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. Read more