I did play MW3's single player to the end. Calling it buggy or unpolished is incorrect. For me, I found it fun without it going far beyond the CoD template. It wasn't as silly as MW2 and the story was presented better. Yes, there was a story. The only major criticisms I have are P2P networking for ranked games and dedicated server only for unranked and the maps aren't as good as previous games.
tl;dr it's not shit just because it's popular.I learned this from trolling WoW players.
Are we getting outraged about every review score that's not 9/10 now are we? People have hated on each new Mario since at least the N64 version. Yet they sell gangbusters and people love playing them. Think the 3Ds has tanked? Wait until you see a press release in about a year's time when they've sold a few million each of Mario 3D and MK7.
People are complaining about the lack of standards, clarity, transparency and consistency of a given reviewers scoring. Which is a perfectly legitimate thing to discuss.
I didn't play MW3, probably never will. Not my thing. But most reviewer point it has its flaws, but the overall MP experience is still as fun as the last, so if that's your thing, it's a 9/10. No complaints. That i a legitimate way to review the game.
But to then hold double standards and say that MK is a 5/10 because its the exact same game... when you just gave MW3 a 9/10 with out criticisng it for being the exact same game.... and thats your only real complaint? It's points to the reviewer either being bought and paid for, or being absolutely terrible at their job and completely irrelevant going forward, because his ratings seem entirely arbitrary and inconsistent.