With XLabs being killed off by Activision, Plutonium and likely H1 next on the chopping block, there is no safe way to play this game or any other Classic CoD on PC anymore. Activision wants you to completely forget about their legacy and go play their newest game and buy tons of bundles.

MWR is exposed to CVE-2018-20817, a massive security risk allowing hackers to execute Remote Code Executions and gain control of your PC to upload malicious files just by playing online and matching with them ingame, nearly exactly like it happens with Black Ops 2, 3 and every other Classic CoD from 2007 - 2018. While H1 is still around for now, it's likely going to be taken down not long after Plutonium goes. The game itself also suffers major issues outside of the vulnerability, including an issue where the game will not launch unless set to windowed in safe mode.

Although H1 seems to have survived Activision's cease and desist onslaught, the multiplayer servers are almost always dead even with the client. I would have recommended buying this for SM², but of course that got C&D'd as well.

If Activision won't consistently update these games, and won't let the community fix them, they need to be taken off the store. This and the rest of the Classic CoD Games are practically malware at this point with the lack of updates.

lower the price greedy bastards

Putting loot box gambling mechanics in an 11 year old game that didn't originally have them and then charging more for the dlc that should've been included with the remaster is horrific and appalling.

In no way can this game be recommended to anyone.

Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® Remastered (2016), not to be confused with Call of Duty® 4: Modern Warfare® (2007). Not to be confused with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® (2019). Not to be confused with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 Campaign Remastered (2020). Not to be confused with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II (2022). Not to be confused with Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2 (2009).

Also multiplayer is 70 gigs and it does not work.

This is very normal.

A near perfect remaster by Raven Software, tarnished by the greed of Activision. The single player is perfect, but the multiplayer has gone downhill since release due to bad business decisions and a nearly non existent player base. Add in the fact that you can only get this game through buying a special edition of Infinite Warfare and you have plenty of reasons to avoid buying it.

I learned my lesson, don't support Activision.

no fov slider in the single player.
runs like complete sh-t.
loot boxes in a remaster
new gun skins in a remaster
guns in the loot boxes even tho they said it would only be cosmetic items.
YOU NEED TO PAY £15 FOR THE DLC!
THEY EXPECT US TO FU-KING PAY £34.99 FOR THE REMASTER!!!
THEY MAKE SURE NOT TO CHANGE THE BROKEN MOTHER FU-KING MECHANICS TO KEEP THE GAME "FEELING AUTHENTIC" BUT THE CU-TS AT ACTVISION THINK ITS FU-KING OK TO ADD NEW GUNS, SKINS, CAMOS, TITLES AND EMBLEMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so no i don't recommend cod 4 remastered

ARE YOU KIDDING ME, Variety Pack, 4 maps remastered from the original..

Yeah lets pay £11 for 4 maps that came FREE and INCLUDED with the original

♥♥♥♥ YOU ACTIVISION

I would love to recommend this game, but with how greedy Activision went about it and the terrible state it is in - I can not. As in - gameplay-wise, when the game works - it is fantastic! It's a remaster, in which Raven has put loads of effort and it shows... but judging from the history of the franchise - it's not them who ported this game to PC and this is where many problems lie.

The first thing you'll likely stumble upon when launching the game is an error saying:
"out of memory error. you are probably low on disk space. (12)"

There is a workaround for it and involves downloading profile files from the internet and putting them in the game's directory. Simple enough. Still - not acceptable for AAA games released in 2016 (2017 if we are talking standalone purchase)! And apparently, this has been an issue since 2016 and Activision just ignored it (and kindly shut down their forums in 2020, so you have fewer places to contact them and make a fuss about issues not working and their lack of support). That's the first big issue.

The second issue - there is a bunch of features in the game that should help improve performance and avoid stuttering - one being Precaching Shaders. Sadly, there are at least 2 (maybe more) missions in the main campaign, where having it turned on will make the game freeze on the loading screen - that's another wildly spread issue, that Activision has been ignoring since 2016.

Not too bad? How about trying multiplayer? Well, here things are drastically different - here, shaders have to be precompiled, to even get to the main menu. Guess what - the game crashes (or sometimes freezes) around 16% in with a message:
"Create2DTexture( h1_ui_icon_challenge_xp_badge, 256, 256, 0, 77) failed: 887a0005 = The GPU device instance has been suspended. Use GetDeviceRemovedReason to determine the appropriate action"

This essentially leaves you with the version of the game where only single-player is playable (and that is only if you disable features that are there to help with performance). You could use "fan client", but with not so stellar history of the CODs fan clients, that is very much something you have to do at your own risk. Furthermore, even if you somehow got to the main menu of multiplayer and the multiplayer of the normal client wasn't dead - it's not a full package of the game. You see - the original Call of Duty 4 was released on PC in 2007. The game received multiple patches - in part due to the popularity of its multiplayer mode. Patch 1.6 was a bit special, as it added 4 new maps to the game - Creek, Chinatown, Broadcast and Killhouse - all of them reusing assets and parts of geometry from maps already existing in singleplayer. I mention this because this is a remaster and these are no longer present at the release. Now you have to buy DLC to play them. The price? $15! Cause we just can't have "complete" remasters with Activision.

And because of all of these issues, even though I had plenty of fun experiencing the game's campaign this can not get my recommendation.
FIX YOUR GAME, ACTIVISION.

Stop supporting this garbage company and this garbage port.

$39.99 w/o the map-pack (that was free 10 years ago)?

GTFO.

50 thousand people used to play this game.
now it's a ghost game.
recommended for campaign.
against multiplayer.
why the ♥♥♥♥ do we have to pay for DLCs that were free on the original Modern Warfare?