Modern Warfare III

Activision unveils 1st gameplay for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare lll got its gameplay reveal today at Opening Night Live at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany.

The developers showed off Operation 627, an underwater mission that is at the very beginning of Modern Warfare III. In it, Task Force 141 members dive underwater and emerge in front of a castle on the edge of the Kostovian Sea. They scale the walls in the rain and use night vision equipment to see.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.