Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011)
Skip · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
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- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Shader 3.0 or better 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT / ATI Radeon X1950 or better, 16 GB of storage. Windows only.
The best-selling first-person action series of all-time returns with an epic sequel to the multiple GOTY award winner Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
September 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $13.59. 90 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 36 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) ($39.99, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® ($59.99, scores 28).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 11 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 77 percent of the 1,576 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/115300/call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3-2011The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 23.
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