As with any Call of Duty game, my interest in Modern Warfare III waxes and wanes depending on what modes or gimmicks the FPS is offering at any given moment. Last summer, when Warzone added a mode themed around the Amazon Prime series The Boys , I jumped back in for a few weeks to roast some people with my laser eyes. Now, a new WWE game mode, called Slam Deathmatch, along with several wrestling legends available as operators, has once again pulled me back into the MW3 fray.
Season 5 of Warzone and MW3 added new base weapons, a new battle pass that includes WWE superstar Rhea Ripley, two other famous wrestler skins available to purchase (Cody Rhodes and Rey Mysterio), and a temporary new game mode called Slam Deathmatch running as a cross promo with WWE SummerSlam (which aired on August 3). It’s that last bit (and Rhea Ripley) that got me to jump back into the shooter after months away, and boy, am I glad I did. Slam Deathmatch is absolutely bananas, and a great way to get a feel for the current (and ever-shifting) CoD gun meta.
Okay CoD is cooking with this WWE mode pic.twitter.com/vnpkMMD9Ph — Alyssa Mercante (@alyssa_merc) August 7, 2024 Slam Deathmatch is simple: it’s regular Team Deathmatch on smaller-sized maps, but you down enemies like in Warzone rather than outright killing them, and your grenades are disabled.
When you down a player, a WWE logo will appear over their head, and you can run over and long-press your right joystick to do a finishing move on them w.