MW3 Mp first impressions

by **Lambshot23** » November 8th, 2011, 7:38 am

Picked up a copy via Walmart last night. A guy at work turned me on to this instead of Gamestop, ten minute wait total.

Some random gibberish as I am under about three hours of sleep here:

Right off the bat the mp felt clunky and unrefined. I turned the sensitivity up and it helped but the game is still lacking "something" from past COD titles.

Three bullets and you are dead similar to past COD games; I was shot in the leg with a sniper rifle up close and was killed.

Speaking of sniper rifles, just about every map I played on is small or confined. I do not see how people are going to snipe on the maps that I played on.

In past games the classes you start out with are shit, and it takes ranking up multiple times to get "good" weapons. Not the case here, they have very good choices right off the bat and early on I am enjoying the weapon selection.

Probably the best/worst change I have noticed so far is when playing objective based games capturing a "point", say A in domination, it will count towards your kill streak. Good = promotes team work, Bad = I know some little fuckers are going to find away to exploit this.

The assault vs. support kill streaks is a very cool feature. When you set up your classes you can choose one or the other. Assault is your typical kill streaks of the past. Support has more team based kill streaks and they do not reset until you reach your top kill streak.

Weapon attachments are tied to the specific weapon like BF3. You even rank up the attachments on the weapon.

Jury is still out on this title for me, I really do not see major enhancements from the last Modern Warfare. I don't think I have played enough to say thumbs up or down. I just do not see this overtaking BF3 play time like COD titles have in my past.

by **rabb** » November 8th, 2011, 9:10 am

the killstreak thing sounds MoH'ish

by **YEM** » November 8th, 2011, 9:58 am

Fuck that noise!

MW3 will never be put in my 360

by **rabb** » November 8th, 2011, 10:05 am

the thing that visually turned me off was that it looks like MW1 to me

like I said, if I get it for Xmas, great....otherwise, no

by **YEM** » November 8th, 2011, 10:13 am

Metacritic Reviews...Stark Difference

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360 ... -warfare-3

Average Critic Review for 360: 90 out of 100 (35 Critics)

Average User Review: 2.9 out of 10 (231 Reviewers)

by **Lambshot23** » November 8th, 2011, 10:19 am

rabb wrote:the thing that visually turned me off was that it looks like MW1 to me

I thought the same thing playing last night.

by **gwildor** » November 8th, 2011, 10:19 am

picking up my copy today..

by **miketheknife** » November 8th, 2011, 10:20 am

When I think about who the typical 'user reviewer' for this game is though, I have a bit of trouble trusting the review he had to write hastily because Mom was yelling at him that it was time to leave for school. Not to mention the fact that it just came out--I bet 220 of those 231 reviewers hadn't even played it when they wrote their reviews.

YEM wrote:Metacritic Reviews...Stark Difference

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-...dern-warfare-3

Average Critic Review for 360: 90 out of 100 (35 Critics)

Average User Review: 2.9 out of 10 (231 Reviewers)

by **rabb** » November 8th, 2011, 10:22 am

miketheknife wrote:When I think about who the typical 'user reviewer' for this game is though, I have a bit of trouble trusting the review he had to write hastily because Mom was yelling at him that it was time to leave for school. Not to mention the fact that it just came out--I bet 220 of those 231 reviewers hadn't even played it when they wrote their reviews.

YEM wrote:Metacritic Reviews...Stark Difference

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-...dern-warfare-3

Average Critic Review for 360: 90 out of 100 (35 Critics)

Average User Review: 2.9 out of 10 (231 Reviewers)

that and there is no way it's a fair take on the entire game with SP, MP and any co-op included....it's likely one of them

by **lotus** » November 8th, 2011, 10:24 am

rabb wrote:
miketheknife wrote:When I think about who the typical 'user reviewer' for this game is though, I have a bit of trouble trusting the review he had to write hastily because Mom was yelling at him that it was time to leave for school. Not to mention the fact that it just came out--I bet 220 of those 231 reviewers hadn't even played it when they wrote their reviews.

YEM wrote:Metacritic Reviews...Stark Difference

http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-...dern-warfare-3

Average Critic Review for 360: 90 out of 100 (35 Critics)

Average User Review: 2.9 out of 10 (231 Reviewers)

that and there is no way it's a fair take on the entire game with SP, MP and any co-op included....it's likely one of them

Sounds like it's just CoD haters trying to nerf the score. The people who are actually playing the game are too busy playing the game to submit reviews to Metacritic at this point.

by **rabb** » November 8th, 2011, 10:26 am

do they have theater mode still?

by **YEM** » November 8th, 2011, 10:30 am

Now the link isn't working?

NM, link fixed

by **Falling Man** » November 8th, 2011, 11:03 am

I got it earlier and will give it a go today at some point.

by **Jammer** » November 8th, 2011, 11:14 am

Waiting for my Amazon delivery this afternoon.

by **ptrain86** » November 8th, 2011, 11:56 am

You guys enjoy. I actually was in agreement with Lotus and that few shooters are my cup of tea anymore. I will enjoy BF and thats about it. Gears will be fun, just not mp against others. I'm really enjoying hockey and racing. Let me know if the sp is worth a rental.