Call of Duty season opens with a new Modern Warfare

Darrius Barron

Managing Editor

The fall season is arguably the best season for gamers. Cooler temperatures offer gamers a legitimate reason to stay in the house and play all of the new releases.

During late Oct., gamers across all platforms were able to download Activision and Infinity Ward’s once dominant game; “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare”. Unlike most titles in the gaming community, this is no remaster.

2019’s “Modern Warfare” is a complete remake, and even features a new theatrical story.

Although the “Call of Duty” franchise has several different extremely successful titles, it is important to remember that different studios are in charge of making different titles. That being said, “Modern Warfare” is nothing like 2018’s “Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.”

The “Black Ops” franchise is mostly known for the popular “Zombies” game mode. “Black Ops 4’s” developer, Treyarch, chose to follow suit with gaming juggernauts “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds”, and “Fortnite” by adding a battle royale mode which fans of the Call of Duty franchise received exceedingly well.

During the early stages of the game, Infinity Ward issued a statement informing excited gamers that “Modern Warfare” would not feature the esteemed battle royale mode. Instead of borrowing ideas from Treyarch, Infinity Ward decided to keep “Modern Warfare” traditional by bringing back old game modes from the original trilogy.

“Modern Warfare” features the once beloved “Spec Ops” which features online co-op play to complete a variety of challenging missions aside from the main theatrical campaign. Survival has also made its return to the “Call of Duty” franchise; challenging players to survive round after round of increasingly tough opponents.

A beautiful thing about these two game modes is that not only are they native to the “Modern Warfare” series, Infinity Ward decided to bring back the most challenging enemy in both modes; the Juggernaut.

Everything about “Modern Warfare” is not just about the nostalgia of the legacy players. Infinity Ward has also included new game modes like “Ground War”.

“Ground War” is not exactly battle royale, but some may consider it a derivative of the extremely competitive mode. Instead of one person versus 100 others, “Ground War” features two teams of 32 in an all-out war featuring vehicles, and different objectives.

The feel for “Modern Warfare” is even different from last years’ “Black Ops 4”. Despite the fact that console games have pretty much reached the limit for upgrading graphics, the new “Call of Duty” title has a different texture than that of “Black Ops 4”.

While playing, gamers may notice that the physics are even different from the 2018 title.

As expected, “Modern Warfare” has introduced a diverse list of weaponry from that of “Black Ops 4”, and killstreak rewards.

As gamers are one holiday season away from the next generation consoles, “Modern Warfare” takes a step in the direction of ending the console beef by allowing crossplay.

Crossplay is the ability for gamers on one console’s network to play against gamers from another console’s network. Xbox Live users are now able to play PlayStation Network users now.

“Call of Duty: Modern Warfare” is now available for all platforms.