Call of Duty MW3

[Goaty]

Just few weeks to go, here trailer of single player! Looks amazing! Gun fight in weightless plane? Love it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdKgDVruHfo

[Radbacker]

I see your MW3 trailer and raise you and epic BF3 trailer!
(but seriusly I cant seem to get your link to work, tells me i need to be signed in or something.

BF3 real or gameplay? advert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eedRhcpOsuU

Cu Radbacker

[Goaty]

Nah, I am MW3 Block!

[radiator]

As a singleplayer game, Call of Duty is nothing more than mediocre - just a string of barely-interactive, on-rails set-pieces thrown at the player to disguise the fact that the combat itself is sorely lacking, and requires very little in the way of tactics.

[Roger Godpleton]

I don't think you've ever mentioned anything like that before.

[Dandontdare]

And remember folks, it's only a game! - http://www.gamesradar.com/uk-man-strangles-boy-over-call-duty-black-ops-feud/

[Robert Frazer]

As a singleplayer game, Call of Duty is nothing more than mediocre - just a string of barely-interactive, on-rails set-pieces thrown at the player to disguise the fact that the combat itself is sorely lacking, and requires very little in the way of tactics.

That's a rather po-faced take on it. I'd challenge that the combat is lacking - certainly, my games have involved plenty of ducking and weaving and haven't just been walking forward pressing 'fire' - and are on-rails set-pieces a bad thing? The MW series has done brilliantly in creating a seamless fusion between background events and your own actions in them - for instance, the Pripyat sniper level in CoD4 conducted you with precision, with every element from sight to sound and setting driving you to scurry along even when you could have spoiled everything simply by not pressing forward. Half-Life 2 boasted that it had done away with cutscenes, but it really hadn't - all it allowed for was you to look at a wall or throw a cardboard box at a character as he recited his speech and ignored you. I actually feel that it's Call of Duty which has successfully merged events and action and genuinely made you part of an uninterrupted story.

[Devons Daddy]

I have heard that shops across the world are opening at midnight in their respective time zones, and having launch party events for pre order holders,

How sad is that, to go to a mall at 11pm to await a copy of the game,
while being entertained by young nubile wenches in short skirts, a set piece play, huge screens of trailers. bloody excellent freebies and goodie bags.free-downloads,t-shirts for every one there. If I happen to be in the area, at that point, with for what ever reason my pre-order card and invitation to the event. I may be tempted to go and take a look, just to see what all the fuss is about. 

[Goaty]

Now with MVG311020 you can get 20% off any product at ASDA online! As I order Call of Duty MW3 PS3 for £31.90! Nice!

[Darren Stephens]

Now with MVG311020 you can get 20% off any product at ASDA online! As I order Call of Duty MW3 PS3 for £31.90! Nice!

Cheers for that Goaty. I've just done likewise......£31.90! Very nice! 

[radiator]

That's a rather po-faced take on it. I'd challenge that the combat is lacking - certainly, my games have involved plenty of ducking and weaving and haven't just been walking forward pressing 'fire' - and are on-rails set-pieces a bad thing?

I always find those scripted, semi-interactive set-pieces incredibly dull and joyless. The most memorable moments in a game for me are the unique ones that arise as you play - the narrow escapes and hilarious deaths that happen organically. There's little scope for that sort of thing in CoD.

My problem with the combat is that there's nothing to get your teeth into - the enemies are little more than pop-up targets that show no sign of intelligence, all they do is spam you with superior numbers. Success comes from memorising the spawn points - and that's why it reminds me of on-rails shooters. There's none of the tense, challenging cat-and-mouse encounters you get from other games.

[Goaty]

Haha! Love this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuzaxlddWbk

Well Sam Worthington was Mason in COD Black Ops!

[Darren Stephens]

A guy on my Friends list was playing this yesterday. Early or what? 

[Batman's Superior Cousin]

Those who pre-ordered got the game very early.

[Roger Godpleton]

I'm going to go to one of those midnight launches and just stand there loudly berating people for buying this.

"DON'T YOU SEE THIS GAME'S SINGLE PLAYER IS MEDIOCRE AND THAT MULTIPLAYER IS ACTUALLY BORING. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE. NO. DON'T DO IT."