Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - an old bullet in a new weapon

We live in a much different world than a few decades ago. Technology has changed our behavior and knowledge, mutual relations, economy, ecology and also military engagement. The profession of military pilot, which was once so desirable among the youth because of heroic films, has changed radically, as pilots increasingly sit on the ground and control flying death machines with the help of remote connections. Yes, just like in video games! Even modern infantrymen rely more and more on digital equipment. A little while longer and the enemies of democracy will be faced with semi-robotic warriors possessing almost superhuman powers.

Video games have already gone there, among them shooter series Call of Duty, which took a look at near-future warfare in the four-part Black Ops subseries, and interstellar in Infinity Warfare. But judging by the revenue, the audience didn't like it too much, so CoD returned to World War II with WW2 the year before last, this year, however, he is heading back to the present. Simply named Modern Warfare namely, it is a repeated and renewed starting point, which was set thirteen years after the release of the original Modern Warfare. For now, it seems that the famous author group Infinity Ward is not resting on its laurels.

I'll play alone

Anyone familiar with the many remakes of old games that are given a fresh coat of paint and sent to the market with a clap on the back is rightly suspicious. But Activision and Infinity Ward make sure that the new Modern Warfare is just that – new. He is still the central character English Capt. Price and the story campaign jumps between multiple protagonists, but the missions they go on aren't repeated from the 2007 MW, and their tactical and emotional range is wider. Among other things, we perform in the role of "terrorist" Farah and we get to know her anything but rosy youth, and on another occasion we arrive after the bombing to London's Piccadilly Square and we go into battle with a terrorist cell, with devastation and suffering placed squarely in the foreground.

Infinity Ward tries to appeal to the player's mind in yet another way. It is possible in the campaign do many things to civilians – or not, depending on how we decide. Is the woman reaching into the pram an assailant who will draw a weapon from there and shoot us, or is she a panicked mother? At the end of the task we get an estimate, which we can try to improve with further gameplay, considering that real soldiers do not have this luxury. Victims and devastation remain, the soul does not heal. But the missions are worth replaying because of the multi-layered design. The nest of enemies can be attacked samurai style or sneak up quietly with a knife or a sniper rifle.

I will be playing multiplayer

Well, any way you look at it, it's the central long-term draw of any Call of Duty online multiplayer mode, which lasts for weeks, months, sometimes even years. The online shooting in the new MW is vast and ambitious, combining the old showdowns on smaller maps in battle royale mode, brought to you by Black Ops 4. On the one hand, there are intimate battles between two teams of two players without a tactical map in gunfight mode, on the other hand, earthly warfare, in which according to sixty four players participates on foot and with vehicles. When you throw in a special weapon in the form of a missile attack, which is acquired by successfully engaging, the feeling of the battlefield is truly fantastic. There are a bunch of other ways in between, from cyberattacking, team-based, to the ever-popular delivery of bombs to a specific location. But the most played modes will most likely be gunfight and ground war.

Quick reflexes are the most important, but tactical behavior in space that takes military maneuvers into account is also important. They are in the new version of the game slightly slowed movement and weapons have more knockback, making consecutive shots much more difficult. And something else is great – for the first time ever, owners of the pro versions are competing in the same framework due to crossplay PC, PS4 and Xbox One. Battlefields used to be separate, but now the world is one big battlefield.