Only thing worse than a short 4 hour campaign is a badly written one. For me the worst of it was The Tunnel mission where Makarov freely walks up, kills someone, and leaves without any issues. The cutscene looked fairly goofy too, just stomps in out of a corner.

Story suffers from Idiot Pilot, both sides are so stupid and never outplay each other. When one side gets one over the other it’s because the other side did something stupid.

The "No Russian" mission urks me as both a security professional and a gun enthusiast. While they tried to lampshade them smuggling guns on the plane by saying that they used polymer frames and slides and hid the parts in creative ways, realistically that wouldn't work. Airport security are trained to keep their eyes open for not just fully assembled guns, but gun parts and ammunition. It's a stretch but it's possible that the gun parts could slip through the cracks since humans aren't perfect, but what about the ammunition and bomb vest? Civilian ammo is not allowed in the fuselage of any commercial plane. And then the bomb vest. Just how? TSA in the United States gets suspicious if you bring a big lithium ion battery onto a plane, and these guys somehow snuggled a tactical vest with about ten pounds of C4 explosives and a remote detonation timer strapped to it. If Makarov was able to get all that past airport security, then why didn't he just smuggle in some normal firearms? It would have been more believable if the game said that he had contacts within the airport's security team and local law enforcement.

Kratos's VA joking about the story being short was hilarious, the devs really messed up the story it makes cod ghost look like a masterpiece

Original Modern Warfare trilogy fanbase: Why did you ruin the great series and great character Activision? Activison: I got caught up in the money, the power....

The fact that COD developers attack Christopher judge for saying that this was the shortest cod game, says alot

Remember when Makarov used to be that Psychotic, blood thirsty, merciless terrorist that brought the world to WW3? That's the Makarov we should of had if not that, an even more sadistic version. In this one he's just a normal COD Villian.

One of the things I hate about call of duty these days is that they make these soldiers seem like superheroes and marvel characters. That’s why cod WAW Was so cool to me you feel like your playing as a soldier who’s fighting for his life and can die at any moment

I remember back in the day, MW3 2011 got flack for being a DLC to MW2 2009, but it had a lengthy and satisfying campaign with all the stakes, a decent multiplayer, special ops (horde mode), and even co-op!! MW3 2023 is just neutered and has nothing. MW3 2023 is legitimately a DLC.

Yeah this is one of the worst way for Activision to celebrate the 20th anniversary birthday for call of duty. The original mw3 is more forgiven and doesn't deserve all the hate.

51:31 The main problem with “Open Combat Mission” is it breaks the lore that you’re supposedly are a ‘Tier 1’ operator yet you scavenge for weapons, armor plates, and pieces of equipment. Does Laswell not have enough funding to prepare these things before the op?

Laswell is such a throw away character. you can replace her position in any mission with Nikolai, yuri, Alex, Farrah, and the story flow would not feel different at all. Her character adds nothing to the storyline

Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer: We've completed the storyline and it's really a great plot so we can start to make- Activision: Scrap it. Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer: *What!? We can't! You can't just-* Activision: *Do i look like i give a sh-? Scrap that and make this story more horrible than Vanguard and give us lots of microtransactions you got from them gamers!*

This video is longer then the campaign

The thing that I'm the maddest about is that Alex is just... there. Every time a new mission started I was hoping that we could play as him again. But nooo we have to just keep playing as Farah and Captain Price. Don't get me wrong it is great that we got to play as them but I craved to play as Alex again after MW 2019. I hate the fact that he's there to be there.

The bad writing screwed over Graves and Makarov as villains that could’ve been good. Also this game basically let Graves get away for his crimes.

Its ironic how the original MW3 had one of the best ending to any video game story ever imo. I played that game and especially through that story multiple times. Soap's death, Yuri's death, Sandman and Grinch's death all still hit that deep. Its a shame what COD has evolved into.

This is like one of those CoD campaigns you would make up in your head as a kid, not a CoD campaign written by an actual writing team. Activision is not dodging the CHATGPT allegations after this one.

Activision really messed up.

Freaking Samara could have saved the entire flight if she jumped out, but that didnt even cross her mind or trying to get that ied of off her…

The whole Shadow Company bit in 2 also feels so tacked on. People knew the betrayal was coming, it just feels like they did the whole murdering a village thing to make it easier for the player to kill them.

Old makarov is just pure evil, the new one just looks like he didn’t get hugged enough as a kid

Not only is Graves’ war crimes never mentioned, but Colonel Norris’ (the Marine guy from MW2019) designation of the ULF as terrorists and his orders to treat them as such is never mentioned.

yuri was only shoehorned into this campaign for pure nostalgia bait and that's what pisses me off the most about it

It doesn't take the most incompetent game developer companies to ruin a game, just the will of a single corporation

Kratos speech is longer than the MW3 campaign

Whats funny is that COD Cold war did the whole open combat missions first and they did an amazing job with it like in Berlin mission since you can do it fully stealth or you can go in guns blazing and there's also side objectives to do that contribute to the story but are optional but also give you special missions that need you to use your brain to solve a puzzle and then you go after the target. Cold war did the campaign even better

14:33 The BEST MISSION IN THE GAME is Flashpoint aka the stadium mission? That's depressing... 1. The mission takes place in a reused CoD Warzone map 2. The same mission where Makarov so idiotically allows himself to be captured by trying to hit Price with an ambulance but fails miserably by completely missing and crashing, leaving Makarov the only survivor of the crash. MAKAROV COULD'VE DIED IN THAT CRASH, I mean everyone else in that ambulance died 3. The very same mission where Price had all the chance to kill Makarov then and there but didn't take it for no good reason at all. YOU CAUGHT MAKAROV, THE BOSS OF BOSSES OF ALL THE BAD GUYS! YOU GOT HIM! THERE'S ZERO REASON TO KEEP HIM ALIVE. Price has killed his enemies for way less, he would never keep someone like Makarov alive. Price wasn't consistent to his own character that they established throughout the series in this game

The OG Makarov from OG MW2 was a well-written villain than discount Makarov from MW3 2023 thanks to the cutscene before No Russian starts where the OG MW2 General Shepherd describing how he "doesn't flinch at torture, human trafficking, or genocide" as if he is a soulless monster who "trades blood for money" and they truly nailed it on how he is a GRAVE THREAT. That's what was missing for me with MW3 2023's Makarov.

Thank god I bought Like A Dragon Gaiden instead of this which they release at the same time kind of. Heck Gaiden was originally a DLC then turned into a full game and ended up being a better game than MW3.

Shepherds death in the original Modern Warfare 2 was better because he put up a good fight against Price and Soap and almost killed them both by himself until Soap killed shepherd by giving him back his knife.

Your reaction during that Sequence where Makarov's men were shooting the Civilians in the Stadium and your frustration with not getting a shot is exactly whats needed in these missions. It forces the Player to actually think Tactically,think about the Civilian collateral damage and be more precise with your shooting rather than just go full auto.

Makarov in the OG series carried out terror attacks like they were morning jogs, nuked 30 thousand US Marines as the world freaking watched, kidnapped the Russian president, and was a hair away from turning Europe into a smoldering wasteland after igniting World War 3. Makarov in the deboot only appears for thirty seconds to give the player and/or his goons some generic monologue, and then arms an easily defused bomb before vanishing again and leaving you to deal with his Shadow Company wannabes after wasting an iconic character like they were some generic NPC.

There was something that you didn't mention Professional In the ending you're supposed to disarm a bomb that would probably explode in a few minutes. But Makarov was still in the blast radius ! Maybe if he wanted to make sure that the enemy doesn't interfere he could've just sent his army to protect it and be safe. Lol it just makes no sense why he was there

Soaps death in MW2023 is the worst death in cod history. In the original, Soaps death had a purpose and consequences. Right before he revealed about Yuris identity. Soaps death had consequences with Price having bad blood against Yuri due to him. Now, in 2023 he died just for the sake of it since they hadn't taken any risks of character deaths in the previous 2 entries with 2019 and 2022.

I know that this is not directly a part of a topic but i wanted to talk about a character more specifcally- Ghost. In my opinion he is a edgykid, idk why people like him so much... He played such a minor role in original MW2 (excluding the betrayal scene, but Roach was also included there) but in Reboot he go hyped to the point in where he became more "important" than Soap. Also i noticed that Ghost from a reboot received some "characteristics" of a Soap from original mw

Meanwhile, modders are making Price and Soap switch places in Blood Brothers in the original Modern Warfare 3 as a proverbial middle finger to Activision.

Finally we have this video!! The story made no sense 😂

Someone like Makarov would know better then to use a phone. Remember how a single phone call led to Zakhaevs death.

27:46, what makes this even funnier is that when Graves is revealed to still be alive in the MW22 Warzone Season 5 cutscene, Alex and Farah are aware that Graves had "died" in a tank in Mexico, yet are unaware of his betrayal and war crimes. It's no surprise the game flopped as bad as it did when important plot points are completely forgotten.

Not just the campaign, but this game in its entirety is solely a $70 cash grab rushed to high hell to make a quick buck before Microsoft took over

I’m currently in the process of writing a revamp of this story and it’s definitely better

27:28 in the MW2 seasons Alex says to Graves "heard you died in a tank in south America" in which Graves responds "well I wasn't in that tank" if Alex know this happened, how did he not know that Soap was the one who blew up the tank and the line Graves said was first used in a skin of soap in warzone called 'hector black' and now is a meme that might even collide with black ops

I think I might have to play the original Modern Warfare trilogy one day. Not just replay MW1, but play all of it. The reveal that Makarov was behind that scene in the first game sold me on the whole original trilogy

*insert the price is right sad trombone sound

I really wanna go back to the original Modern warfare storyline. Not that I want more games in that setting but there was something cool about imagining all the COD games existing in the same world and I don’t want to imagine the new time being canon over the original. I like imagining that all the world war 2 games are the same story, ending with vanguard where they find documents regarding Nova 6 gas which finds its way back to their home countries leading into black ops 1 where Reznov is tasked with securing it for the Russians right after the war. I assume that Nova 6 is the same gas Makarov uses in MW3 in Europe. Also the Cold War KGB mission would also imply black ops is canon to modern warfare. Captain price’s lineage fought in WW2 and was tasked with killing Alex Mason after he assassinates JFK. In infinite warfare there’s models of the Odin station from ghosts and a battleship named in honor of TF141 from the original Modern Warfare games. The tech in Advanced warfare seems to be a prototype stage of alot of the tech in BO3 and Infinite warfare, going from bulkier exosuits to simpler and smaller jump packs and full on jet packs. All these signs and more always told me that all the games are connected, but new MW has a far worse story than the original and makes a lot of previous entries no longer canon.

I found it so stupid that Farah killed her own brother for using the Russian chemical weapon to protect his own people. But then she goes and works with graves a know terrorist that killed innocent people in las Almas 😂

@TheProfessional I have always loved and enjoyed your work and as far as I can tell, that'll never change. The Modern Warfare original trilogy always has been and always will be the best MW trilogy of all time. You talked about story mode where we almost always kill the baddy mcbad bad (main villian) in a lot of the COD games and the one I would love to see a sequel to is COD Ghost. There's so many questions to answer Did we finally kill the main villian (NO) What happened to our brother? (GIANT question mark) Never cared for Advance warfare because of the jump suits and robotic arms and limbs in general and I think you meant Advanced Warfare, but you said Infinite Warfare, which to me was very sad because like SW Rogue One; your entire squad dies and yes, there was open missions where you can choose where to go first and do all the side missions which was very nice and unique and felt a little bit like Rogue One and Mass Effect. Both Ghost and Infinite Warfare had beautiful stories to tell and was hated by the fans for terrible Multiplayer based games and honestly, I'm not a fan of Multiplayer type games. Those are my two cents, enjoy your day, can't wait for your next video.

I have thoroughly analysed and watched your own play throughs for the modern warfare series of games. And to summarise my feelings in one thought, I can say this: In an art form like a movie or a video game, when you are putting the screenplay for the story you have in mind, the best way to execute the screenplay is to use a concept called “show no tell”. Basically, just show enough to give an idea about the plot, and let us inhabit the shoes of the characters to work out the rest of the details. Some of the best executions use this concept wherein the plot is not shoved down our throats, but we are shown enough that we know what is happening. This game failed in that front. The idea behind Shepherd getting captured was that Shadow company betrayed him. That’s what the cutscene near “highrise” mission was about when Makarov said about the “transactional relationship”. The biggest way they could have driven this plot home in an impactful way? Show Graves as contacting Makarov and selling out Shepherd. That would have given a powerful antagonist like Shepherd was portrayed in the OG modern warfare 2. But it fell flat. Or, Shepherd could have been shown as a bigger antagonist by him betraying the ULF by leading Konni to them, to get his “blank cheque” for a massive “US vs Russia” showdown. This also fell flat. Also, when people say, Makarov escaped out of a service/utility corridor from the channel tunnel, they forget that the tunnel was in the middle of the English Channel, and that multiple police forces had blocked off all the entries and exits when they were pushing in. So how on earth could Makarov get out of the channel tunnel? Another thing left dangling in the air. A few simple additional cutscenes would have massively improved the story of this game, but everything fell flat in this rushed execution.

MW3 Campaign's version of 2023 was very bad and it's like Canon RWBY and Gen Lock Season 2's Bad Storyline Plots were combined together to create this abomination

I swear, people just don’t know how to write good stories nowdays!

No no you see the cartel plot line being dropped is even dumber when you realize that Valeria and the Las Almas Cartel were the ones that smuggled the gas for Konni graves literally says as much during the shadow company missions in DMZ season 5

Instead of a reboot of the Modern Warfare trilogy, why didn't they just make a Modern Warfare 4? New characters, new story, new everything, set in the modern day, while letting Markov and his plot rest in the 2010s?

They erased my teenage years by "remaking" our experiences dishonestly. Kids, this is not the Modern Warfare that got CoD to where it is now. This is what happens when a company has so much money and power they can phone it in and the change happened within 10 years. If companies could sell you nothing and still charge you for it, they would. I'm sure most of the man hours making the game were spend on reddit, Twitter and Instagram. I don't think games are made by gamers anymore, they're made by marketers

Also they could’ve made the campaign into two stories like the getaway game did with Frank Carter, London cop and Marcus Hammond, ex robber criminal, forced to be a criminal getaway driver. Something on that level of storytelling. Maybe something like getting perspectives of task force 141 or Konni. You get deep lores from both sides. They could even tied this to the black ops games as Raul Menendez’s Cordis die movement is already rising and the working class members are on the verge of causing anarchy. Maybe that would been preferable.

Modern Warfare III is worse than Vanguard, the open combat missions felt like warzone 💀

I have never played any of the modern warfare games, OG or remake!! I've mainly stuck to the black ops versions of COD! But I have heard of Makarov and the no Russian mission for sure. Mainly I'm just here to say man I feel your frustration. It's the same with the RE3 remake. It was rushed and a lot was changed in it and shortened and we fans were pissed about it. A lot of reviewers are criticizing game companies overpricing games at $60-70 only for them to be 3-4 hours long with no replay value, terrible story, bugs and glitches, and not knowing what players want. I'm sure you remember the cyberpunk 2077 disaster. Anyway man keep doing what you're doing and thanks for the content. You're awesome!!

They really dropped the ball the moment they canonized Warzone into the campaigns of the Reboot saga, and now that MWZ is canon it just makes everything much more confusing and downright stupid.

The thing with Soaps death is that I was surprised in the sense where I was confused like "how long was Makarov chilling around that one corner? Was he just gonna stay in that main radius? What if 141 couldn't track it down specifically to there? Then what lmao" And on top of that Soaps death in the og mw3 Prices reaction was "SOAP! No..NONO No!! SOAP!! NO NO SOAP!!.... Im sorry..." Then in this one he's just.. "one KIA.."

What made the new no russian mission worse was the fact that the woman you play as could have just jumped out the plane

I still think that if they wanted to use Graves again, they should've used him as the initial antagonist who is unknowingly working for Shepherd and Makarov. Then, after he escapes 141's grasp again, he gets betrayed by Shepherd in a mission similar to Loose Ends. Then, maybe have the new leader of Shadow Company form an uneasy alliance with 141 to get revenge against Shepherd and Makarov in a gun battle similar to the Boneyard fight.

To those who want to play a good cod campain outside of the golden era i suggest you to play the campian of cod black ops cold war and or cod infinte warfare

Agreed the new call of duty games are not the same as they used to be

Regarding that with the Cartel, I have a feeling they will follow up in either the Multiplayer Seasons or in the next game.

Wait so the Yuri at the military base was supposed to be the reboot's version of Yuri from the original trilogy? I thought they were different people. Also, Farah and the Uzikstanis are using the missiles as a deterrent against further Russian provocations (i.e. peace through strength); something that she talks about in the cutscene at the port.

10:04 I would have shouted MY PASSENGER HAS A GUN!!!

My biggest problem with this new take of a No Russian mission in this game is how there's quite literally no consequences. In the original MW2,No Russian is the event that not only established how much of a ruthless maniac Makarov is,but also the ignition of everything that happned in the subsequent two games. It wasn't just a mission made purely for shock value,it was also the establishment of everything,the numerous character deaths,the death of millions,and the start of WW3,all lead back to No Russian. But in MW2023's iteration,it felt excatly what I mentioned above,made purely for shock value,to fullfil the quota of having a No Russian type mission in the reboot,with dialogue so on the nose it borders on cringe inducing,borderline stupidity on Makarov's planning of the attack and Samara's actions,and worst of all,the reason why it even happened in the first place is immediately resolved in the next mission and the attack was never brought up again.

Also the original design for Makarov was perfect, he looked like a sinister slimey person. This Reboot Makarov looks like Ben Shapiro and I can't take.him seriously.

Really enjoy your lore videos. Suggestion for future lore videos : For GTA 3/Vice City/San Andreas Lore videos, do you prefer the footage from the original ones or the new Definitive Edition? Maybe you could make the poll, I personally prefer the original games.

I was honestly surprised it took this game for IGN to give it a 4/10.

Good video Professional, thought you made some really valid points and strong arguments. I felt the same way with the ending to COD Ghosts. I never liked the ending to that game because it absolutely sucked. I don’t want to give anything away, in case you never played it. I just wanted to put that out there.

This game’s version of Makarov reminds me more of a Russian Ben Sharpio (and it’s not just from looks), then an actually, evil, cunning villain who could single-handedly take down Task Force 141.

Finally the rant came!👍

I think the reason why the campaign is so short is because of Bobby Cockdick as im pretty sure he had a hand in its development and wanted it to make as much money as possible through microtransactions and other things and Bobby Cockdick dosen't care about making a good game that that fans like all Bobby Cockdick cares about is lining his own pockets and screwing over the developers by doing a mass layoff so that he Bobby Cockdick can get a larger paycheck I hope for COD fans sake that Activision under Microsoft treats their beloved franchise with the care it deserves and maybe the next game will be a success and they can restore COD fans faith and the dev's can make the franchise better then ever

And this is one of the best video you ever made👍❤️

Remember when game companies actually cared about their games and not about the money?

Vanguard's plot was barely better, but at least MWIII has good characters. Literally everyone in Vanguard was completely insufferable, it's like a bunch of theater kids wrote themselves into World War 2 after doing 20 minutes of research.

The sad thing about the mw3 story is it essentially got you to the same ending as mw2. Makarov is still a threat to everyone and the only difference is Soap and Shepard are dead. Mw3 is basically a 4hr dlc that got turned into a $70 game

I honestly think that the forced integration of warzone adding “story” to the series from MW2019 ruined any chance of world building. They were setting up characters as lazy cameos and throwing armored enemies in single player to increase run time

13:10 I bet she totally could've defused that bomb in time too had Johnny Klebbitz not fucked it up...

Ghost's intro mission and sniping the villain at the end of MW2 was better than his mission in MW3

There is simply no way they will make makarovs death just as satisfying as it was in the original

I honestly don't know what they could do for Modern Warfare 4 since they absolutely destroyed any story potential.

You’re forgetting that in the campaign for cod ghosts you don’t kill Rorke at the end. You as the player think you did then he just shows up out of nowhere & takes you away. Here we are over 10 years later still never got addressed so where’s the out cry about a villain dying then?

Christopher Judge was based for his Modern Warfare 3 comment

This whole campaign feels like a checklist without any quality checks Oh soap dies in OG MW3? Oh uhhh...just put it in the end as a cliffhanger? No russian? No problem! Just put it on a plane with underwelming results because we have no idea how we can adapt such a controversial mission today Oh wait? We have to put shephard in? uhhhh put him in siberia I guess we forgot

Great video as always! This comment maybe has nothing to do with the video but i think it would be great if did a playthrough of Call of Duty World at War.

Money, they put so little effort into these games because kids love all the dumb shit multiplayer offers and that’s where they get there big money. Makarov blew his cover because he was spamming him with messages 😂😂 these games are made for under 16s

Soon as I saw the near 1 hour length of this video I knew the professional is cooking

Yo let's go! I was waiting for this review for some time.

This game is exactly why cod isn't even cod anymore, they clearly don't care about the story and are scared to take risks because of modern day while the older cods took risks like with the original No Russian and it paid off as it showed how dangerous Makarov was

That fraud studio is getting called out for what he did in past 😂😂

Thank you for sharing the same thought process I had on this 💯

Hey professional,since you enjoy crime games,have you ever heard of the yakuza franchise by SEGA? Judgement and lost judgement are fantastic and you play as a detective named yagami in a fictional japan. While the mainline games from 0-6 have you play as the series star character Kiryu Kazuma,a legendary yakuza in the tojo clan known as the dragon of dojima. Also it's beat em up (except for 7 and 8) and not shooters, although you can grab firearms and use them. Consider looking into the franchise sometime I think you might enjoy some of what is offered.

MW3 Makarov and his PMC are clearly inspired by russian PMC Wagner. The codename he uses, "Czar" is a direct reference to its founder Dmitry Utkin who also happened to be inprisoned. Considering PMC Wagner history, IW could have done much more with Makarov and his soldiers.

finally, after a month of waiting i get the rant from TheProfessional himself

They better make a MW4 and it better be the longest and greatest Campaign in CoD history

On the original COD MW3 after the Russian President is rescued by Delta Forces in the quarry. The President is evacuated but a small contingent group of Delta forces remained. I always wondered what ever became of them.

OMG The thumbnail is everything 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I remember that Blood Brothers mission from MW3 somebody saying it would be impossible for Price to run from that building all the way to Soap in that amount of time unless he was Usain Bolt, not sure how true it is but it’s interesting to think about. He does get there pretty quick when you consider he was in the building on the second floor or something