{"id":914019,"date":"2026-06-19T18:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-not-to-be-confused-with-call-of-duty-4-modern-warfare-sees-north-korea-invade-south-korea\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:12:11","slug":"call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-not-to-be-confused-with-call-of-duty-4-modern-warfare-sees-north-korea-invade-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-not-to-be-confused-with-call-of-duty-4-modern-warfare-sees-north-korea-invade-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, not to be confused with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, sees North Korea invade South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<article data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div>\n<figure>\n        <picture><source  media=\"(max-width: 549px) and (max-resolution: 1dppx)\"><source  media=\"(max-width: 549px) and (max-resolution: 1.5dppx)\"><source  media=\"(max-width: 549px) and (max-resolution: 1.75dppx)\"><source  media=\"(max-width: 549px) and (max-resolution: 2dppx)\"><source  media=\"(max-width: 549px) and (max-resolution: 3dppx)\"><source  media=\"(min-width: 550px) and (max-resolution: 1dppx)\"><source  media=\"(min-width: 550px) and (max-resolution: 1.5dppx)\"><source  media=\"(min-width: 550px) and (max-resolution: 1.75dppx)\"><source  media=\"(min-width: 550px) and (max-resolution: 2dppx)\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-south-korea-fire.jpg?width=690&#038;quality=85&#038;format=jpg&#038;dpr=3&#038;auto=webp\" alt=\"A soldier stands before a Seoul building on fire in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-uri=\"call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-south-korea-fire.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"690\" height=\"388\">\n      <\/picture><figcaption>\n          <span>Image credit: <cite>Activision \/ Infinity Ward<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div data-component=\"article-content\">\n<p>By this point, I&#8217;m convinced the Call of Duty series is a sick experiment testing the limits of mass deja vu. Infinity Ward, the makers of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/games\/call-of-duty-4-modern-warfare\">Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare<\/a> have just announced their new game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/games\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare\">Call of Duty: Modern Warfare<\/a> 4.<\/p>\n<p>This new game has a linear campaign that sees North Korea bombard South Korean capital Seoul before launching a land invasion of the city. In one strand of the campaign you&#8217;ll play as a South Korean soldier repelling the invasion, in another you&#8217;ll play as a North Korean soldier on the other side of the battle, and in a third series regular Captain Price is off causing a ruckus.<\/p>\n<p>The reveal trailer does a good job of setting up the stakes:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<a aria-label=\"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 | Reveal Trailer\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jLbst85USN8?autoplay=1\" onclick=\"((e) => { e.preventDefault(); e.currentTarget.closest(&#8216;.video_wrapper&#8217;).innerHTML = e.currentTarget.querySelector(&#8216;template&#8217;).innerHTML; enableElements(); })(event)&#8221; title=&#8221;Click to play video from YouTube&#8221;><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/jLbst85USN8\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 | Reveal Trailer<\/span><br \/>\n<template><br \/>\n<iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jLbst85USN8?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/jLbst85USN8?autoplay=1\" title=\"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 | Reveal Trailer\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe> <\/template><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jLbst85USN8\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve played and enjoyed many Call of Duty games, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 looks like it could be as good as the best of them or as bad as the worst of them. It&#8217;s, after all, a cinematic trailer, so who can tell? For what it&#8217;s worth, there are several previews of the game from outlets who were invited to play the game at Activision&#8217;s offices last week and they seem to be broadly positive. We weren&#8217;t invited. (I&#8217;d like to say it&#8217;s because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/call-of-duty-black-ops-7-campaign-review\">we said last year&#8217;s game, Black Ops 7, was naff<\/a> and we&#8217;ve been blacklisted, but pretty much everyone said last year&#8217;s game was naff so it&#8217;s likely not that.)<\/p>\n<p>As well as bringing a linear single-player campaign (unlike Black Ops 7&#8217;s poorly-delivered co-op campaign and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/games\/call-of-duty-infinite-warfare\">Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare<\/a>&#8216;s poorly-received \u2013 but very good \u2013 non-linear one), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 also has its standard multiplayer fare, and resuscitates the DMZ extraction shooter mode. What with ARC Raiders&#8217; success, Activision have got to be hoping they can do a Warzone and make DMZ a standalone success.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s disappointing about Modern Warfare 4&#8217;s reveal, from the new trailer and the interviews I&#8217;ve read, is that it&#8217;s not clear where the game is pushing into the new. One quote in particular stood out from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-campaign-south-korea\">Eurogamer&#8217;s preview<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re kind of unlocking this experience that hasn&#8217;t been in our previous Modern Warfares,&#8221;  associate design director Alex Norris said. &#8220;Our previous Modern Warfares have been very focused on task force 141, special operators, and small raids. We&#8217;ve got the largest U.S overseas military base in South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So it&#8217;s tapping into infantry, armour, and air support; all these things kind of working together to retake a city. That&#8217;s something we haven&#8217;t gotten to do before on the gameplay side. You&#8217;ll see D-Day-style beach landings, trench warfare and driving tanks in large-scale battles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think there have been any Call of Duty games that have felt lacking in infantry, armour, and air support. I remember vividly playing and replaying The End of the Beginning, the North Africa campaign mission released as a demo for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/games\/call-of-duty-2\">Call of Duty 2<\/a>, in which you assault El Daba in trucks and tanks before fighting through the streets in pitched battles. So it&#8217;s hardly a new experience for the series, and even if Norris is speaking specifically to Modern Warfare games, even the original, as you inhabit the not-long-for-this-world Sergeant Paul Jackson, you start his campaign with a sea-launched helicopter invasion of a coastal town.<\/p>\n<p>I realise I&#8217;m losing sight of the wood by focusing on the trees, and I don&#8217;t want this to be mistaken as negativity for the game itself. It may well be a great shooter, Infinity Ward are talented developers. It&#8217;s just dispiriting to see what has been done before many times being wrapped in language suggesting it&#8217;s new.<\/p>\n<p>But then, I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ve been here and said all of this before.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Julian Benson<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-4-not-to-be-confused-with-call-of-duty-4-modern-warfare-sees-north-korea-invade-south-korea\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image credit: Activision \/ Infinity Ward By this point, I&#8217;m convinced the Call of Duty series is a sick experiment testing the limits of mass deja vu. Infinity Ward, the makers of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare have just announced their new game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. This new game has a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":914020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4173,4862],"tags":[7657,7658],"class_list":["post-914019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-modern","category-warfare","tag-modern","tag-warfare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}