Five Reasons MW3 Will Trump BF3

This fall marks the legendary battle between two of the most recognized first-person shooter franchises in the gaming industry, Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3. There's been quite a lot of hype brewing over the past several months for both titles, and they'll both no doubt rake in millions of dollars, but the question is... which one will come out on top?

[Dart89]

1.Mouthy 12 year olds
2.Glitches within a week
3.Overpowered weapons
4.laggy matches do to p2p
5.Hacked leaderboards :D.

[Kran]

Every set of leaderboards are hacked, mate ;)

[thugbob]

wrong post. >_<

[deadpoole]

This year ... History will be rewritten with the MW3 being dethroned from the top position by the only best, the greatest and the elitest contender of alll ..... Battlefield 3 .... applause (yeaaaa).

Just like Nadal got his ass kicked recently.

I would have sold my Modern Warfare 2 copy long time back ... its because I got the fuckin DLC pack ... I dont wanna screw that money up cuz I cant sell that $hit to anyone. Mofo Activision knows how to trap consumerbase into their a$$ lickin DLC scheme.

One more thing ... WTF is COD: Elite ... I just dont get it ... what makes it sooooo different then Killzone 2 and 3 stat trackin system.

[Agent-86]

Here's a better written article that goes into more depth. MW3 may sell more, but BF3 will be the better game.

http://www.cheatcc.com/extr...

[Pixel_Pusher]

the main reason it wont, peer to peer f**king network. now f**k off Activision you cheap bastards!

[Washington-Capitals]

ONE REASON WHY THESE ARTICLES ARE STUPID!

1. BOTH GAMES ARE NOT OUT

I cant believe people are getting caught up in all of this. Obviously these website make these articles up to create wars on forums such as these. Let the two games come out and we'll see whats better.

[Sarcasm]

MW3 will "probably" end up selling more.

BF3 will DEFINITELY be the better game.

/end discussion

Edit: Agent-86 beat me to it.

[zero_gamer]

This will be interesting to see what game wins the sales department. My bet is on MW3 for obvious reasons. BF3 on PC will be my game of choice though.

[DA_SHREDDER]

Overpowered weapons? I was just talking about the bullet sponge effect on Uncharted 3 and now your saying its too easy to kill someone in COD? Do you realize that even a .22 bullet could kill you with one shot? It could ricochet from your leg all the way up to your brain. It should only take one or two bullets tops to kill anyone in any game. I'm a huge fan of Bushido Blade as much as I'm a fan of hardcore mode in COD and Bad Company. Screw you core dudes.

@dragonyght
point well taken, but the good thing about COD games is that they don't just cater to one crowd. It caters to everyone. You play your little make believe core games, and I get to play my ultra realistic hardcore mode games with no hud. Its a win/win situation for both types of gamers.

[dragonyght]

lol he talking about a gun that ever nood use which make other weapon in the game useless that can quickly kill any online gaming. and please spare us the talk of realism especially in COD (ironically) -_- its a only game m8. its doesnt hurt if we core dudes likes a well balance game

[thugbob]

One of the reasons why I don't play CoD is because people die too freakin fast. This promotes camping. Which CoD fans love. They love campers because they camp themselves. You're not playing CoD right if you don't camp.

[Warprincess116]

I don't even know why you responding to him. He like a huge battlefield fanboy. He so close-minded. There no way of getting through to him. Now i agree with you about uncharted. It takes way too long to kill an enemy. It ridiculous.

1.Mouthy 12 year olds - There a mute option and they might not even be 12. Their mic might make them sound like that.
2.Glitches within a week - And battlefield doesn't have any glitches. Troll more.
3.Overpowered weapons - DA_SHREDDER already explained that.
4.laggy matches do to p2p - I don't know about you but when i play COD. The matches rarely lag. Dedicated servers aren't that am amazing. P2P works fine most of the time.
5.Hacked leaderboards :D - Again DA_SHREDDER already that. So again stop trolling because you're bad at it.

[thugbob]

And there goes warprincess the infamous Call of Duty fanboy/girl.

Lets be serious. No doubt Modern Warfare 3 will out sell Battlefield 3, but Battlefield 3 will be the better game.

[Shackdaddy836]

Warprincess: "He like a huge battlefield fanboy. He so close-minded."

Lol. The irony XD

[Hufandpuf]

@war princess
You said BF3 has glitches!? As far as I know every glitch that has been reported was fixed in bfbc2. I challenge you to find a glitch in battlefield that is still used. I have never encountered a glitch, maybe an unfair tactic like helicopter strafing or jihad jeeps (one on does that anymore) but never a glitch.

[Ravenor]

@Warprincess

I lol'd at:
"Dedicated servers aren't that am amazing."

The gmal and AK don't take that long to kill people if you use them properly.

[khan_saab]

when he is says overpowered weapon, he is talking about one weapon that everyone grabs on to and that makes the game stale, you have to be an idoit to believe that the damage you take in cod is the same as the damage received in real life

[RememberThe357]

@Shackdaddy836: Thats hypocrisy.

Uncharted is far from a simulator so expecting the gun the handle or hit like they do in Battlefield or COD is retarded. The game has always been pretty but far from realistic. Hell, Gear of War is the game way, why not bring that up?

How do people not understand that none of these games are simulators? None of the have accurate damage. Otherwise the game would suck and no one would want to play.

@DA_SHREDDER: "It could ricochet from your leg all the way up to your brain."
lol. A .22 doesn't have enough inertia to push up your leg, through your torso and into your brain. I believe it could hit somewhere in the upper torso but it's as likely to hit you in the head as it is to go any other direction or depending on the round just go all the way through you.

[HeavenlySnipes]

Dedicated Servers aren't that amazing?

COD rarely lags?

PLAY 5 GAMES ON COD RIGHT NOW AND I GUARANTEE YOU THAT THE GAME WILL HOST MIGRATE AT LEAST TWICE AND THAT FOR ONE GAME THE LOBBY WILL CLOSE EITHER BECAUSE NO NEW HOST WAS FOUND OR RIGHT AFTER THE GAME.

The lag and hit detection in BO is terrible. The lag allows people to knife you from far on your screen only to find that on their screen they were right next to you, and did I mention the hit detection?

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Servers overrated my ass. Play a real MP game and remake your comment.

[DeadlyFire]

@Warprincess.
....Do you even know what a dedicated server does?

Peer to Peer works fine for 4 player perfect, maybe decent with 6-8 players. This is true. It is why L4D, Borderlands, and other 4 player games were conceived. Anything more than that and there is a noticeable effect on gameplay.

Dedicated is the same all the way through. If the server is good and solid gameplay should be as well no matter how many players the effect is shared all around and its not problematic lag effect like p2p.

[firemassacre]

Call of duty mw3 is you

Battlefield 3 is ricky bobby, shake and bake ho

[saladthieves]

Only one place where we expect Modern Warfare 3 to trump Battlefield 3: SALES. Period.

5. Fast Paced Action - This is true if you are talking about consoles. Has this author ever seen how ridiculously fast Battlefield Bad Company 2 being played on PC is? Even on consoles, it's still fast paced, it isn't slow. The only reason as to why Call of Duty's fast pace is due to the small cramped maps and simple objectives: 25 kills and you win. You will run around and sure enough you will run into someone very quickly.

4. Unparalleled Set Piece Moments - Ridiculous. Scripted non-destructive moments on such an old engine no longer appeals to me as 'unparalleled'. We haven't even dug deeper into Battlefield 3 and what they've shown so far is very impressive.

3. Frame-rate - Again with the 60FPS argument. Battlefield runs at 720p, with environments capable of getting destroyed at such massively huge maps and the fact that it continues to lock this to 30FPS is fantastic. CoD fanboys complain about BF's 30FPS. How come BF players don't complain about it? It's because not only do you quickly get used to it (like many other games locked at 30fps) but you just can't trade in a higher resolution, larger maps and destruction for just sub HD static environments of call of duty.

2. Publicity - Playing the sales card, really? We know Activision hypes the crap out of it. We all know it will sell to lots of 10 year olds and prepubescent teenage boys with weird voices that sound all the same, itching to discover new camp spots and spawn locations to abuse. This is just another way of saying "Hey, it won't be better than Battlefield, but it will seeelll waay higher!"

1. Recognizability (Brand recognition) - just a matter of time before call of duty players realize that they have been playing similar stuff for years. The sooner the better, this way Activision might, MIGHT decide to improve their game. Unfortunately this won't happen anytime soon. :-( They've got their fans on the Call of Duty drug, and each year they will say it's a new game, but all they've done is sell the same drug in a bottle with a different color.

[Cerberus29]

Yeah, the author was really stretchin for #1 & #2. This whole article made me laugh, sounds like it was written by a CoD fan in denial of a better game on the way.

[Agent-86]

Great post, well said and bubbles up for you.

[bwazy]

Bubbs for you man.

[DigitalxPiracy]

I'm so sick of the 30/60 fps argument. These Cod kids don't know wtf they're talking about.

[DanSolo]

On that whole 60fps vs 30fps thing....

I can honestly say I do not notice the difference... and if people didn't talk about it, I wouldn't even know there was a frame rate difference between COD and BF.... it is really not a big thing, it doesn't matter at all or detract in anyway from the game.... if you are sitting there counting framerates and pixels in games then you are seriously playing games in the wrong way....

[xX-StolenSoul-Xx]

The people that complain about FPS are obviously people that never played any other game besides Cod... Only if they knew the amount of games that run at 30fps

Crysis 2
Homefront
Killzone 3
Killzone 2
Battlefield 1943
MAG
Halo 3
Halo Reach
Resistance 2
Battlefield Bad Company 1+2...

[Mansour449]

I'm still playing COD4, Man the connection is fucking awesome. I wish there is a game has a good connection like cod4.

[Sarcasm]

After careful discussions with many friends who play COD, we all agreed COD4 was THE best COD for multiplayer. It was JUST RIGHT. Not over the top and not too light on features either.

[bozebo]

this ^ (and above that too).

The bullets just worked in cod4, like in CSS before they broke it in 2010.

[ALFAxD_CENTAURO]

The beta of BF3 will be better than the full retail MW3 game.

[saladthieves]

I would agree to that. If anyone disagrees, then compare the Battlefield Bad Company 2 BETA with the Black Ops Full Game.

[XRider]

MW3 will sell more but BF3 will be loved more. The first comment is a troll comment and should be removed.

[chidori666]

i stop read in :
"planetxbox.com
lol

[Oxymoron028]

planetxbox360. Was the article written because EA favoured the PS3 over the 360 when it came to show casing the console port of MW3?

Also; recognizability. Nice, making up words now are we... I thought journalists had to have a grasp of the English language? Or at least the language of the country in which their articles are published...

[StayStatic]

Well said Dart89

and heres a number 6

6. Kill Streaks

/spit

/stamp

n00b camper streaks FTL

[showtimefolks]

spending over 100 million on advertisement i don't think one game will really trump the other.

I fully expect both to do over 10 but close to 15 million.

MW3 might outsell BF3 by a little and BF3 might outsell MW3 by a little

with advertisement anything can be sold look at COD but all EA has to do is show how great their game looks on this engine and many casuals will just be blown away by tat and buy it

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[ilikegam3s]

Heres mine:
1:I will have both MW2 and BF3
2:I will play Mw3 first
3:Then ill finish it (including completing it on vet, so may take a month - including multiplayer and playing BF3 ><)
4:get bored, then take out disk
5:Play BF3 for aggggeeeeesss (occasionally go on mw3 and make ppl rage quit)

[Emilio_Estevez]

It will only trump in sales, not awesomeness.

[Motorola]

Agreed.

[Pandamobile]

Lol, I like how most of the reasons have nothing to do with the quality of the game itself.

[ALFAxD_CENTAURO]

Lmao. You are right, those ''reasons'' doesn't make MW3 better. Only in sales, that's all.

But for Gamers, BF3 is better in every way, and is a more complete game.

[Agent-86]

Panda, here's a better written article on how BF3 will be the better game. I think you'll really like Reason #3: PC Gamers Get Respect.

http://www.cheatcc.com/extr...

[RyuCloudStrife]

MW3 has trumped BF3 already

[sikbeta]

In sales, it already did, sad but true, no way in hell BF3 can sell more than COD, but who gives a crap about sales, as long as there is people to play online, everything is OK...

[cannon8800]

Your comment has be trumped by disagrees.

[Cyrax_87]

1. The name "Call of Duty"
2. Millions of dollars poured into marketing
3. The same million sheep that buy it every year
4. The same million sheep that buy it every year
5. The same million sheep that buy it every year

[Ducky]

Doesn't BF3 have comparably expensive marketing as well?

Also, your last three points are the same. Might want to fix that. Other than that, good list.

[Ser]

His last three reasons are the main reasons as to why CoD sells so much. People really do just buy the games because of the name attached to them.

Activision could release Call of Duty: Power Ranger edition and it would break sales records.

I'm not saying that CoD is garbage, but the name "Call of Duty" does carry a lot of sway in the public eye.

[maniacmayhem]

Does the same million of sheep apply to the BF crowd that buy every BF game?

[Ser]

Battlefield doesn't have as many sheep as Call of Duty...Also, Battlefield games don't release every year.

[thespaz]

Not enough people like Battlefield.

Plus, when a game doesn't get released yearly, people tend to get bored and the game loses their attention.

Call of Duty players' attention span is short. You GOTTA keep pumpin' 'em out year after year to keep 'em playing the games.

My brother ONLY plays Call of Duty games. He actually bought LA Noire though... played 1 or 2 cases and hated it. Now he's back to Call of Duty.

That's just the type of gamer that Activision is targeting.

[Aloren]

Well...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

It sure looks like there are battlefield branded games every year.

[Der_Kommandant]

Glitches, Lag, Bugs, Campers, 2007 graphics

[Deadly_Sinner]

Yeah! That's what I been saying since MW2 came out. Bubbles to you my friend.

BF3 = Greatness

MW3 = Same Old Sh!t

[Hockeydud19]

How about both games are awesome and we get on with our fucking lives.

[saladthieves]

I wish, but the sad truth is one of them is more AWESOME than the other.

[IaussieGamer]

Pfft what a joke of a story. BF3 will shit all over MW3. COD is a kiddies shooter now days.

[Hicken]

It should be "Five Reasons MW3 CAN Trump BF3." It should then go on to mention that this is sales-related, and not in terms of gameplay or quality.

[CraigBaker]

1. Cod Sucks
2. Cod is overated
3. Cod gameplay has been repetitve since world at war.
4. Cod is shit
5. Cod is really fucking shit.

Buy BF3 and don't be a nob! End of subject. plus there is no zombies mode in mw3, which is the only reason i would every buy another cod game. Fuck the defunct infinity ward who is slapping their name on this think only to sell the fucking thing when the fact is the only remaining members of infinity ward are the PR people and the guy that gets the fucking coffee, and i hear he can't tell the difference between real sugar or sweet n low.

[firemassacre]

agreed, shake and bake

[Slade23]

True, great comment, and really who wants a zombie mode on MW3, heck leave it to Resident Evil or left 4 dead, but not COD.

"the guy that gets the fucking coffee, and i hear he can't tell the difference between real sugar or sweet n low"

lol XD

[Dojan123]

I do miss the days of COD UO. Not sure why they left using tanks and jeeps. It will be one of the main reasons I stick with BF3.

[Slade23]

yea thats one of the things that I like about it.

[led1090]

Just to get hits, which it is getting. Don't bother reading

[sickbird]

it will kill it in sales but not in quality.

[gypsygib]

It's all a matter of taste. MW3 will be better for some and BF3 with be better for some. No one can say one game is definitively better than another, no matter the sales or review scores.

My fav games this gen certainly aren't the top 5 best selling or the top 5 scoring. I thought Portal 2 was a 7/10 and find the COD series has gotten boring. That didn't stop reviewers from giving Portal 2 the highest ratings this year and it won't stop COD from being the top seller.

I just play what I want and try an have fun - the media's the one creating this MW3 vs. BF3 ridiculousness.

[Squadron40Dive]

Troll article BF3 will own

[lMHl]

Being a Marksmen in skyrim will beat MW3 all together

[Miiikeyyy]

Would you stop! We get it, you like Skyrim!!! But Skyrim has nothing to do with COD or BF3!

[Caffo01]

"Call of Duty shocked us all with a robust multiplayer experience that IMPROVES year after year."

WTF are you smoking? i want some!

[thekiddfran]

I stopped reading after he said this:

"As a more casual online gamer, I find Battlefield 3's massive online offerings a bit overwhelming and intimidating"

[ZILLA]

That's an easy one!Noobs love paint ball type combat,but if its a war you want...well then BATTLEFIELD is where you wanna be(period)

[thespaz]

It's not war that I want.

IT'S A VIDEO GAME! VIIIIIIIDDDDDDEEEEEEOOOOO GAME.

Call of Duty is fun. That's what I want. Fun.

[Merivigian]

It lacks dinosaurs, this matter must be investigated.

[thespaz]

Here's the deal with me.

I like Call of Duty. It has all the right things that keep me coming back.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 wasn't fun to me... most likely because it wasn't Call of Duty.

That's how I think most Call of Duty fans look at it.

Call of Duty is an arcade-style game
Battlefield is a Team-Oriented Tactics game.

Call of Duty: Run around like a crazy lunatic and kill anything that moves
Battlefield: Run around like crazy and get owned.

Both games play VERY differently and I'd rather play Call of Duty. So I guess I'm a mindless fanboy that doesn't know that Battlefield is a better game.

Also, you must remember that people have DIFFERENT TASTES. For example: I love the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and I couldn't see how anyone would not like it. However, when I ask people about it, most people didn't like it... how is this possible? Maybe because those people have different tastes (most of them enjoyed Kick-Ass though even though it was the same genre).

Basically it comes down to what people like.

[Chewy33]

"No one thought another series would be able to compete with the likes of Halo, but Call of Duty shocked us all with a robust multiplayer experience that improves year after year".

This is your chance Gears of war, bring down the beast known as Call of duty!

[EDD213]

Don't make me laugh, It can't even break into the top 10 on N4G

[Impaler]

Waiting on BF beta, impatiently I might add

[LOLOLFFSA]

Reason why I'm getting them both?

Pointless article..

[MidNight-Guy]

It's so beautiful to heard that MW3 will have a new weapons

[GusBricker]

I don't give a shit about it.

Yeah, I'm the one who actually likes playing single player, too.

[blackhammer]

This article is surely TROLL BAIT.

Both games got their goods. MW3 will have an action-packed campaign that will be over before I can say, "I dig the cake."
BF3 will have large-scale multiplayer that rolls back into what made it pretty amazing, but also will probably have faulty hit-boxes.

BF3 will take the cake for me.

[bozebo]

"but also will probably have faulty hit-boxes. "

Finally! Somebody else on here who doesn't think BF
has perfect hitboxes.

[blackhammer]

Oh, yes. Hell yes. Battlefield 2 was a nightmare with that issue.

[bronxsta]

I think people need to stop comparing these games. Yes they're both modern shooters with a focus on multiplayer.

But one's all about a focus on realistic combat and story and the other's nonstop movie style action.

Two very different tones, very different types of missions and objectives

[Gigglefist]

Both games play differently. I'm looking forward to playing both. I'm disappointed in this article for using abbreviated titles in its header, though. For shame.

[MasterCornholio]

MW3 will be a terrible game (just like black ops) yet it will sell millions because of the fanbase. Just goes to show that some people cant tell a good game from a bad one. Anyways i like the direction that EA is taking with battlefield 3 and i expect it to be better than MW3 even though MW3 will sell a lot more copies cause of the fans.

[DOOMZ]

Battlefield 3 for me this time around!

[allyc4t]

YES! Call of Duty will trump BF3 because the gameplay is 'faster.'

I stopped reading after that, what a terrible article.

[Inzo]

What is this MW3 I keep reading about?

[BlueEye]

Why do these articles keep popping up? Its Call of Duty! Its extremely popular and extremely unpopular and that's cause its literally the top video game every year! You don't need "top 5 reasons" blahblahbla or statistic between MW3 and BF3. Its obvious MW3 will win sale wise and be greatly received by fans but also spit on by others. In everything except fan loyalty MW3 wins.

[Hifist1]

MW3 will trump bf3? Hey c'mon don't make me laugh. BF3 will be miles better in every aspect.

[bloodybutcher]

except for sales and you know it is true...well,i will get bf3 this year but mw3 will probably find it´s way to my house next year anyway.

[artdafoo]

"As a more casual online gamer, I find Battlefield 3's massive online offerings a bit overwhelming and intimidating". Translation: I'm afraid of big maps, vehicles scare me and don't like having yo play in a game that's geared towards team based gameplay. I will continue to pay for sub par graphics and basic twitch gameplay. I pee sitting down.

[danidefjam2345]

Mw3 and battlefield 3- the difference is that COD is addicting while battlefield 3 is just like medal of honor basically, while COD is just COD.. battlefield is just playing catch up with COD ,, although i agree with the sub-par graphics tho, but id rather have sub-par than a boring as online game.. i really only know only 2 people who play battlefield and thats beacuse EVERYONE knows battlefield is BORING thats why it doesnt sell !

[Sarobi]

Call of Duty is losing the momentum it once had, and it's pretty obvious it is. If you go around to all the major boards, (neoseeker,GAMEFAQS,IGN Boards,etc etc) you'll notice that there is three times more talk about BF3 than MW3, sure that might not mean much but in terms of spotlight BF3 is getting much more of it

MW3 will sell damn good, but that doesn't mean BF3 won't either, and if anything i really don't see MW3 smashing records.

[danidefjam2345]

most of the people who bought MW2 will buy MW3 beacuse of the storyline continuation.. plus the online portion.. you do know most of the people who buy these games battlefiled plus mw3 dont even care about anything were talking about in these forums- just a thoguht tho...

[Sarobi]

That may be true, but it wasn't like this before, even with Bad company 1 and 2 around the series has never actually out numbered COD in terms of it being the hot topic, this is the first time a COD game isn't being looked at like God it self

[Jonah_Reese]

So CoD fanboys talking up their favorite FPS. I understand. This is the worse kind of opinion piece. I will say this though CoD has that Michael Bay effect. Action and ridiculous sequences of peril sells a lot.

[zen555]

For some reason this title just made me laugh my ass off while picturing a 14 year old sipping a capri sun while typing it.

[danidefjam2345]

If were talking about how activison makes the same game every year, lest talk about how EA makes two of the same games every year FIFA and Madden.. This discussion is stupid its like comparing coca cola and pepsi.. coca cola has been the same for most of its existence (except for vanilla and cherry flavors) and so has pepsi. Peple who play battlefield are just hating at the fact that they dont get as much attention.. and if u keep telling COD people to play battlefield then most of those annoying "12" year olds will go play ur game.. so its a lose-lose situation. I dislike COD and battlefield, but obviously COD is a better selling game for a reason,, because battlefield is boring as hell if u dont have atleast five friends to actually play as a team with you available when ur gonna play.. coz if u dnt then its BORRRIIING just playing a HUGE as map with selfish team mates.. IN conclusion who gives a crap about activion or EA its just about having fun... and who doesnt have fun on COD, by yourself or with friends, especially zombies and a little bit spec-ops!

[artdafoo]

I'm glad u brought up the word fun. I tried having fun in COD BO for about a week and a half. It's hard to have fun in a laggy, horrible hit detection, bad spawn points, same old graphics game. So now I have fun in BC2 taking out campers hiding in buildings with RPGs or walking up behind bush wookies and taking their dog tags. I understand Blops is more fun these days but I didn't want to wait till the 4th patch to have fun in a game that should have been fun from the begining, not 3 months later. Good look having the same amount if fun in MW3, well at least after the 4th patch.

[danidefjam2345]

you must be talking about the ps3 version, (but thats a different argument) and nuketown... which is probably the best map on Black ops.. always gets voted plus guess what no camping straight up close combat + fun ... what a shock right?

[HINDERIZATION]

lolwut?