Newly spotted age ratings for a pair of Call of Duty games suggest they're getting current-gen ports in the near future.
As reported by Insider Gaming, Australia's classification board has listings for what appear to be PS5 versions of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
The campaign remaster of MW2 was released for PS4 in 2020, while a remaster of MW3 was rumoured to be complete, but has yet to launch.
As for these Australian ratings, it's thought that these refer to the remasters because the more recent renditions are already on PS5; one of the listings mentions Sony's console specifically, but both say "Cross-Gen Edition". What's more, the newer games are stylised with roman numerals in their titles, but these listings are not.
It seems likely that these remasters will receive PS5 versions called Cross-Gen Editions, entitling customers to the PS4 version as well.
Age ratings usually mean a release is around the corner, so we expect these will be announced in the near future.
Would you like to play these classics on PS5? Tell us in the comments section below.
[source classification.gov.au, via classification.gov.au, insider-gaming.com]
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I have only just finished the first remaster of MW2....
Not sure i can be bothered with MW3 again to be honest.
Just not the same.
MW2 is one of my favorite games of all time and I recently completed the remastered campaign a couple months ago. It really holds up imo. MW3 is not as big of a deal to me, but I’m happy to revisit the campaign again to experience the finale to that iconic trilogy.
It's about time, honestly. It never made sense for Activision to remaster MW 1&2 but not 3.
Gotta start making some money to cover that Activision acquisition, I expect a lot more remasters and rerelease of older games since it's low dev costs and basically free money.
At which point does the CoD landscape look oversaturated? I'd have thought back when we started seeing a new CoD every year, but maybe it's when we're seeing new CoDs every year plus re-releases/remasters of the older games?
I mean at some point they must see a diminishing return aka less and less people buying the "new" games, right?
The constant releases for this series and Assassins Creed drove me away from these franchises.
I just to want to play the Spec Ops with my friend again. I hope this is true.
As much as I enjoy those campaigns, I'm actually a little disappointed that they aren't bringing MW 2019 forward. I think 2019 is a surprisingly underrated title and has one of the best campaigns, best gunplay, and best MP maps of the last decade.
It’s crazy looking back at the hype when Modern Warfare 3 came out. Late 2011 was an unbelievable time for gaming. Modern Warfare 3, Arkham City, Skyrim all releasing weeks apart from each other. Fantastic times.
Imagine remastering the campaign (while goated) and not the most popular multiplayer in CoD's history, 5 years ago....
Finally getting that modern warfare 3 remaster to complete the og collection I’ve been waiting for years for that one
Dear god. More unnecessary remasters? They’ll probably sell very well, sadly. But they save me money…because I don’t buy ‘em!
Is this a remaster of a remaster?
Modern Warfare 2 - 2009
Modern Warfare 2 - 2022
And now, Modern Warfare 2 - 2025?
How uninspiring can you be....
MW3 is straight garbage, SP and MP. MW2 MP was when I started to get Fatigue for the series and MW3 was the nail in the coffin
Excellent. MW3 campaign is fantastic.
Those will print money.
Without the multiplayer modes included, my interest goes out the door. Hopefully, those are added, but with how the Modern Warfare 2 remaster was handled, I doubt it.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad COD MW2 and MW3 are being remastered, but I’m tired of seeing cross-gen games continue to release. It’s 2025, and the PS5 was released in 2020. Let’s be done with “new” PS4 games. It’s time to fully embrace the PS5.
Maybe I’m the only one who feels this way, but the PS5 seems more like a mid-gen console upgrade than a full-fledged next-gen “must have” console. (That said, most of the annoyance comes from a handful of my friends who STILL haven’t upgraded to PS5 because new games continue being released for PS4. Egads, guys. Go buy a PS5 already!)
Brilliant been left having on MW3 remaster
We need mw2 remaster online gimme that intervention or ump and good wall bangs 😭
I’m fine with MW2; MW3 was mediocre as hell. Better than any modern COD, sure, but compared to the other CODs of 7th gen aka the golden era of COD, it was one of the weakest
@MasterChiefWiggum PS4 and Xbox one not being backwards compatible was a mistake. they’ve been milking remasters like crazy every since
FIY: There's apparently reason to believe that COD and XBOX ought to be the target of a boycott:
https://www.polygon.com/news/554879/bds-palestine-israel-xbox-microsoft-boycott-candy-crush-minecraft-call-of-duty
Please don't remove, many organizations and people believe that a genocide might be ongoing and it rests upon the free world's citizen to question if we should be silent in the face of such an evil.
Before you attack me, read the article and make your own decisions. I have Jewish blood and my mother's name was Melchiorsen, so I have no reason to lie. In fact, Israeli troops VERY recently shot to kill paramedics and health staff in Gaza.
At what point does this series stop becoming "modern"
@EfYI can we just keep this about the games and not bring politics into it please..pretty please.
@Northern_munkey
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant.
You have a role to play here, you have agency to make ethical decisions that put those that would contribute to genocide in a position where they must question their humanity and profit margin.
@EfYI this is a gaming site buddy not a personal platform to highlight ongoing conflicts. I understand you and hear you but this is not the appropriate forum for this discussion.
@Northern_munkey
No, North. You are wrong.
They are asking for gamers, who frequent gaming sites, to boycott Microsoft and COD (and others, read the article. They are delivering weapons of AI to kill or maim everyone they can).
Israeli key thinkers begged the world (Harari in the Guardian), and the US, to help restrain them. The opposite is happening. Microsoft is firing dissident workers and doubling down.
I would ask the fine gentlemen of this site to report on this and allow gamers to make use of their agency and respond to this integral military aid that Microsoft are giving Israel. The bell has rung. You hear it too.
@Lukeaj93 Those were the days 😀 Stood in the queues for midnight openings etc.
@EfYI Taking sides lost me a lot of friends in gaming. My country deciding to do something stupid and reckless translated into I did something stupid and reckless. I didn't even take sides to begin with, it was down to my nationality and I've spent more time in the UK than there but still there was that blow back.
I get what you are saying but not every corner of the internet needs to be politicized and with a major franchise like Call of Duty you'll always get fans who will buy their games regardless. Gaming is escapism for a lot of people, it doesn't mean they are burying their heads in the sand, it just means they are pursuing something that helps them get through the day.
If someone is passionate about the ongoing struggle of a nation they'll get that information and news through the channels they already follow. There needs to be places where people who follow specific hobbies are given a break from all of that. That Microsoft story isn't minor, it's all over the internet and has been for days, nor is it the first time they were involved in military support and logistics.
You also have to understand that on a site geared at Playstation users there will be those who are already so loyal to the brand that they are going to agree with any anti-Microsoft message by default. It doesn't mean they agree with the political aspects, they just don't like the company. That's not genuine support for a cause and that's exactly what could have happened if it was reported on here.
@Lukeaj93 Also Dark Souls, LittleBigPlanet2, Dead Island, L.A. Noir and I think inFamous2. It did for gaming what 1999 did for movies. I didn't realize how lucky we were back then and just took for granted how many new great games were saturating the market.
@GirlVersusGame very well said and very well worded too. I play games as a form of escapism from the drudgery of the current real world and also because I love them. I'm not saying @EfYI is wrong as I completely understand the view point being offered but pushsquare is not the place to be highlighting these issues. There's already too many people who try to hijack the comments section to push their political agendas and it really does become quite tiresome and depressing. Keep it about the games.
Absolutely would, the new ones coming out are garbage but 100% the older ones have some me replay value for me! Bring back the original call of duty 4, with multiplayer!
@GirlVersusGame
You seem like a nice person. Thank you for this thoughtful reply.
My grandfather carried a Jewish name under the Nazi occupation of my country - I am lucky to be able to write to you today, and I am writing on the behest of Palestinian women and children.
Unfortunately, none of the larger outlets of gaming related news bar Polygon have spread this message, nor did I, who read dozens of news sites daily, encounter this.
I have been scouring the websites ever since I found out that Israeli forces would just shoot to kill paramedics - in all my life I haven't heard anything as cruel as that.
It tells me that the media which should act as our guard dog is little more than the pawns, those with a conscience threatened to silence, of genocidal forces. At worst, it spells out complicity and support. I cannot support anything that Israel is doing. They have become brutal and murderous, because we failed them. We have failed to restrain them. There's a bitter, cruel, morbid irony of history in which this happened before which led to the creation of the Israeli state.
Consider this Venn-diagram of monetary boycott, gamer and media vocality and Microsoft's own moral compass. They decide to act on the side of restraint, because we helped force their hand. There's a world where our agency saves lives.
We all deserve to know the truth and extent of what is happening.
Did I stumble across the wrong website, I was sure this article was about remastered call of duty games,
Sorry to disturb your conversation
@Brockybrock um the original cod4 with multiplayer came out YEARS ago……
@nomither6 hi, didn’t mw2 remaster already come out too? Just figured if they were doing it again? Why not do some others too? Mw3 will be ace for sure
If they offered Big Red One, Finest Hour or COD3, I'd care. Otherwise PS3/360 era games are cheap and don't care.
Even besides the enhancements to me it's just pointless. It's just nostalgia/easy money, it's so boring.
Also COD 4 MW1 and MW2 already came out, is it a 'PS5 version' of them? 3 never got anything for it at all remastered.
Especially after the PC ones got support why not console players get offered the older PS2/Xbox/GameCube era ones seriously. Or COD Classic again on modern systems.
I got COD Big Red One/Finest Hour on PS2, and COD 3 on PS3, not COD 2 on anything yet but still I'd have gladly wanted them on any modern platform or the Xbox versions for back compat but that never happened.
Also MW3 modern era one to MW3 old era one makes it pretty easy to make comparisons.
I mean playing SW Battlefront or Unreal Tournament 3 is something for multiplayer maps for campaigns and then there is just laziness when other series do it so.... Depends how people see it/how they offer it. I haven't played MW3 modern for context so I don't know what to think.
They just try too much with multiplayer skins and things that the campaigns got worse and worse of ideas.
From split endings, to loadouts to other stuff. They used to try, nowadays they just don't. Time or thought about it versus a formula that works and make whatever they can for the next ones I guess. They have the budgets but what they do with them clearly shows.
Even hearing one of them got tires being able to be shot was the most 'wow it took them that long' for me to think about and laugh at.
@EfYI I think my issue with boycotting Xbox specifically rather than Microsofts cloud services (Azure) which is the actual product being used by the IAF for their logistics, is that MS would learn the wrong lessons.
By pulling away from their objectively less evil product wing, Xbox, which is mostly artists making games for people to have fun with, MS would think they should be doing less of that, and then feel obliged to double down on Azure to pick up the slack.
Now Azure is a tool like any other, and not itself evil, but if we could make them look at that specifically, and think about what they need to do differently there (not license it out to Militaries doing genocides), then that would be the goal we want to achieve.
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