Game Review 1: Modern Warfare 3

If you're looking for more of the same over the top spec-ops single player campaign play, or the same multiplayer with tons of guns and attachments and perks, then you won't be disappointed. However, I was disappointed. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 gives you the exact same things you saw in Modern Warfare 2. I'm a big fan of the CoD4, don't get me wrong, but I expected more.

I've been playing FPS games for a while, and something they've all been lacking for the last 3 years is some innovation, or something that sets that FPS apart from others. CoD4 did that with one of the first real world combat games. FPS games had fallen into a sludge of WWII games, and CoD4 broke that trend and it was a major hit. The gameplay was good, the mechanics were great, and the graphics were beautiful. Now, the FPS catalog is riddled with modern combat games, all with the same M4-A1 assault rifle, and the same M9 pistol, and maybe a few variations here and there. The scenery is all the same, and it's just been done, over and over and over again.

Modern Warfare 2 came in right as the overload of modern combat games was peaking. It featured a few variations on the original CoD4 that made it interesting, the multiplayer had a better leveling system than the previous game, and it was still good. A bit predictable, but good. MW2 wasn't without a gross amount of technical problems on PC though, and Infinity Ward did a pretty good job of alienating PC gamers, but the game was good.

I'm ashamed to say I threw away 60 bucks on pre-order for MW3. I reached level 25 on the multiplayer, almost finished the campaign, and then reached a point where I couldn't' force myself through the rest of it. It's the exact same game as MW2, but with a few new missions, a texture upgrade on the graphics, all running on a 5 year old engine. The multiplayer is still good, but I couldn't tell a difference between MW3 and MW2, except that there's now more hackers on MW3. 

On a scale from 1-10, I'd give this game a 7. It's not bad. Quite the opposite, but it just doesn't make me want to rush home and play it, or even play it when I'm bored. I find myself playing Bloons TD before I fire up MW3.

If you want the next chapter in the campaign, or to keep up with the hordes of players moving out of MW2 to MW3, go spend your money on it, but you might want to buy it on console so you can trade it out when you're done. 

Thank you for reading!

After I've had time to play more of it, I'll be reviewing Battlefield 3 as well.