Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 picks up from where the last game left off. Soap is badly wounded and Captain Price is left to help him to safety, while at the same time both are trying to clear their names and track down the master mind behind all the trouble which is the Russian villain by the name of Makarov.
You then get to hunt the latter down by traversing to several places across the globe. Most of the places are in various well known cities, such as New York City, London and Paris which the artists have captured to great effect.
Was it Good?
To be honest you may be tired of hearing this, but the gameplay is identical to all the other games (which may or may not be a bad thing, depending on your love for the series). The single player campaign is literally nuts as your thrown into the action the moment you start right the way through to the finish! So expect explosions going off around you, chase sequences in vehicles, the ability to control bots remotely (carrying machine guns) and tons of fire fights which you can participate in with all manner of weapons (the list is staggering!), I think you get the idea.
In some ways the above does get repetitive if you are playing on hard difficulty because the amount of times you die and re-spawn in the game is immense! Not because it’s difficult, far from it, as even on the latter setting I completed the single player in around 6 hours, rather it’s the way you re-spawn at the checkpoints time and time again. For example by the 10th time of dying you will know exactly where all the bad guys are shooting from, but you end up having to repeat the same action sequences.
The game does deploy a system to stop you from dying as frequently, but it’s that silly grenade and blur of red system which tries to indicate where you are getting shot from. Unfortunately by the time you have turned to look, you are already dead!
Special Ops
The single player campaign was at least visually stunning and the cinematics were great, but there was far too much swapping between different characters for my liking, i.e. one minute you were Soap, the next you were Price and then the next some Russian bloke, thus you never felt that the story flowed properly.
Once the game was finished, which was pretty quick it has to be said, you are at least left with the cool Special Ops mode to have a go at.
This allows you to compete in 16 new objective-based missions or the new Gears of War 3 Horde inspired Survival Mode.
The latter allows you to team up online, locally, or play solo and face endless waves of progressively difficult enemies throughout every multiplayer map.
This is probably the best game mode of them all as it’s really fun seeing how long you can last against the different waves and then how you fare against others in the online Leaderboard. As with the latest Horde mode to help you beat the odds you can also purchase and customize your weapons or call in air support before each wave begins (the more kills you get the more money you have to play with).
I forgot to mention that after each mission is complete you can earn experience and rank up with the games newly implemented progression system. It appears the higher the rank you get the more weapons and EQ will become available during the game.
Multiplayer
Its worth doing the above mainly because you get geared up for the competitive multiplayer, but this won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, mine included.
The main reason is that you’re normally up against players that are miles better than you and your death to kill ratio will be appalling to start with. Granted a touch of practice helps but its just no fun being taken out before you can even blink. Each to their own though, so if you have the hours to spare you can get good, but for those who haven’t got the time, the Special Ops mode may be a better bet because you certainly won’t get much replay value out of the repetitive single player campaign.
