Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® Remastered (2017)

Was hoping for some pleasant 'remastered' nostalgia. Instead, it takes ages to load a level, and often it will just freeze. The best part is that it will also slow down the task manager, making it freeze and crash as well, brilliant. Guess I'll go back to my old, classic and weirdly free Mac version of COD 4. Do not buy this game until they fix this issue, if they fix it......

Edit: Having to download the multiplayer and the campaign is just ridiculous. Secondly, concerning the Mac, I meant that I would rather dig up my old macbook to play this game's unfiltered original than play it remastered on my current PC.

The worst call of duty i ever played i couldn't complete the campaing cuz it was crashing on a fucking loading screen do not buy it is not worth it

game wont even launch. googled all possible fixes and no resolve. waste of money just to relive old times.

Game looks good as a remaster. Nostalgia made me complete it on veteran.

Unfortunately i cannot recommend this game due to a video memory bug where the game wont launch. Had to do my own research and use a random file downloaded from the internet could fix it.

Then on the second to last mission another video memory bug which caused the game to keep crashing until caching shadow maps was disabled.

How can a million dollar company leave these bugs in their game....

8/10 if you're willing to overlook these bugs. Otherwise I wouldn't buy.

If you're coming to the review section and curious if the Crashing Problems have been resolved as of April 15th, 2025, the answer is no. I can't even load into the third mission without GPU drivers failing. This is shamelessly poor quality from a AAA company and Steam should be refunding.

The lighting/shadows show as glitches. It was unplayable and I know they are not going to fix it.
GPU: RX 9070 XT
CPU: AMD 9800 X3D

The remaster looks and feels great—classic campaign, upgraded visuals, and tight gameplay. But the experience is dragged down by serious technical issues.

Campaign missions take forever to load, killing the momentum. Even worse, multiplayer often won’t load shaders, making it completely unplayable for many. For a remaster of such a legendary game, these problems are hard to ignore.

I think this is a good remaster But i recomend turning shader preload OFF in the advanced video options i think it makes the game Crash less and the game looks Amazing note. There is a hidden Desert Eagle in the First Level

Technical Nightmare. Can't reccomend. Just play the original.

My playtime speaks differently to the verdict given by this review, but unfortunately something has changed that has also changed my stance on this game. I used to be able to run the game just fine, but for some reason it stopped working today and will no longer start properly, even though the game was running fine just the day prior. It boggles my mind how Activision, with all their resources, can't properly optimize a game to work. A shame too, as this was one of my favorite ways to play the original Modern Warfare campaign. Hopefully this is somehow fixed soon, whether by a dedicated fan who has more time on their hands or more unlikely, Activision themselves.

not worth the nostalgia, maybe if it was a lot cheaper

Just the right amount of gore. Plenty of weapons. Like the spawning. Good stress reliever.

Sound design blows chunks. you can't hear dogs until they are inside your bum, you can't hear footsteps of enemies, you can't hear a helicopter while its 20 feet away. The definitive deaf person experience.

Um clássico, um dos melhores cod's já feitos, tanto em campanha quanto em multiplayer, uma pena que esse remaster na época foi só pra tampar o buraco dá mal recepção do Infinite Warfare e acabou sendo meio negativo pra ele, mas mesmo assim é um excelente remastered, espero que um dia lance o mw2 Remastered na Steam tbm!

Have to reconfigure the in game settings by booting your PC in safe mode, just to get it to launch..
Load times are minutes long..
Won't even load a level passed Charlie don't surf..

Eight years on the store and it still doesn't work

My perspective and review for this game won't be a CRAZY in-depth or complex review this time. But anyways, THIS title is without a doubt, definitely and personally one of my FAVORITE and most CHERISHED video games, of all time. (As with tens of millions of others I bet) This game in particular, I cherish very closely similar to its original. (nearly two decades ago now, in 2007) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in 2007 obviously and factually set a new revolutionary standard for both the FPS genre and online multiplayer industry simultaneously. Also, the notable Call of Duty titles ranging from 2005-2015, had taught me a multitude of things I went on to understand and develop decades later, and even still utilize today, to a degree. Now, I won't be nerding out any further on the MEMORABLE, and ICONIC campaign/multiplayer, as it's unfortunately redundant in this case, sorry. (As much as I'd typically love to) Fortunately, Modern Warfare: Remastered ran nearly PERFECTLY fine for me. However, I had eventually experienced a somewhat of a known bug within THIS version of the game, so I had disabled the "shader pre-load" option. Oh, and HEY! DON'T give your money to Activision, UNLESS the game's are on SALE, which they ALL do go on occasionally but MOSTLY periodically! (Selective holidays, Steam sales, or events, etc.) Lastly, I love this game and it breaks the tens of millions of us that we may never live the moments of playing our FAVORITE Call of Duty titles in their prime again. ANYHOW, remain vigilant when dealing with ANY older Call of Duty titles multiplayer such as this. Enjoy the campaign and timeless classic of a game, cheers!

10/10 - RoniiBoi

the game has good story design, good character design, good design in general, what the hell happened to call of duty? this original story and series with the original team was so awesome, now, the original team is gone, we have DEI and LGBT bullshit taking over the game studios and now the new games suck and arent as cool, old games are the best

The remaster is extremely, extremely lazy. They barely changed anything from the original. The gameplay is extremely wonky and dated. I would not recommend getting this unless you're interested in gaming history.

Game is good so far, once the crashes are avoided via settings, the game flourishes. The safehouse mission (after killing the man) is a pain in the ass, swarms of enemies and the friendly AI is as useful as a potato.

This game is good and its not up to par with the OG modern warfare 2 or 3 but this is still one amazing game. the full price of this isnt worth it but when its on sale its definetly worth buying and playing.

Still the best COD IMO. They should have never have gotten rid of the guys that formed the original Infinity Ward. I've had nothing but problems with the new Modern Warfare and was denied a refund, even though every time it patches from EA, it just keeps crashing. Infinity Ward> EA. Stop pushing out new games in ridiculous timelines and they might be worth playing by the time they come out.

idk how but i got it last week maby and i have 120 hours

TLDR: MWR is a great remaster. The campaign is still one of the best CoD campaigns to date, and this remaster does it justice. However, with its multiplayer being dead, it’s way too expensive. Great game – terrible value for the money.

If you were there in 2007 – especially on Xbox Live – you’re an OG, you’re already in the know. You’ve got that Mile High Club on Veteran achievement no doubt.
If you weren’t there – this game changed the gaming the industry overnight. Great campaign, banger multiplayer that every other shooter would try and often fail to imitate.

As far as the campaign is concerned, MW Remaster is the exact same as the original with a 2017 coat of paint. It’s tastefully done, it looks and sounds great, it plays just like it used to, if not a little better. The campaign itself still holds up, and this remaster only makes it better.

But of course, Activision had to screw it up and milk their fanbase.
At first, MWR was only sold as a bundle with Infinite Warfare’s Deluxe edition. It’s now available as a stand-alone game for 39.99€, with a historical low of 19.99€. Talk about overpriced.
They also messed up the multiplayer by adding micro-transactions, and the DLC maps are not included. Said DLC costs the same price as the original DLC.

I couldn’t find a single multiplayer game, it’s absolutely dead these days. If you want to play some MP, you should get the original release and install the CoD4x mod.

So should you buy this remaster? Well - be aware that the multiplayer is dead, so you’ll be spending at least 20€ just for the campaign, which is pretty bad value for the money.
Disregarding the price and value however – yes, MWR’s campaign is worth playing. It’s one of the very best CoD campaigns, it’s just a shame that it is so pricey.

This was really fun to replay, Its easy to get all the achievements if you want. I was able to do a regular play through and another one to get the rest of the achievements and it only took me 15.5 hrs. Only thing I don't like is that the game is capped at 60 FPS.

Uncheck pre render shadows in graphics menu to not crash but overall love this game. One of the best of all time!

After finally beating mile high club on veteran i can now peacefully shoot myself

If this game wasn't crashing all the time, I would give it a good review. But unfortunately, Activision has a reputation for poorly optimized games.

Don't buy this game. It's not worth it. All the crashing and freezing is too annoying. The original is more optimized than this. And this is supposed to be the remaster? Lol it's a joke.

First of all, i f'ing hate Activision, their pricing policies and remasters in general. While this game might seem like an unnecessary remaster, i'd say this is the one of the best things that Activision have done: A remaster worth buying. While building this game, they didn't just update graphics. They improved upon every aspect of original game. Graphics are definitely great but what i really like about it is that they added a lot of nice touches to the story mode. I don't want to spoil it here. But if you liked the original, you'll like this even more.

Multiplayer is also improved greatly. Bots are available in private matches and it's HUGE plus for me, as someone who really likes the simplicity and vibe of original game but don't want to deal with real players at this age. I can't say this enough, bots in this game AMAZING. They follow objectives, they aim like real players, they try to destroy helicopters and sometimes act like real players: games in Shipment can turn into grenade fest. I absolutely love it.

But there are of course some negatives:
- If you don't have up-to-date computer, running this game might be hurdle. I don't have SSD so loading screen videos sometimes don't load at all. Also i have 8GB of RAM and GTX1050 video card so i had to turn/tune down a lot of graphic settings. Turning off shadows and shader caches is a must, otherwise it will certainly crash your computer. Also there's a "out of memory" problem which i was only able to solve by downloading a mod called "h1-mod". You only have to run this mod once and crash problems will be gone. Your might game stutter for a while at the very beginning of every level or multiplayer gameafter load screen but then everything goes normal, it runs great.

- If you like playing with real players, you're out of luck. Multiplayer is basically dead. If you're lucky you might be able to find one game. But, like i said, BOTS are great alternative. However certain aspects of multiplayer, such as unlocks (including new weapons), are locked behind multiplayer progress and there's no way to unlock them with private matches with bots. You have to play with/against real players.


I wish they adressed this problems in some way. If you don't really mind these problems, it's actually great game. I will say this though, buy it on sale. Don't pay the full price. What's really idiotic is that when MS bought Activision, i was hoping that they would fix pricing policies of AV, yet nothing happened. Even the 2007 original game is way to expensive for its age.

So, this concludes my review.

Ok i wanna start off by saying if you gonna get this game just a head up , My game crash couple times and then i found a solution , I had to turn off "Shaders" in the setting and it work like a charm! I love this game it bring me back when my dad bought it for me on my xbox 360! Really good game but couple issue with it.... The 'Mile High Club " on Veteran was a NIGHTMARE...

A true remaster from the original Modern Warfare, it might need a little tweak in order to run smoothly, but it's the best way to play this FPS classic on current hardware

this game if fun for a classic cod expierience

How dare you charge £35 for a game that doesn't start. Actually the most putrid display of both greed and negligence. Take this game off the store, or better yet, fix it. The out of memory issue has been known for god knows how long, and I know for a FACT it wouldn't be a difficult one to fix. You should be sued LMAO, actually ridiculous

you need to add like 100 more settings to the config to get better performance but still really fun was worth it

The last mission on "veteran" difficulty will make you cry fr

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Could not launch the game after intalling it from steam. Had to lookup the error online and found alot of people with the same issue. Had to download 2 files from some discord server just to get the game to launch. It worked for 3 missions then it started crashing again. Had to turn off preload shaders in the settings. Way to many problems for a game that came out in 2017 and we are talking about a call of duty game, not just some indie game with only one dev. Asking 40 bucks for something that doesnt work. Steam should take the game down until Activision fixes this.

Bad reviews are because a PC master race option that lets you pre render shadows deactivate and wuala it don't crash any more.

Play this and feel what a good call of duty was in their prime.

But do buy it on a sale, the original price its a big no no.

Any games by Activation without Activation Launcher can be good.

Unlocked all achievements in under 16 hours. Love this game hands down one of my most love games.

Not a bad remaster. Definitely was a money grab originally but coming back to finish and 100% the game was a nice stroll down memory lane. The multiplayer isn't bad either, it gets a lot of hate but I personally think its the better version. If you liked the original or the older cod games this one is for you.

great game if you're playing on a different system. frequent crashes that make the game unplayable. the console version of this game is amazing, if you have a console then buy it on their instead. screw whoever put this on Steam in this state, totally fucking broken.

(campaign review only)
Sadly you feel its age, there is only one good scope in this game, and overall weapons feel like paintball guns.
AI Teammates are useless and will consistently do nothing to hit enemies in front of them.
Also the wallbanging is ridiculous, you can shoot through solid brick walls with normal ARs and enemys will do the same.
But the worst is the camera punch when you get hit, which basically makes you unable to shoot back, since you cant see anything or aim.

Overall its still a good game but with all the other CoD options available I wouldnt recommend it.
If you want to experience an OG CoD, MW2 is just way better.

Doesn't work properly in 2025 It is a pain to even get the game turned on and the issues don't stop after that. Audio is cut off randomly and the game crashes constantly. It might be intresting if the game worked, but I do not have patience for the bugs and crashes.

good remaster of already great game
graphics 7.5
gameplay 9

This game is optimized so badly for mouse and keyboard gaming, I cant even look up or down with my mouse I need to use the arrow keys wtf?

Was great playing the campaign in a nice new coat of paint.

More than likely your game will crash at the beginning of the bog mission.

To fix turn of shaders during cutscenes and the other one and you should be good

8 years after release and this game still does not work even on extremely high-end hardware, constant freezing and crashing, infinite loading screen loops, completely unacceptable

Unplayable game keeps freezing and crashes with fatal errors, one example of error is 887a0005. Most of them seem to be GPU related. I'm on a Nvidia 4070 Super. Googled all the error codes, they seem to have been there since the game released. Still not fixed in Feb 2025.

Fix: Disabling pre loading shaders.

I can't pass the full game because it crashes at the loading screen of the mission "The Bog"

10000000/10 would give my PC a wash using water again

constant bugs and crashes