The announcement of a new Call of Duty game is far from earth-shattering, but this one is more noteworthy than usual as the latest mainline entry is coming to a Nintendo platform for the first time since 2013.
Activision officially revealed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4a return to Infinity Ward’s Modern Warfare sub-series after a three-year hiatus. As you might expect, the game is coming to Xbox Series X|S, PS5 and PC. It will also launch on Switch 2 – the franchise’s console debut and the first evidence of the supposed 10-year Call of Duty pact that Microsoft and Nintendo made in 2023.
Infinity Ward is developing the native Switch 2 version of Modern Warfare 4 in partnership with the studio specializing in mobile games Digital Legends. It’s also significant that the game isn’t coming to PS4 or Xbox One, making it this generation’s first CoD only for the current generation. Call of Duty Warzone will also be dropping on PS4 and Xbox One later this year.
The single-player campaign will put you in the shoes of Private Park, a young South Korean soldier who experiences real combat for the first time as North Korea invades his homeland. Infinity Ward promises a typically globe-trotting campaign, also featuring military missions in New York, Paris and Mumbai.
Series mainstay Captain Price also returns, now an outlaw. He is on a quest for personal revenge that sees him drawn to “a weapon powerful enough to shift the balance of power, triggering a conflict far greater than he anticipated.” Expect the usual cocktail of large-scale skirmishes, covert operations and cinematic set pieces.
Multiplayer will, as always, be the big draw for many, and Infinity Ward promises “a new weapon-focused tech stack that unifies precision aiming, physical manipulation, realistic audio propagation, enhanced visibility, and smarter combat perception in the most authentic game.” Modern warfare “Smooth movement is once again a priority, and weapons will now respond more naturally to changes in position and environment.
Modern Warfare 4 will launch with 12 main maps, with fan-favorite modes like Search and Destroy and Domination returning alongside several new ones. Infinity Ward will share more information on this, as well as the also returning DMZ Extraction Shooter mode, in the coming weeks.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 launches on October 23 for Xbox Series
