<P> Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is a first - person shooter video game . It is the eighth installment of the Call of Duty series and the third installment of the Modern Warfare arc . Due to a legal dispute between the game's publisher Activision and the former co-executives of Infinity Ward--which caused several lay - offs and departures within the company--Sledgehammer Games assisted in the development of the game, while Raven Software was brought in to make cosmetic changes to the menus of the game . The game was said to have been in development since only two weeks after the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 . Sledgehammer was aiming for a "bug free" first outing in the Call of Duty franchise, and had also set a goal for Metacritic review scores above 95 percent . </P> <P> The game continues the story from the point at which it ended in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and continues the fictional battle story between the United States and Russia, which evolves into the Third World War between NATO allied nations and Ultra-nationalist Russia (a revolutionary political party idolizing the late days of the Soviet Union). </P> <P> Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered is a remastered version of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare that was released alongside the Legacy Edition, Legacy Pro Edition and Digital Deluxe Edition of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare on November 4, 2016 for PS4, Xbox One, and PC . It was later released standalone on June 27, 2017 for the PlayStation 4, and July 27, 2017 for Xbox One and Microsoft Windows . The game was developed by Raven Software and executive produced by Infinity Ward . </P> <P> Call of Duty: World at War, developed by Treyarch, is the fifth installment of the main series and a prologue to Black Ops . It returns to the World War II setting of earlier titles . It is set in the Pacific theater and Eastern front of World War II . The game uses the same proprietary game engine as Call of Duty 4 and was released for the PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360 consoles and the Nintendo DS handheld in North America on November 11, 2008, and November 14, 2008 in Europe . As of June 2009, Call of Duty: World at War has sold over 11 million copies . </P>

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