SunJournal: "Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the latest in the celebrated series of first-person shooters, has some pretty big shoes to fill. The fact that it must compete with the much-hyped Halo 3 and Bioshock doesn't make things any easier.
But Call of Duty 4 ($59.99 for Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC and Nintendo DS) has one major advantage: It does everything right.
First, the graphics are awesome. As in, my jaw hung open in awe when I first saw the beautifully rendered images on a high-definition TV. It still looks like a video game, but sometimes not by much".
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?
Pretty much, yeah.
It's good, the most fun I've had in months, but it certainly doesn't get EVERYTHING right.
Look to the various issues plaguing online MP for that.
......is brilliant but by no means perfect. There is always room for improvement. It is however a seriously intense fps and has really fun online mp appart from the recent problems, its great fun.
Everything right apart from........
Stupidly short single player although it is great while it lasts.
The crappy textures they do look awesome from afar, but close up their terrible ill let them off though because the game plays so smooth at 60 fps.
Also the game is so easy online and offline well on the ps3 anyway aint played the 360 one online since the beta.
I am of course nitpicking the game itself is awesome in small doses
The multiplayer is alot of fun but pretty simple to rack up kills. Especially with certain perks. No headshots are needed. A simple spray on the body is an instant kill. Halo 3 is still the best competitive multiplayer experience.