Description
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a 2019
first-person shooter video game developed by
Infinity Ward and published by
Activision. Serving as the sixteenth overall installment in the
Call of Duty series, as well as a
reboot of the Modern Warfare sub-series,
[2][3][4] it was released on October 25, 2019, for
Microsoft Windows,
PlayStation 4, and
Xbox One.
The game takes place in a realistic and modern setting. The campaign follows a
CIA officer and British
SAS forces as they team up with rebels from the fictional country of Urzikstan, combating together against Russian forces who have invaded the country. The game's Special Ops mode features cooperative play missions that follow up the campaign's story. The multiplayer mode supports
cross-platform multiplayer and cross-platform progression for the first time in the series. It has been reworked for gameplay to be more tactical and introduces new features, such as a Realism mode that removes the
HUD as well as a form of the Ground War mode that now supports 64 players.
Infinity Ward began working on the game soon after the release of their 2016 title
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. They introduced an entirely new engine for the game, which allows for new performance enhancements such as more detailed environments and
ray-tracing capabilities. For the campaign, they took influence from real-life conflicts, such as the
Syrian Civil War and terrorist incidents that have
occurred in London. For the multiplayer, they scrapped the franchise's traditional
season pass and removed loot boxes, enabling them to distribute free post-launch content to the playerbase in the form of "Seasons".
[5] Modern Warfare received praise for its gameplay, campaign, multiplayer, and graphics; criticism focused on the handling of the campaign's subject matter, including the depiction of the Russian military, as well as balancing issues in the multiplayer.