Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Revealed With DMZ, Release Date, and Nintendo Switch 2 Version Confirmed

Activision has yet revealed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, the adjacent mainline introduction successful the first-person shooter franchise owed retired aboriginal successful 2026.

Developed by Infinity Ward, the main workplace down the Modern Warfare sub-series, Modern Warfare 4 ditches the past procreation of consoles to absorption connected the current-gen — and it’s besides coming to Nintendo Switch 2 time 1 with crossplay.

Three main modes are included successful the package: Campaign, Multiplayer, and DMZ, the second of which is Modern Warfare’s extraction mode. The mounting this clip astir is Korea amid a full-scale penetration of South Korea. Activision describes the run arsenic returning to the series’ roots, with “dark, gritty storytelling, cinematic acceptable pieces, and immersive gameplay moments.” Expect missions successful Korea, New York, Paris, and an SAS nighttime raid successful Mumbai.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Campaign Screenshots

Here’s the authoritative blurb:

Private Park, a young Korean grunt soldier, is thrust into combat for the archetypal time, arsenic helium and his squad are forced to flooded intolerable likelihood successful a gripping zero to leader journey. Captain Price returns and forms a rogue alliance, operating extracurricular the strategy and isolated from the Task Force 141 squad helium erstwhile called his own.

As for Multiplayer, the header alteration is that limb bloom has been removed from hipfire, which means “every changeable tells the truth.” Shots “feel much connected to wherever the limb is pointed portion delivering consistent, predictable, and just gunplay.”

At launch, expect 12 all-new halfway 6v6 maps, dedicated Gunfight maps, aggregate Big War maps built for conveyance and infantry combat, and Kill Block, a dynamic battleground with much than 500 configurations that reshape routes, sightlines, and screen to support players adapting circular aft round.

There are 2 Prestige paths: Classic Prestige and Regular Prestige. Classic Prestige delivers the accepted reset experience, relocking Create-a-Class progression successful speech for accrued XP gain rates and entree to exclusive Prestige rewards. Check retired IGN's impressions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Multiplayer close here.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 improvement is led by Infinity Ward, and volition beryllium disposable globally connected Xbox Series X and S, PlayStation 5, and PC via Battle.net, Xbox connected PC, Steam, and Nintendo Switch 2 connected Friday, October 23, 2026. Crucially for Activision and Microsoft, that’s 4 weeks earlier the attention-sucking GTA 6 comes out.

The PC mentation is built with the assistance of Beenox, which has worked connected PC versions of Call of Duty for immoderate clip now. The Nintendo Switch 2 mentation is developed successful concern with Digital Legends, the Barcelona-based Activision-owned workplace which worked connected the present shuttered Call of Duty Warzone Mobile.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 - Multiplayer Screenshots

It’s worthy noting that this year's Call of Duty volition not motorboat time 1 connected Game Pass, Microsoft's subscription service. New Xbox brag Asha Sharma had decided to propulsion caller Call of Duty launches retired of Game Pass, alternatively adding them successful a twelvemonth later, portion cutting the terms of a sub arsenic portion of a wider effort to rebuild the marque successful the eyes of hardcore fans.

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