We all knew this was going to happen eventually, ONE of the QOTPA would eventually have to review the sales behemoth that is Modern Warfare 3. None of us were prepared to fork out good hard earned cash for it, or even waste a good slot on a rental website. Seeing as my brother however favoured the Kill Streak Teabagging Frenzy (maybe he’s fond of having digital balls touch his head) I decided to pilfer it from him while he was distracted by one of his many other games. Like Fifa 12… or Fifa 11, Fifa 10, MW2, or CoDBLOps.
This meant tact. I couldn’t hold my head high as a gamer if I had MW3 on my achievement list, so I made a fake account, and prepared myself for the worst. I wasn’t disappointed.
Activision have successfully released a £45 piece of DLC. I could leave this entire review right there with a score and walk on to a better game, but if I had to endure that shit, then so do you. Don’t hit that fucking back button! You signed in for this review it’s your own damn fault!
The problem is, this entire game saga is repeating itself again. Once upon a time there was an amazing FPS called Call of Duty that thrust you into WWII fighting Nazis and running though trenches and everything was exhilarating and exciting and at the time it was ground breaking but after the 3rd iteration of the exact same thing came CoD4: Modern Warfare, which blew our minds. It was great and everything was shiny and new looking and the gameplay, although essentially the same, didn’t involve shooting Nazis, we were satisfied. Fast forward a bit and now we have Modern Warfare 3, another iteration of the same Modern Warfare that cheekily slapped a £45 price tag on it’s own ass while the recession obviously claimed the jobs of the graphical designers, gameplay innovators and engine coders. It’s the same damn game right down to the “OMG CONTROVERSY” section, except you lose your family rather than gun down innocent civilians.
The single player campaign is fairly short, can be finished in a day easily, with a plot about as thin as a Kleenex and about as believable as the phrase “the X-Factor is not a fix”. Picking up shortly after the events of MW2, Price is still out for revenge as snapshots of a larger scale war flash up. While sections of the campaign are fast paced, some of the scenes can get very busy on screen making it difficult to identify your targets, some sections are frustratingly difficult but they seem to try and balance this with a million turret sections.
Multiplayer is the main reason people will buy this game. This time round there have been…. NO major improvements to the gameplay. It’s the same old tiny sized maps, the same killstreak reward system, the same XP upgrades, with a few exceptions. There’s a couple of new maps, individual guns can gain XP for upgrades, and Killstreaks are now class based. Really that’s all they’ve done. When you look at the competition of BF3 with its up to 64-player fully destructible maps, tanks, planes, helicopters and other drivable or flyable vehicles you really begin to wonder what exactly the dev team have been doing for all this time apart from furiously masturbating with all the money they’re making from this franchise. The only thing that this game has going for it is the XP rewards system with is contant trickle of of 100XP, Challenge Completed, Bonus Unlocked, its these types of features that keep even the best of us hooked.
Graphically speaking there really has been… NO updates as well, everything looks exactly the same with the possible exception where they emulate a dust storm and everything turned brown, it was like I was playing the original Quake. There’s no point in getting the PC version as screenshot comparisons have shown no real increase in graphical quality, this is really a console game with a PC port.
I’m not even going to make a comment on the Elite stats package for £50 a year when BF3 and Halo offer all of this for free.
Lets wrap this up. We all knew what was going to happen in this review and it did! Everyone expected this except from Activision and every MW-Fan-Fag who didn’t flinch at the “controversy” in MW games but have by this sentence been reduced to tears because they have “MW iz da bestest 4eva” tatooed across their ass. And as a leaving note, since MW3 couldn’t be bothered to impress me, I couldn’t be bothered to get or hunt for screenshots. Screw you MW!
3/10
~Stewart “the things I do for Sean.. seriously” Loudon
