Site News: Where's Our Call of Duty: Modern Warfare PS4 Review?

''Reviews that are live right now are almost certainly based on a recent press event held by Activision.''

Am I the only one who finds it weird that you can base an entire review on a single press event? That shouldn't be legal.

@Octane nope.

Also, please update the review if they patch the microtransactions at a later date to make it pay to win/shady like they have done before.

Edit: updated for clarification.

This is getting silly now. We used to get reviews a month before games released then a week before, a few days, one day. Now a week later. To be clear this is obviously not Pushsquares fault. I will wait for your review (and a couple of others) to make up my mind.

Seems a lot of shady practices going on with reviews. I remember Giant Bomb saying they were told they didnt get Borderlands 3 review code because they weren't positive enough about Borderland at e3. I cant see how you can do a review in a controlled environment of a publisher.

@Dange you know why, it's because if a game reviews badly before release it effects sales so by not letting places review them until the game is out means they get more pre-orders and day one sales before people realise the game aint that good

it's just another way of pulling the wool over our eyes and for them to net some whales (not to say every game will get a bad review but sometimes even an average review can hurt sales especially among modern younger gamers that think anything lower than a 8/10 is total crap because they are too stupid to understand how a number system works)

I'd rather have a review by someone who plays the game in their own environment (home or office), rather then some marketing board driven 'press event', probably more likely to give a more honest opinion really.

The goody bags are probably quite nice though.

This is so ridiculous.
This makes the game look like crap...my hype has gone down the drain for now! What a scummy way to treat reviewers!

A review may modify a small percentage of sales from gamers who pay attention to reviews.

For the crowd of gamers who only play the latest iteration of [insert EA sports title] and COD, it won't matter how this game scores.

I have said this before, i will say it again. Never feel the need to apologise for having reviews later than others. It is why i trust your judgement. I can trust you guys to actually play the game, in a live environment - which surely is crucial for a multiplayer focussed title such as this - and then give an honest assessment of how a game actually plays.

How many times have we seen other outlets deliver phoned in review scores that dont reflect the quality of the product.

We need more outlets like you to make a stand, and then this nonsense of review embargo's, and companys not releasing review code until the product is on store shelves has to end.

We need publishers like Sony to give refunds to customers buying clearly unfinished and broken games like anthem and wwe 2k 2020 when they release in a state unfit for the consumer - and better yet, not allow them on their store front in the first place. Remember when the nintendo seal of quality actually meant something?

And, as consumers, we need to refuse to buy into it. Things will only change if we dont buy these things on release day. Force them into releasing review code early enough for us to make clear decisions on what we choose to spend our money on.

And the law needs to finally step in. Particularly to stop this new wheeze of games releasing, harvesting review scores (which cant be updated on metacritic), and then implementing microtransactions, a la crash team racing.

This cannot continue or the games industry is going to crash again. Consumers are more savvy and have had enough.

Well done push square for your journalistic integrity. Do not change.

Short 'edgy' campaign
Same multiplayer
7/10
Review done

@BorderlineJon Maybe next time before you shout random stuff about micro-transactions you do some research about the game.

@WetWildWendy it's not random. Activision have patched in microtransactions previously after reviews have gone up, so as to ensure their games are reviewed better than the crap they can become. Call of duty is not a franchise I have interest in really, but patching the game later to add mechanics to ensure you pay extra are shady. It's not just Activision, Fallout 76 is the same, and Ubisoft are guilty of it recently too. Wait and see if they change the game to extract more money out of people in a few weeks after all the reviews hit. I don't need to research Call of Duty specifically to know Activision have done it.

The single player is pretty good, quite short maybe 6 hours to complete. Some great sequences though and good atmosphere. There's a level near the beginning which is really intense. Multiplayer is still very sound from the beta. A good tight feeling from the MP gameplay. I'd say an 8.5/10

This is why the game will be getting a 6/7 on this site.
Which btw is a great score according to reviewers of PS

@fabisputza00 because that is pretty much what a 7/10 means

1/10 absolutely terrible
2/10 really bad
3/10 bad
4/10 slightly below average
5/10 average
6/10 good
7/10 great
8/10 amazing
9/10 fantastic
10/10 incredible

Only has 36 gig of data on the disk & can't play anything until it's downloaded a huge update !

@Rick_Deckard

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I have played almost all the call of duty games..loved modern warfare and mw2.loved black ops and black ops 2..hated all others up until advanced warfare but i didnt like the multiplayer as i felt that the jetpacks and gadgets ruined the game online(this game ruined my love of fps games on the pc due to rampant cheating).now i thought blackout was a good solid online shooter albet with basic graphics that looked horrible at times but then it became a convoluted mess and suddenly got plagued with the micro transactions...the new modern warfare finally gets back to what made the original mw one of the best online shooters and that is more emphasis on the weapons and a certain degree of skill and even though the whopping install and 2 mahoosive updates followed by a 3rd update around 7pm yesterday i am loving it and groundwar is amazing..8/10 for me.

@PhantomXIII unfortunatly the game requires the update to play the campaign offline too.

@BorderlineJon yes you are right coz you can see in to the future and you are always right.

@WetWildWendy whatever. Not sure what you're smoking, but you go ahead and be inflammatory if it helps your ego 😊😂

You told me I was being random, I proved to you I wasn't, you spat your dummy out. Sucks to be proven wrong eh? I had forgotten all about this post and comments! But you're still worrying enough about it even now. Whatever makes you happy. We can agree to disagree. I wish you all the best but perhaps it's better to just not reply, rather than going for personal attacks. Good day to you 😉