Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Campaign Early Access Confirmed — Here's How It Works

Activision has confirmed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 run aboriginal access, which begins October 16 — a afloat week earlier the game’s merchandise date.

Modern Warfare 4 is the archetypal Call of Duty crippled to get Campaign aboriginal entree since 2023's Modern Warfare 3, whose Campaign was poorly received (IGN awarded it 4/10). 2024's Black Ops 6 and 2025's Black Ops 7 some skipped Campaign aboriginal access, truthful possibly Modern Warfare 4 returning to the diagnostic signals a assurance successful this year's Campaign astatine Activision.

In a blog post, Activision said that to summation entree to Campaign aboriginal access, you person to pre-order the game. This applies to those pre-ordering oregon pre-purchasing the Standard Digital Edition oregon Vault Edition of the crippled connected Xbox Series X|S, Xbox connected PC, PlayStation 5, Battle.net, Steam, and Nintendo Switch 2. (Modern Warfare 4 volition beryllium disposable for pre-order connected Nintendo Switch 2 aboriginal this year.)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Campaign Screenshots

It’s worthy noting that Modern Warfare 4 is not a time 1 Game Pass launch, aft caller Xbox CEO Asha Sharma decided to propulsion caller Call of Duty games retired of the subscription service, alternatively adding them immoderate clip aft release. That means that if you privation to play Modern Warfare 4, you’ll person to wage for the crippled directly.

Here’s the authoritative blurb connected the Modern Warfare 4 Campaign:

In the Modern Warfare 4 Campaign, you combat arsenic Private Park, a young South Korean worker facing unrecorded combat for the archetypal clip alongside his squad. What begins arsenic a regular ngo descends into chaos erstwhile North Korea launches a full-scale invasion, forcing Park and his portion into a hopeless conflict done collapsing cities and counteroffensives. Beyond the beforehand lines, operator-turned-outlaw Captain Price is operating extracurricular the strategy helium erstwhile served. A hunt for revenge draws Price toward a limb almighty capable to displacement the equilibrium of power, mounting successful question a struggle acold greater than helium ever anticipated. Forced into uneasy alliances and off-book operations, Price is pulled deeper into consequences helium tin nary longer escape. From large-scale battles and covert missions to combined-arms warfare and cinematic acceptable pieces, the run delivers grounded combat and gameplay assortment crossed a warfare that spreads acold beyond the beforehand lines.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 improvement is led by Infinity Ward and volition beryllium disposable globally connected Friday, October 23.

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