Activision and Infinity Ward have revealed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4. It’s launching on Xbox Series X/S, PS5, PC, and Nintendo Switch 2 on the 23rd October, 2026.

The game will feature three main game modes: a campaign, multiplayer, and the long-awaited return of its extraction shooter mode, DMZ.

The campaign will focus on three main narratives. The first places players in the shoes of a South Korean military squad present in Seoul during a North Korean missile attack and subsequent invasion. The second has you play as series mainstay Captain Price, continuing his story following the killing of General Shepherd in Modern Warfare 3. The third segment has you play a member of the North Korean dictatorship.

As for the multiplayer, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is bringing a lot of bold changes. These include new movement improvements, ‘apex attachments’ which drastically change what each weapon can do, and perhaps most impressively, a new bullet trajectory system. This removes randomised weapon bloom that previously sent bullets flying semi-randomly from weapons, so it’s quite the substantial change.

Multiplayer is also bringing back a fan-favourite game mode in Gun Game. This 10v10 mode provides randomised weapons each round as it did in the past, except it takes place on a special new map type this time around. This map is split into three distinct segments, which are randomly changed after each round to keep things chaotic.

While DMZ first appeared in Modern Warfare 2 (2022), that was always technically a beta, whereas this will be a fully developed extraction shooter experience. Details on this are sparse at the moment, though it’ll be playable both in squads and solo. The extraction mode will have changing weather, dynamic military objectives, and hostile forces moving throughout the zone. After the proliferation of games in the genre, headlined by Escape from Tarkov, Marathon, and Arc Raiders, it’s intriguing to see Call of Duty take on the new champion genre in the FPS space.

It’s an interesting release for the series for multiple reasons, the most obvious of them being the departure from older generation consoles at a time when affordability is a major hurdle for modern gamers. A glass-half-full note is that the game is being developed natively for the Switch 2, so that version should be pretty decent.

It’s also coming after a lot of love was lost for Call of Duty with Black Ops 7. That game, controversial among fans, allowed games like Battlefield 6 to win over disgruntled players.

If you want to learn more about Modern Warfare 4, we interviewed the developers about the campaign and how to “rip from the headlines” for a South Korea / North Korea conflict appropriately. There’s also our impressions piece on the Modern Warfare 4 multiplayer, which left us impressed.

So it’s a high-pressure release from Infinity Ward. Let’s see if this upcoming release can coax people back.