Music Banter - So who is excited for MW3?

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Originally Posted by RVCA (Post 1104208)

Cod4 is great, make no mistake. But then Activision turned the franchise into their first-person shooter version of Guitar Hero, where a new "version" comes out every year, resulting in a stringent development cycle divided between two studios that ultimately exhausts everyone involved, devs and fans included. And let's not forget what a colossal ****ing douchebag Activision's CEO is, and the latest shenanigans that he's trying to pull with COD Elite.

To be fair, however, it's nice to see that Mw3 is giving the killstreak system a reboot, and that they're not afraid to try new things.

I'm just not going to let myself get excited (or pay money) for the shooter equivalent of EA pumping out a clone of its sports games every year

To play Devil's (other) advocate, EA isn't doing much better. Requiring PC gamers to download and use Origin, which has a much broader definition when it comes to scanning your computer for info to sell to 3rd parties. Steam has the same thing, but their ToS is limited to computer hardware, whereas Origins' didn't use any limiting words, leaving the legal document open to interpretation.

To be honest I think both companies' lack of professionalism over the last year has been a little appalling and only encourages the fanboys even more when they see their daddies getting into the mess. The way I've always thought of both series' (both of which I've been playing since their inception in the 2002 and 2003) is that Battlefield is for online players and Call of Duty is more focused on a single player campaign. While CoD is second only to Halo for console online gaming, each of the games has still put a lot of work into their single player campaign (well... it's debatable with MW2). The Battlefield series will always have better online play, but that's about it when it comes to that franchise. Maybe Battlefield 3 will change that and deliver a compelling single player narrative, but if we're just going by the numbers, Call of Duty has continually delivered a single player campaign worth playing.

It's also worth noting that the Call of Duty series has been the only WWII FPS to include a Canadian campaign, actually acknowledging that we did stuff in that war. I know it's a minor point to many, but it definitely made me happy when I played CoD3.