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I'm seriously thinking about trading in MW3 for Assassin'sCreed Revelations this tuesday. MW3 offers NOTHING new except the ability to limit the type of "pointstreaks" (formerly known as Killstreaks) that you can use based on the class you choose and that's about it. In the campaign, even though it's fun, you can tell Infinity Ward's creative minds have ran out of ideas for their action sequences and mission objectives. As I've been playing through the campaign there have been several instances where I'm like... "Didn't I do this exact same thing in Black Ops in the SR71 mission? or, "Didn't I played through the same exact sniper mission on the original MW?". The multiplayer, which can only be enjoyed by blind folded fans from when COD used to be original and creative, is full of "lay-on-a-corner-campers" and super magical knifes of human destruction that will make your 50.cal seem like a Super Soaker.

After playing both BATTLEFIELD 3 and MODERN WARFARE 3 (and other FPS to come out this year), I can honestly say BF3 is the FPS of the year. MW3 is still fun, but it feels like I just downloaded a really big DLC for Call of Duty 4: MODERN WARFARE...from 2007. You can polish something to it's shining prime **cough**MW2**cough**, but eventually something new and even more shiny will appear **cough **BF3 **cough**.Sure I have fun playing MW3, but BF3 blows my f'ing mind to space. Peace.


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I agree with some of your points. Campaign is the same stuff as Modern Warfare 2's campaign, with new scenery and 'cutscenes'. It's topped off with a plot that doesn't get too interesting or enjoyable. I couldn't even say that I cared too much about the characters, even when they've been in the series for 3 games. (soap, price). Black Ops did a fantastic job with the plot, in my opinion, putting in interesting twists and giving characters more personality, rather than the "Omg badasses to the max!!1" in Soap and Price.

Multiplayer is more or less of the same, and it's fun playing with friends. However, the maps are abysmal, weapons kill in one or two hits, and everything will blow up in your face. I'd say multiplayer is more frustrating this time around, not even offering any more fun diversions such as the wager mages from Black Ops. New modes such as "Kill Confirmed" and "Team Defender" play much like Team Deathmatch, and they eventually end up being nothing but killing as many enemies as you can with some side diversion objective.

Survival mode is the CoD version of Firefight from Halo and Horde mode from Gears of War. It's a pretty okay mode. Spec Ops returns, with 16 missions, and it looks to be the same as the mode form MW2; fun the first time, pathetically boring every time after.

In all, MW3 pretty much is a big DLC from MW2 with a new campaign and not enough new features to call for a 60$ price tag. I doubt I will get into BF3. I guess the next shooter game I'll be looking forward to is Counter Strike Global Offensive..

MW3 has by far the better story and co-op modes, but BF3's Multiplayer is of course, much better.

BF3's story is disjointed, inconsistent, and built around set pieces and excuses. It's not even a good trainer for multiplayer as everything works differently and the AI are either stupid or focus only on you.

MW3's in contrast is at least consistent and connected, albeit with a few head-scratchers as to why certain things haven't happened.

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There's actual emotional impact when characters die, unlike BF3 which basically expects you to be sad by having predictable deaths and events. Even the two bits they try to have cause an impact don't work: You saw your squad dying a mile off, and there was really no logical reason for you to shoot Cole at all.

Compare that to MW3. Oh, sure, you knew Makarov would be there when the heli door opens, but it's still a nice scene because it's predictable in the right way. There's build up to it and not just making it obvious, there's a real sense of false hope that maybe it's not going to go that way. Then when Kamarov and Soap die, well, it really is a surprise.

Finally, MW3 has a far better end mission too. You can't deny the idea of being a Juggernaut with a PKP is awesome, and it is. There's a real sense of a roaring rampage of revenge, but BF3's ending is just paint by numbers, replay the prologue mission where somehow your character remembers how to pick up other guns again, where somehow Solomon has hidden an army in the sewers, and there are apparently no police or even bystanders in TIMES FRICKIN' SQUARE rushing over to help two guys in camo gear fighting a bloke carrying a suspicious big rucksack... Honestly, if the climax of this game had been set in Glasgow he'd have been beaten to death with his suitcase nuke.

But in the end, MW3 is a console shooter with a stronger story and stronger co-op modes. BF3's main thrust, Multiplayer, is a hundred times better than CoD's.

Even if the hit detection is still FUBAR.

This post has been edited by Del S on 12th November 2011 17:23

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-George Santayana

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-Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony.

Not to go on a tangent, but I really wished the BF series would have kept the story mode in the Bad Company series where it belongs.

As for the complaints about MW...I can't help but go "well duh! It's been honing down a game design that has its origins on the frigging PSX...so yeah, it's gonna end up feeling kinda been there done that.

Modern Warfare - hell, the entire Call of Duty franchise - has always been about polish and presentation and has never been about innovation or complexity. It's the Michael Bay of videogames.

This post has been edited by Narratorway on 13th November 2011 11:17

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I don't mind it. The single player campaign is nothing great and super short, 6 hours, tops. Multiplayer maps are not as diverse and quite frankly, monotonous. People say MW3 is an expansion of MW2 but I disagree, MW2's multiplayer maps were way more varied, more open, larger and just all around more fun to play, where as MW3's maps seem amateurish and lacking (and a ton of bottlenecking), so in that sense I say MW3 is more of a beta to MW2.

This post has been edited by doomer4life on 12th December 2011 21:00

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Enough expository banter! It's time we fight like men...and ladies...and ladies who dress like men.