Overview
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, not to be confused with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, is a modern-military first-person shooter developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC (digitally via Battle.net) on October 25, 2019.
The sixteenth installment of the Call of Duty franchise, Modern Warfare is a reboot of the studio's earlier sub-series of the same name and reworks characters and themes from the series into a modern perspective.
The main story is set in 2019, involving the fictional Russian-occupied country of Urzikstan. The game follows two groups of protagonists: the Urzikstan Liberation Force (including C.I.A. Operative "Alex" and Commander Farah Karim) and the Special Air Service (including Sergeant Kyle Garrick and Captain John Price) as they investigate the whereabouts of stolen shipments of a dangerous chemical gas by the terrorist organization Al-Qatala. Both Alex and Garrick are playable characters, with Farah playable in flashbacks.
Along with a traditional campaign and a co-operative Special Ops mode, the game builds on the series's standard multiplayer component by allowing cross-platform multiplayer (the first in the series to do so), adding more robust weapon augmentation, and introducing new game modes (including the competitive 2v2 mode Gunfight and the large-scale 32v32 mode Ground War). The game later received a free-to-play standalone multiplayer expansion on March 10, 2020, known as Call of Duty: Warzone, that added large-scale squad-based multiplayer (with a "Battle Royale" mode). Content from Warzone can be brought to Modern Warfare and vice-versa, and the game's progression system is tied not only to Warzone, but also this game's successors (Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Call of Duty: Vanguard).
The game received three public pre-release testing phases, each restricted to a specific weekend: August 19th for the "2v2 Alpha" (restricted to the PS4 version and the new Gunfight game mode), September 14th for the "PlayStation 4 Exclusive Open Beta", and September 21st for the "Open Beta".
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