CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 3 | Campaign Gameplay | 4K HDR 60FPS No Commentary Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is a first-person shooter video game developed by Sledgehammer Games and published by Activision. It is the twentieth game in the Call of Duty series, and third entry in the rebooted Modern Warfare sub-series, serving as the direct sequel to 2022's Modern Warfare II.Modern Warfare III retains the realistic, modern setting of its predecessors and continues the sub-series' storyline. The story follows multi-national special operations unit Task Force 141 tracking down Vladimir Makarov, a Russian ultranationalist and terrorist planning to trigger a third World War. Modern Warfare III's campaign takes place after the events of Modern Warfare II and its post-launch seasons, and features a number of fictional locations introduced in previous Modern Warfare games, including the city of Verdansk, Kastovia, and the country of Urzikstan. The game's primary antagonist is Ultranationalist terrorist Vladimir Makarov (Julian Kostov), commander of the Russian private military group Konni who was teased at the end of the Modern Warfare II campaign. Task Force 141 returns as the central protagonists, comprising: SAS Captain John Price (Barry Sloane), Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley (Samuel Roukin), Sergeant Kyle "Gaz" Garrick (Elliot Knight), and Sergeant John "Soap" MacTavish (Neil Ellice). Also returning from previous Modern Warfare games are: CIA Station Chief Kate Laswell (Rya Kihlstedt), Urzikstan Liberation Force Commander Farah Karim (Claudia Doumit), former CIA officer and ULF second-in-command Alex Keller (Chad Michael Collins), Chimera PMC leader Nikolai (Stefan Kapičić), United States Army General Herschel Shepherd (Glenn Morshower), and Shadow Company PMC Commander Phillip Graves (Warren Kole). New characters include: Andrei Nolan (Nikolai Nikolaeff) and Ivan Alexxeve (Lev Gorn), Konni operatives working for Makarov; Milena Romanova (Tina Ivlev), the financier of Konni Group; and Yuri Volkov (Raphael Corkhill), a Russian colonel who is acquainted with Laswell and Nikolai.