Do The Weapons of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Hold Up in 2026?

The original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was the best selling video game of 2011, the eighth highest selling game of the entire 2010s by units sold tying with Red Dead Redemption 2, and I would say it had one of the hypest launches of the 2010s. It will be 15 years old this year, and since most of it is in Europe, it will be able to drink soon. However, in spite of the hype and cultural cache it had, the campaign and multiplayer were both seen as a step down from Modern Warfare 2. Honestly, it’s hard not to be seen as a step down when COD 4 was a masterpiece and revolutionised the FPS genre, and MW2 was… well, MW2. It had Cliffhanger. There’s nowhere to go but taking a step down, honestly. Were the guns a step down too though? Let’s find out.

There are 4 other videos in this series, go check them out so you know the rules and the plan for what we are doing here. I wanna hit the ground running on this one.

I got most of the footage this time, both in the campaign let’s play I did for this game and on Twitch for the rest. My boy Hendersean got the rest, I’ll mark which clips he got up in the top of the screen. Omeih is getting the ones for the bad MW3 so everyone say thank you to him. I’m gonna go in reverse alphabetical order for weapon categories, starting with Submachine Guns, then Sniper Rifles etc. and then ending with assault rifles.

Timestamps:

Intro: 0:00:00
SMGs: 0:01:47
Sniper Rifles: 0:10:07
Shotguns: 0:18:36
Machine Pistols: 0:25:29
LMGs: 0:30:54
Launchers: 0:35:46
Handguns: 0:44:15
ARs: 0:51:17
Analysis and Outro: 0:59:32

Link to my bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e9T2-WyqD0ieIhwucjQbzJp45JLk3nUukCQh4RqAZ54/edit?usp=sharing

Link to my spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JBu_lT3LZJ1tBKaMB64eoMjbzGOBxSFO8RB3oYcfSac/edit?usp=sharing

Do The Weapons of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) Hold Up in 2026?
https://youtu.be/ZeE_ACFi2-8

Do the Weapons of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Hold Up in 2026?
https://youtu.be/t-J-q2ihpms

Do The Weapons of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Hold Up in 2026?
https://youtu.be/VGrtzTXJl68

Do The Weapons of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022) Hold Up in 2026?
https://youtu.be/5Udr7gf9GBI

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