Modern Warfare 3

If you are buying this game for multiplayer, let me save you 60 bucks.  Just go play Modern Warfare 2 again.  It is the SAME THING.  Forget about all the customization you loved in Black Ops.  You will get none of that here.  That's right, no custom emblem maker, no character view screen, no face paint, etc.  I was really hoping for a massive expansion on the customization.  Not removal.  Buy Arkham City instead.  I hear Battlefield 3 is good too.  Just don't buy this game.  I'm going to beat the campaign mode and trade it in.  Worthless...

Edited by Hades - Nov/09/2011 at 5:52pm

Hence why I didn't buy it. 

I invested in Battlefield 3.  Just like you said Peter, its frustrating at times but if you can get a good squad that communicates, its a blast.

Hades wrote: If you are buying this game for multiplayer, let me save you 60 bucks.  Just go play Modern Warfare 2 again.  It is the SAME THING.

Truth.

It's a $60 map pack.

The Great Equalizer wrote: Agree with Peter 100%.  Though along the lines of what Chappy said, I'm definitely interested in playing the campaign mode in MW3.  I'll probably hunt down a buddy who's sure to be bored of it in the upcoming weeks and borrow it off him.   BF3 is the way to go.  We can start a Battlefront clan.  ;)

+1

Don't think less of me... I like MW3.  Yeah the MP is pretty much the same as the first two, but the first two were awesome, why wouldn't I like an newer version?  It really is a glorified map & weapons pack, but I also think reworking the Killstreaks is interesting too.  I'll get to SO & story mode probably next week sometime which were both great modes before, I expect the same this time around.  But really, the replay-ability of MP is the reason I bought it.  $60 for just a handful of improvements seems like a lot, but I have to consider how many hours of fun I'm going to have playing it & it ends up being pretty cheap per hour.

Essentially, BF3 is the same as the BFBC series & a lot like MoH (seriously the best story mode of all time).  Sure there are improvements thru everything but it's really not that much different.  I've never been a big fan of their MP, I find it frustrating, but that's just me.  I think it relies too much on team concepts.  If you can be on w/ a group of friends or are lucky enough to be linked w/ a group that knows what they are doing it's fine, if however you are stuck w/ a bunch of retards it's infuriating.

Yeah, being stuck with a bunch of retards is infuriating (though I guess that applies to most things).  I've always enjoyed the team aspect of Battlefield though.  You do have to rely on them a little bit more than MW, but I don't know that it's outrageous.   (Frankly I'm not skilled enough to run through 300 rounds of ammo before dying and desperately need the assistance of a teammate to supply me with some more.)  I kind of view the team stuff as a bonus.  If they help you out, great.  If not, then you're no worse off then you would be with MW where all your buddies are running around like chickens with their heads cut off.

Thanks for the head's up, Hades. I assumed it would be basically a $60 update. I skipped BOps entirely and I don't really feel worse for wear. I've been playing MW2 again this week since my XBox Live is finally back on after 2 months of Microsoft investigating to make sure I didn't fly to Korea and hack my own account. People are still randomly throwing Javelins at the start of a match, but it looks like most of the bad characters have moved on. It's actually a better online environment than it was last time I played. I'll probably rent/borrow MW3 to play the single player and Special Ops. Honestly, SO was by far the highlight of MW2 for me. I'd pay $60 for a disc full of that in a heartbeat.

Hunter wrote: For me the problem I had with the Cod games was a technical aspect.  Mw2 I had very little problems with lag and hit detection.  On black ops it was terrible in both those aspects.  It just infuriated me.  I would have gotten MW3 if it was truly Infinity Ward that made it.  But most of that team that created it left the company after MW2.  So the people that made MW3 are pretty much Treyarch.  I will borrow it off a buddy so that I can play the campaign as well.  The story was a very good one. The nice thing for Battlefield 3 is that it is dedicated servers.  Lag is rare if non-existent.

Hunter wrote: Mw2 I had very little problems with lag and hit detection.  On black ops it was terrible in both those aspects.

No doubt, two of my biggest complaints w/ BO, that & graphics were a step back, even MW1 looked better.  I played BO for a while but eventually went back to MW2.  The "bendy-bullets" where a joke, seemed 3arc took the JFK era (magic bullet) a little too literally.  Honestly, this definitely feels exactly like an IW game... the production quality is very high like I would expect from IW.

Yes, a lot of gamers don't like that they took a "step back" on some features that 3arc introduced.  Honestly, I wasted too much time trying to design funny emblems when I should've been in game, so I won't miss them.  3arc has a history of just copying IWs release & adding a few cosmetic upgrades, but IW has seemed deadset against including much of what 3arc put in.  

bf3 is the sh*t mw3 blows if any one has a ps3 hit me up i have a bunch of bad ass people that squad up with me come join the fun