Even though it's "more of the same," you'll still play next Call of Duty
September 6th, 2011
Call of Duty hasn't changed much since 2007's seminal Modern Warfare. But does it really need to, asks a new preview of Modern Warfare 3.
"What can you expect from Modern Warfare 3 when it releases later on this year?" writes Beefjack. "More of the same, but don’t take that as a negative just yet. The amount of playtime that the Call of Duty games provide make them well worth the price tag, even if it just an upgrade to the game you’re currently playing. For a game that lasts a year, the cost seems well worth it to me. And ultimately, Modern Warfare 3 is likely to appeal the exact demographic who bought the previous games. That’s a lot of people."
Like it or not, in terms of hours played, Call of Duty is one of the most popular games each year. Probably not as popular as StarCraft, WoW, or even League of Legends. But certainly the most popular shooter.
In many ways, the annual Call of Duty is like the Superbowl of shooter games. A really good one only comes along every few years or so. But you still watch/play it due to its social implications. In other words, playing Call of Duty with Call of Duty friends is probably better than playing something else with no friends.
That said, will you play Modern Warfare 3 this fall because "everyone else is doing it?" Be honest. And would that be such a bad thing, provided it's at least a competent PC experience?
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"A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
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Black ops killed CoD for me big time, unless this game is just that great I will stick with BF3...
The most Beautiful Gift ever given, was our Salvation!
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It takes 47 muscles to frown,and 17 to smile.. It only takes 3 to end a life.. One shot, one kill.
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I'm renting this game for sure, just for the story. But as for buying... IW and Sledgehammer will really need to prove that they will give support before I buy.
Ladd Russo is like a father to me.
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Not true! They patched the game a few months after the release when people were already annoyed. You can still glitch in the 360 version of MW and hide under the map. Not sure how people do it but I was killed by someone under the terrain. Love all the glitches with people fully ranked with no effort. People calling in tons of care packages for weeks with no instant patch. People having a mini nuked which was the javelin. Oh and the game, despite being developed for multiplayer having issues with full parties getting into the game together. On the bright side, 3-4 months later most of the issues were fixed so MW3 will be a great game in March as a November release.
I will buy the game but Genghis is right, they don't really support the game properly. More importantly they don't test the game properly. Give an open beta so you can have free testers to help release a polished game.
The worst thing that happened to gaming was becoming a huge industry. All it did was create more shit and stifle innovation for follow-up titles.
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reason #2 hackers paradise this game is one of the worse hacker games I've ever seen you cant play 1 game without someone cheating and making it unfair.
reason #3 stabability when this comes out its so glitchy and buggy this game is rushed for release which is just wrong for any game to be rushed just so the developers can be cheap and make money off it, plus it takes them 6 months just to release a patch that fixes 1 or 2 out of many bugs
in my full honest opinion this game should be banned and removed for the garbage and trash it brings into the gaming world of trash talking kids, hackers, cheap deleopers, and much more
my time has come.
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Maybe with my new rig, but probably not.
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Not saying that COD isn't inspiring because it very much can be but when "Social Implication" is brought into the equation it sounds as if you are playing the game because we have nothing better to go to.
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Through all the differences it is still perfection.
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That being said, I would much prefer other shooters, for example, Battlefield 3.
Recently I found the very very distinctive difference between the 2... Call of Duty is a twitch shooter.. very quick reaction times is what it's all about. Where as Battlefield is a Team Based shooter. Working as a team to take objectives.
Each game deserves their own respect in their own genre and I plan on picking up both.
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