Internal Friction

Call of Duty

Modern Warfare 3

Platform:PC,PS 3,XBOX 360,Nintendo DS

Played on: PS 3

(Story)

The story takes place after Modern Warfare 2. Soap is on his death bed, and you play as Yuri a ex Makarov ultra nationalist merc. You also play as a American Delta Force operative, the characters aside the setting is that of WW3 primarily between America and Russia. There are a lot of twists and turns along the way. The end story is decent but short lived due to length of the campaign.

(Game Play)

Just as the 1^st and 2^nd Modern Warfare, not much has changed as afar as control scheme. The game fluidity is that of CoD: Black Ops to were you don’t have to stop and aim when sprinting, the only thing that missing was the drop to prone. The vehicular combat is fun even though all of it is all track style, what really surprised me was towards the middle of the game was the M1-A1 tank ride.

(Multi-Player)

PVP: unlike its predecessor (Modern Warfare 2), a lot of the system has changed. The newest change is the introduction of the classes which does help but at the same time it helps the game to shoot itself in the foot. The classes make it easier to kill other players by giving them a job to do, majority as of now are engineers and specialists which the engineers are a over glorified summoner with a plethora of gear and weaponry, and the specialists make it very easy to kill someone to the point of the radar reveal still comes up blank. The weapons roster has change some weapons are gone like the intervention,and the vector. All in all the PVP is way unbalanced to the point of the player either has to give up or become a “elitist”,which isnt the best for a game that everyone wants to play casually.

Spec Ops: which like its predecessor has either solo or co-op mission plus more. This time around they added a survival mode and a balanced mission mode. The mission levels range from a Training camp to the co-op AC-130 cover and infiltrate. While the survival mode consists of waves upon waves of bots that attack you and your squad mates either until you reach the final wave or you end up defeated later on after several waves, whats nice about this is that you have up to 30 sec to get new weapons,gear,ammo,aerial weapons and vehicles. Either way you will have a much more fun time, whether you play on local or online.

(Technical)

The graphics are basically a reinvention of the same engines as modern warfare 2 and black ops. So not much has changed on that scale. The sound is the same if not better than the previous titles. But all of this could be improved if you play it on the pc due to it being a console to pc port.

(Verdict)

Its a tough one to say, you’ll have fun playing the brief but final chapter of the Modern Warfare Trilogy, and you'll have a fun time playing together with some friends on in the Spec Ops mode. Or unless your a “hardcore,serious,blah,blah,blah” player you’ll enjoy the PVP.

(Personal Note)

the PVP is not as fun as the previous 2 games. It seems that activision and the newly staffed infinity ward has totally forgot the ease of game play of Black Ops, and the balanced action of PVP on Modern Warfare 2. I guess I kinda pisses me off that they made it to were you have to play PVP 24/7 and serious in order to get some were JUST TO HAVE FUN. In other words it take to much time and effort from the player to get something, which to me is wrong. Wait till it drops in price such as $40.

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(Rating)

7/10

Reviewed by [IF] omegafate