What improvements were made in Call of Duty® Modern Warfare® Remastered?
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Q.What improvements were made in Call of Duty® Modern Warfare® Remastered?
A.Modern Warfare Remastered delivers a comprehensive visual and audio upgrade to the classic campaign, plus expanded multiplayer polish, while preserving the original pacing and feel.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered is built around a substantial upgrade to visuals, audio, and animation, all while staying faithful to the original pacing and feel. The remaster features a modern rendering pipeline with richer textures, physically based rendering, HDR lighting, and updated shaders, along with enhancements like tessellation, displacement mapping, and more advanced environmental effects. Notably, Raven Software confirmed PS4 Pro support with richer textures and dynamic 4K graphics, signaling a clear step up in presentation. PS4 Pro support details. Remastered visuals overview.
- Updated textures and lighting: the game uses higher-resolution textures, PBR rendering, and HDR lighting to create more realistic surfaces and illumination.
- New animations and camera work: mantling, cloth physics, gun-inspection animations, and more cinematic camera integration to enhance immersion without changing pacing (the team worked to preserve timing while modernizing visuals). Digital Trends interview.
- Audio and environmental fidelity: revamped gunfire, environmental sounds, and more detailed ambiance to match the upgraded visuals. New Game Network recap.
- Foliage, water, and weather: interactive grass, water motion, wind, and other dynamic effects contribute to a more convincing battlefield. New Game Network recap.
- Multiplatform polish and maps: the remaster includes a modernized multiplayer with improved visuals and new maps; at launch it offered 10 multiplayer maps, with six more added in December, plus related multiplayer enhancements. PS Blog – Raven interview.



