Game Review: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3


Rating: 3/5


Infinity Ward's latest release, Modern Warfare 3, was highly anticipated to be one of the BEST games of the year. Some people would agree, however most, like myself, disagree.

I personally think that the game is more like an add on rather than a new game. Why? Because IW didn't fix all the issues that we saw in the previous CoD's.

MW3's campaign IS epic, I will say, however the online multiplayer game modes are disappointing. I do like how they added community playlists such as Drop Zone and Infected but I hate how they made the game unfair, which really makes the game not fun for its players.

IW added a lag compensation to the online multiplayer game modes. For those who don't know what that is, it makes us gamers with a great internet connection lag more than those with a poor connection, giving those players with crappy internet a better chance at killing us with the great connections.

IW has NOT fixed the spawn points what-so-ever. I will die, I come back and immediately die again because they spawn me in front of an enemy. Also, IW has made certain maps easy to hold down with just two people. (ie; Interchange) They have made it so easy to camp.

Don't even get me started on the camper's favourite equipment item, the trophy system. I mean, come on IW! At least let  us be able to knife the thing!

IW also has yet to change the coding of MW so that the modders and aim botters cannot play in the same lobby as us fair players.

The first week MW3 was out, Microsoft banned about 6,000 users for modding and aim botting in the online lobbies. People wonder why there are so many people modding and aim botting in MW3 and I can tell you, it's because IW uses the same coding they did in the previous ones making the same bots and mods able to be used in the new game.

Generally speaking, I love the game, but I think that CoD: Black Ops was much better. That could be because Treyarch makes better games or just because IW hasn't fixed much of anything. Either way, I rated this game a three out of five stars for the maps, weapons and campaign.