Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011)
Worth it · Shooter · 2011
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$39.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$19.9950% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $6.45/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 39,983
- Genre rank
- Top 9% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $19.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 6.2h
- To 100%
- 39.3h 6.3x the story
- Achievements
- 76
Price and sales
- Sales
- 91 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $13.59 September 2015
- Sale every
- 46d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 210 now
- Recent reviews
- 92% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 81% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
84% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 91 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 7 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. 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 81) 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)
12 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 1,596 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 51 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Epic, emotional and absolutely unforgettable. The campaign is a non-stop rollercoaster with some of the best missions I've ever played. Every level feels like a big blockbuster set piece, from intense urban firefights to tense stealth moments to pure chaos. The pacing is perfect, and there's no filler. The finale is the most epic fight I've ever seen in a game. It had me on the edge of my seat, and the payoff is...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
SPOILERS!!! MW3 starts off strong. My love for the portrayal of war or invasion of America starts as the first mission in this campaign and wow. Seeing New York in complete ruins for real gave me chills. As mentioned before I don't live in America, but it really hits close. It was heavy to play the MW2 invasion and this time it didn't get easier. I still cant believe Soap dies. Knowing that twist it still made me...
I feel a step back from MW2. It looks uglier, and the AI feels stupider. I still have PTSD from the Favellas in MW2. But I breezed through this on Veteran, as I played it on Normal, except in 2 missions where the AI started properly shooting back. Also, I have a decent PC, but this game stutters all the time, which just kills immersion. ( I had no problem with MW2)
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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).
Cite this score
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011) scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. 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-3-2011Reviews 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 Nov 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.