Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, not to be confused with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, sees North Korea invade South Korea

By this point, I'm convinced the Call of Duty bid is simply a sick experimentation investigating the limits of wide deja vu. Infinity Ward, the makers of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare person conscionable announced their caller crippled Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4.

This caller crippled has a linear run that sees North Korea bombard South Korean superior Seoul earlier launching a onshore penetration of the city. In 1 strand of the run you'll play arsenic a South Korean worker repelling the invasion, successful different you'll play arsenic a North Korean worker connected the different broadside of the battle, and successful a 3rd bid regular Captain Price is disconnected causing a ruckus.

The uncover trailer does a bully occupation of mounting up the stakes:

I've played and enjoyed galore Call of Duty games, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 looks similar it could beryllium arsenic bully arsenic the champion of them oregon arsenic atrocious arsenic the worst of them. It's, aft all, a cinematic trailer, truthful who tin tell? For what it's worth, determination are respective previews of the crippled from outlets who were invited to play the crippled astatine Activision's offices past week and they look to beryllium broadly positive. We weren't invited. (I'd similar to accidental it's due to the fact that we said past year's game, Black Ops 7, was naff and we've been blacklisted, but beauteous overmuch everyone said past year's crippled was naff truthful it's apt not that.)

As good arsenic bringing a linear single-player run (unlike Black Ops 7's poorly-delivered co-op run and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare's poorly-received – but precise bully – non-linear one), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 besides has its modular multiplayer fare, and resuscitates the DMZ extraction shooter mode. What with ARC Raiders' success, Activision person got to beryllium hoping they tin bash a Warzone and marque DMZ a standalone success.

What's disappointing astir Modern Warfare 4's reveal, from the caller trailer and the interviews I've read, is that it's not wide wherever the crippled is pushing into the new. One punctuation successful peculiar stood retired from Eurogamer's preview:

"We're benignant of unlocking this acquisition that hasn't been successful our erstwhile Modern Warfares," subordinate plan manager Alex Norris said. "Our erstwhile Modern Warfares person been precise focused connected task unit 141, peculiar operators, and tiny raids. We've got the largest U.S overseas subject basal successful South Korea.

"So it's tapping into infantry, armour, and aerial support; each these things benignant of moving unneurotic to retake a city. That's thing we haven't gotten to bash earlier connected the gameplay side. You'll spot D-Day-style formation landings, trench warfare and driving tanks successful large-scale battles."

I don't deliberation determination person been immoderate Call of Duty games that person felt lacking successful infantry, armour, and aerial support. I retrieve vividly playing and replaying The End of the Beginning, the North Africa run ngo released arsenic a demo for Call of Duty 2, successful which you battle El Daba successful trucks and tanks earlier warring done the streets successful pitched battles. So it's hardly a caller acquisition for the series, and adjacent if Norris is speaking specifically to Modern Warfare games, adjacent the original, arsenic you inhabit the not-long-for-this-world Sergeant Paul Jackson, you commencement his run with a sea-launched chopper penetration of a coastal town.

I realise I'm losing show of the wood by focusing connected the trees, and I don't privation this to beryllium mistaken arsenic negativity for the crippled itself. It whitethorn good beryllium a large shooter, Infinity Ward are talented developers. It's conscionable dispiriting to spot what has been done earlier galore times being wrapped successful connection suggesting it's new.

But then, I'm definite we've been present and said each of this before.