I haven't found any of the guns to be overpowered to be honest. The akimbo FMG9 has huge kick, even with steady aim. The UMP may be the least effective SMG, granted, SMGs are pretty capable in MW3. The PP90M1 with steady aim is unbeatable within range. The guns are all pretty balanced. Mind you, they're all pretty similar.
I think this has been the reason for many of the harsher reviews as well. It's not a new game, it's not a modern game. It's an old game remastered. Console fps' have made great strides since Halo was first released and while it's still a great story, the design feels dated. You can't compare it to a modern shooter.
Epic has done a much better job supporting the Gears of War 3 community. I've found myself playing Gears of War 3 more than BF3 and Modern Warfare 3.
Yeah, they're going to burn Gamespot down.
The service was broken from day 1. For all the hoopla, it's been an absolute failure. What's worst is that the great stat tracking we've become accustomed to with Black Ops has been removed in Modern Warfare 3. Modern Warfare 3 is such a huge step backwards that I just can't play it.
@ Fishy Fingers
Sales has nothing to do with the quality of a product. It doesn't matter which versions sells more, there should be parity, in development as well as in the final product.
The biggest problem with Modern Warfare 3 is that it feels like a step back from Black Ops. Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer games state that it's a sequel to Modern Warfare 2 but to fans, it's the game that follows Black Ops. Black Ops made improvements to the Call of Duty formula that had made the gameplay better and they've simply been ignored and omitted in Modern Warfare 3. The entire package feels lazy.
Funny, many will agree with you but when the same argument is made for Call of Duty, many would disagree.
It's also evident that kills from killstreak rewards count towards building new killstreaks. SMH! That is just ridiculous! Infinity Ward seem intent on not learning from Treyarch. Foolish pride will lead to this game being as exploited as MW2.
The only ones surprised would be the N4G.com community who think they're the majority. Who still haven't realized that the average consumer doesn't care about the silly pettiness they do like which version looks slightly better or whose fanboy fires DICE has been stroking.
Let's see, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 has a more polished single player, more fleshed out cooperative play and a more polished and accessible multiplayer. By every measurable standard, it's better than Battlefield 3. Prior games' successes has nothing to do with why Modern Warfare 3 is the better game. It just is. Battlefield 3 as a package suffers greatly from a mediocre single player, tacked on cooperative play and a multiplayer that is outshone by it's own predecessor. T...
Yeah but you can't blame or punish excited fans when retailers are breaking street dates. It's the biggest game of the year. You can't ask them to wait until Monday night just to play a game they bought legitimately. Punish the retailers. They're the ones who did something wrong.
Seems about right. A bit longer than expected to be honest. Cheers! That engine has evolved. It looks great even as dated as it is.
Am I the only one not surprised that both sources quoted work for Japanese gaming companies or that the headline misrepresents what they said? John Carmack, Todd Howard and countless others say differently and they're XBox fanboys. Right, I got it. ;-)
Doubt it will. Call of Duty is just too accessible, just too large a community. Even if half of the Call of Duty community defects, it would still be larger than any other online community and the scary part is, it's growning. It's like cancer.
So you're saying it's improbable for America to have homegrown terrorist? Disenfranchised groups who feel like violence is their only voice? I don't get your disbelief.
Edit; If you use violence as a means to an end, you are a terrorist and that's the point. Everyone disagrees with the government at some point, that's natural. To use violence as a means of getting your point across is a terrorist act. What about that is lost on you? What you're trying ...
I've seen many desperate fans do some stupid things but this is just ridiculous.
Got to hand it to Epic, this time around the multiplayer support has been great. Kudos.
I think Microsoft has gone away from the original intent of XBLA. It was originally suppose to give small developers a chance to get their games out there but it's become a distribution platform for bigger games Microsoft can celebrate in its "Summer of Arcade" promotion. Very few small titles get any publicity or promotion from Microsoft or the media. Some aren't even reviewed.
It's obvious that the idiots nitpicking the game didn't pay attention during it's many video dairies. The intention was never to change anything. It was to play the same as it did 10 years ago. That was the choice. It would just be given a fresh coat of paint. IT'S THE SAME CAMPAIGN FROM 10 YEARS AGO! Same quirks, same level design, AI, difficulty, same every damn thing! That was made absolutely clear from the start.