Modern Warfare Looks Absolutely Incredible

I spent a few dozen hours playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare at a review event last week, and walked away with a lot of positive impressions. Perhaps the most superficial and obvious of which is that Modern Warfare looks absolutely phenomenal. As a PC gamer in 2019, “next-generation graphics” is kind of a murky term -- but I think it applies here. Modern Warfare is running on a "new game engine" which is to say that major sections of Infinity Ward’s IW engine have been rewritten and now support features like 4K and ray tracing. This new-found fidelity was certainly noticeable when I played gunfight at Gamescom 2019, but it wasn’t until I sat down last week to play Modern Warfare’s single-player campaign in its entirety that the full effects of the visuals really sunk in.

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