The two then infiltrate his stronghold and the incident ends with Soap stabbed in the Lieutenant General and Captain Price fighting for his life

11 1/2 hour single player compaign is like the first 2 MW games combined so that is a good step in the right direction.

I kind of wonder why games like COD and BF3 even really bother with a single player really. I mean i've played over 55 hours of BF3 and I havn't loaded up the campaign a SINGLE TIME. Instead of spending all this time with a single player aspect of it why not announce... say BF4 or COD#whateverthef***numbertheyareuptonow and have it jsut a pure multiplayer based game.

In fact, if I even buy MW3, it'll be for the single player.

*sigh* Sadly this looks like it's going to be the case, i really hate giving my money to these people...

Midda, the BF series, as you said, before BC had no singleplayer what so ever. And it worked perfectly. It meant the developers could put more time and effort into fixing bugs, making sweet changes etc, without having to worry that this scene doesn't work here or that characters dialogue for this part isn't quite right or this scripted event doesn't work.

You say it brings the story to an end, but as if activision will give up on the most profitable franchise of all time. There will be a mw4.

But really, is this good for the industry as a whole? Especially when companies are now going, "we want COD's numbers, let's make the same s*** as them".

why not spend some time with the game and see what's actually under the hood rather than immediately dismissing it.

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All these rabid bf3 fanbois remind me of what cs players were like compared to quake players, it's lols. Give it another year and bf will be shameful to even own.

(I've been playing both and they're both fantastic games)

Eorl, unfortunately it's going to take us some time to get used to your backflip from rabid frothing at the mouth bf3 zealot not that long ago to now trying to be some moderate type

trog: The dedicated servers are useless, they're unranked, so no one will use them.

trog: The dedicated servers are useless, they're unranked, so no one will use them.

Midda, the BF series, as you said, before BC had no singleplayer what so ever. And it worked perfectly. It meant the developers could put more time and effort into fixing bugs, making sweet changes etc, without having to worry that this scene doesn't work here or that characters dialogue for this part isn't quite right or this scripted event doesn't work. Multiplayer is where the bulk of FPS games shine. Just look at CSS, pure multiplayer, and works like a charm.

Eorl, what is the current Aussie server situation like?

Um, 9.6 seems excessively high for a yearly COD iteration.

Can someone more familiar with the reviewing process answer this: in the real world if a game reviewer doesn't give a good score for a 'blockbuster' game, do the chances of them getting early access for later games decrease? Don't mean to do a Faceman with conspiracy theories.

Can't say I'm pleased with the scores I've been seeing for games over the last year from a number of sites - they are like "it lacks X, falls short on Y, doesn't have Z ... but we'll give it almost a perfect score anyway!". Much more useful reading user comments to pick out the common themes/issues.

And what, you think BF3 is a weaker multiplayer game compared to when it was multiplayer only?

wonder how many free MW3 moomoo's dan and the boys got sent for giving it a 9.6 ;)

They give them good scores just to get on the commercials :P

zero - as always, we don't get s***. Count the MW3 ads we have on the site. Zero.

There sure is a lot of random hate considering most people don't even seem to have played this game at all and just want to compare it to BF3.

Maybe Steve just thinks its a really good game and those few hundred or thousand people complaining about it are just the usual vocal whining minority out of the ~9 million or so other people that appear to have more than happily bought it in the HUNDRED HOURS since it came out?

Eh, I've seen people who have bought it complaining as well. It's not just trolls trolling, but legitimate customers complaining as well.

Consumers don't want the same s*** resprayed and pushed out onto the stage for reviewers to throw roses at their lazy feet.

I guess I blame people like Steve, who have a voice that goes out to many people, when they don't use that voice to call them on lazy, cash grabbing safe formulas.

Yeh, but, and no offence to anyone who did that, f*** those people for pre-ordering a game and not waiting until it was out to read reviews and stuff.

Can't say I'm pleased with the scores I've been seeing for games over the last year from a number of sites - they are like "it lacks X, falls short on Y, doesn't have Z ... but we'll give it almost a perfect score anyway!". Much more useful reading user comments to pick out the common themes/issues.

It's a s*** game, dodge review, end of story.

f*** those people for pre-ordering a game and not waiting until it was out to read reviews and stuff.

I still don't understand why people pre-order games. I don't think I've ever pre-ordered anything, ever. Also, pre-ordering makes many people think they are entitled to an awesome blockbuster experience since they handed over cash.