A free Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer trial launches this week

Activision has confirmed plans to offer a free Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer trial.

PlayStation, Xbox and PC players will be able to try out a selection of multiplayer content without charge from December 14 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST until December 18 at the same time.

It will include access to a number of the game’s remastered maps and the brand-new Season 1 map Meat, which is set in a slaughterhouse in California’s Port of Oakland.

Three Ground War maps, War mode and Modern Warfare Zombies will also be available.

Modern Warfare 3 Season 1 launched last week, introducing a host of new content across multiplayer, Zombies and Warzone.

It includes three new 6v6 multiplayer maps, the return of Gunfight, All or Nothing, Infected and Headquarters multiplayer modes, a new Zombies story act and Dark Aether Rifts, and new Warzone map Urzikstan.

Modern Warfare 3 topped the UK software sales chart in November, but it fell significantly short of the launch enjoyed by last year’s Call of Duty game.

According to GSD data covering physical and digital retail, Modern Warfare 3 sales during the game’s first three weeks of availability were 38% lower than Modern Warfare 2’s following its release last October.