As summer comes into full swing we start to see the plethora of titles releasing this coming fall. One of which is the eighth title in the Call of Duty franchise, Modern Warfare 3. The title is set to release November 8th this year, and is being developed by three studios, Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games, and Raven Software. The game is set to release on PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. It should be noted that many prefer the Modern Warfare titles over Treyarch throughout the Call of Duty series, but with Battlefield 3 on the horizon, these studios need to do something innovative with the series. Call of Duty titles have been pumped out each year like an assembly line, and it comes as a disappointment that Modern Warfare 3 will not be on a new engine, as that "would be counter-productive" according to Robert Bowling.
While we can not successfully use pre-order figures to analyze overall sales height of games, it is quite interesting to see EA taking sales hype of BF3 to the next level. we should not in a hurry forget the 1.1 million pre-order killzone 2 hype and it's sudden collapse.
Yeah but Battlefield isn't Killzone 2. Killzone 2 was horrible and slow. The only good thing was the graphics. Bf3 plays at a much faster pace (I played the Alpha) and will have many more multiplayer features than Killzone 2.
Sheesh, you sound just like my big brother...whom is the biggest COD fanboy that I know.
Either you are just like my brother or you have never played Killzone 2.
Which one is it?
I owned Killzone 2 and CoD 4. Beyond that I haven't played any other Mw2 and Black Ops because It was basically CoD 4 in a different setting.
In his defense .... Im a diehard fps fan ... but Killzone 2 was one ... and I mean one fps because of horrible controller aimin deadzone area and delay ... made it impossible for me to play.
Killzone 3 on the other hand is much much better and Im loving it ... aimin wise.
You probably think KZ2 sucks because it plays nothing like most shooters.
KZ3 is garbage like most shooters.
BF3 is not ahead of MW3 in preorders, but with that said the Killzone 2 'million' preorder announcement was a fake.
It was reported as a rumor in gossip paper and then it spread to the internet game and fan blogger sites as 'fact' right before the game was released.
The truth was revealed when the actual sales proved otherwise..but there is no need to knock the game for what happened.
Evil
deadpoole
Impossible for YOU to play? Let's just be honest: the people who complain about KZ2's weight just suck at the game.
There was more to Killzone 2 than the graphics. Battlefield's 1.25 million pre-orders wont be the same as Killzone's story because Battlefield is such an established franchise with a huge following. Killzone's quick collapse was a matter of the audience being immediately turned off by Killzone's flaws.
Most notably is the lack of a party system. There was just no excuse for it and most people went back to having a fun social experience with COD. Things like controls and lack of variety compared to other shooters also quickly diminished Killzone's popularity but really, Battlefield's pre-order sales are a lot more confident because it's a franchise that has developed far differently than KZ
Translation
"KZ2 did not control how all the other 1000 FPSs out there do. I hated that they tried to do something different and not conform to the 'norm' within the genre. Thanks to me, KZ3 was made with this opinion in mind, so it doesn't really set itself forward in the FPS genre and I'll be one of the first to call it generic even though it was people like me that caused it to change that way".
Heard from a buddy at EA that Microsoft recently made threats to the company regarding Sony getting any exclusives on or with Battlefield 3.
I'm sure DrFUD is telling the truth. It's not in his nature to spread fear, uncertainty, or doubt about anything.
Whether that's true or not, the messed up part is that Microsoft actually has an active policy of refusing any product that is either released first on another product or comes with exclusive content on another product. People say this is an attempt to cover up and leverage their company size against the fact that their console is limited and has old tech in it.
This africangamer website is trash.
I'm yet to play an FPS on this generation of console that is anywhere near as immersive as KZ2 is. KZ3 is pretty shit though. It's as if the devs went out of their way to make it as generic and casual as possible.
Excellent AI, gun mechanics, art direction. Really sucked you into this massive universe they created. And you can almost feel the impact of every bullet.
Yeah it was a slower game than usual, but smarter than the casual dross plaguing systems these days. A lot smarter too. No matter how well BF3(because sales are a sign of quality, right?) will sell, I'm sure it will make me forget about KZ3's generic short comings.
well whats to disagree with?
KZ2 had better set pieces and more enemies on the screen. There's nothing in KZ3 that had my heart going as when you had to kill that ATAC on the roof or when you were defending Visari Square.
KZ3 held the gamers hand through everything with loads of scripted and on-rails events that were poorly designed. Only a monkey would still find that kind of "variety" amusing. The last level was boring as hell. All you had to do was hold the trigger button down. Gunplay was shit and had no skill, because people thought that having recoil led to random kills.*face palm*
And there are still loads of bugs...you'd think that after 12 patches they would have sorted everything out by now, but there are still loads of issues.
I was in the closed beta. The devs said they took out server browsing because people can't read. Thank you, the lowest common denominator of society, for ruining the challenge in games.
Resistance 3 is better than both KZ2 and KZ3. Guerrilla Games just can't seem to nail down a top notch game. Personally I think GG should be used as a graphics studio, and let someone else write the story and do the multiplayer design. KZ2 was ok, but the custom rooms sucked because people kept making 45 minute and 1 hour long games and most rooms kept replaying Radec Academy all the time.....gets boring after a while. I got to the 2nd to last rank in KZ2, but KZ3 I ended up trading it in after a couple of months because the screwed the damn game up so bad.
As far as Battlefield goes, regardless of what your feelings are towards the game, it won't sell anything even close to MW3, and not having the game on Steam doesn't help their cause much. This year my time will be spent on Resistance 3, Payday: the Heist and Uncharted 3, MW3 and Battlefield 3 are on the back burner for me this time around.
The Modern Warfare 3 Facebook has just released 12 Photos of the game. Check them out below:
There are more than 500 developers working on the Call of Duty series , Activision has revealed.
And still, this franchise is nothing, compare to BF3's visual??...
I don't care how many fantards devs are in there working, the more important is the advancement of graphics.
With 500 workers I would expect a big improvements instead of taking a tiny step forward in each game.
@evrfighter
Maybe, if thats the case i want all the maps to be awesome lol. I actually dislike a few of them in Mw2 + Black ops.
i know its still looks like CoD 4 graphics wise if MW3 had better graphics I'd purchase it hands down. On the other hand BF3 has amazing graphics and thats why I'm buying it so I can enjoy the graphics :) I'll just stare at my monitor.
People always seem to chant the mantra 'graphics don't make a game!', yet your 5 agrees suggest alot of people feel differently. Oh wait, Call of Duty has to operate under different rules than all other games, how could I forget...
u wish graphics was the only thing that it sucks for MW3
game mechanics are still the same.. just as gameplay and everything else
u can only expect new maps and a really short campaign
why dont just do some DLC activition? oh right.. the money
the last step should be the improvement of graphics. if modern warfare 3 had visuals far beyond bf3, it would still be mw3. makes no difference regardless.
im all for graphical advancement, but that should be the last step, not the first, once your base game play and online experience has improved. things of that nature are far more important than looking pretty. im not defending the series, but that should apply to most games, cod included.
LOL and they must be working hard on the next box art cause graphic wise is like MW2
@Agent
Funny thing is, in the BF BC2 days, all the BF fanboys were saying 'gameplay over graphics anyday!' and 'fuck crysis 2, gameplay over graphics' LOL
Are you fucking kidding me? Graphics is all that matters, really?
No, graphics aren't nearly as important as you seem to think, CoD may have some slightly outdated graphics but that's cause it works, it doesn't need super ultra mega upgrades every game cause it's perfectly good looking as it is, now the last 4 years what has been happening with CoD, it changes, it progresses, it gets better.
So you can take your stupid graphics and shove them up your ass cause they don't hold a candle against gameplay.
COD gets better as it progresses?
It's like you said, it doesn't need upgrades. It generates them money, Activision know it works, and will keep doing it until it stops working. Which won't be any time soon.
"now the last 4 years what has been happening with CoD" getting worse and selling more
Gameplay is really important but look at it this way, if graphics and tech didn't matter why the hell would we upgrading systems ever few years? If gameplay was all that mattered, we'd still be playing on our old NESs.
mw3 gfx are very good with great 60 fps
and the gameplay is, well.....cod gameplay is the best
i cannot wait for mw3, it's gonna blow everybody away(except some sad haters LOL)
@Agent_hitman
Graphics are the most important thing in gaming? Really?!
There's these little things called gameplay and fun that beg to differ.
That´s for sure. IMO 1 man is enough - ctrl+c/ ctrl+v, logo a textures changing and it´s done
Oh! You have played the final build of BF3? Awesome. Please, tell us all how it is? You must have it in order to claim it's the "superior game". How on earth did you get a copy of not only BF3 early, but MW3 early to compare?! Wow. You're a special guy.
And it's still not even competing with games half as notable....good to know where the talent is not in the industry. Or, not that there's no talent at Acitivision, but no ability of them to use it because they're not being allowed? Probably the later. Activision sucks when they have a popular game, they poke at it's fanbase until they all leave for better, more innovative games.
Go try to but a Guitar Hero game, you can't for a reason.
I'm pretty sure that you can find Guitar Hero games in stores still. The last release was actually among the best in the series, despite the fact that the franchise is in a holding pattern at the moment.
It seems that these developers fix certain things, but make other things worse so when it comes round to yet again another CoD or MW they can fix those problems in turn creating new problems. Its a cycle and the only way for Activision/Devs to justify why you should buy their game. When you read articles, alot of them are...
'Well we fixed x'
'Oh and Y is different now because you can now....'
