The most underrated Call of Duty game returns in Warzone Season 3

Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone are bringing back content from Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, one of the most underrated titles in CoD history.

Released in 2014, Advanced Warfare was one of the first futuristic Call of Duty games in the long-running franchise. Adding boost mechanics, the game kickstarted the series’ divergence into advanced movement mechanics that ended with Black Ops 4.

Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone Season 3 will introduce multiple weapons from the futuristic FPS game, combating the now ten-year-old title. While it’s not as good as the Advanced Warfare sequel we’ve been waiting a decade for, it’s better than nothing.

Leaks have revealed that multiple Advanced Warfare weapons are coming back to celebrate the game. This includes the EM1, ASM1, BAL27, and MORS will all be returning in the form of Warzone weapons, although they haven’t been officially announced yet.

The new Warzone weapons should be officially announced in next week’s Modern Warfare 3/Warzone Season 3 roadmap. However, with dataminers already finding images of the returning weapons in game files, it seems highly likely that they will be a major part of the new season.

Advanced Warfare developer Sledgehammer Games did initially pitch a return to the futuristic warfare of CoD: AW, but the game was scrapped in favour of a rushed Modern Warfare 3. While patches have made MW3 a worthy multiplayer CoD since release, the game’s awful campaign is still a dark mark on the prestigious FPS franchise. However, with Sledgehammer forced to make the entire game - Campaign, Multiplayer, Zombies and more - in just 16 months, it’s a miracle it released in the state it was in.

With Call of Duty 2024 currently teasing a return to Black Ops, we hope Sledgehammer Games may actually be able to return the world of Advanced Warfare sometime soon. While vastly different from the boots-on-the-ground appeal of Modern Warfare, Black Ops and Vanguard, the more varied styles of different CoDs should return to keep the franchise from turning stale.

Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone are currently available on Xbox, PlayStation and PC. Warzone Mobile is also available as a free-to-play title on iOS and Android.