


When CoD4 first dropped back in 2007, it didn’t just help pave the way for every Call of Duty game that followed, it had a major influence on big-budget shooters as a whole, particularly on consoles. The short answer is easy: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered is a prettier, smoother version of one of the best first-person shooters in modern gaming. Flash forward about nine months later-even more by the time you read this-and we finally have a standalone release of the remastered shooter, but was it worth the wait?

Call it a little insurance to make sure people actually bought the then-latest entry, and maybe some of the reactions went a little overboard, but it was still a rather shrewd strategy. Activision ruffled a few feathers when it restricted access to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered to those who purchased Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.
