T3 says "We take to the battlefield with Call of Duty 4: Modern warfare.
Transparency tech lets you see the whites of your enemies' eyes, even if they're wearing a mask..Get this game on your Christmas wishlist now. Right now. It's far and away the best first-person shooter we've played this year, and yes, that includes Halo 3.
Built around the popular Call of Duty franchise, the new version takes a mammoth leap forward. Gone are the WWII settings, and in comes modern warfare, and all the techno goodies you'd expect.
Think laser sights, tank-busting missiles and night vision, coupled with some of the most eye-popping visual effects we've ever seen.
We took a trip to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare for ourselves, and had to be prized off the joypad. It's single-handedly changed the way we look at war games, and has to be top of your shopping list once it's released on November 9th. Check it out on PS3 and Xbox 360, and take a squiz at our image gallery in the meantime."
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
Call Of Duty is back with its yearly instalment, but is Modern Warfare 3 breaking new ground, or just a lazy cash grab? The answer may not surprise you in today's review from JDR.
The original Modern Warfare and Modern Warfare 2 games have been drawing players back in
I really hope we get other activision games on GP soon. My dream would be Scarface but I know the license probably expired
None of those games had dedicated servers on console in the first place? Were always player hosted. Did something change?