Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3″ isn’t being met with enthusiasm and has become a victim of review bombing as it gets negative user reviews on Steam and Metacritic.
With the initial release of the title, the game managed to garner 177,881 concurrent players on Valve’s platform. However, that was down by around 25% compared to last year’s Modern Warfare 2. To make things worse, Modern Warfare 3 Steam reviews took a great low, and as of right now, most of the reviews are “negative” with players expressing their concern about the in-game content and the overall pricing of the title. Out of 3,110 reviews on Steam, more than 70% are labeled as negative ones.
Most reviews mention buyers “getting scammed” by the new release, mainly because the title employs reused game assets and little to minor changes in the overall graphics. Based on what the majority says, they believe that the “premium price tag” with the title is nothing more than a gimmick and that the in-game campaign is a “terrible” experience. Interestingly, even the original Modern Warfare 3 from 2011 was the subject of review bombing as some users mistakenly believed they were reviewing the new game.
It is now evident that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will go down the books as one of the worst releases in the franchise by Activision, and to top it off, the $70 price tag doesn’t seem right here. After all, we’ve reported multiple times the rumors that the title was meant to be a DLC. It was Activision that decided to make this into a full-fledged sequel.
Earlier this week, a new report revealed that Sledgehammer Games only had around sixteen months to make the game, a record low for any franchise installment. Moreover, the developer had originally pitched a sequel to 2014’s well-received entry Advanced Warfare, but it had been set aside to make way for the new Modern Warfare. The head of Sledgehammer released a statement to deny the contents of the report, but then again, we wouldn’t expect anything less to be said in public.
On the upside, Microsoft is now the owner of Activision Blizzard, and it’ll likely make some changes to this development structure – especially after the underwhelming launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
