Summary

  • Season One of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will introduce new game modes, maps, and more, aiming to provide original content and create a memorable experience.
  • The map "Meat" is already generating buzz due to its unique name and setting in a slaughterhouse, offering a tight, close-quarters experience with dynamic environmental features.
  • The Meat map presents an opportunity to honor Call of Duty's heritage by reintroducing map-specific hazards and unique twists, allowing for strategic gameplay and adding excitement to the multiplayer experience.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is already facing some heat thanks to the perceived lack of original content that it offers, with the game relying heavily on its predecessor as well as the maps of 2009's Modern Warfare 2. This has put immense pressure on the first in-game season of the release, which is set to introduce a variety of new game modes, maps, and more.

A lot of this content for Season One of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has already been confirmed by Sledgehammer Games, with a lot of attention in particular being placed on the maps that the event will bring. One map, oddly called "Meat," is already drawing a lot of attention, and is shaping up to be one of the most anticipated elements of the season. With the map developing a reputation due to its odd name and setting, Modern Warfare 3 could really lean into this in the design of the map to create a more memorable and layered experience like the CoD maps of old.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: Season 1's Meat Map Has a Lot of Potential

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Season One of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is expected to launch on December 6. Many regard it as the event that will really push the game into its own identity, allowing it to put last year's Modern Warfare 2 firmly behind it. As things stand, this is all the currently confirmed content for Modern Warfare 3's Season One:

  • New core maps: Meat and Greece, with Rio being added in Season One Reloaded
  • New game modes: Gunfight will return with classic maps, as well as the new Training Facility map
  • New Zombies missions and story experiences

Not a lot of information is currently known about the MW3 Meat map, but its outlandish presence has already been the subject of a lot of positive discussion. As the name suggests, Meat will take place in and around a slaughterhouse named East Bay Meats. Fans should expect a tight close-quarters experience with densely packed areas.

A slaughterhouse is one of the most unique settings that a Call of Duty map has had in some time, and Sledgehammer Games should fully capitalize on this with some unique quirks within Meat. The map should really lean into some environmental features that players need to take into account, with meat hanging from hooks moving around the map on a conveyor belt being one example of how this could be handled. This would offer a dynamic element of moving cover that would periodically block and open up sight-lines, offering some high-octane strategy.

Modern Warfare 3 Could Honor CoD Heritage in Meat

Another fun twist that Meat could introduce is a freezer room located in a strategic position which could slow the movement of players within it, offering a risk and reward factor to holding such an advantageous spot. These kinds of map-specific hazards used to be a staple of Call of Duty multiplayer, with the iconic Black Ops map Firing Range having moving targets as one example.

This philosophy even appeared in 2022's Modern Warfare 2 with the Crown Raceway map having cars that would periodically speed around the edges of the map, killing any players in its path. CoD has strayed from these unique twists in recent years, and the upcoming Meat map is the perfect opportunity to pick up the slack.

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Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare III
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Top Critic Avg: 58 /100 Critics Rec: 14%
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November 10, 2023
ESRB
M For Mature 17+ Due To Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Use of Drugs
Developer(s)
Sledgehammer Games
Publisher(s)
Activision
Engine
iw 9.0
Multiplayer
Online Multiplayer, Local Multiplayer
Cross-Platform Play
PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One & Xbox Series X|S
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The war has changed. Call of Duty returns with an all-new campaign, modernized versions of classic Multiplayer maps and an open-world PvE Zombies experience. The campaign, a direct sequel to the record-breaking Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, sees Captain Price and Task Force 141 face off against ultranationalist war criminal Vladimir Makarov as he extends his grasp across the world.  In Multiplayer, the 16 maps that launched with Modern Warfare 2 in 2009 return with upgraded graphics, new modes and innovative gameplay features. In Modern Warfare Zombies, team up with other squads for the first time ever as you work together to survive in the largest Zombies map yet

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First-Person Shooter
How Long To Beat
5 Hours