Modern Warfare 3 Review (360)

**NOTE** This review is strictly of the campaign and multiplayer modes.



Call of Duty is a series that I loved. Every time a new one was announced, I became instantly excited and couldn't wait to get my hands. Unfortunately that love I once had for this series is gone. Last year I had a lot of doubt for Black Ops. There wasn't a Treyarch Call of Duty title that I had gotten in too yet and I felt that this would just be a skip. I found that to be wrong, and while Black Ops had some Deja-Vu moments, I still found it to be a fresh new experience in the series. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about Modern Warfare 3.

The campaign for this is a blast like the Modern Warfare's before it. There was not one moment during the campaign that dragged on and it was filled with awesome moments that made my jaw drop. There were a few levels during the single player that will stick in my mind as some of the best, and most interesting in the series. Unfortunately, like all Call of Duty games, the campaign is short, very short. I completed the game on normal in just under 5 hours. I wasn't rushing through the game, but just playing at a normal pace. I know Call of Duty isn't known for the single player so I decided to jump online, and here is where I was disappointed.

When I first hopped on Xbox Live to try out some Team Deathmatch, I was very disappointed to see that thew game felt exactly like Modern Warfare 2. The jump from Modern Warfare to Modern Warfare 2 was huge and added a lot of new features which helped Modern Warfare 2 stand out. Modern Warfare 3 feels more like a Modern Warfare 2 add on pack which adds some new guns and levels. Not once during my couple hours with the multiplayer did I feel like I was getting a new experience.

Overall Modern Warfare 3 isn't a bad game. The thing that kills it is that it feels exactly like the previous in the series. I really hope Activision begins changing up the formula and making the Call of Duty games feel new again, or else this series will just head down the path of Guitar Hero and Tony Hawk.

Overall Score

8.0/10