MW 3 Review

After Treyarch proved that Call of Duty could be successful without the guiding hand of the series creators Vince Zampella and Jason West, questions arose to what Infinity Ward was going to do. And the answer came from a leak. A leak that revealed that the next Call of Duty was going to be Modern Warfare 3. Characters, Maps, campaign details, most of the mystery surrounding the game gone due to a series of articles published by game news website Kotaku. And not too much after that Modern Warfare 3 was revealed to world by Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer games. To a big surprise. Did the combined might of two devs help in making this game even better than its predecessors? Well let’s find out this is Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3. <Intro>

Instability could be seen to be inside of the Call of Duty franchise Sledgehammer games canceled their third person action adventure so that they could help the understaffed Infinity Ward team to make their game. In addition to this announcement. A new program was announced. Call of Duty Elite a program that didn’t make it into the new generation of Call of Duty and I really haven’t figured out if there is a current iteration of it. But the elite program tracked ones stats when playing multiplayer. It had a lot of information for those who wanted it. And had some additional features for those who wanted to pay 50 dollars a year <includes the season pass>. On top of that they also announced their annual Call of Duty XP event. It’s kind of a Call of Duty con and it’s still going strong today.

But the thing is even with all this new stuff was the new Call of Duty good well I don’t know. I usually have an opinion about these games but Modern Warfare 3 is decent at the very least . I don’t have  that same nostalgia that I had for Call of Duty 1 or even Modern Warfare 2 as this was the first time I’ve played Modern Warfare 3.

So Modern Warfare 3 is a direct sequel to Modern Warfare 2 and part of the Call of Duty franchise. This comes with that usual baggage of being a call of duty game. Cinematic, follow the objective marker/ commanding officer is still in this game. The main question is did you like Modern Warfare 2? If yes then you’ll probably have at the very least no opinion on Modern Warfare 3.

You still got your set pieces but some of them seem to be set pieces. Some of the coolest moments I was just reminded of other parts of call of duty games.

This game also raps up the plot from Modern Warfare 2 and 1. It starts up right after the end of the previous Modern Warfare where Soap and Price go into hiding to lick their wounds. The US is still at war at home with Russia and Makarov is out to cause more chaos. Yadda Yadda plot. If you’ve played a modern warfare game you’d be right at home . I’d have to say that this one is the most coherent of the Modern Warfare games. It’s pretty clear what's going on. Doesn’t mean that what is going on actually makes sense. So basically the plot revolves around the Russian president and how he wants to put an end with the war with the US. Thing is Makarov kidnaps him and tells him to invade all of Europe which like why? I mean I thought with the last game at the very least Infinity Ward was trying to make the Russians the reluctant bad guys but no. Here they doing terrioristy stuff and killing civilians and just being total Ivan Dragos. I really wish that the plot or anything did anything to me but I really didn’t hate it nor did I love it.

But the real meat and potatoes comes in the new survival mode which is pretty cool. You fend off increasingly difficult waves of bad guys getting money based on how well you do. You spend said money on different weapons upgrades perks, and special air strikes. There’s a leveling system that unlocks said items to spend your money. As you do better on the maps you unlock new more difficult ones. This is definitely where I spent most of my time when playing this game.

There’s also a new spec ops mode as there was in Modern Warfare 2 but it’s not as good as the last one of course. The last one being this highlight real of Modern Warfare 1 and 2’s high moments. 3 just doesn’t have as many iconic maps and scenes.

And yeah here’s the most of a cop out of a review I’ll probably ever do. Yeah Modern Warfare 3’s campaign was just eh. It’s completely serviceable but there’s almost nothing noteworthy at all. I had more fun with the other modes actually.

So Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 went on to sell gangbusters. ( And no that’s not a movie about a bunch of cops killing gangsters). It sold 6.5 million copies on its first day alone only in the US and the UK. It went on to sell more than 26.5 million copies. (wistle, I mean I’d wistle but I can’t its too hard for me.) So yeah. Call of Duty was on top of the world. Not even EA who released Battlefield 3 2 weeks before Call of Duty was released could dampen sales wait huh.

So next eyes were back on Treyarch to see what would be going on. And Call of Duty made another great big leap into an new era.