The Complete Failure of the Modern Warfare 3 'Story' (Video Essay)

The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Campaign might be the least satisfying one in Call of Duty history. Let's break down why this is the case using a whiteboard and a whole lot of analysis.
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[Misclickt]

Meanwhile in the OG MW3, Makarov successfully throws Europe into chaos, causes WW3, nabs the Russian president and his daughter and Yuri actually plays a vital role.

[xItachii]

List of questions I have for MWIII campaign:
1. Why is Konni consisted of US and British personnel?
2. Why was Makarov wearing a suit and tie in the Gulag?
3. Why were there no global consequences to US & ULF bio missiles being detonated and causing mass casualties?
4. How did Shepard get captured by Makarov?
5. What intel did Makarov get from Shadow Co?
6. Why did Makarov continue to text his plans to Andrie Nolan after he knew he got captured?
7. Why is Makarov always personally present everywhere he is minutes away from blowing up?
8. How is Makarov completely unfazed from taking a Bowie knife to the neck?
9. Why was Price killing Shepard made into a cutscene?
10. Whatever happened to Valeria and Alejandro?
Where are the missions like Safe House, Loose Ends, Boneyard, Whiskey Hotel, etc? Just feels like a complete waste of time with this story, running around Mexico and Verdansk accomplishing nothing while playing solo dmz missions. There doesn’t feel like any stakes and all the deaths have felt unearned, rushed, and brushed over.

[shanemjn]

You know shits getting real when the whiteboard comes out

[legendaryshepherd]

what was odd coming from the og cods was the "loot boxes" in this one. made it feel pretty much like warzone. running around in a campaign mission looking for "loot crates"

[PatSlapsReal]

Not to mention, in the original you have soap get nearly killed and they fight to save his life while in the middle of a big ass battle. In this game he just gets offed. In the original Price is losing his mind over losing Soap, he's super pissed about it. In this one the relationship is more between Ghost and Soap and the most you get from Ghost is "No, Johnny!" And then they pour his ashes out and that's it. Like what??

[Jackobee]

There was more emotion in soaps death in the original mw3. You had the music, price crying "NO SOAP NO" and the clocktower in Hereford speach. But soaps death felt like a random side character. As if he was nothing.

[jointhekraize]

No matter what happens with zombies/call of duty I think you should do more of these on whatever subject you like. I think I speak for most when I say your whiteboard videos are absolutely magical.

[Samyang]

I like how the writing is so bad that Price actually betrayed Shepherd this time, and it makes him look like bad guy

[regularjmg]

When soap died i expected 3 to 4 missions of hunting Makarov down by any means and price got more people killed because he was focused on killing Makarov and Makarov gets seriously hurt but still wins by starting a world conflict.

[Mr.Dempsey]

They left us on this terrible ending just to continue it in warzone

[JCats_Quest]

This is such a letdown of a campaign. This video is already 10x more fun than the campaign 😂

[brandonnumbskull]

The way the originals are told make you feel like you’re part of something. You get some character traits you can tell who is loyal to who but that’s it. You are cogs in an incredibly complex war machine. In this rebooted trilogy youre a couple of cool guys blazing through your own missions that don’t seem to have any real impact outside of “job done”. The whole vibe of this reboot can be likened to ghost’s appearance change from hardass quiet dude who gets a job done to gravely voiced bro with an airsoft player costume.

[xXxKAMIKAZExXx]

Instead of throwing a knife into Shepherd's eye, we get a cutscene that doesn't even show him getting shot. It was like a PG version of his death.

[NeightrixPrime]

You can tell they were really hoping players would just be so blindly traumatized by Soap's stupid death that they wouldn't question anything.

[alejandrocarralero]

This truly shows how this was meant to be a dlc originally, this would've been great as a mw2 dlc but as a mw3 it's just not enough

[mrmarsman]

The end caught me so off guard.. I was literally so dumbfounded that I couldn't even accept that it was the end of the game until the credits started rolling

[lukecremeen]

The worst part is that this doesn’t even delve into the disappointing gameplay parts, almost half of the missions are the “open combat missions” which just skip the cool set pieces of cod to just complete a random objective. That and 1/4 of the levels are reused warzone areas

[hydroknight]

When you see the whiteboard, you know Milo is taking it seriously when it comes to storytelling.

[Whoa_Oasis]

It amazes me how Activision went from calling MW3 an MW2 campaign expansion DLC and some extra multiplayer stuff, and maybe zombies, straight to a "Premium stand alone CoD title"

[astroape]

Graves in MW2:
-betrays 141, actively trying to kill them
-performs bunch of war crimes, murdering half the town in Mexico in cold blood, executing civilians in the streets
-is basically one of the main villains and the only actual boss fight in the game

Graves in MW3:
-It's cool man, we can still be friends. Who wants some AC-130 overwatch?

I don't think what went down between Shadow and 141 can just be weaved off with "It was just business my dudes, ok?"