Re-Releases Of The Original Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 And 3 Could Be On The Way

Re-releases of the original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and 3 look to be coming, as ratings for cross-gen editions of "MW2" and "MW3" have appeared online thanks to the Australian Classification Board.

Via Insider Gaming, each game predictably received Australia's MA 15+ rating. They were classified on April 3 with MW2 specifically mentioned as being a PS5 cross-gen edition. The MW3 entry doesn't mention PS5 specifically but is listed as being cross-gen as well.

No other details about the games were revealed aside from them coming from Activision Blizzard and a production date of 2025. While it wasn't explicitly clarified or confirmed that these two titles are the re-releases or remasters of the original MW2 and 3 from 2009 and 2011, the fact that each game listing uses the numbers "2" and "3" as opposed to the modern Modern Warfare reboots' roman numerals does point towards these being new versions of the Xbox 360 and PS3-era titles.

That certainly seems to indicate re-releases of MW2 and MW3 in the same vein of 2016's Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Remastered could be coming sooner rather than later, although nothing has been officially announced. A February report from XboxEra (and later corroborated by Insider Gaming) indicated MW2 would be joining Xbox Game Pass "in March or April" of this year, but that has not yet come to (Game) pass.

It's worth nothing that both the multiplayer and campaign of MW2 have already been remade, though they aren't available together as a complete package. A remastered version of MW2's campaign was released in 2020 without multiplayer. However, 2023's Modern Warfare III featured remakes of all of the original MW2's multiplayer maps--work that could potentially be used in a remaster.

In other Call of Duty news, Black Ops 6 recently released its Season 3 content update--one that also coincided with the return of the original Warzone map, Verdansk.