Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011)
Worth it · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $39.99.
- Length
- 6.2h
- Value
- $6.45/hr
- Reviews
- 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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The value story
September 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $13.59. It has been discounted 91 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 50 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. 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.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009) ($19.99, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) ($39.99, scores 49).
Steam's global achievement data says about 7 percent of players ever finish it. On a 6.2-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. 11 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 1,587 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.
The drop-off
84% start to 7% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 6.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
357 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
campaign and spec ops on veteran is way too easy imo. most deaths were me trying to parkour and other ♥♥♥. Even though I think they're too easy, I still had a blast. Before getting this game on pc, it has been over 10 years since I played it, which was on console. It was awesome to play this game again after all that time. The survival mode in MW3 is probably one of my favorite modes to ever exist in a COD game.
Might be an unpopular opinion, but this is my favorite of all the Modern Warfare games. For one thing I was able to rig controller support to it lol Both this game and the first Black Ops had stories that felt like movies in a time before games such as The Last of Us defined and fleshed out that style of making video games. I also like to pretend in my own headcannon that this is where the game Homefront fits into...
The best campaign in the OG Modern Warfare series has the alot more action compared to OG modern warfare 1 and 2 and it's the only game in the OG Modern Warfare series when act 1 isn't boring. The game also feels alot more similar to OG Modern Warfare 1 than OG Modern Warfare 2.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/42680/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 Sep 11, price as of Sep 24.
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