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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is going back to the series' roots. Forget the zombies. Forget the WWII battles. Forget the jetpacks, exo launchers and all the other future weaponry. The game is set to take place in a realistic and modern setting with events that feel "ripped from the headlines" while also bringing back familiar characters from past games in the series like Captain John Price. For the first time in the franchise's history, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will support cross-platform multiplayer. Crossplay is completely opt-in. If you enable it, you'll need to link a Call of Duty account to form a platform-agnostic friends list, not unlike the Epic friends lists in Fortnite. Crossplay is supported in all multiplayer modes except Ranked and competitive tournaments.

Activision has also confirmed that the franchise's traditional season pass had been scrapped, enabling the company to distribute free post-launch content to all players. Killstreak rewards return in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare too. Rewards for uninterrupted killing sprees come in the likes of a care package with juggernaut assault gear, a manned infantry assault tank with a .50 cal machine gun, and an aircraft that sprays the battlefield with white phosphorus to blind and burn enemies.

There have been included six Modern Warfare game modes so far: Team Deathmatch, Domination, Headquarters, Cyber Attack, Realism, and Gunfight. Alongside this, four new maps have been added: Azhir Cave, Hackney Yard, Grazna Raid, and Gun Runner. The game introduces the 2v2 Gunfight mode which pits two teams of two with randomized loadouts against one another on very small maps. The maps are so small that you're expected to kill one another in 40 seconds. There's no reviving or healing in Gunfight. If neither team succeeds, a flag will appear, and one team will need to defend it for three seconds to win the round. The first team to 6 wins the match. It will also have multiplayer, a single-player campaign and the return of Specs Ops co-op mode.

A new system called "gunsmithing" allows you to customize both Primary and Secondary weapons to the type of firepower you like for multiplayer game mode, but it will force you to choose what upgrades you value most. You'll only be able to apply five upgrades to each gun, even though there may be more possible components to customize.