WHY MODERN WARFARE 3 WILL NOT SUCK

Ok… I’m a man who can admit when I’m wrong… most times, at least.

A few months back I wrote an article outlining the demise of the Modern Warfare series. Well just as Mark Twain wrote in a telegram many years ago, “the reports of my death has been greatly exaggerated,” so may have my opinions of the next iteration in the Call of Duty series called Modern Warfare 3.

Both “Hunter Killer” and “Black Tuesday” E3 2011 trailers show another fantastical jaunt into the Bruckheimer world that is Modern Warfare and I was impressed.

The trailers had excellent pacing and better dynamic lighting right out of the gate. The story feels very familiar and this is a good thing and not at all what I was expecting. My “too many cooks” complaint may be moot. Clearly, as by what I’ve seen in the on stage, E3 demo, Infinity Ward is no longer the lead developer. I don’t think Robert Bowling, newly minted creative strategist at IW, was allowed to speak 2 consecutive words under gag order from Activision as the President of Sledgehammer games did all the talking.

I am now a fan of what I’ve seen so far. Putting Call of Duty Elite aside for now as nobody, including Activision, knows what that will be. Seeing Modern Warfare back gave me the familiar, warm blanket feel I was missing with Black Ops. From the font of the on-screen text to listening to “Warlord” bark out command directions, this is a series I want to jump back into sooner rather than later.

So… Sledgehammer Games, Infinity Ward and Raven Studios, it’s possible your death was “greatly exaggerated”… my bad.

Now... just don’t fuck it up.

[Nate-Dog]

All the E3 demo showed was swimming followed by a boat ride followed by a bit of shooting followed by a few explosions. Honestly from what I've seen of the trailers and footage it looks to me like IW/Sledgehammer don't even care about trying to make the game look different, they realise it'll sell either way so they'll just show it to everyone for what it is which is the same thing as we've seen before.

[MintBerryCrunch]

i bet you that the best part about all of this will be when you play the game and you realise that you wont have the freedom to drive the boat where you want

the game will basically do everything for you

[_CoD-Pro_]

The tralers did suck but i think this game will be pretty fun

[-Alpha]

It's a trailer. It's supposed to make you giddy.

Likely reality is that it wont top COD4 (which I thought was fantastic)

MW2's story was OK, but it was on par with many other shooters these days. Consider the limited engine, the lack of any real details on anything new, and it's honestly sounding like just another run of the mill SP experience.

I'm looking forward to Spec Ops and MP information though

[DragonKnight]

Seems to me that maybe people keep buying games like MW, Black Ops, etc, hoping that it will top CoD4, but then it doesn't and all the backlash starts up again, and you hit reset a year later. lol.

[Sarobi]

That is true, going from COD4 to MW2 was a big let down to me for some reason, I mean it just didn't feel the same and i don't think they can recapture what COD4 did. I still play 4, and i always will as long as there is some one to play it with. That is something i can't say about any call of duty title after it though.

[Kon]

Do.Not.Say.That.On.N4G.

EVER

[RugbyGod]

Whhaaa?

[Kran]

He's stating that because you think CoD will not suck, you might get trolled.

[RugbyGod]

Well, its a blog post so people will have to think what they want.

[theonlylolking]

MW2 and COD4 did not suck. MW2 needed to fix a few things but it is not nearly as bad as Battlefield fanboys keep saying.

[newn4gguy]

I'm with you. I didn't want a COD game without the REAL Infinity Ward...but this is looking much better than I thought it would. That being said...I think Treyarch rides on the shoulders of giants and never acknowledges it.

[g5bay]

CoD will suck

[UnagiMaster]

N4G hates CoD, dont we all know that by now? Zombies is the only good thing to come out of the whole franchise. imo.

[jon1234]

i perfer spec ops and then zombies, only because u can actually beat spec ops, zombies is fun but once u get past a certain level, the game just gets boring and repetitive :(

[theEx1Le]

Not really, the whole point of zombies is your going to die, but how well are you and your team going to do before it happens. Its quite genius tbh, the survival style game mode but with inevitable doom.

[jon1234]

well yeah i agree, ive gotten pretty far in zombies and i never said it sucked, its fun, but after like 30 or 40 levels, i just cant take sitting in the same chair running around the same place over and over, its just not fun anymore

[coolbeans]

I personally don't think any of the main COD iterations suck, but you're going to be disappointed if you believe this is going to be the "second coming" (or an extravagent piece of a well-paced story for that matter). Still don't see what ALL of the hype was about for CoD4.

[AtomicGerbil]

A handful of trailers are not going express what a game is really like.

[Pandamobile]

COD will be COD, and nothing more.

[maxmill]

COD sucks, sorry

[ZombieNinjaPanda]

Call of Duty sucks now. It USED to be good. Not anymore, not since it became a cash cow. Tis a shame.

[mamotte]

COD will probably not suck. Problem is, it'll be the same as the last years. No matter how good a flavor is, you'll get tired if you consume it everyday...

[jon1234]

i dont think the story to this game is good at all, i read up to the point that u said the story feels familiar, well i think its crap, and its just another company milking the F*** out of another franchise, i mean seriously, a prequel to a cliff hanger ending? wtf is that...

[Sillyace92]

Don't lie, you don't even know what the story is about. You think it has a terrible story because you follow what other people think you sheep. Try and tell me the story to it, I dare you. And tell me why it sucks.

[jon1234]

If a game has a difficult story and manages to pull me in, I will go out of my way to research and find out what’s going on. but I’m not going to lie, no I don’t know everything that is going on in the game, this game just sucks the way it tells stories, flashy gps scenes that are all fluff and no substance, how the hell is this game to help me in the game? Or story?? It’s just annoying how they have to mimic Hollywood movies, which by the way most Hollywood movies suck today too, why can't infinite ward can’t find their own niche in storytelling, instead of making it look like another pile of Hollywood crap

[Sillyace92]

Except that it's not difficult to understand unless you have the attention span of a child, in which I would understand the need for the game to hold your hand. But obviously you aren't.

And how does a game's story suck because you can't understand it? How can you even make a judgement on it's quality...um that's right you can't so STFU.

[jon1234]

lol dude, relax, I never said I don’t understand the game, im willing to keep debating with you if you can stop acting like a child... you obviously didn’t read what I put earlier, I don’t like this game because it tries to hard to create a story by making big flashy things that mean absolutely nothing , I really hate Hollywood movies, and their huge budget productions, that’s exactly what call of duty is, a huge bloated game, look at black ops, apparently its one of the most expensive game to create... why? not because the developers put all their time into creating a new engine or made something new and innovation, it’s because they spent their money on licensing songs from various artists... im going off topic, but seriously im sticking with my previous comments, I very much dislike call of duty, I think it’s horrible, although so much work gets put into it, the developers focus more on multilayer rather than the actual campaign, making it even crappier. You make like the game, but hey that doesn’t mean you have to get all sad when someone talks bad about your game, lets just agree to disagree yes? Lol probably not, I bet your red at the face…

this being my last bubble, I won’t be able to reply to any other fan boy crap that comes out of your man-boy brain, sooo... do me a favor and have a nice day :)

[stu888]

I go to Uni, study politics - I dont have a attention span of a child, and I don't really know whats going on in Modern Warfare. Just it WW3 and theres a couple of people Soap, ghost...

[Sillyace92]

"lol dude, relax, I never said I don’t understand the game"
(previous post)"no I don’t know everything that is going on in the game," Sounds like you didn't understand the game.

"stop acting like a child." Um, how am I the child. Because I'm going against your idiotic excuses. Just read your first reply for Christ's sake, and tell me that doesn't scream childish.

" I don’t like this game because it tries to hard to create a story by making big flashy things that mean absolutely nothing " What makes those big set pieces null? Exactly, you have no basis for that comment because you obviously don't follow the story so it wouldn't mean anything to you, comprende?

" I really hate Hollywood movies, and their huge budget productions" Okay and that suddenly makes the game Suck because you don't like that type of orientation...makes sense /sarcasm.

I'm not even going to comment and your reasoning for money, engine, etc. because you obviously don't know what you're talking about.

"the developers focus more on multilayer rather than the actual campaign, making it even crappier." sure I agree the main focus of the game because that's why people play call of duty. But you are in this mindset that campaign is everything to a game when it's not anymore, you need to grow up and accept what games have become instead of what they were. Just think of it like them giving you a free extra campaign to coincide with the multiplayer.

"You make like the game, but hey that doesn’t mean you have to get all sad when someone talks bad about your game" I enjoy the game but I defend it because of idiotic criticism from retards like you not because I'm mad that someone dislikes it.

Show me some real criticisms on why it sucks instead of these short minded complaints (that you got from listening to other people, sheep)

"I bet your red at the face…" yes you are

[dinkeldinkse]

Girls stop arguing, both of you are pretty.

[Nes_Daze]

For me, what I don't like about COD is the audience it aims for, and thus the downhill spiral that it is on. The online multiplayer is nothing special, there's a reason why some think it is full of noobs. Let's not get into the long list of issues. As with SP, it is the same damn experience, just different places and whatnot.

[Hicken]

The problem is that you can't say that without being called a "hater." No CoD fan will admit these shortcomings. And since they spend Hollywood money marketing the games, everybody thinks it's the best thing ever before they even play it. New people get sucked in and think it's amazing, and since people from the last iteration are already thinking that, they have no reason to believe someone who tells them otherwise.

[Hicken]

So, in the end, this had nothing to do with why MW3 will not suck, because no one knows enough about the game to guess, let alone make that assumption. It looks like the last three games, and that alone is reason to believe that it may suck. Not because it isn't good, but because it's no better than its predecessor.

[bunfighterii]

As long as it plays well online, and by that I mean, running at a smooth and constant framerate without all the crappy bugs, and bad graphics and low native resolution... (I'm looking at you Black Ops).

[stu888]

I think MW3 will be good. I liked MW2s online with mates. Cant beat a round of S&D - the tension, brilliant!