Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Campaign Early Access Goes Live a Full Week Before the Official Release Date

Activision has confirmed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 campaign early access, which begins October 16 — a full week before the game’s release date. Modern Warfare 4 is the first Call of Duty game to get Campaign early access since 2023's Modern Warfare 3, whose Campaign was poorly received (IGN awarded it 4/10). 2024's Black Ops 6 and 2025's Black Ops 7 both skipped Campaign early access, so perhaps Modern Warfare 4 returning to the feature signals a confidence in this year's Campaign at Activision. In a blog post, Activision said that to gain access to Campaign early access, you have to pre-order the game. This applies to those pre-ordering or pre-purchasing the Standard Digital Edition or Vault Edition of the game on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC, PlayStation 5, Battle.net, Steam, and Nintendo Switch 2. (Modern Warfare 4 will be available for pre-order on Nintendo Switch 2 later this year.) It’s worth noting that Modern Warfare 4 is not a day one Game Pass launch, after new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma decided to pull new Call of Duty games out of the subscription service, instead adding them some time after release. That means that if you want to play Modern Warfare 4, you’ll have to pay