This Is The Worst Call Of Duty Campaign I Have Ever Played, Lore And Story Rant!
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- čas přidán 30. 05. 2024
- My review of the Modern Warfare 3 campaign. This was honestly the most disappointing campaign that I have ever played in a Call Of Duty Game.
0:00 Intro
1:11 The Start Of The Game
2:35 Why Makarov's 2nd In Command Is Badly Written
6:33 How Stupidly Makarov Gave Away His Men's Position
7:22 How MW3 Copied MW2's Missile Story All Over Again
9:12 Why The No Russian Mission Sucks
14:33 The Best Mission In The Game
16:36 Makarov's Stupid Plans
18:33 General Shepherd's Stupid Kidnapping
21:28 Boring Forgetful Oligarch Character
25:32 The Story Ignored Grave's War Crimes
34:58 The Terrible Ending
39:45 Why That Character's Death Sucked Compared To Original MW3
51:31 The Stupid Open Combat Missions
53:27 4 HOURS!
53:48 Why The Story Is Worse Than Vanguard
54:30 What Happened To The Cartel???
55:04 Developers Felt Offended For Being Called Out
55:58 Final Thoughts
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Only thing worse than a short 4 hour campaign is a badly written one. For me the worst of it was The Tunnel mission where Makarov freely walks up, kills someone, and leaves without any issues. The cutscene looked fairly goofy too, just stomps in out of a corner.
The actual worst cutscene of the game is when Makarov started to do the Macarena
fr who does that he went back to a live bomb that would have exploded in a min or so if they havent defused it
True. Also the fact that Ghost and Gaz wasnt watching both Prices and Soaps back while they disarm the bomb is so stupid. If they was watching their backs then Makarov wouldn't of killed Soap in such a dumb , rushed and stupid way.
I beat it in 2.5 hours even worse 😂
Trash Ops cold sore had a short story and it was awesome
OG Makarov: Well written and is threatening
New Makarov: Ben Shapiro
And “WW3” feels like a local threat
and Mudahar in the plane mission
Kratos's VA joking about the story being short was hilarious, the devs really messed up the story it makes cod ghost look like a masterpiece
the devs even trying to say all the games make more than god of war because he just did a funny joke, baby ass developers
In my opinion, Ghost IS a Masterpiece.
Call of duty Gjosts is a masterpiece!! What you on about
Ghosts isn't even that bad, it's just it's predecessors before it were miles better but it was still a decent one, this game and vanguard though. Yeah no, they're just garbage overall lol
@@MagicallySwordghosts was worse than mwiii
Story suffers from Idiot Pilot, both sides are so stupid and never outplay each other. When one side gets one over the other it’s because the other side did something stupid.
And rushed game design
Original Modern Warfare trilogy fanbase: Why did you ruin the great series and great character Activision?
Activison: I got caught up in the money, the power....
I didn’t had any choice man. When I’m gone. Everyone gonna remember my name. Activision 😵 🩸
Fans: 💩
@@elperrodelautumo7511Fans: What a waste...
E.A: Consumer, my man! I need you to do another favor for me. You've killed Ubi and this fat studio, there's no stopping you. Drop the indie games.
@@E.L_The_Red_Alien You ain't leaving here alive man.
Activision: I forgot the part where that's my problem
The "No Russian" mission urks me as both a security professional and a gun enthusiast. While they tried to lampshade them smuggling guns on the plane by saying that they used polymer frames and slides and hid the parts in creative ways, realistically that wouldn't work. Airport security are trained to keep their eyes open for not just fully assembled guns, but gun parts and ammunition. It's a stretch but it's possible that the gun parts could slip through the cracks since humans aren't perfect, but what about the ammunition and bomb vest? Civilian ammo is not allowed in the fuselage of any commercial plane. And then the bomb vest. Just how? TSA in the United States gets suspicious if you bring a big lithium ion battery onto a plane, and these guys somehow snuggled a tactical vest with about ten pounds of C4 explosives and a remote detonation timer strapped to it. If Makarov was able to get all that past airport security, then why didn't he just smuggle in some normal firearms? It would have been more believable if the game said that he had contacts within the airport's security team and local law enforcement.
ikr? i don’t even understand how
Because MW is stupid and boring. Fake dumb stories. Thats what the MW series is.
Verdansk stadium mission is the actual no Russian of the game, but you’re playing as the counter terrorists instead of the terrorists, I actually love the stadium mission.
Because obvious firearms would still be identified, even if they have airport security working for them.
This no Russian mission is stupid in every aspect, this and the fact when they start to execute their attack instead of everyone springing into action some idiot puts a gun to some random civilian and starts standing up and looking around incase of anyone is looking at them (which how did anyone not notice a man standing up with a gun?) And when the guy let's samara take his gun and gets captured, not only going by what you said about how they got all this gear on the plane but how did Makarov himself even get passed airport security like think about it, A war criminal recently broke out of prison killing hundreds of guards in the process, and COINCIDENTALLY there have been a few terrorist attacks 72 hours since his escape and logically this would make him the most wanted man in the world but yet he's able to get pass airport security no problem like how?? Not to mention when they escape from the plane they manage to seemingly open a door on a plane that's assumed to be at an average 30,000 feet in the air which would not be possible, this is something cod knows too because in mile high club in cod4 they use explosives to blow open the doors on the plane but here? Nah they casually open that shit.
Basic logic is absent in this game and its really REALLY stupid...
Remember when Makarov used to be that Psychotic, blood thirsty, merciless terrorist that brought the world to WW3? That's the Makarov we should of had if not that, an even more sadistic version. In this one he's just a normal COD Villian.
Yes, the OG Makarov makes the reboot one look like a kid with some desire and enjoyment for terror
This felt like a dollar store makarov version or we have makarov at home 😒 bro wasnt even scary
@@ShiroyashaVince Makarov? More like Ben Shapiro if he took Russian lessons lmaoo!
I also don't even know why general Shepard was in this he didn't even do much
@@MikoyanGurevichMiG21 Lmaoo true godd dammit 😂💀💀
The fact that COD developers attack Christopher judge for saying that this was the shortest cod game, says alot
He should have said dont test me boy
They "attacked" him because he made a joke out of the suffering of devs lmao at an event that shows how little the gaming industry actually cares about devs
One of the things I hate about call of duty these days is that they make these soldiers seem like superheroes and marvel characters. That’s why cod WAW Was so cool to me you feel like your playing as a soldier who’s fighting for his life and can die at any moment
Honestly this is why ghost is my favorite the campaign while goofy made these characters feel human and less like John wick
@@theoutsiderjess4869 story was crippled with the silent protagonist however fighting/playing alongside your characters actual brother and father was a plus that needs a retry.
True even the way they talk and act its like they try to sound like action heroes so unserious
@@users10116 a great example, when Price and Farah were talking before a mission price referred to Shepherd and Shadow Company as “dangerous” and Farah said “we are all dangerous captain” like it’s straight out of a marvel or Disney movie it’s so cringey
@@damonlongstreet8630 idk what IW was thinking when they went with the silent protagonist thing for Ghosts, it made emotional scenes like one where Elias dies fall flat, like your dad literally got murdered right in front of you and you didn’t feel anything
I remember back in the day, MW3 2011 got flack for being a DLC to MW2 2009, but it had a lengthy and satisfying campaign with all the stakes, a decent multiplayer, special ops (horde mode), and even co-op!!
MW3 2023 is just neutered and has nothing. MW3 2023 is legitimately a DLC.
MW3 2023 has more content than the old MW3 also zombies beats spec ope
@@Jasmine-Gravesmid content mid zombies mid dlc
@@PwnageSoldier could say the same about og mw3
@@Jasmine-Graves i assume you mean less meaningful content
Generic wwiii story isn't "satisfying", both suck, the end
51:31
The main problem with “Open Combat Mission” is it breaks the lore that you’re supposedly are a ‘Tier 1’ operator yet you scavenge for weapons, armor plates, and pieces of equipment.
Does Laswell not have enough funding to prepare these things before the op?
Yeah this is one of the worst way for Activision to celebrate the 20th anniversary birthday for call of duty.
The original mw3 is more forgiven and doesn't deserve all the hate.
despite OG mw3 supposedly having a bad campaign its stilll prolly written better than this
@@cartercolson7975OG MWIII was just as bad
@@Jasmine-Graves least you actually got to kill makarov in og mw3
@@cartercolson7975 yeah but in the reboot timeline this is supposed to be equal to og mw2 where as reboot mw4 is going to be the equivalent of og mw3
@@Jasmine-Graves if it was going to be equal tho when you really think about it that could've been a dlc it was going to be dlc too before it was a full production game
This video is longer then the campaign
You got your point, BOI
Boom!
Just typed the same comment couldnt resist haha
Damn.
Activision really messed up.
Is Not Sledgehammer's Fault. Is Activision's Fault. Because Activision Is Being Impatience Like A Child
@@OctolingNinjalaLiterally. Activision pushed sledgehammer off of their game and forced them to make vanguard, then did it AGAIN for mwiii. Sledge hasn’t been able to make their own game and that’s why their games don’t feel… loved??
Activision sucks in general
It’s not the devs fault!!!
Activision is already sucked
Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer: We've completed the storyline and it's really a great plot so we can start to make-
Activision: Scrap it.
Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer: *What!? We can't! You can't just-*
Activision: *Do i look like i give a sh-? Scrap that and make this story more horrible than Vanguard and give us lots of microtransactions you got from them gamers!*
I know this comment is ironic but i starting to think that this is exacly how it did go 💀
@@alessandrocanale6189 Well this isn't the second time Activision forcing developers to make COD in short time. And i also feel bad to the devs including Brian Bloom (You know him the VA of Nick Reyes from Infinite Warfare and also the writer of Infinite Warfare and Modern Warfare) and the rest of the writers being forced to make horrible storyline.
@@maulanaadrian9383 wow i didint know that the VA from nick rayes was involved in this dlc but for the rest i agree with you
nah, it was more like "we can't make full story mode in year!" and acti was like: "whatever; people won't play single anyway"
and that's how we ended with short and blatantly unfinished story mode...
@@krisradowski yeah i also agree with you
Freaking Samara could have saved the entire flight if she jumped out, but that didnt even cross her mind or trying to get that ied of off her…
I’m not trying to justify the script or anything, but you can’t expect someone to act rationally when they have a fucking bomb strapped to their chest.
@@richardball5843 You can expect a hardened militant who is going to be used as a pawn to not only murder innocent civilians but ALSO turn the entire world against your people who you have spent years trying to save from foreign occupation
@@richardball5843 She is supposed to be one of Karim’s best and closest ”soldiers” if she cant maintain a cool head in a stressful situation what the hell is she good for? Atleast she should have sacrifised herself but she panicked and got everyone killed.
@@nightmare8292 that being said how will she be rational with a b*mb strapped to her chest this was actually the most realistic thing ever put in a cod game soldier or not how do you expect someone not to panic in this situation
Had to remake my comment because I didn't remember the cutscene correctly, but I'd say it was the heat of the moment (and for the scenario in terms of gameplay)
If the devs made it fully realistic then Samara and the other lads would've been sucked out of the plane the second they opened the door... Effectively saving everyone else if the plane landed safely 😅
It doesn't take the most incompetent game developer companies to ruin a game, just the will of a single corporation
The games not ruined the multiplayer is what cods about
some times people play cod for the campain, and yeah the multiplayer is better than mw 2022 but still
@@Jasmine-Graves
@@Ghst-nx3hp I'm sorry but who buys cod for the campaign buying cod for the campaign is like buying uncharted for the multiplayer
@@Jasmine-Graves what wrong buying cod for the campaign?
@@Ghst-nx3hp alota wrong with that
The thing that I'm the maddest about is that Alex is just... there. Every time a new mission started I was hoping that we could play as him again. But nooo we have to just keep playing as Farah and Captain Price. Don't get me wrong it is great that we got to play as them but I craved to play as Alex again after MW 2019. I hate the fact that he's there to be there.
I hated how useless they made him the mission right after the plane walking simulator.
He wasn't even in MWII's campaign lmao
Farah just existed for woke brownie points. Urzikstan isn't even real and didn't even get made at all during the OG Modern Warfare trilogy. If anything, this trilogy isn't even canon. It's just the developers making a cash grab because it shares the same title name and because they watched too much of the Sicario movies while also wanting it to be like superhero movies, the Fast and Furious franchise, and fortnite.
Its ironic how the original MW3 had one of the best ending to any video game story ever imo. I played that game and especially through that story multiple times. Soap's death, Yuri's death, Sandman and Grinch's death all still hit that deep. Its a shame what COD has evolved into.
This is like one of those CoD campaigns you would make up in your head as a kid, not a CoD campaign written by an actual writing team. Activision is not dodging the CHATGPT allegations after this one.
Not only is Graves’ war crimes never mentioned, but Colonel Norris’ (the Marine guy from MW2019) designation of the ULF as terrorists and his orders to treat them as such is never mentioned.
Why else do you think Shepherd is supplying the ULF?
@@agentlinrov1474Considering he’s an American, we may never know lmfaooo
Yeah Colonel Norris was such a forgetful character and he never appears again like wtf was the point of his character.
The bad writing screwed over Graves and Makarov as villains that could’ve been good. Also this game basically let Graves get away for his crimes.
The whole Shadow Company bit in 2 also feels so tacked on. People knew the betrayal was coming, it just feels like they did the whole murdering a village thing to make it easier for the player to kill them.
Laswell is such a throw away character. you can replace her position in any mission with Nikolai, yuri, Alex, Farrah, and the story flow would not feel different at all. Her character adds nothing to the storyline
Yeah man Laswell is such a bland, forgettable, and a dumbass female character. And in fact she should be the one to be killed by Makarov, NOT soap.
Whats funny is that COD Cold war did the whole open combat missions first and they did an amazing job with it like in Berlin mission since you can do it fully stealth or you can go in guns blazing and there's also side objectives to do that contribute to the story but are optional but also give you special missions that need you to use your brain to solve a puzzle and then you go after the target. Cold war did the campaign even better
For that reason, I have the smallest amount of hope that the next COD campaign will be decent. Because it’s going to be developed by Treyarch and is supposedly a sequel to Cold War, which I thought was decent. However I’m gonna keep my expectations low.
Old makarov is just pure evil, the new one just looks like he didn’t get hugged enough as a kid
Old Makarov was cold. He was also capable of wanting to see the world order to burn into ashes and see his own new world order in which Russia rules Eurasia. And the southern country of Draka rules its southern half of the world. It’s why he not only worked with the ultranationalists, created his inner circle, and infiltrated the Soviet Union, but also worked with the burning flag paramilitary group who want revenge on the world for disbanding its former government and superpower status. Makarov’s deep reason for terrorizing the world was because the Soviet Union sold out to the international community. To the deep state cabal and secret society ruling the world behind their governments.
14:33 The BEST MISSION IN THE GAME is Flashpoint aka the stadium mission? That's depressing...
1. The mission takes place in a reused CoD Warzone map
2. The same mission where Makarov so idiotically allows himself to be captured by trying to hit Price with an ambulance but fails miserably by completely missing and crashing, leaving Makarov the only survivor of the crash. MAKAROV COULD'VE DIED IN THAT CRASH, I mean everyone else in that ambulance died
3. The very same mission where Price had all the chance to kill Makarov then and there but didn't take it for no good reason at all. YOU CAUGHT MAKAROV, THE BOSS OF BOSSES OF ALL THE BAD GUYS! YOU GOT HIM! THERE'S ZERO REASON TO KEEP HIM ALIVE. Price has killed his enemies for way less, he would never keep someone like Makarov alive. Price wasn't consistent to his own character that they established throughout the series in this game
Truly the most soft-brained-to-the-point-the-top-of-the-head-is-concaved writing in the whole series. They just turned Makarov into the Joker
I honestly don't get why Makarov was even there in the first place. Okay, the entire stadium attack was supposed to be a distraction to get Task Force 141 away from the airport, where the actual bombing was meant take place.
So why the hell was Makarov there? And why didn't he flee the location when 141 started arriving? In the very beginning of the mission where you're arriving to the Stadium, you can actually see Makarov in the ambulance, so he was there, and he was already in his getaway vehicle ready to go. But apparently he sat in that ambulance for 10 minutes, waiting for 141 to get to him, just so he could try to run them over? Doesn't make any sense. Why was he there in the first place? And why didn't he flee the area when he had the chance?
He probably meant that it’s the mission that sucked the least
Bro didn't play the mission
Makarov in the OG series carried out terror attacks like they were morning jogs, nuked 30 thousand US Marines as the world freaking watched, kidnapped the Russian president, and was a hair away from turning Europe into a smoldering wasteland after igniting World War 3.
Makarov in the deboot only appears for thirty seconds to give the player and/or his goons some generic monologue, and then arms an easily defused bomb before vanishing again and leaving you to deal with his Shadow Company wannabes after wasting an iconic character like they were some generic NPC.
Bro didn't play the game
@@usernamepassword236Doesn't really matter, OG Makarov will always be better than the Ben Shapiro Wannabe 😂😂
OG Makarov was always 6 steps ahead than the main characters in the OG MW.
@@anotherdaytobetheslayer7091 bro likes lazily written villains
Kratos speech is longer than the MW3 campaign
😂
yuri was only shoehorned into this campaign for pure nostalgia bait and that's what pisses me off the most about it
The OG Makarov from OG MW2 was a well-written villain than discount Makarov from MW3 2023 thanks to the cutscene before No Russian starts where the OG MW2 General Shepherd describing how he "doesn't flinch at torture, human trafficking, or genocide" as if he is a soulless monster who "trades blood for money" and they truly nailed it on how he is a GRAVE THREAT. That's what was missing for me with MW3 2023's Makarov.
That's not much tbh you're just describing a 2 dimensional villain right there this is basically just my dad is cooler than your dad situation
Thank god I bought Like A Dragon Gaiden instead of this which they release at the same time kind of. Heck Gaiden was originally a DLC then turned into a full game and ended up being a better game than MW3.
atleast the old cod campaigns had a standard and quality control instead of the big shitty half baked mess the length of a demo disc
Shepherds death in the original Modern Warfare 2 was better because he put up a good fight against Price and Soap and almost killed them both by himself until Soap killed shepherd by giving him back his knife.
Soaps death in MW2023 is the worst death in cod history. In the original, Soaps death had a purpose and consequences. Right before he revealed about Yuris identity. Soaps death had consequences with Price having bad blood against Yuri due to him. Now, in 2023 he died just for the sake of it since they hadn't taken any risks of character deaths in the previous 2 entries with 2019 and 2022.
Side note: I refer to MW3 2023 as MW2023. For one, it's easier to differentiate. Two, I can't disrespect my favorite cod calling them both MW3. 😂
It doesn't matter because Price gets over it after like one mission
Not just the campaign, but this game in its entirety is solely a $70 cash grab rushed to high hell to make a quick buck before Microsoft took over
Your reaction during that Sequence where Makarov's men were shooting the Civilians in the Stadium and your frustration with not getting a shot is exactly whats needed in these missions.
It forces the Player to actually think Tactically,think about the Civilian collateral damage and be more precise with your shooting rather than just go full auto.
Finally we have this video!! The story made no sense 😂
There was something that you didn't mention Professional
In the ending you're supposed to disarm a bomb that would probably explode in a few minutes. But Makarov was still in the blast radius ! Maybe if he wanted to make sure that the enemy doesn't interfere he could've just sent his army to protect it and be safe. Lol it just makes no sense why he was there
I don't even know why general Shepard was in the game
@@kobra6660i wanna know why Alejandro and Los vaqueros ARENT in the game
That was literally his army protecting the bomb...
Y'all are complaining that this version is a pussy now you're complaining that he sees his plans through to the end make up your minds
I found it so stupid that Farah killed her own brother for using the Russian chemical weapon to protect his own people. But then she goes and works with graves a know terrorist that killed innocent people in las Almas 😂
She doesnt know that info, actually.
She isnt aware of what Graves did in MWII
Speaking of which, where tf is he. I know in 2019 they handed him off to Russia….. but then what??? He isn’t seen or heard from after that. I figured that he’d at least start his own army.
@@user-zh5rj6wi9n He did in Atomgrad... but he's kinda dead.
@@user-zh5rj6wi9nhe was working with Al Qatala I think that's how you spell it but he's dead now
I swear, people just don’t know how to write good stories nowdays!
Nowadays they just write stories for the woke modern audience!
@@Getintheskipyoumelt Preach, my dude.
There are a lot of great new games with great stories that you are just missing out. Call of Duty was never one of them.
@@DarkAttackYTbro I agree with you to a point because I hate cod but it’s definitely had a very good storyline in the past
@@Getintheskipyoumelthow does anything to do with wokeness correlate with cod having a shit campaign ?
*insert the price is right sad trombone sound
I’m currently in the process of writing a revamp of this story and it’s definitely better
I bet it's definitely better than this 'story' of a game
You gonna post it?
@@lavagirl308this is a multiplayer game
You can't just say your thing is better than another thing lmao
@@usernamepassword236MWIII is a low bar so maybe?
27:46, what makes this even funnier is that when Graves is revealed to still be alive in the MW22 Warzone Season 5 cutscene, Alex and Farah are aware that Graves had "died" in a tank in Mexico, yet are unaware of his betrayal and war crimes. It's no surprise the game flopped as bad as it did when important plot points are completely forgotten.
MW3 Campaign's version of 2023 was very bad and it's like Canon RWBY and Gen Lock Season 2's Bad Storyline Plots were combined together to create this abomination
You’re forgetting that in the campaign for cod ghosts you don’t kill Rorke at the end. You as the player think you did then he just shows up out of nowhere & takes you away. Here we are over 10 years later still never got addressed so where’s the out cry about a villain dying then?
Also they could’ve made the campaign into two stories like the getaway game did with Frank Carter, London cop and Marcus Hammond, ex robber criminal, forced to be a criminal getaway driver. Something on that level of storytelling. Maybe something like getting perspectives of task force 141 or Konni. You get deep lores from both sides. They could even tied this to the black ops games as Raul Menendez’s Cordis die movement is already rising and the working class members are on the verge of causing anarchy. Maybe that would been preferable.
I think Black Ops Cold War is the only Black Ops game that is somewhat related to the MW games, if this reboot trilogy is related to the Black Ops universe, they should've mentioned the Chinese stock market cyberattack of 2019, or the rise of the Strategic Defense Coalition, or even have technologies that is somewhat similar to what we saw in Black Ops 2
Meanwhile, modders are making Price and Soap switch places in Blood Brothers in the original Modern Warfare 3 as a proverbial middle finger to Activision.
How would that bother them?
They switched models around something that has never been done in the history of gaming what shall the multi billion dollar corporation do
Modern Warfare III is worse than Vanguard, the open combat missions felt like warzone 💀
Bro didn't play vanguard
@@usernamepassword236Nah bruh, both MWIII and Vanguard are dog shit altogether. Shit, even COD Ghost is better than those two crap.
@@anotherdaytobetheslayer7091 bro didn't play vanguard or ghosts lmao
@@usernamepassword236 Nah bruh, how about you? You played Vanguard or Ghost? Vanguard is simply dog shit regardless if I played it or not, as for Ghost, I played the campaign (it's quite nice albeit there's plenty of flaws but still fun) and the multiplayer is aight.
Anyways, stop being a dickrider for Activision's massive cock 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@usernamepassword236 Stop being a cocksucker for COD
I really wanna go back to the original Modern warfare storyline. Not that I want more games in that setting but there was something cool about imagining all the COD games existing in the same world and I don’t want to imagine the new time being canon over the original. I like imagining that all the world war 2 games are the same story, ending with vanguard where they find documents regarding Nova 6 gas which finds its way back to their home countries leading into black ops 1 where Reznov is tasked with securing it for the Russians right after the war. I assume that Nova 6 is the same gas Makarov uses in MW3 in Europe. Also the Cold War KGB mission would also imply black ops is canon to modern warfare. Captain price’s lineage fought in WW2 and was tasked with killing Alex Mason after he assassinates JFK. In infinite warfare there’s models of the Odin station from ghosts and a battleship named in honor of TF141 from the original Modern Warfare games. The tech in Advanced warfare seems to be a prototype stage of alot of the tech in BO3 and Infinite warfare, going from bulkier exosuits to simpler and smaller jump packs and full on jet packs. All these signs and more always told me that all the games are connected, but new MW has a far worse story than the original and makes a lot of previous entries no longer canon.
What made the new no russian mission worse was the fact that the woman you play as could have just jumped out the plane
That's a good point; she could've completely foiled their plan by just throwing herself out the airlock and sacrificed herself. This is why Makarov in OG MW2 just shot up an airport; forcing a veteran who's anti-Russian occupation wouldn't just submit to such amateur terrorism is a stupid idea (hence why Makarov shot Yuri and left him for dead). "Timing is everything" my arse! The reboot's Makarov is a complete donkey in comparison to the original; he couldn't even get No Russian right, as she knew he was Russian.
@@thecircleoft.e.d2121by that logic old Makarov couldn't get No Russian right either since Joseph knew he was Russian you literally don't know what you're talking about
@@usernamepassword236the difference is that joeseph was a cia operative undercover and makarovs entire plan relied on him
Instead of a reboot of the Modern Warfare trilogy, why didn't they just make a Modern Warfare 4? New characters, new story, new everything, set in the modern day, while letting Markov and his plot rest in the 2010s?
My gta verse fan fiction has elements of video game, tv and movie franchises that merge into one game universe. Which has gta games being in one universe instead of so many. Even the modern warfare series is part of it. The new modern warfare game would be continuing from after the original modern warfare 3. Where the world is stable somewhat. With newer technology and society being more unequal. More so than ever before and the new task force must deal with terrorists who would endanger world security and they mustn’t align with some military alliance. It does have new characters and new story. Maybe use some familiar settings from previous games.
@TheProfessional
I have always loved and enjoyed your work and as far as I can tell, that'll never change.
The Modern Warfare original trilogy always has been and always will be the best MW trilogy of all time.
You talked about story mode where we almost always kill the baddy mcbad bad (main villian) in a lot of the COD games and the one I would love to see a sequel to is COD Ghost. There's so many questions to answer
Did we finally kill the main villian (NO)
What happened to our brother? (GIANT question mark)
Never cared for Advance warfare because of the jump suits and robotic arms and limbs in general and I think you meant Advanced Warfare, but you said Infinite Warfare, which to me was very sad because like SW Rogue One; your entire squad dies and yes, there was open missions where you can choose where to go first and do all the side missions which was very nice and unique and felt a little bit like Rogue One and Mass Effect.
Both Ghost and Infinite Warfare had beautiful stories to tell and was hated by the fans for terrible Multiplayer based games and honestly, I'm not a fan of Multiplayer type games.
Those are my two cents, enjoy your day, can't wait for your next video.
I think I might have to play the original Modern Warfare trilogy one day. Not just replay MW1, but play all of it. The reveal that Makarov was behind that scene in the first game sold me on the whole original trilogy
They erased my teenage years by "remaking" our experiences dishonestly.
Kids, this is not the Modern Warfare that got CoD to where it is now. This is what happens when a company has so much money and power they can phone it in and the change happened within 10 years.
If companies could sell you nothing and still charge you for it, they would. I'm sure most of the man hours making the game were spend on reddit, Twitter and Instagram. I don't think games are made by gamers anymore, they're made by marketers
Agreed man, games arent made with passion as they were back then
No no you see the cartel plot line being dropped is even dumber when you realize that Valeria and the Las Almas Cartel were the ones that smuggled the gas for Konni graves literally says as much during the shadow company missions in DMZ season 5
That is not true
They really dropped the ball the moment they canonized Warzone into the campaigns of the Reboot saga, and now that MWZ is canon it just makes everything much more confusing and downright stupid.
Agreed the new call of duty games are not the same as they used to be
I know that this is not directly a part of a topic but i wanted to talk about a character more specifcally- Ghost. In my opinion he is a edgykid, idk why people like him so much... He played such a minor role in original MW2 (excluding the betrayal scene, but Roach was also included there) but in Reboot he go hyped to the point in where he became more "important" than Soap. Also i noticed that Ghost from a reboot received some "characteristics" of a Soap from original mw
Regarding that with the Cartel, I have a feeling they will follow up in either the Multiplayer Seasons or in the next game.
My biggest problem with this new take of a No Russian mission in this game is how there's quite literally no consequences.
In the original MW2,No Russian is the event that not only established how much of a ruthless maniac Makarov is,but also the ignition of everything that happned in the subsequent two games. It wasn't just a mission made purely for shock value,it was also the establishment of everything,the numerous character deaths,the death of millions,and the start of WW3,all lead back to No Russian.
But in MW2023's iteration,it felt excatly what I mentioned above,made purely for shock value,to fullfil the quota of having a No Russian type mission in the reboot,with dialogue so on the nose it borders on cringe inducing,borderline stupidity on Makarov's planning of the attack and Samara's actions,and worst of all,the reason why it even happened in the first place is immediately resolved in the next mission and the attack was never brought up again.
Wait so the Yuri at the military base was supposed to be the reboot's version of Yuri from the original trilogy? I thought they were different people.
Also, Farah and the Uzikstanis are using the missiles as a deterrent against further Russian provocations (i.e. peace through strength); something that she talks about in the cutscene at the port.
10:04 I would have shouted
MY PASSENGER HAS A GUN!!!
If he shouted it could shoot her and alert and find plan B
I still think that if they wanted to use Graves again, they should've used him as the initial antagonist who is unknowingly working for Shepherd and Makarov. Then, after he escapes 141's grasp again, he gets betrayed by Shepherd in a mission similar to Loose Ends. Then, maybe have the new leader of Shadow Company form an uneasy alliance with 141 to get revenge against Shepherd and Makarov in a gun battle similar to the Boneyard fight.
Remember when game companies actually cared about their games and not about the money?
Ghost's intro mission and sniping the villain at the end of MW2 was better than his mission in MW3
The thing with Soaps death is that I was surprised in the sense where I was confused like "how long was Makarov chilling around that one corner? Was he just gonna stay in that main radius? What if 141 couldn't track it down specifically to there? Then what lmao"
And on top of that Soaps death in the og mw3 Prices reaction was "SOAP! No..NONO No!! SOAP!! NO NO SOAP!!.... Im sorry..."
Then in this one he's just.. "one KIA.."
I have thoroughly analysed and watched your own play throughs for the modern warfare series of games. And to summarise my feelings in one thought, I can say this:
In an art form like a movie or a video game, when you are putting the screenplay for the story you have in mind, the best way to execute the screenplay is to use a concept called “show no tell”. Basically, just show enough to give an idea about the plot, and let us inhabit the shoes of the characters to work out the rest of the details. Some of the best executions use this concept wherein the plot is not shoved down our throats, but we are shown enough that we know what is happening.
This game failed in that front. The idea behind Shepherd getting captured was that Shadow company betrayed him. That’s what the cutscene near “highrise” mission was about when Makarov said about the “transactional relationship”.
The biggest way they could have driven this plot home in an impactful way? Show Graves as contacting Makarov and selling out Shepherd. That would have given a powerful antagonist like Shepherd was portrayed in the OG modern warfare 2. But it fell flat.
Or, Shepherd could have been shown as a bigger antagonist by him betraying the ULF by leading Konni to them, to get his “blank cheque” for a massive “US vs Russia” showdown. This also fell flat.
Also, when people say, Makarov escaped out of a service/utility corridor from the channel tunnel, they forget that the tunnel was in the middle of the English Channel, and that multiple police forces had blocked off all the entries and exits when they were pushing in. So how on earth could Makarov get out of the channel tunnel? Another thing left dangling in the air.
A few simple additional cutscenes would have massively improved the story of this game, but everything fell flat in this rushed execution.
PS: I absolutely agree with the analysis of The Professional in case of Andrei Nolan. I mean, Sledgehammer Games had the chance to hire a Russian/Eastern European voice actor, and they wrote a bad backstory to retcon the character. Just put in some work dude….
PPS: Another way they could have made the last ending even better? Kill off Gaz when he’s diffusing the bomb, and then show Shepherd as the culprit who tipped off Makarov.
While not as touching as the OG game, it would be more of a punch in the gut, as Gaz trusted the intel from Shepherd which led to his death. Then, Price killing Shepherd would have made more sense.
Finally the rant came!👍
Bad Story =/= Bad Game
recycled multiplayer. bad story, weak zombies, overpriced dlc, lack of new content = bad game@@beingadeeb2345
@@_Sylens the multiplayer is great tf you on about
@@_Sylens also that describes og mw3 just replace zombies with spec ops
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I have never played any of the modern warfare games, OG or remake!! I've mainly stuck to the black ops versions of COD! But I have heard of Makarov and the no Russian mission for sure. Mainly I'm just here to say man I feel your frustration. It's the same with the RE3 remake. It was rushed and a lot was changed in it and shortened and we fans were pissed about it. A lot of reviewers are criticizing game companies overpricing games at $60-70 only for them to be 3-4 hours long with no replay value, terrible story, bugs and glitches, and not knowing what players want. I'm sure you remember the cyberpunk 2077 disaster. Anyway man keep doing what you're doing and thanks for the content. You're awesome!!
I was honestly surprised it took this game for IGN to give it a 4/10.
Really enjoy your lore videos. Suggestion for future lore videos : For GTA 3/Vice City/San Andreas Lore videos, do you prefer the footage from the original ones or the new Definitive Edition? Maybe you could make the poll, I personally prefer the original games.
13:10 I bet she totally could've defused that bomb in time too had Johnny Klebbitz not fucked it up...
There is simply no way they will make makarovs death just as satisfying as it was in the original
And this is one of the best video you ever made👍❤️
This game’s version of Makarov reminds me more of a Russian Ben Sharpio (and it’s not just from looks), then an actually, evil, cunning villain who could single-handedly take down Task Force 141.
What if i say that i hypothetically take down Task force 141 single handedly
Yes this is the mocking of how he talks, old sure but this seems gold enough
Money, they put so little effort into these games because kids love all the dumb shit multiplayer offers and that’s where they get there big money. Makarov blew his cover because he was spamming him with messages 😂😂 these games are made for under 16s
I honestly don't know what they could do for Modern Warfare 4 since they absolutely destroyed any story potential.
Yo let's go! I was waiting for this review for some time.
That fraud studio is getting called out for what he did in past 😂😂
The sad thing about the mw3 story is it essentially got you to the same ending as mw2. Makarov is still a threat to everyone and the only difference is Soap and Shepard are dead. Mw3 is basically a 4hr dlc that got turned into a $70 game
Soap’s death still pisses me off. At least in the original Modern Warfare 3 it was done better. In this game they threw him away like he was a piece of trash.
I honestly think that the forced integration of warzone adding “story” to the series from MW2019 ruined any chance of world building. They were setting up characters as lazy cameos and throwing armored enemies in single player to increase run time
Someone like Makarov would know better then to use a phone. Remember how a single phone call led to Zakhaevs death.
MW3 Makarov and his PMC are clearly inspired by russian PMC Wagner. The codename he uses, "Czar" is a direct reference to its founder Dmitry Utkin who also happened to be inprisoned.
Considering PMC Wagner history, IW could have done much more with Makarov and his soldiers.
They couldve continue using AQ soldiers to keep the task force distracted from knowing that it’s the Five Knights group who are planning terror attacks. This part could’ve made Al Assad relevant to the plot. Maybe make him the face the task force. Then the plot twist comes and reveals that the Hadir that died wasn’t the real Hadir. That Al Assad is the real Hadir this whole time. He was brainwashed with the numbers program and became a different person.
Good video Professional, thought you made some really valid points and strong arguments. I felt the same way with the ending to COD Ghosts. I never liked the ending to that game because it absolutely sucked. I don’t want to give anything away, in case you never played it. I just wanted to put that out there.
Christopher Judge was based for his Modern Warfare 3 comment
Vanguard's plot was barely better, but at least MWIII has good characters. Literally everyone in Vanguard was completely insufferable, it's like a bunch of theater kids wrote themselves into World War 2 after doing 20 minutes of research.
Mwiii has a better campaign than both Vanguard and bo3
Plus in Vanguard, you are mostly stuck in prison throughout the entire campaign, only playing each member's backstories on why they are handpicked.
At least with MWIII it moved the story forward and not keep it in place. Controversially, I kinda like MWIII's campaign
This game is exactly why cod isn't even cod anymore, they clearly don't care about the story and are scared to take risks because of modern day while the older cods took risks like with the original No Russian and it paid off as it showed how dangerous Makarov was
I think the reason why the campaign is so short is because of Bobby Cockdick as im pretty sure he had a hand in its development and wanted it to make as much money as possible through microtransactions and other things and Bobby Cockdick dosen't care about making a good game that that fans like all Bobby Cockdick cares about is lining his own pockets and screwing over the developers by doing a mass layoff so that he Bobby Cockdick can get a larger paycheck
I hope for COD fans sake that Activision under Microsoft treats their beloved franchise with the care it deserves and maybe the next game will be a success and they can restore COD fans faith and the dev's can make the franchise better then ever
On the original COD MW3 after the Russian President is rescued by Delta Forces in the quarry. The President is evacuated but a small contingent group of Delta forces remained. I always wondered what ever became of them.
They died because the mine exploded
I finally checked gameplay to follow up, it just shows Delta Force being left behind against a large force as they evacuate the President. I don’t think they died.
What could’ve made sense about new Makarov stealing the missiles was that he was some distraction for the ex inner circle members plans to cause real false flag attacks. And so he leads a group of patsies and makes sure the real false flag attacks succeed. This pattern is something that task force 141 needed more time to piece together. They could’ve switched to newer locations. Perhaps borrow countries from the arma game universe. Use Chernarus. Use Takistan. Those places would make sense for shadow company to give missiles to.
To those who want to play a good cod campain outside of the golden era i suggest you to play the campian of cod black ops cold war and or cod infinte warfare
Cold War and Infinite Warfare are good campaigns
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Thank you for sharing the same thought process I had on this 💯
Hey professional,since you enjoy crime games,have you ever heard of the yakuza franchise by SEGA? Judgement and lost judgement are fantastic and you play as a detective named yagami in a fictional japan. While the mainline games from 0-6 have you play as the series star character Kiryu Kazuma,a legendary yakuza in the tojo clan known as the dragon of dojima.
Also it's beat em up (except for 7 and 8) and not shooters, although you can grab firearms and use them. Consider looking into the franchise sometime I think you might enjoy some of what is offered.
I remember that Blood Brothers mission from MW3 somebody saying it would be impossible for Price to run from that building all the way to Soap in that amount of time unless he was Usain Bolt, not sure how true it is but it’s interesting to think about. He does get there pretty quick when you consider he was in the building on the second floor or something
the reason they let makarov live was so he could be in warzone and they could put their hands in your pocket and take your money for the warzone season passes. That's the only reason, and he's either going to die in a cutscene that people who don't play warzone won't see, or he'll die in the first few minutes of MW4 (if they do that) where his plans for WW3 would inexplicably work despite the massive amount of evidence that it was all ultranationalist terrorists and not actors from any major power that actually did the things he did.
Makarov in MWIII is literally a Discord mod.
I can’t believe they put Mudahar and Ben Shapiro in the same game
This whole campaign feels like a checklist without any quality checks
Oh soap dies in OG MW3? Oh uhhh...just put it in the end as a cliffhanger?
No russian? No problem! Just put it on a plane with underwelming results because we have no idea how we can adapt such a controversial mission today
Oh wait? We have to put shephard in? uhhhh put him in siberia I guess we forgot
They better make a MW4 and it better be the longest and greatest Campaign in CoD history
Yeah, I hope they don't make Open Combat Missions again, like Warzone Campaign & I hope they don't give brutal deaths on our favorite Characters...😣
did you guys hear that cod gulf war is under development? i hope it’s a long campaign tbh
Great video as always! This comment maybe has nothing to do with the video but i think it would be great if did a playthrough of Call of Duty World at War.