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Modern Warfare 2023 Review
a year ago
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MW2023 story mode fucking sucks. BUT their multiplayer is something that I can see myself coming back to as It feels like an upgrade to MW2019 & MW2022. Its still CoD at the end of the day and MW2023 is for people who vibe with CoD's formula.
The story for MW2023 has you picking up the threads from MW2022 in which you play as Soap and Price trying to take down Vladimir Makarov (Who wants to destroy the world with facts and logic like his lookalike Ben Shapiro) just like the original MW3. Unfortunately all you really get is a by the numbers story as they try to replicate all the MW2023 story beats and some nostalgia of MW2019. They try to do something different by introducing open concept missions but it just feels like warzone story mode. It just feels like far cry but with no real progression or memorable moments and the moments that are supposed to be memorable just end up being over in 15-30 seconds.
To its credit, the story does have a decent "shock value" mission but the impact just doesn't hit as the story goes about the same even if the "shock value" mission never happened. The status quo remains the same and the story beats just feel like they happen independently. Hell even the mandatory stealth mission only requires you to kill 2 people and is literally over in 5-10 minutes. If you've watched YouTube videos shitting on MW2023's story, then you already know that my opinion is the same as theirs.
So really, the only reason you would want to play MW2023 is for its multiplayer and its actually honestly better than MW2022 and MW2019 now that they brought back 150 HP so most of the deaths feels fair. The gunplay is still as good as ever and IDK what they did with the SBMM but i've noticed that most of my games are fair save for the occasional curb stomping by Quickscopers and MLG sweats. It does still have the default CoD bullshit such as Quickscopers and grenade spam so you end up needing to have EOD Padding (Flak Jacket/Blast Shield) on all of your classes. I actually like that they improved the camo challenges this time around as each weapon has 4 different camos and completing the challenge for 1 weapon unlocks the camo for all of the guns. This actually encourages people to use different guns so they can get the camo they want. You can also now share attachments between different weapons so if you unlock a stock for the UZI, you can actually take the same attachment for the Uzi and put it on different SMGs so unlocking attachments makes you wonder if you could actually take that and put it on compatible guns. No longer do you feel like you're unlocking the same fucking attachments when trying to max out all the guns, each attachment feels like something new.
If this was the MW3 that I got back when I was younger, I would take this multiplayer over the original MW3. However, the same live service garbage is present as you have to complete daily challenges to unlock DLC guns and perks meaning you have to play Warzone and Zombies to complete said daily challenges. Warzone is the same as the MW2019 incarnation so nothing changed there and MW2023 zombies is so fucking bad that I only played one game and never did so again. It's just basically zombies in war-zone and has nothing interesting backing it up. Its so complicated yet so boring at the same time that I would rather take AW & WWII zombies over this slop.
Really, I got this game for my yearly CoD fix after I got tired of XDefiant and I'm glad to say that the MP is still annoying yet addictive and the MP is the only reason to buy MW2023. If you want something far more substantial and don't give a fuck about MP, I'd just go back to the older CoDs starting from CoD 1-CoD Cold War for the story mode and zombies.
But if you do so, DO NOT PLAY THEM WHILE YOU'RE ONLINE. People are able to hack your computers via Remote Access Trojans (RATs) and Activision never fixed that gaping security breach so this issue affects PC and Consoles. Download them and then turn off your PC/Console's Wi-Fi so they don't fuck with you. Watch this video to understand how fucked the RAT issue is basically making any modes with multiplayer functionality unplayable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlVSpw6414U
The story for MW2023 has you picking up the threads from MW2022 in which you play as Soap and Price trying to take down Vladimir Makarov (Who wants to destroy the world with facts and logic like his lookalike Ben Shapiro) just like the original MW3. Unfortunately all you really get is a by the numbers story as they try to replicate all the MW2023 story beats and some nostalgia of MW2019. They try to do something different by introducing open concept missions but it just feels like warzone story mode. It just feels like far cry but with no real progression or memorable moments and the moments that are supposed to be memorable just end up being over in 15-30 seconds.
To its credit, the story does have a decent "shock value" mission but the impact just doesn't hit as the story goes about the same even if the "shock value" mission never happened. The status quo remains the same and the story beats just feel like they happen independently. Hell even the mandatory stealth mission only requires you to kill 2 people and is literally over in 5-10 minutes. If you've watched YouTube videos shitting on MW2023's story, then you already know that my opinion is the same as theirs.
So really, the only reason you would want to play MW2023 is for its multiplayer and its actually honestly better than MW2022 and MW2019 now that they brought back 150 HP so most of the deaths feels fair. The gunplay is still as good as ever and IDK what they did with the SBMM but i've noticed that most of my games are fair save for the occasional curb stomping by Quickscopers and MLG sweats. It does still have the default CoD bullshit such as Quickscopers and grenade spam so you end up needing to have EOD Padding (Flak Jacket/Blast Shield) on all of your classes. I actually like that they improved the camo challenges this time around as each weapon has 4 different camos and completing the challenge for 1 weapon unlocks the camo for all of the guns. This actually encourages people to use different guns so they can get the camo they want. You can also now share attachments between different weapons so if you unlock a stock for the UZI, you can actually take the same attachment for the Uzi and put it on different SMGs so unlocking attachments makes you wonder if you could actually take that and put it on compatible guns. No longer do you feel like you're unlocking the same fucking attachments when trying to max out all the guns, each attachment feels like something new.
If this was the MW3 that I got back when I was younger, I would take this multiplayer over the original MW3. However, the same live service garbage is present as you have to complete daily challenges to unlock DLC guns and perks meaning you have to play Warzone and Zombies to complete said daily challenges. Warzone is the same as the MW2019 incarnation so nothing changed there and MW2023 zombies is so fucking bad that I only played one game and never did so again. It's just basically zombies in war-zone and has nothing interesting backing it up. Its so complicated yet so boring at the same time that I would rather take AW & WWII zombies over this slop.
Really, I got this game for my yearly CoD fix after I got tired of XDefiant and I'm glad to say that the MP is still annoying yet addictive and the MP is the only reason to buy MW2023. If you want something far more substantial and don't give a fuck about MP, I'd just go back to the older CoDs starting from CoD 1-CoD Cold War for the story mode and zombies.
But if you do so, DO NOT PLAY THEM WHILE YOU'RE ONLINE. People are able to hack your computers via Remote Access Trojans (RATs) and Activision never fixed that gaping security breach so this issue affects PC and Consoles. Download them and then turn off your PC/Console's Wi-Fi so they don't fuck with you. Watch this video to understand how fucked the RAT issue is basically making any modes with multiplayer functionality unplayable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlVSpw6414U
