Call of Dooty: Modern Warfare 3

[jcap]

So guys, now that "THE MOST ANTICIPATED GAME EVAR" is coming out in a few days, I thought I'd review the game for you.

THIS POST DOES NOT CONTAIN SPOILERS! I only elaborate on what we already know from demos and trailers! Nothing I say in here will spoil the story for you.

With that out of the way, here's my review of MW3.

Wow.

After the disaster that Modern Warfare 2 was, I didn't have any hopes for Modern Warfare 3. The E3 demo and launch trailer showed uncreative and repetitive gameplay that left me to believe the entire game would be a repeat of everything I hated in MW2. The game starts out in New York City, in the same level demonstrated at E3. You're basically playing the same crap that you played in MW2 while in Washington, DC - killing russians with no real purpose or relation to the actual story. The events are ridiculously scripted, and it’s the same god damn “cool” missions (scuba, helicopter, boat, crew expendable) from MW1 and MW2 combined into the first two shitty levels.

While the game runs at a consistently smooth framerate, the graphics look as bad as COD2. The engine has had practically zero improvements in the past 5 years, which is extremely embarrassing for such a high profile video game series. Modern Warfare 3 doesn’t even take advantage of the improvements Treyarch made to the engine for Black Ops, such as the 3D main menu and real cinematic cutscenes. Shadows don't draw unless you are practically standing on top of an object. Unfortunately, Hans Zimmer, the composer for MW2, did not compose the music for MW3. The soundtrack of MW2 was the only thing that was outstanding about that clusterfuck game, but MW3 doesn’t even have that. The music, while fitting the combat scenes, just sounds “generic.”

At this point, any last shred of hope I had for the game completely vanished, leaving me to believe the developers didn't learn anything. I was about to stop playing, but I just had to see how the game ended so I could validate my complaints.

The third level is where the story actually begins. In pursuit of Makarov, the story rapidly picks up pace and continues to grow in intensity until the end of the game. With the exception of the first two levels, Modern Warfare 3 tells a thrilling, dramatic, and emotional story that flows beautifully from one level into the next. This game concludes the Modern Warfare series, and I felt satisfied by the end. Modern Warfare 3 returns to the roots of Modern Warfare 1 and improves on all of the shortcomings of Modern Warfare 2.

It would be best to pretend that Modern Warfare 2 never even existed. Honestly, I think this game was written to erase MW2 from the series. Modern Warfare 3 has only a SINGLE reference to MW2, which is the airport level that was terrorized by Makarov. The hunt for Makarov and the Russian invasion stemmed from that event is all that's relevant to the MW3 story. Nothing else matters…literally. On the other hand, Modern Warfare 1 is a TOTALLY different story. MW3 is so closely tied to the events of MW1 that it continuously refers back to multiple events of the game, and EXPANDS on them! The writers did a fantastic job at tying the two games together.

[Nero]

Omg thats andy whitefield in the video on the other page! RIP

[=sw=warlord]

What do you make of criticism of the CoD game engine? Some have suggested it's starting to feel a little aged in comparison to some of its rivals?Well I'll tell you one thing, I've worked on a lot of engines over my lifetime and spent a lot of time putting graphics in to them and this thing is Porsche. And what I mean by that is that it is stream-lined, everything in it is perfectly freaking clean. You can tell it's been worked on for years. It's easy to upgrade.
We worked with engines before that are like f***ing spaghetti. You can't work on a part and put it back in without messing with everything else. Modern Warfare 3's levels now are so much bigger than the old ones because they go more vertically, they have a bigger footprint and on top of that, higher fidelity, more textures and a lot more detail.
If you put Modern Warfare 2 next to Modern Warfare 3 you would see a huge difference. Look at all the character models, look at all the gun models, look at the reflections, look at the water. There is so much that we've added, so when someone says 'cut and paste', I don't even want to talk to them because they don't know. They just don't know. They have no idea.

Heh...

[TeeKup]

You know the funny thing about Porsche?

2001


2011


They don't fucking change much...

[Amit]

Omg thats andy whitefield in the video on the other page! RIP

Wrong. It's Sam Worthington. He played Mason in Black Ops. RIP for Andy Whitefield, though. I want him back as Spartacus.

Glen Schofield is a tool. How can he seriously say that there is a huge difference in the game engine? There obviously isn't and it's insulting that he would choose to ignore our concerns. I'll reserve final judgement for the game itself, though. He says they are shipping a game, not an engine. Well, you build a game with an engine. Your limiting factor is the engine.

[MXC]

So guys, now that THE MOST ANTICIPATED GAME EVAR is coming out in a few days, I thought I'd review the game for you.

THIS POST DOES NOT CONTAIN SPOILERS! I only elaborate on what we already know from demos and trailers! Nothing I say in here will spoil the story for you.

With that out of the way, here's my review of MW3.

Wow.

After the disaster that Modern Warfare 2 was, I didn't have any hopes for Modern Warfare 3. The E3 demo and launch trailer showed uncreative and repetitive gameplay that left me to believe the entire game would be a repeat of everything I hated in MW2. The game starts out in New York City, in the same level demonstrated at E3. You're basically playing the same crap that you played in MW2 while in Washington, DC - killing russians with no real purpose or relation to the actual story. The events are ridiculously scripted, and it’s the same god damn “cool” missions (scuba, helicopter, boat, crew expendable) from MW1 and MW2 combined into the first two shitty levels.

While the game runs at a consistently smooth framerate, the graphics look as bad as COD2. The engine has had practically zero improvements in the past 5 years, which is extremely embarrassing for such a high profile video game series. Modern Warfare 3 doesn’t even take advantage of the improvements Treyarch made to the engine for Black Ops, such as the 3D main menu and real cinematic cutscenes. Shadows don't draw unless you are practically standing on top of an object. Unfortunately, Hans Zimmer, the composer for MW2, did not compose the music for MW3. The soundtrack of MW2 was the only thing that was outstanding about that clusterfuck game, but MW3 doesn’t even have that. The music, while fitting the combat scenes, just sounds “generic.”

At this point, any last shred of hope I had for the game completely vanished, leaving me to believe the developers didn't learn anything. I was about to stop playing, but I just had to see how the game ended so I could validate my complaints.

The third level is where the story actually begins. In pursuit of Makarov, the story rapidly picks up pace and continues to grow in intensity until the end of the game. With the exception of the first two levels, Modern Warfare 3 tells a thrilling, dramatic, and emotional story that flows beautifully from one level into the next. This game concludes the Modern Warfare series, and I felt satisfied by the end. Modern Warfare 3 returns to the roots of Modern Warfare 1 and improves on all of the shortcomings of Modern Warfare 2.

It would be best to pretend that Modern Warfare 2 never even existed. Honestly, I think this game was written to erase MW2 from the series. Modern Warfare 3 has only a SINGLE reference to MW2, which is the airport level that was terrorized by Makarov. The hunt for Makarov and the Russian invasion stemmed from that event is all that's relevant to the MW3 story. Nothing else matters…literally. On the other hand, Modern Warfare 1 is a TOTALLY different story. MW3 is so closely tied to the events of MW1 that it continuously refers back to multiple events of the game, and EXPANDS on them! The writers did a fantastic job at tying the two games together.

You sir have raised my interest in this game from a 1 to a 4 and a half. CoD 4 had an incredible story and part of me really wants to see how it ends. I presume you're talking about the PC version, correct? If so, how's the multiplayer?

[Nero]

Wrong. It's Sam Worthington. He played Mason in Black Ops. RIP for Andy Whitefield, though. I want him back as Spartacus.

Oshi, no way....
Thanks for the correction. Yea, I dont know if I want to watch the other Spartacus's yet because Andy isn't in them.

[arbiter901]

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/11/07/th...ern-warfare-3/

[TeeKup]

[Amit]

Downloading now. I hope the campaign is as good as jfap says it is.