{"id":25612,"date":"2026-10-23T04:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-review-a-thrilling-airport-novel-of-a-game\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T04:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:37:20","slug":"call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-review-a-thrilling-airport-novel-of-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-review-a-thrilling-airport-novel-of-a-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 review \u2013 a thrilling airport novel of a game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Activision; PC, PS5, Switch 2, Xbox
<\/strong>From parkour over Manhattan rooftops and car chases in Paris to the climactic battle at a North Korean air base, the developers have thrown absolutely everything at the game<\/p>\n

And so we return perhaps one final time to Call of Duty\u2019s Modern Warfare strand, with stories, \u201cripped from the newspaper headlines\u201d, featuring shady terror organisations, nefarious rogue states and the brutally capable, monosyllabic war fighters who stand between us and Armageddon. Last year\u2019s Black Ops 7 instalment was a sales disappointment<\/a> for Activision, and that has no doubt put extra pressure on Infinity Ward, the studio leading Modern Warfare 4 development. Fortunately, this developer \u2013 like series heroes Price, Gaz and Ghost \u2013 seems to thrive on pressure.<\/p>\n

As you may have read<\/a>, this year\u2019s campaign is based around a fictitious North Korean ruling family that has seized an opportunity to invade its southern neighbour. Amid the chaos, a small group of Korean and American marines must help lead the fightback, while in the shadows, SAS hard man John Price makes an unlikely new comrade in his own morally ambiguous quest to put the world to rights. Mads Mikkelsen pops up as evil mastermind The Archer, but like Kiernan Shipka in Black Ops 7 he\u2019s rather wasted, with very little screen time.<\/p>\n

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\nActivision; PC, PS5, Switch 2, XboxFrom parkour over Manhattan rooftops and car chases in Paris to the climactic battle at a North Korean air base, the developers have thrown absolutely everything at the game
\nAnd so we return perhaps one final time to Call of Duty\u2019s Modern Warfare strand, with stories, \u201cripped from the newspaper headlines\u201d, featuring shady terror organisations, nefarious rogue states and the brutally capable, monosyllabic war fighters who stand between us and Armageddon. Last year\u2019s Black Ops 7 instalment was a sales disappointment for Activision, and that has no doubt put extra pressure on Infinity Ward, the studio leading Modern Warfare 4 development. Fortunately, this developer \u2013 like series heroes Price, Gaz and Ghost \u2013 seems to thrive on pressure.
\nAs you may have read, this year\u2019s campaign is based around a fictitious North Korean ruling family that has seized an opportunity to invade its southern neighbour. Amid the chaos, a small group of Korean and American marines must help lead the fightback, while in the shadows, SAS hard man John Price makes an unlikely new comrade in his own morally ambiguous quest to put the world to rights. Mads Mikkelsen pops up as evil mastermind The Archer, but like Kiernan Shipka in Black Ops 7 he\u2019s rather wasted, with very little screen time. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Activision; PC, PS5, Switch 2, XboxFrom parkour over Manhattan rooftops and car chases in Paris to the climactic battle at a North Korean air base, the developers have thrown absolutely everything at the game And so we return perhaps one final time to Call of Duty\u2019s Modern Warfare strand, with stories, \u201cripped from the newspaper …<\/p>\n

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 review \u2013 a thrilling airport novel of a game<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25612"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}