Modern Warfare 3’s Open Combat Missions deserve to die, but one level should be saved
Even before Modern Warfare 3 came out and everyone spent enough time with it to see just how utterly mediocre it is, it was easy to see that the so-called Open Combat Missions were going to be the weakest part of what already looked like a hollow campaign.
Weeks after finishing that campaign, one mission in particular continues to stick in my mind, though – and it’s one that I would love to see expanded upon in future games, or even turned into its own game mode.
For the uninitiated, Open Combat Missions were revealed ahead of the game’s release as a new type of a more open-ended mission. The pitch was that the open nature of them would allow the player to pick their tactics, and decide how to approach each objective/what tools to use or scavenge for.