Modern Warfare three's Metacritic score is a brand new low for the Call of Duty collection

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 isn't making the type of headlines Activision Blizzard was hoping for: probably the bottom rated recreation of the whole series, UK boxed income down 25%, one in all Metacritic's worst games of 2023, and reports that it changed into made in half the time as other entries within the franchise.

The ultra-modern access within the Call of Duty collection turned into presupposed to be a "top rate expansion" for remaining year's Modern Warfare 2 earlier than it changed into a complete standalone product. Judging from its reception, Activision might be wishing it had stuck to the unique plan.

COD: Modern Warfare three presently has a Metacritic rating of just 50, a long way off the series' previous lowest-scoring access - 2021's Call of Duty: Vanguard, which has a score of 73. A few extra wonderful incoming ratings could push this higher, but with the last three critics score the sport at forty, 55, and forty, things aren't looking right. The person rating, meanwhile is an abysmal 1.5.

It's well worth noting that a number of the Metacritic ratings are from in-development critiques that particularly study the closely criticized campaign, which is very brief (it is able to be completed in 3 to five hours) and makes use of property from preceding games, so there may be a chance the multiplayer mode will assist improve MW3's ordinary rating.

Part of the trouble can be that the modern CoD game became developed in much less than a yr and a 1/2, while most entries in the series take approximately three years from begin to finish, in keeping with Bloomberg. Perhaps uncoincidentally, low-scoring Vanguard turned into also made with a far shorter development time than typical.

In addition to the pressure of a discounted 16-month improvement time, there has been reportedly preliminary confusion among some of the Sledgehammer Games development crew approximately whether they have been working on a MW 2 expansion or a standalone sequel.

Even with all the troubles and bad evaluations, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is still number one in the UK Boxed Game charts, notwithstanding income being down 25% YoY. It's also a top vendor on Steam, where it has a Mostly Negative score.