Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 (PC) Review
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 reminded me of something I’d forgotten since 2022: I actually like Call of Duty. For years, the series has been lost in a hell of goofy, self-referential plotlines, open-world gameplay, and characters returning from the dead. The experience got more bombastic but less interesting. Safety replaced grit, and mass-market appeal took priority over telling a good story. Not even multiplayer was safe. What started as light jeering over Nicki Minaj skins ended with a mass exodus during the Beavis and Butt-Head event. The vibes have never recovered. I was wary of this year’s COD. It’s difficult to get excited about the fourth game in what was supposed to be a trilogy when bloat is what you’re sick of. But something felt different almost immediately. The story opens with a group of regular people: four South Korean conscripts and two American advisors. They’re not supermen hunting stolen nukes in an Arctic base; they’re grunts shopping for ramen in a... Read more
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 reminded me of something I’d forgotten since 2022: I actually like Call of Duty. For years, the series has been lost in a hell of goofy, self-referential plotlines, open-world gameplay, and characters returning from the dead. The experience got more bombastic but less interesting. Safety replaced grit, and mass-market appeal took priority over telling a good story. Not even multiplayer was safe. What started as light jeering over Nicki Minaj skins ended with a mass exodus during the Beavis and Butt-Head event. The vibes have never recovered.I was wary of this year’s COD. It’s difficult to get excited about the fourth game in what was supposed to be a trilogy when bloat is what you’re sick of. But something felt different almost immediately.
The story opens with a group of regular people: four South Korean conscripts and two American advisors. They’re not supermen hunting stolen nukes in an Arctic base; they’re grunts shopping for ramen in a... Read more