With that being said, the act of playing the missions is quite fun. You could play each of these missions without knowing a single thing about the story and probably enjoy it more.

Rather, it is 14 separate missions that Infinity Ward decided to weave a tale through. It never feels like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is ever telling a cohesive story. After you complete a mission, it almost instantly goes right into the next cutscene and into the next mission not giving you any time to think about what even happened during that mission. It doesn’t help that the pacing of the story is kind of a mess. I keep running through this story in my head and the more I think of it, the worse it gets for me in terms of the actual story Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is trying to tell. And also, Russians are in a fictional Middle Eastern country named Urzikstan for some reason, and you have to shoot them because they’re bad. The basic gist of it is that you’re trying to stop terrorists from getting their hands on Russian-made chemical weapons. “Up to this point, the marketing for the campaign promised a gritty story… but it’s still more in line with a Michael Bay action movie than it is a dark military tale.”Ĭharacters aside, the story itself is rather forgettable.

As far as character arcs in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, Farah’s is the best, and even hers is lackluster. And when she finally does, it plays out more like a corny action blockbuster which was kind of a bummer. Without spoiling anything, I’ll just say by the time you get to one of the later missions, you want her to win and get revenge. The missions that do showcase Farah do a good job of telling you her backstory and why she is fighting in this war. But so much of the Campaign is tied to Alex and Kyle, you don’t get these moments too often.Īlso, the conclusion to Farah’s story is so anticlimactic. Each mission that put the spotlight on the freedom fighters from Urzikstan, the idea behind it was always great and portrays Farah as this badass female lead. The only characters that have any sort of intrigue are Farah Karim and her brother Hadir. The writing for these two, and even Captain Price (played by Barry Sloane) is just incredibly dull. That isn’t to say that Chad Michael Collins (Alex) and Elliot Knight (Kyle) did poor jobs in their respective roles both of them do a pretty great job in portraying their characters. They have speaking lines and opinions throughout the story, but there was never anything that made me feel for them. Alex and Kyle Garrick, two of the main characters you play as in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, are essentially avatars for the player. A lot of the problems with the campaign stems from its boring cast of characters.

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