<Tr> <Th> Genre (s) </Th> <Td> First - person shooter </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Mode (s) </Th> <Td> Single - player, multiplayer </Td> </Tr> <P> Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (stylized as Call of Duty: MW3) is a first - person shooter video game, developed by Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games, with assistance from Raven Software, and published by Activision . The game was released worldwide in November 2011 for Microsoft Windows, the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Wii . It is the third installment in the Modern Warfare saga, a direct sequel to 2009's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and the eighth Call of Duty installment . A separate version for the Nintendo DS was developed by n - Space, while Treyarch developed the game's Wii port . In Japan, Square Enix published the game with a separate subtitled and dubbed version . </P> <P> The game's campaign follows up Modern Warfare 2 and begins right after the events of its final mission . Similar to Modern Warfare 2, it is centered around the Task Force 141, which contains Captain Price, Soap MacTavish, and Yuri, one of the playable characters . Alongside the Delta Force and Special Air Service, they hunt Vladimir Makarov (antagonist of Modern Warfare 2), a Russian terrorist who leads the Russian Ultranationalist party . He leads several terror attacks across Europe, triggering a large - scale war between the Ultranationalists and friendly forces . For the game's multiplayer mode, new mode types and killstreak choices were brought in . Improvements were also made to the mode that solved issues that appeared in Modern Warfare 2 . </P>

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