Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 4

Modern Warfare 4 splits into three games that share one arsenal. The campaign is a linear, set-piece-driven tour: trench fighting in Korea, close-quarters work in New York, vehicle chases through Paris, SAS night raids in Mumbai and large assaults to retake occupied cities. You spend most of it as Private Park, a South Korean conscript seeing combat for the first time, with Captain Price's chapters running in parallel.

Multiplayer leans on grounded gunplay and movement control rather than wall-running flash. Matches run across a range of map sizes, from tight close-quarters lanes up to large battlefields where vehicles and infantry fight over the same ground. Mastery is about map knowledge, recoil control and picking fights you can win, and cross-platform matchmaking keeps queues full.

DMZ is the long-tail mode. You drop in solo or with a squad as a deniable asset hunting advanced military hardware left behind by the war, then decide what to grab, who to trust and when to run for extraction. Every run can end with you losing your kit, and that risk is what gives looting, negotiating and betraying other players their bite. Co-op squads, full controller support and a long list of accessibility options round it out.

War breaks out when North Korea launches a full-scale invasion of the South, and the fallout threatens to drag the rest of the world in. On the collapsing front line, Private Park and his squad of young South Korean soldiers are simply trying to stay alive through their first taste of real combat.

Half a world away, Captain Price is no longer the loyal operator of earlier Modern Warfare games. Now an outlaw working outside the system he once served, he is chasing a personal vendetta while the people hunting him close in. As Price's off-the-books mission runs into the forces behind the invasion, the two stories collide and the conflict spreads past anyone's control. Activision frames it as the darkest chapter yet for this storyline, with long-running threads pushed to a breaking point.

Modern Warfare 4 is out now on Windows PC through Steam at US$69.99. Local Steam prices are RM339 in Malaysia, S$96.90 in Singapore, ₱3,499 in the Philippines, ฿1,999 in Thailand and Rp 999,000 in Indonesia. It supports 14 interface languages, including Japanese, Korean, Arabic and both Chinese scripts, but no Southeast Asian language. Minimum spec is a GTX 970 or 1060, RX 470 or Arc A580 with 8 GB of RAM and 115 GB on an SSD. Every mode needs a broadband connection, and it has cross-platform multiplayer and full controller support.