Summary
Xbox Series X and S owners will be able to apply a newCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3dynamic background in preparation for the game’s imminent November 10 launch.Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3’s early access campaign launch, which began on November 2, has been causing a sort of uproar as many players are frustrated with its confusingCall of Duty HQrollout. Add to that a mandatory full-screen ad for the game which appeared on all Xbox consoles, and sentiment surroundingModern Warfare 3’s launch has been less-than favorable so far.
In the first few years since the launch of Xbox Series X and S in 2020, new dynamic motion-based backgrounds were seldom added for owners to use. 2021 saw only three new backgrounds added based on games, with two of them forHalo Infinite; none forXbox’s hit arcade racerForza Horizon 5or Double Fine’s long-awaited gemPsychonauts 2, which both launched that same year. That said, Xbox has been on a roll with new backgrounds in 2023, finally incorporating backgrounds for major new third-party games like theDead Spaceremake,Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, andDiablo 4,alongside a slew of new backgrounds for its big first-party titles such asHi-Fi Rush,Starfield,Forza Motorsport,and more.
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Now, Xbox has added its 13th new motion-based background of the year. On Twitter, Klobrille pointed to the latest dynamic background that’s become available on Xbox Series X and S;that of the imminentCall of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The background essentially takes the cover ofModern Warfare 3, which features franchise icon Captain Price holding a rifle, and adds some subtle motion to the floating debris near the bottom of the screen.
It would be fair to criticize some of these more recent Xbox backgrounds for not containing enough moving elements. TheForza MotorsportandStarfieldbackgrounds feature very little motion at all, andModern Warfare3’s attempt finds itself in a similar boat. Many of them simply consist of the game’s cover art with a few small moving pieces added on top.Modern Warfare 3’s dynamic Xbox background does look very similar toDiablo 4’s, which displays Lilith in front of a very similar red and black background. It’s likely thatModern Warfare 3’s background was going to happen regardless ofMicrosoft’s recently closed $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, considering theDiablo 4background released alongside the game back in June.
Should Xbox Owners Expect Even More Dynamic Backgrounds In The Future?
With Xbox finally hitting its stride this year in regard to releasing a sufficient amount of new motion-based backgrounds for many of 2023’s major game releases, it wouldn’t be unwise to expect Xbox to continue at this frequency in 2024. Big games likeSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League,Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, andconfirmed first-party releases likeSenua’s Saga: Hellblade 2andAvowed,would all make excellent candidates to receive dynamic backgrounds on Xbox next year.
