For years now, the annual prospect of a new Call of Duty game typically meant more of the same—familiar beats, samey campaign missions, and an already well-refined multiplayer package with little tweaks and scenery changes. But with this year’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, “more of the same” feels more on the nose than ever.
Released last week, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III has broadly faced indifference or negativity from professional reviewers, saddling the PlayStation 5 version of the game—which has the most published reviews of any platform so far—with a meager 56 out of 100 Metascore review average from Metacritic, based on 48 reviews to date.
That’s a considerable dip from last year’s Modern Warfare II, which scored a 75 Metascore on PS5, or the previous year’s Call of Duty Vanguard, which landed at a 73 average. In fact, it’s the worst review average for any core Call of Duty entry in the franchise’s 20-year history, with only crummy spinoff games (like
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Author: Andrew Hayward
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