Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is days away, and it arrives on Xbox Series X and Series S as well as PC. For Microsoft, it is one of the largest releases of the year; for Activision, it is the latest chapter in a franchise that has become an annual fixture. It is the kind of release that tends to dominate a launch window, and the sort of game many people buy simply because everyone else will be playing it. The campaign centres on Captain Price, whose history with the series stretches back to the original Modern Warfare era. Modern Warfare 4 continues that thread, and for longtime players the appeal is partly nostalgic: the same voice, the same tone, and the same fondness for enormous set pieces. Release timing is the thing most people want to know, and it is also the thing most likely to cause confusion. Launches are rarely simultaneous everywhere....
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