Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered has officially released as a standalone game on PC, but it’s not been well received well by players. In simple terms, the port is being review bombed on Steam for several lingering issues. Currently, nearly 60 percent of all reviews on Valve’s product page have been classified as negative.
Chief among those is the game’s apparently poor optimization across several popular PC configurations. While we haven’t had the time to test the game ourselves, users suggest the Windows build suffers from intermittent frame rate drops, low frame rates, freezes, crashes and other small bugs.
In fact, the top-rated review from Time :^) just might say it all. “When you think CoD:Ghosts is a bad PC game, this **** will show you how unoptimized a game can be,” the post reads. Others referred to the gameplay experience as “terrible,” “abysmal,” “broken,” “bad” and “awful.” Specific cases involved some users running the game on competent graphics cards like the GTX 1060 with performance as low as 13 fps.
Beyond not being able to run the game smoothly, others have criticized Modern Warfare Remastered for its lack of sensitivity options or vsync support and a bizarre framerate cap. Even those able to play have been discouraged by servers with low player counts and hackers taking advantage of the unstable code.
The most interesting thing about this litany of Modern Warfare Remastered problems is that most of them have silently existed for nearly a year. As followers of the franchise will know, Modern Warfare Remastered originally released as a pack-in with deluxe editions of Call Of Duty: Infinite Warfare. For the standalone release that arrived today, the code is the exact same as it’s always been. The only difference is that it’s being sold as a separate product for $40. Because there was no place where PC users could uniformly leave reviews about a PC pack-in, it would appear these complaints largely went unnoticed by the development team at Raven Software.
Now that the game has released to a wider audience, it will be interesting to see if this is something Raven actually takestime to address. Based on how little has been done to smooth out basic kinks since launch, we’re not too optimistic. Also, it’s become increasingly clear in recent years that Call Of Duty simply is no longer a PC-centric franchise. The audience will grow now that this standalone is public, but it may not grow enough to warrant the resources for quality assurance.
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered came to Xbox One as a standalone game Thursday as well. The biggest gripes with that version are its $40 price tag and paid DLC. One thing worth noting on the PC end is that the original Modern Warfare is easily accessible for $20 if gamers don’t want to deal with the frustrations of the new version.
Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered is available now on PS4, Xbox One and PC.
What are your thoughts on this review bombing campaign? Have you played Modern Warfare Remastered on PC? Tell us in the comments section!
