Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare®

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Mostly Positive · 79%Mostly Positive · 79%2023

$59.99

US Steam price, checked 6 h ago

The verdict

A gorgeous, cinematic reboot with excellent gunplay and a standout but short campaign. Skip it if you want online play, since cheaters, forced Activision login, and launch bugs are common.

Great for

Players who want a cinematic, grounded single-player military shooter bought on sale

Main risk

Game won't launch or login (name bug, crashes, forced online) and multiplayer is full of cheaters

What players love

Excellent cinematic campaign

Mentioned in ~1 in 2 positive reviews

“Arguably the best campaign of the modern era of Call of Duty, worth your money.”
Steam review · 11.3 h played ↗

“Campaign is on par with a Steven Spielberg film.”
Steam review · 21.5 h played ↗

“Super cool cinematic story, action, stealth, drone control, all top notch!”
Steam review · translated · 8.7 h played ↗

Stunning graphics that still hold up

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“For a 2019 game, the graphics are amazing. Honestly, it looks better than many modern AAA games.”
Steam review · 7.5 h played ↗

“The graphics are absolutely stunning too. Even years later, the game still looks better than many modern shooters.”
Steam review · 19.4 h played ↗

Great price when on sale

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“For 4.99 its a no brainer. The campaign is excellent”
Steam review · 1.6 h played ↗

“got the game for like 5 bucks on discount too so it was 100% worth it”
Steam review · 25.2 h played ↗

Best of modern CoD / last good one

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews

“Still easily the best cod in the last 7 years, nothing has come close.”
Steam review · 14.2 h played ↗

“It's a breath of very much needed fresh air compared to recent titles.”
Steam review · 13.2 h played ↗

Satisfying, weighty gunplay

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“Modern Warfare has some of the best gunplay in the series, with weapons that feel heavy and satisfying to use.”
Steam review · 3 h played ↗

“The main strength of the game is its phenomenal, millimeter-perfect gunplay.”
Steam review · translated · 101.9 h played ↗

Runs well and is well optimized

Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews

“Compared to the newer CODs, this runs amazingly on my gaming laptop”
Steam review · 23.5 h played ↗

“Game was really well optimized and ran like butter.”
Steam review · 7.3 h played ↗

What players complain about

Crashes and won't launch

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“If you have a large friendlist on steam don't buy this, your game will crash on startup every time.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

“the hardest part of Call of Duty so far has been getting Call of Duty to run.”
Steam review · 11.6 h played ↗

“It launched once, every other time it crashed as soon as it started.”
Steam review · translated · 1.1 h played ↗

Always-online and Activision account required

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“Why does a SINGLE-PLAYER campaign need internet?”
Steam review · 19.2 h played ↗

“It won't even let me launch the single-player campaign. Forcing single-player to connect to their servers is the dumbest idea possible.”
Steam review · translated · 2.6 h played ↗

Multiplayer overrun with cheaters

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews

“Anticheat is trash, meet cheater in every 3rd game.”
Steam review · 73.5 h played ↗

“9 out of 10 games have someone straight up spinbotting”
Steam review · 19.2 h played ↗

Inappropriate name bug blocks play

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews

“every single name I set does not work because it tells me my display name is inappropriate.”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗

“requires you to change it and once you do, will still come up with this message but cannot change it again as a redeem token is required”
Steam review · 0.3 h played ↗

Huge install size for a short campaign

Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews

“200+gb install just to play the campaign is just unacceptable”
Steam review · 1.1 h played ↗

“200GB for literally 5 hours campaign.”
Steam review · 5.6 h played ↗

Campaign too short for the price

Mentioned in ~1 in 17 negative reviews

“4.5 hours of play time is pathetic.”
Steam review · 6 h played ↗

“A demo at the price of a triple-A project”
Steam review · translated · 5.6 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Unsupported

Minimum

OSWindows® 10 64-bit

ProcessorIntel® Core™ i3-4340 or AMD FX-6300

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 670 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon™ HD 7950

Storage175 GB available space

Recommended

OSWindows® 10 64-bit latest update

ProcessorIntel® Core™ i5-2500K or AMD Ryzen™ R5 1600X Processor

Memory12 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 970 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon™ R9 390 / AMD Radeon™ RX 580

Storage175 GB available space

OSWindows® 10 64-bit

ProcessorIntel® Core™ i3-4340 or AMD FX-6300

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 670 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon™ HD 7950

Storage175 GB available space

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