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Call of Duty MW3 – First Impressions
It doesn’t take a whole lot of time to see the resemblance between the previous Modern Warfare games and MW3. But most fans will agree that is actually a good thing, as some will say “if it aint broke don’t fix it”. And with MW3 taking the Modern Warfare franchise to new heights of popularity, this game is far from broken.
One of the first things someone will notice after hopping into a match on MW3’s multiplayer is the fact that the game is extremely fast paced. This can be attributed to several things, but mostly it is down to the fact that Call of Duty has always been a fast-paced game, and that the maps featured in MW3 are generally smaller than what we have seen in Black Ops and MW2. The overall design of the maps seems to have taken a bit of a turn as well, and a lot of gamers are hung up on whether it is for the better or not. For example, it would appear that the maps were designed specifically to discourage any sort of camping, as you are rarely going to find a room or building that has only one entrance. And if you stay in one spot too long you are going to run the risk of getting flanked from varying angles.
Hate camping..? You’ll love MW3!
Another characteristic of the multiplayer that is pretty much inescapable is the fact that if you were good at MW2 or Black Ops, then you are probably going to be competitive in online right away. This means there is essentially a complete lack of a learning people for most of the gamers online, which has made online pretty interesting so far. This is also why you may have seen some people who have gone through the ranks enormously quickly.
Even though you will undoubtedly encounter some pretty skilled players early on, there are ways the developers help even out the game. For instance, you will have the powerful G36C Assault Rifle right from the start; a gun that is normally reserved until you have played a lot of the game. Combine this with the fact that most maps require you to run around rather than stick in the same place ensures that no single person will dominate a match too much.
MW3 Survival Mode
Of course, there is much more to Modern Warfare 3 than just the multiplayer. Anyone who has played the Horde mode on Gears of War will immediately become familiar with the Survival mode that is now available on MW3. The premise is almost identical: you and your friends are put in multiplayer maps and have to fight off wave after wave of enemies. Killing enemies gives you money, which can then be spent on things like sentry turrets. It’s insanely addictive and a great change of pace if you’re getting tired of the multiplayer fighting.
So in conclusion MW3 is more of the same, but in such a good way. With the added perks, fresh maps and all-new weapon proficiencies and game types, this game is sure to be the FPS king until at least this time next year, when it is replaced.
MW3 Elite. What a scam. Activision do not have the hardware to run this service, the servers are continually going down. Yet. They are still selling it to millions. Shame on you Activision. You should stop selling it to new users until you get it fixed. This is a SCAM SCAM SCAM.
Sincerely, activision should stop taking things of a good game, ye they made improvements, but why the hell they picked up old but damn useful things and trow them away?! instead of having more guns, they pic up old ones and just replace them!? we want more guns, not just an upgrade, and damn what’s this shotgun being a first weapon thing?! now we should be able to go with the weapons we want why do they keep doing this separation between primer and secondary weapons?! and the perks?! no more comando or infinite running, what’s the fun on that!? almost every one on the net used those 2 perks because they were the best and their pro version even better, activision kicked them out of the franchise and sticked us with stalker and recon, jesus what a rip off, some useless pair of perks, now ho the hell whants to use tatical knif without comando?! no one uses it! and it still makes me go nuts, why does the model 1988, if i’m not mistaken, have 2 atachments option if they gone wild and just highjacked the shotgun to do not have akimbo on it, the only reason people even used it, becouse of akimbo, they just got it out. Damn activision just got mw2 on a mixer with the latest medal of honor, and got out mw3 a simple excuse to sell a game, wepons just fell numb, be it 5seven or p99 or the first pistol on the list, i cant remember the name, the 3 of them make the exact same sound, and fo this, for me, mw3 has, in terms of grafics, a 9, mw2 had 10, the wepons a 5 mw2 had a 9, gameplay, 7, mw2 had 10, perks, 5, mw2 had 8 sadly this game had much potential, but it didnt even take off, people will play mw3 becouse its easier for bad fps players, and kids starting to play fps, for the elite players they will surely stick with mw2 even i am using mw3 for now, but soon i will go back to mw2. i just ont feel the urge to play with mw3! it doenst have half the good things mw2 had. Activision should listen to pro gamers, instead of making something this sad. the game come out 2 weacks after my birthday, it was the worst present i got till this day, mw3 just fails im many ways. activision just should make an update to the game to undo some “adjustments” they made, it beeing the weapons and the perks to the gameplay, having a box in the game and not beeing able to climb it up, looks like a back to the old games all again.
Sorry for the big text, dont want to hurt any one, just saying what makes me sad on the best saga ever made till, well mw2.
Hope for a better comeback sincerely.
I really couldn’t disagree more, I think that they’ve taken MW2, fixed all the bad things, made some additions and called it MW3. First of all, the shotguns as primary weapons thing? I was surprised and a little disappointed at first but I immediately got used to it, like I did with Black Ops; I’m just glad the machine pistols are still there. Now as I was saying with the fixing the bad things: Commando, Akimbo 1887, quick-scoping and grenade launchers were all really annoying things in MW2. And guess what? None of those things are a problem anymore! (Well I haven’t been blown up as many times). I think you’re also forgetting all the awesome things that have been added: The useful bars at the bottom right corner of the screen that tell you how close you are to a killstreak, the fact that you can activate your killstreaks in any order, support packages which means you keep your non-lethal killstreak even after death (means less-pro players won’t have to noob to get killstreaks and stuff), weapon perks, better graphics, better sounds (the Black Ops guns all felt like toys), more realism in moving speed and recoil, awesome new killstreaks inspired by Homefront like the recon plane and the tank thingy, ballistic vests, prestige shop, maps where camping is a no-go, no more tactical nukes!! I could go on forever. Also I love the graphics
Quick-scoping and grenade launchers are still really annoying as well as camping. I love this game but again the developers didn’t listen to the community. With elite being down 6 out of 10 times while trying to log in I can not help but feel like I got dupe with the membership. I can deal with grenade launchers and camping but quick-scoping is unacceptable. Everything thing else I agree with you.
I loved it to begin with but now dislike it so much I’m close to going to Battlefield 3 and I’ve never played that series before. In the last new updates the spawns on Hardhat and Dome are now right on top of people who move around the map. I’ve had so many instances where a player will spawn within a few meters behind me.
I now lag so bag I often put whole clips into players and they live. They either kill me or they disappear around a corner alive.
My KDR has dropped from 3.29 to 3.19 and my accuracy has dropped from 24.50 tojust over 22%. Lag fest were the worse your connection the better people do against me. Very unhappy. BAGGIO1515.
Not only thta but our Clan XP hasn’t changed in 5 days even with 6 players playing many hours a day. Elite is very poor. Godsof$laughter