Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Review

Activision has released its best COD to date. With Modern Warfare 3 newly released and is probably going to be the most popular and best-selling game of the season and year. Activision gave us a Hardened Edition copy to dig into and start dominating around the office. Let’s just say that it was hard enough to get time in to write this and not go through MW3 withdraws.

 

 

Single-Player Campaign: Picking up where Modern Warfare 2 left off, the heart-racing single player storyline of Modern Warfare 3 will completely immerse you in a gripping adventure that takes you to some of the most iconic cities around the world.

Co-Op Gameplay (Spec Ops): Spec Ops makes its return in Modern Ware 3 with a bevy of additions that innovate as a stand-alone mode, but also serves as an effective springboard into multiplayer action. All 16 multiplayer maps are available in Spec Ops, whether you play in Mission Mode or the all new Survival mode. The independent rank progression system within Special Ops mirrors multiplayer and spans both modes, priming you for online play.

 

 

Multiplayer: Modern Warfare 3’s multiplayer experience continues to raise the bar by focusing on fast-paced, gun-on-gun combat, along with innovative new features that support and enhance different styles of play, while ensuring that the player defines the experience through masterfully engineered strike package and weapon proficiency systems, helping you to play through the most intense multiplayer experience available. New strike packages (Assault, Support, Specialist) reward different play styles and skill levels, making sure that kills aren’t the only way to earn pointstreaks. Enjoy new modes like kill confirmed and team defender across 16 multiplayer maps.

Call of Duty Elite: From the development team at Beachhead, ELITE represents the world’s first franchise-specific social gaming network, offering the deepest free service, as well as premium, subscription-based services, built expressly for Call Of Duty’s vast social network of online players around the globe.

 

 

The game has an amazing online mode like always, but of course Activision finds a way to take something great and make it better. With the ranks you gain by playing and unlocking different features and attachments to improve your play and hone your skills, but at the same time you learn to use new features and of course you still have the awesome kill streaks. Activision and Infinity Ward kept the split screen co-op and versus in the game to give those without internet the ability to have fun with friends and get true value out of the game!

 

 

Graphics, really do we need to explain how incredible and beautiful they are? Well, I guess we did, but still the graphics are truly breath taking and life like. Most of the cut scenes feel as if watching a war movie and you get deeply involved. The story picks up were the last MW left off and continues the gripping story that made us first fall in love with the start of the series. The main campaign is a perfect length that makes it not too long, but not too short as well. You get to see different sides of the story as it unfolds.

 

 

You definitely get what you want with COD MW3, and as stated before with the ELITE you get a year of DLC, all map packs and more. With 9 map packs being released over the next 12 months it’s a no brainer to pick up the ELITE content to further your game play and increase the replay value greatly. Every map pack that has been released in the past for other COD games insures that players keep coming back for more and more game play.

 

 

If you can’t get enough of COD then find a way to pick up MW3. With every detail, everything fans has asked for and an intense single player campaign you can’t ask for anything more. And unlike must games to date you don’t need a “online pass” to play multiplayer at anytime or only for a year, and for that Activision we thank you!

 

Game 2 Gamer’s Final Score  4.5 / 5

 

Frustration Level : Depends on how talented you are with multiplayer