Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - review

PC / Xbox 360/PS3, £ 54.99, 18 + certified, Activision

modern warfare is a science fiction RPG. No, wait, bear with me. The history of bizarre and monstrous Russians invade the U.S. ultranationalist and turn his eyes feverish with Western Europe was essentially a replay of "reds under the beds" of science fiction 50 years - except that, the aliens really

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Reds, despite the fact that terrorists operate like a nightmare and have the unlimited technological armed HG Wells imagined the warlords in March. Meanwhile, in through problem gambling with stocks of weapons and special powers - sorry, the "advantages" -. Sometimes it's more like Final Fantasy competing FPS like Halo or Battlefield

In any case, the campaign begins immediately after the madness of MW2. The United States is fighting and gaining ground, while the president of Russia seeks to reassert influence and put down the rebel leader, Makarov. While the Delta Force and SAS squads take their share of major ground offensive, Soap MacTavish and Captain John Price of Task Force 141 are back behind enemy lines, locating Makarov in a personal quest for revenge. Joining them is the Spec-Ops Russian Yuri newcomer, whose affiliations uncertain lead some of the best development of the series, fully flash back to a couple of key moments in the first Modern Warfare title.

All this sound and fury signifies nothing really, but at least the story has some sort of sense - and even the emotional impact - on this occasion. Although the features of action around the world from the United States Middle East, across Africa and Europe, the bridge sections explain almost everything right, and we have a compelling mission plan. John Price, meanwhile, is confirmed as the call of the best creation of man of service and the coda of his character arc is perfectly judged and apprehension surprisingly cathartic.

In structural terms, there is some calm in the middle of the campaign, when the shot is painfully familiar, frustrating, and linearity. There is also a sequence of history misjudged a family is caught in the middle of a terrorist atrocity in the streets of London. It seems a desperate attempt to revive the kind of controversy that Modern Warfare 2 is not attracted the level of Russia, with its interactive shootout at the airport. Here, however, the failure is uncomfortable and unnecessary.

Inevitable hand

tabloid storm, none of the details really matter. In fact, MW3 is an epic on the stage, and without doubt, the Infinity Ward / Sledgehammer hive mind has become the benchmark for action scenes in this generation of gaming machines. He opens it amazing against the tip of Manhattan, with dozens of warships gathered in front of the skyline icons, bombers buzzing overhead, the water crashed against the monstrous helmets. Later, in Paris, there are hundreds of paratroopers fall around the Eiffel Tower like a swarm of helicopters to darken the sky. And in an amazing sequence aboard a jumbo jet falling, the player should benefit from a wild shootout in the free fall of the ship creates a battlefield without gravity.

Infinity Ward The engine is far from the forefront - the general appearance of the game has not changed much from that in MW2. However, the vision, the choreography, the sense of scale and detail - they are awesome, sometimes. And it is not only spectacular effects - the collapse of buildings, tanks falling through the ruins of several buildings, parking - these are tough times too. Small bars in Prague, with its paneled walls and furniture made, advertisements for films that cover the London Underground, televisions showing highlights of football in an enemy sentry - issuers rather complex act as a brake to the scenes of conspiracy absurd and unimaginable destruction of mega.

The multiplayer component is the bleeding heart of the experience of Modern Warfare, and pumped adrenaline through carefully managed. The concept of upgrading new weapons - you can add expertise to their most used weapons, increasing the range or stability, or recoil reduction - provides an additional level of depth and control the process customization, and is more satisfactory monetary system Black operations.

is also a sign that the series is: while modern warfare original play with the concepts of role, such as grading and collection of weapons and multiple objects, MW3 covers ethics inventory trees with abandon. There are over 40 weapons (all modified and rebalanced to MW3), but with the skills and attachments must be thousands of combinations.

However, once the system is to strike package, which replaces killstreaks as a reward structure. In the past, players had to chain multiple kills without dying to get a fresh attack as the attack with devastating predator missiles flying AC-130. This configuration is available via the package strike "infantry", but now the new support price category altruistic people, not just shooting enemies, but to achieve the team goals, such as capturing flags and bases.

Cleverly, these lines are not canceled when the player dies, that is, those of us who are not nervous shooting machines can make a permanent contribution to the team base -modes, and actually have the opportunity to see top-level prices from running like the devil's trap air (which is deposited a fake, a parcel bomb of care on the map) and the sentry at a distance, a machine gun that can be placed anywhere by remote control.

• Thus, through the updates, and benefits, players are able to identify different styles of play, focusing on elements such as speed, strength and power of huge fire and the development of all elements of his personality to that end. And yes, what you end up with the military equivalent of wizards, warriors and deadly - with customized weapons and skills branched instead of swords and magic. What I would like to see is that Infinity Ward go further by developing a range of 3 Uncharted narration-heavy multiplayer modes. There is a whole new genre that we must take.
• course, these subtleties are unlikely to surface in public areas immediately multiplayer, where fans can reach quickly master. Modern Warfare 3 is still a wild and unforgiving environment, and 16 cards are dense, messy and passes through choke points and lines of sight in disguise. Arcades, set in a German shopping center is a maze of blind corners and closed units, the brigade ready to run and shoot, while Memorial has a pessimistic European city, where a group of brick buildings surrounded by rats is to create parameters of a danger zone.

Meanwhile, the center has a broken piece of Manhattan, with a huge gap that leads to the Metro offers many opportunities for an ambush, and Dome, around a satellite station is all sites angle and load empty containers filled with campers. A selection of cards that seem designed to highlight and exaggerate the differences between the battlefield and the modern experience of war, the first is tactical and rapid expansion than the second, brutal and instinctive " / aa>

However, the game also has an intrinsic sense of balance. While the stripes are aligned devastating attacks Reaper, Pave Low and air attack precision strike, Sat turrets are more readily available, while the cons-UAVs and advanced options allow you to quickly search for ground troops. There is even a reconnaissance drone that hovers over the battlefield marked individual enemies, if they differ in their viewing area (which also distorts the images of a few seconds, as if they had put in an explosion of flash bang). Add in the assault drone - a remote control robot complete with machine gun - and a theater in constant flux in which teamwork and strategy adaptable

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