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Activision's new work "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4" has had the most positive start among the series in recent years on the Steam platform. Since early access to the campaign mode was opened to pre-order players on October 16, the game has received a lot of positive feedback. As of the time of the report, 1,630 of the 1,812 reviews submitted by Steam users were positive, and the overall evaluation reached "extremely positive" with a positive review rate of approximately 90%.
The first person to pay attention to this trend was the gaming media Insider Gaming. At that time, the game only had about 900 user reviews, and the positive rate according to SteamDB statistics had reached 81.15%. Even at that stage, this achievement already made "Modern Warfare 4" the highest-rated "Call of Duty" title on the Steam platform since "Call of Duty: Black Ops 3" in 2015.
With the rapid increase in the number of players participating in reviews, the total number of reviews has more than doubled. At the same time, data tracked by SteamDB also shows that the game maintains a reputation performance that is significantly better than that of the series in recent years. However, industry insiders pointed out that the current users who give evaluations mainly come from the player group who purchased in advance and experienced the single-player campaign mode first. These players are usually the most loyal and enthusiastic supporters of the series, so the current data still has certain reference limitations.
In comparison, the reputation of recent generations of "Call of Duty" works on Steam is obviously inferior. According to SteamDB statistics, the score of "Black Ops 7" is 38.71%, "Black Ops 6" is 45.75%, "Modern Warfare III" is 48.19%, and "Modern Warfare II" is 47.10%. The best-performing modern Call of Duty game in a long time, Black Ops 3, scored 84.36%.
Since SteamDB's rating algorithm will correct the data to around 50% when the number of reviews is small, there is still room for further improvement in the actual word-of-mouth performance of "Modern Warfare 4" as more and more players join in the review process. If subsequent reviews continue to maintain a positive trend, the game is expected to surpass "Black Ops 3" and become the highest-rated "Call of Duty" game on the Steam platform in the past decade.
However, the content currently available to experience is mainly focused on the single-player campaign. Multiplayer game mode and DMZ mode will not be fully available until the official release on October 23. At that time, as more ordinary players join, the overall rating of the game may still change.
In addition, PC players also need to pay attention to system requirements. The developer requires that the computer running the game must enable TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot (secure boot) functions, otherwise the game will not be entered normally. As the official release date approaches, whether "Modern Warfare 4" can maintain its current strong reputation and continue to be recognized by players after the multiplayer mode is launched will remain the focus of the industry.
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