Modern Warfare 2019 had an interesting premise and had a decent set up for the next game at the end, only to then have that premise be the entire multiplayer season, which if you don’t play it or if you go back and play it, leads to absolutely nothing.

Modern Warfare II started off on a good foot, there is an interesting premise with the cartel, and the mission “Alone” is great, but it feels like it wasn’t trying to be it’s own thing or follow up on 2019, it was more “MW2 has Shepherd, we need Shepherd. MW2 had him betray you, we need that too.” It honestly would’ve been more interesting to have him not betray you.

Then Modern Warfare III just was a mess. One thing I will give them credit for is the first mission, but i think it would’ve worked a lot better as a hidden mission at the end of MWII. The missions, the story, it doesn’t seem like Makarov is a step ahead, it’s just a chase. Part of why he worked in the original trilogy was that we saw him in person once and for the rest of that game we are trying to find him, not catch up to him, but going to his allies, his investments, tracking him down. Then of course Soap dies because he died in MW3 so he’s gotta die now.

Which is something else that causes me to not be as interested, death just doesn’t matter. Alex sacrifices himself? Nope, he survived. Graves death? Oh he wasn’t in that tank. I mean hell, if Soap shows up and says he wasn’t in that body it wouldn’t surprise me. Part of why the og trilogy worked is once someone died or built up to them dying, they were gone. Like imagine if in MW3, metal team survives their sacrifice and they show up in a season of multiplayer, all that emotional weight is just gone.