Jacob Gray

Staff Writer

The new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has been out for a little over two weeks, releasing on Friday, Oct. 23.

I’ll give my thoughts on the campaign (spoiler free), multiplayer and the new aspects of the game. I will also discuss whether or not the game is worth the price.

Modern Warfare 4’s campaign takes place in fake future conflict between North and South Korea after the previous leader of North Korea dies and his successor takes charge. For most of the missions you play as Park, a South Korean solider.

Throughout several missions you also follow a second plot line with Captain Price, from the previous games, with the goal of finding someone named the Archer.

This is where I have an issue with the campaign. Throughout the game you swap between the two plots that are for the majority of the story very loosely connected and never fully meet each other until the last mission.

I think that the story would have been better if the developers had fully committed to one of the plots and just stuck with it, instead of swapping back and forth between the two plots hurting both stories.

That is just one small thing though. Overall, the campaign was enjoyable and was much better than the stories of the past few games.

There are six new game modes in the Modern Warfare 4 multiplayer. Those being kill block, ground war, hijack, front line, collateral and inflation.

Of the new modes, my favorite is kill block. It is like search and destroy, just without the bomb and you have randomized loadouts. One of the unique things of this mode is the map mashup, where it randomly takes a third from each map in the game and combines them to create a unique map every time you play.

However, there are three main complaints I have about the multiplayer. The first complaint being the time to kill (TTK). It feels drastically longer this year compared to previous games.

My second complaint is the simplification of a lot of things in the game. For example, score streaks used to only have three at most with the same elimination requirement but now they are separated into four groups for everything.

This makes like a UAV that now requires five eliminations from three have less value than a care package which has always cost five. This creates an imbalance in value for several score streaks making some score streaks not worth using.

One last major complaint I have about multiplayer is wildcards. My issue with this is that they are gone. In MW4 they decided to get rid of wildcards entirely.

Now some such as overkill have been changed into perks, but most of are no longer in the game. One of my own and many others favorite wildcards was primary gunfighter, which allowed you to equip eight total attachments to your weapon. Was it a little overpowered probably, but anybody was able to use it.

After all of this, would I say that MW4 is worth the $70 price tag. Short answer, no. For a while now many have voiced how Call of Duty is not worth the price for some new cammos, and maybe three new modes.

But if you have not played a call of duty in a while and are wanting to try one, I would say it’s not a bad option. I think with a few adjustments modern warfare four is a step in the right direction for the franchise, as there are a lot of improvements for their overall game compared to the last few ones.