With breathtaking visuals, fast-paced action, and more multiplayer modes than you can toss a stick at, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) is a promising return to the franchise.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a first-person shooter game released in 2019 by Activision and developed by Infinity Ward. It is the sixteenth entry in the Call of Duty series overall, as well as the relaunch of the Modern Warfare sub-series.

The game is set in a realistic and modern environment. The campaign follows a CIA operative and British SAS soldiers as they join forces with rebels from the fictional country of Urzikstan to fight Russian invaders and Al-Qatala terrorists.

The Special Ops mode of the game includes cooperative play missions that continue the storyline from the campaign. For the first time in the series, the multiplayer mode enables cross-platform multiplayer and cross-platform progression. It's been modified to make the gameplay more tactical and to include new features such as Realism mode.

The single-player campaign in Modern Warfare tends to focus on realism and includes tactically-based moral choices that are evaluated and rewarded with a score at the end of each level; you must quickly determine whether NPCs are a threat or not.

This threat rating, often known as a collateral damage score, is based on how many civilians you harm or kill, and it goes from A to F. Those who achieve higher scores are rewarded. Depending on the choices you make throughout the game, the character dialogue will change.

You can use a sniper rifle in a large setting to engage objectives in a non-linear manner, and you can choose to blast out lights instead of utilizing night-vision goggles during breaching.

The multiplayer in Modern Warfare has been updated from its previous games to allow for a more tactical gaming style, with a focus on map exploration, door breaching, and a Hardcore "Realism" option that disables the HUD completely.

Killstreaks, which are rewards based on kills, are also back in multiplayer, after being replaced by Scorestreaks in recent Call of Duty games. Killstreaks, on the other hand, can be converted to Scorestreaks by using the "Pointman" in-game perk.

The online modes include more players per map than previous games, with a new mode called "Ground War" allowing for over 100 players, and another new mode called "Gunfight" placing two teams of two players against each other in tiny matches of forty seconds each round.

The game has a deep weapon customization system, with most guns offering up to 60 attachments to pick from, with only five of them being equipped at any given time.

Since Call of Duty: Ghosts in 2013, Modern Warfare has been the first game in the series to not have a Zombies mode, instead of going for the cooperative "Special Ops" mode.

Both the campaign and multiplayer in Spec Ops share the same story. Classic Special Ops, which includes lesser scale missions similar to the original Spec Ops mode, and four major Operations, which are multi-objective missions that take place on a vast open map and require necessary 4-player cooperation.