Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

[PKBMax]

After playing a few hours I think the maps are great. They feel like they will have longevity. In fact the entire multiplayer is leagues better than that piece of shit Black Ops.

Also played through the first 3 campaign missions. Impressive.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

I know some of you peruse other boards. Has there been any grumblings about defective disks? We've had three returned so far. The discs look perfect but they either freeze and give you a disc read error message a few hours into the game, or if you try installing them they kick out at 35%.

[Brand X]

That sounds about right. I played for a few hours last night and in the second chapter of the campaign I got a disc read error. Hasn't happened since, but it happened.

[EvilMog]

Almost through the campaign. I'm impressed. Hell, I'm shocked how good this is.

[Brand X]

I TOTALLY agree mog. I'm about half way through I think and it's been seriously kick ass. If you didn't like the campaign from the previous games this one won't change your mind, it still has spawn closets, and all of the firefights are centered around progressing forward towards a point. If you enjoyed the other ones though, this one has had more "holy shit" moments in the first 4 - 5 hours than any other CoD. The weightless firefights on the Russian President's plane while it was crashing was absolutely epic.

[sleeve]

Played an hour of campaign, a couple hours of multiplayer.

Thoughts:

* NO MORE NUKES. Thank God.
* The campaign is awesome. Many times better than the piece of shit that was Black Ops. As others have said, if you liked previous Modern Warfare campaigns, you'll like this. Otherwise, it won't change your mind. I've only played the first three levels, but man! Some awesome set pieces.
* I really like the idea of the support strike package. And the "assault" killstreaks have been seriously rebalanced. I haven't had the chance to try the AC-130 yet. I'm so glad that the devs made the Pave Low and AC-130 cost the same number of killstreaks.
* The booby trapped care package has had an interesting psychological effect on gameplay. It seems like people will not go near an enemy care package for fear of it being boobytrapped. So I guess the side effect of that is that regular care packages are now more valuable, because now there's an actual risk in taking one if you're an enemy player.
* I haven't spent too much time playing with the weapons, but so far they seem just like MW2. I've been too busy trolling people with the riot shield.
* Ahh, riot shield. I missed you.

[allisonbrie]

does anyone play call of duty, MW2? I have that one. I'm having a hard time with it though. I liked the one in the series where you go on the beach of normandy? and then into a castle full of nazi's. I found that one to be easy. I have a hard time with the controller though, I think they're too sensitive. I kinda miss the original NES when the controls were simple. Out of the games I have, I think forza is my favorite.

[Bacon McShig]

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[Brand X]

:: face palm ::

[AstroBlue]

The game play is incredibly shallow and the equivalent of shooting galleries interrupted by occasionally having to press "F", I don't think the game ever lets go of your hand and doesn't tell you exactly what you need to do; the action goes to ridiculous Michael Bay levels with zero-g disintegrating, crashing plan gunfights, and the Eiffel Tower being taken out as collateral. But this game is a whole lot of fun to play, polished to the nines. Also, occasionally it has moments where it's not just big stupid fun but actually impressive, like the silhouetted gunfight in a sandstorm.