civilians are trapped between terrorist organizations and world giants.
Speaking of the story, there are points where the concept of evil in the game also gets grayed out. Although Call of Duty partially places the western countries in the position of heroes and turns the Russians into demons again, some parts of the game bring gray spots to our eyes. Captain Price, a British SAS commando, said in the trailer, "We are getting dirty so that the world will be clean," is not really a wasted phrase. We come to such points in the story that the choices you say "come on", the points you say whether you should make it or not, come across frequently. In short, we are not in the position of a prince on a white horse, but a soldier in whom we can see every way as permissible to reach the goal. We experience firsthand that the innocent can always be used in war.
It had been years since I devoted such a long chapter to the story of a CoD game. However, it definitely had to be explained that you can't imagine how much I filed the article in order not to miss a surprise. But now I want to talk about the multiplayer part where we will spend the longest time in the game, as well as important changes and innovations.
Let me state first. The innovation that I care about most is that there is no Season Pass in the game anymore. Therefore, once you buy the game, you will be able to continue playing with your friends on the same maps as you wish, the player population will not be divided by paid maps, and Xbox, PS4 and PC players will always be able to play together thanks to cross-platform support. Even these two features are enough reasons to buy Modern Warfare on their own.
One of the important changes in the gameplay in the multiplayer part of the new Call of Duty is that bullets now have a weight just like in Battlefield and are affected by gravity. Although this feature, which is the main source of the claim that Modern Warfare will be a more realistic game, which the producers emphasized emphatically, sounds like it will radically change the playable fluid structure of the game when you hear it, this is not actually the case. You don't feel much difference on classic small maps, although it may be necessary to aim the gun a little higher in combat from great distances. Another important innovation is that we can now put weapons against walls and corners. In this way, you can reduce the recoil of the weapons as if using a bipod, and you can achieve a serious performance increase in fully automatic weapons. This feature, which seriously changes the dynamics of the game, is especially useful for ambushing strategic points in mission-oriented modes.
In the multiplayer part of Modern Warfare, the Ground War mode, which gives a Battlefield atmosphere, has been added. These maps, where 32 players can fight against 32 players on huge maps, will be a medicine for players who like the huge structure of BF but find it too heavy in terms of gameplay. Ground War, which is based on grabbing and protecting different flag points, has also been a pleasing mode for players who love sniper weapons.
In the multiplayer part, a mission system similar to the Battle Pass has been added. Thanks to this system, we can earn special weapon skins by performing certain tasks. These skins are not just skins. A blueprint that comes ready with special parts for weapons. It is left to the player to use these weapons in their own form or by customizing them if you wish. A paid Season Pass system will be added in the near future, focusing only on cosmetic equipment. However, the producers have guaranteed that it will not affect the game in any way, I hope they will not make us a liar.
There is also a Co-op mode in Modern Warfare. In this mod, we can perform different missions on large maps. The co-op mode, which is quite challenging, is enjoyable when you play with your 4 friends. Continuing the story of the game, the co-op will be expanded with new missions and operations in the future. Also, your progress in this mode is continued in the standard multiplayer mode. In other words, you have the opportunity to level up and unlock weapons just by playing co-op.
Technically, Call of Duty Modern Warfare brought important changes. The lighting system of the game has been completely changed and a much more realistic lighting experience has been presented with physics-based materials. In addition, the volumetric fog and smoke effects in the game also contributed to the visual experience. In addition, the high-resolution coatings added to the game are one of the factors that increase the visual experience. Graphically, Modern Warfare has been very successful. On the sound side, the Infinity Ward team worked hard, gun sounds, character voiceovers and music were very successful.
