Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

If you've played the Call of Duty games in recent years--arguably any of them past the first handful--then you know the games tend to star heroes with near-superhuman reflexes, athletic abilities, and rapid decision-making. For Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Infinity Ward is taking a step back, partially, from these larger-than-life heroes and putting you back in the boots of a regular "grunt" soldier. The decision to move back to regular soldiers--which should be familiar to Call of Duty 2 players, for example--came about as Infinity Ward developed the setup for Modern Warfare 4's story. Set

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 will address two of the franchise's most annoying issues.

MW4 is the next Call of Duty game, out in October for PC, PS5, Switch, and Xbox, and will feature a conflict between North Korea and South Korea.

Call of Duty reenters the extraction genre.

A social media account has promised that Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 won't have goofy crossover skins like "Spongebob" or "Teletubbies."