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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 |OT| Got 99 Problems, But Sales Ain't One.
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Skiptastic
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MW2 was exactly what I would have wanted. An amazingly over the top story that leads to massive global warfare. It was exciting and ridiculous, but that's what I want! MW3 is just as awesome.hamchan said:
Brolic Gaoler
formerly Alienshogun
Addnan said:
On youtube and/or your elite account or in Vault.
Anton Sugar
Member
Kyoufu said:
No Russian was hackneyed shock-value tripe.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
cuevas said:
It was the last COD to have a plausible and enjoyable campaign, at least. It feels Tom Clancy to MW2/BLOPS/MW3's Michael Bay. It was well paced and competently designed without feeling the need to resort to gratuitously controversial set pieces or insipid plot twists.
The people who say that it has the best MP are crazy, though. I went back to it this weekend and the game is broken as hell, probably the second least balanced of the recent COD games with MW2 being the worst and BLOPS being decent. The jury's still out on MW2.
vatstep
This poster pulses with an appeal so broad the typical restraints of our societies fall by the wayside.
Stayed up entirely too late last night beating the campaign. Took me about 8 hours, but that's because I got all of the intel and other achievements on one run-through (aside from the veteran ones I'm not a masochist). I like to get all the SP stuff out of the way in one shot.
It was pretty good, but because these games' campaigns are so not memorable for me (aside from the suburbs and DC in MW2, which were pretty neat), I can't really compare it to the others overall. Black Ops was a bit more varied level- and setting-wise, I'll give it that, but I think this was better when it comes to gameplay. A little bit too much of the stealthy stuff that this game doesn't really have any business doing, but I guess it's a nice break from SHOOT EVERYTHING THAT MOVES. And the last level was fuckawesome.
Still haven't gotten to MP. Opinions here are obviously very conflicting, but I remain optimistic. The ACR felt pretty awesome to use in the campaign, so I'm looking forward to unlocking that and giving it a go at some point after not really liking it in MW2.
It was pretty good, but because these games' campaigns are so not memorable for me (aside from the suburbs and DC in MW2, which were pretty neat), I can't really compare it to the others overall. Black Ops was a bit more varied level- and setting-wise, I'll give it that, but I think this was better when it comes to gameplay. A little bit too much of the stealthy stuff that this game doesn't really have any business doing, but I guess it's a nice break from SHOOT EVERYTHING THAT MOVES. And the last level was fuckawesome.
Still haven't gotten to MP. Opinions here are obviously very conflicting, but I remain optimistic. The ACR felt pretty awesome to use in the campaign, so I'm looking forward to unlocking that and giving it a go at some point after not really liking it in MW2.
Ninja Scooter
Member
I'll have to double check when I get home tonight, but so far in the few hours I've put in it seems all I've gotten is the UAV, turrett and advanced UAV kill streaks. I'll have to mess with it some more though.junkster said:
Genesis Knight
Member
Derrick01 said:
Weren't you supposed to be infiltrating their organization? You weren't an assassin... Been a while since I've played that campaign, though.
BattleMonkey
Member
Derrick01 said:
And of course the whole "plan" was stupid. Walking around with no masks and the whole set up was pointless since it would be easy to find out who the guy really was the whole time instead of it being some kind of trigger for BS.
It was trying way too hard to be shocking
Deadbeat said:
CIA wrote the awful story?
BiggStankDogg
Member
Man I was so hyped for this game, but at the moment, I'm a little underwhelmed. I love, love, love Kill Confirmed. Awesome idea. Did I mention I love it? But other than that, waiting in lobbies for 10 minutes (I know it's launch, etc.), getting "not enough memory" errors on PS3, the low health/high weapon damage, ALL THE GREY EVERYWHERE and camo working so well that I can't see anyone for shit on most maps, the small cluttered maps, yada, yada, yada. Oh, and I though they were scaling back the verticality of the maps to help reduce camping. Wasn't there an interview saying they knew that it promoted camping in MW2 and that they learned their lesson? I always feel like I'm dying from window campers on every map. And going through choke points to flank them sometimes feels like walking into a meat grinder.
This might be the Call of Duty that breaks me of the habit. It's like it's ALMOST Call of Duty an it's ALMOST improved, but not quite right. Aiming and movement feels a little off. Not game breaking, but enough to where it feels a little weird to me. I'm trying so hard to love this game and I'm just not at the moment. Liking it, but I didn't wait in line at midnight to play an okay multiplayer game.
This might be the Call of Duty that breaks me of the habit. It's like it's ALMOST Call of Duty an it's ALMOST improved, but not quite right. Aiming and movement feels a little off. Not game breaking, but enough to where it feels a little weird to me. I'm trying so hard to love this game and I'm just not at the moment. Liking it, but I didn't wait in line at midnight to play an okay multiplayer game.
Mr. B Natural
Member
Takes 3 bullets to kill people, same as before, it's just that the lag is BLOPs level bad, so you drop before the first bullet even registers on your side. The game does a decent job at hiding the lag (except for where it counts) and the way that these maps work where it's all first to bead wins, the game has been dumbed down to "better connection wins" and that is exactly what detractors of the COD series have been saying for years. Again, it's like IW doubled down on everything the detractors complained about.Angry Fork said:
Kermit The Dog
Banned
So the game is broken. I cannot matchmake games. It finds 50 games, none are suitable, and just scrolls through in a never ending cycle.
I can join games, but only through the 'Join session in progress' option on a friend's gamertag. Matchmaking is utterly borked for me.
My NAT setting now says strict on the multiplayer menu and I'm thinking that's where the problem is, but I find this hard to believe since I've never had any problems with COD4, WaW, MW2 or BO. What the fuck?
I can join games, but only through the 'Join session in progress' option on a friend's gamertag. Matchmaking is utterly borked for me.
My NAT setting now says strict on the multiplayer menu and I'm thinking that's where the problem is, but I find this hard to believe since I've never had any problems with COD4, WaW, MW2 or BO. What the fuck?
Ninja Scooter
Member
Also kill confirmed mode IS awesome. I know it blows any sense of "reality" in battle, but it feels like some crazy mix of pacman CE and CoD. I hate seeing like 3 dog tags just sitting out in the open and having to decide to make a run at them, or if an opposing player is setting you up. Adds a lot of good tension.
backflip10019
Member
lolKermit The Dog said:
MarshMellow96
Member
Doesn't work for me with open NAT. Must be my skill, right?
BattleMonkey
Member
Genesis Knight said:
Undercover, but you go on a mission to commit mass murder in an airport with Nato weapons and speaking only englis, without reporting it to anyone ahead of time, and doing it also without even masks on as well?
Also the concept of it was so ridiculous. A US funded massacre of civilians in an international airport?
Kermit The Dog
Banned
backflip10019 said:
Fixed it now, I had to simply test the Xbox Live connection in My Xbox settings, and it seems to have cleaned it out.
Bluemercury
Member
Where's the reviews thread?
holdbrillanj
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Shawsie64 said:
Run, not sprint.
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
RedSwirl said:
Pretty fun so far. Would be even more fun if the morons had made it 4 players.
betty swollocks
Banned
Going from battlefield to these guns with basically no recoil feels strange, really strange.
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
Campaign is freaking incredible.
betty swollocks said:
Completely agree, esp. if you use the Kick gun perk.
Like absolutely no recoil at all.
Which lends even more to the whole 'see first, win' feeling in this game. Also, the spawning system in TDM is atrocious. Grouped up with most of the team and all of a sudden opponents are spawning immediately behind/between the group.
Brian Fellows said:
How would it compare to Gears 3?
And who the hell likes the Black Ops campaign so much? I could not force myself to get through it a second time. It was okay the first time I went through it, but after that it just felt too boring and monotonous. In COD4 it always felt like there was something happening. In the Treyarch games I just feel like I'm shooting through corridor after corridor.
Angry Fork
Member
Realistically how soon could we expect a possible patch to increase health or reduce gun damage? If enough people complained about it.
TestOfTide
Banned
Kermit The Dog said:
I have been having the exact same issues and I know that mw3 is identifying my NAT wrong because my nat shows up as either moderate or open when playing any of the other cods or halo reach.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
You know what's annoying, when you know there are 16 maps but the same 6-7 keep coming up.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
I agree. Only mode I play and thankfully works much better than MW2 did with the mode. Maybe that's why I have different impressions compared to people who mostly play other modes.cameltoe said:
bubnbob said:
Not a good excuse to me. They knew he was the head bad guy they could have ended it right there in the elevator before a massacre began.
If anything it came off as a really shitty and lame way to start WW3. But this isn't the place to debate such things and I regret bringing it up.
MW3 PC review
So yeah it's that time of year again, once again I have bought into the COD franchise, so anyway here's a breakdown on how I found the
SP & MP.
Singleplayer
pretty much your 5 hour COD campaign, there is nothing new, just your standard jump off this skyscraper , survive crashing helicopters,
multiple car chases and of course shooting, which is great since I expect nothing more from the franchise. If you like the previous MW
campaigns you will feel right at home. I actually do have to applaud infintiy ward of wrapping up MW3 quite nicely considering the
clustterfuck of a story line that was MW2. Set pieces were great and really did show that your were part of a mass global war,
graphics looked great and was really optimized for various degree's of hardware.
Multilplayer
Out of all the promises IW made, this makes me annoyed, as you know MW3 does have dedicated servers, but for some bizarre reason
it's unranked, this means you can only use the default kit given in the game in terms of perks and weapon choices, which is just plain
stupid. There are other nit's and grits such as weird/large iron sightings & juggernauts in mp but most people will have there own toothpick
problems with the game. In terms of comparison to mw2 multiplayer it is more balanced, I didn't spend half the time dying from helicopters
but i did notice the new point streak system is easier to rack up points for objectives. MW3 has opted for more MW1 style maps than the
closed off indoor MW2 maps, it's great knowing that they are almost no camping spots considering each space has two or more exits.
Overall nothing much has changed from MW2 except objectives can now count towards points and kill streaks are more balanced if you
like MW2/BO then you will most likely this game.
Conclusion
MW3 is a good game and a a good game in the series, but does it deserve the praise or be awarded the GOTY ? not really. After 4 years
the multplayer formula is still the same, just that everything has to be unlocked now, it's hard to see how they can further advance the
gameplay . The pc version had so much going for it from promises from IW that it would have all the features of BO but as it stands out
there is no leaning and no gamepad support as well as gimped dedicated servers, IW could still redeem themselves if they
patched up the game, but from previous experience this is the final product we are getting. overall it's a game you can sink many
ours into with he co-op and multiplayer, it's just sad it's not given the support that BO was given on PC.
7.5/10 (because GAF likes scores rather than text.)
So yeah it's that time of year again, once again I have bought into the COD franchise, so anyway here's a breakdown on how I found the
SP & MP.
Singleplayer
pretty much your 5 hour COD campaign, there is nothing new, just your standard jump off this skyscraper , survive crashing helicopters,
multiple car chases and of course shooting, which is great since I expect nothing more from the franchise. If you like the previous MW
campaigns you will feel right at home. I actually do have to applaud infintiy ward of wrapping up MW3 quite nicely considering the
clustterfuck of a story line that was MW2. Set pieces were great and really did show that your were part of a mass global war,
graphics looked great and was really optimized for various degree's of hardware.
Multilplayer
Out of all the promises IW made, this makes me annoyed, as you know MW3 does have dedicated servers, but for some bizarre reason
it's unranked, this means you can only use the default kit given in the game in terms of perks and weapon choices, which is just plain
stupid. There are other nit's and grits such as weird/large iron sightings & juggernauts in mp but most people will have there own toothpick
problems with the game. In terms of comparison to mw2 multiplayer it is more balanced, I didn't spend half the time dying from helicopters
but i did notice the new point streak system is easier to rack up points for objectives. MW3 has opted for more MW1 style maps than the
closed off indoor MW2 maps, it's great knowing that they are almost no camping spots considering each space has two or more exits.
Overall nothing much has changed from MW2 except objectives can now count towards points and kill streaks are more balanced if you
like MW2/BO then you will most likely this game.
Conclusion
MW3 is a good game and a a good game in the series, but does it deserve the praise or be awarded the GOTY ? not really. After 4 years
the multplayer formula is still the same, just that everything has to be unlocked now, it's hard to see how they can further advance the
gameplay . The pc version had so much going for it from promises from IW that it would have all the features of BO but as it stands out
there is no leaning and no gamepad support as well as gimped dedicated servers, IW could still redeem themselves if they
patched up the game, but from previous experience this is the final product we are getting. overall it's a game you can sink many
ours into with he co-op and multiplayer, it's just sad it's not given the support that BO was given on PC.
7.5/10 (because GAF likes scores rather than text.)