Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011)
Worth it · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $39.99. Price from Oct 21.
- Cost per hour▼
- $6.45/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 39,967
- Genre rank
- Top 9% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.2h
- To 100%
- 39.3h 6.3x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 90 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $13.59 September 2015
- Sale every
- 46d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Recent reviews
- 90% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 81% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
September 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $13.59. 90 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 9 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) ($19.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® ($59.99, scores 29).
More about Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011)
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.
The main story runs 6.2 hours. Doing everything runs 39, 6.3 times as long.
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What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
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What players say
While people think this game is perfect, it had some issues with the story which makes it the weakest of the trilogy, but the multiplayer is insane
2 more reviews
A timeless classic you wont be disappointed definitely better than its reboot counter part when call of duty had much to offer.
Loved the campaign and gameplay, much better than the remakes of the Modern warfare triology 10/10!
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About the game
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
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Oct 21. 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-3-2011Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Oct 21. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.