re: Official MW3 and Elite Info Thread (Elite Founder Camo, Title, and Emblem Pg 28)

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What you really want to know is how MW3 played, right? Well, after getting a good amount of hands-on time throughout the press-only day of CoD XP, and a few hours so far today, the best way to describe how Modern Warfare 3's multiplayer plays is that it feels more like CoD 4 (the first game in the Modern Warfare series) than Modern Warfare 2 – which is exactly what the developers were aiming for with MW3. It feels like the child of CoD 4 and Modern Warfare 2 with all the B.S like Commando, OMA and the Nuke removed from Modern Warfare 2, and the gun skill focus and less “frantic” – for want of a better word – nature of CoD 4 left in. It shuns Modern Warfare 2 (to an extent) and builds up on the original Modern Warfare (CoD 4).

It’s hard to put a finger on why it feel’s like a improved and updated CoD 4 in terms of game play. The map design, with a little less versatility and complexity, less spam from air support, a heavy focus towards gun skill and the revamped engine are probably some of the factors that play a part in the “back-to-basics feel” of Modern Warfare 3. It’s a less chaotic FPS than Modern warfare 2, which felt less like a FPS and more like a game that required you to dodge huge explosions and heavy fire from air support 90% of the time – or die over-and-over trying to take them down – and gunfight for the other 10%. Modern Warfare 3 feels the other way around. It’s mostly about gun-play.

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There’s always going to be the go-to gun(s) in Call of Duty games, though, and in this one it seemed to be the UMP 45 I died to the most. It was also the gun that a lot of the top players in the $1 million tournament were using. One guy from Optic was raping with it! The SCAR-L and G36 C were also popular. This may well change once the game is out and people are playing in masses, or if the developers do some more fiddling / balancing before launch.

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