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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 User Review Average at 1.4 on Metacritic

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 isn't popular with fans
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was eagerly awaited by millions of gamers from all around the world but, after yesterday's release, quite a few weren't thrilled with the experience, so the user review average on aggregator website Metacritic is now at a shocking 1.4 out of 10.

Modern Warfare 3 was heavily hyped by its publisher, Activision, so whether you were a gamer or not, you knew the game was coming out yesterday.

Now, after the game's reached the hands of millions of gamers from all around the world, it seems that the experience wasn't to everyone's liking, as hundreds of angry players have bombed its user review average on website Metacritic.

As of this article's writing, the average user review score for the PC version of Modern Warfare 3 is 1.4 from 126 ratings, the PS3 version has a 2.1 average from 338 ratings, while the Xbox 360 edition is at 2.6, from 1014 ratings made by users.

While some user-submitted ratings are positive and quite a few are mixed, the majority is very negative, with many users complaining of bland graphics, repetitive gameplay or the short single-player campaign.

"I cannot believe the hype for a game that is basically the same thing over and over again," one user said. "Sorry but I played this game 3 years ago, nothing new. Graphics are dated, I have seen better, sounds are just pathetic and don't get me started on the horrible campaing mode. Save your cash if you already have Cod 4, you will not miss out on anything."

"Oh dear, I've just played a game that's identical to one from 5 years ago... same old same old, but no anti-cheat features, same old tired graphics, ok so it has a few new classes....it's not like anyone actually works as a team. Back to Counter-Strike methinks," another user posted on the website.

In comparison, Battlefield 3, the biggest competitor of Modern Warfare 3, has a user review score of 7.1 across most of its platforms.

From what you've played up until now, how do you rate your Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 experience? 

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Comment #1 by: MW3 Player on 09 Nov 2011, 13:24 UTC reply to this comment

I don't know what they are saying, it's a very unique game! 8 Of 10!

Comment #1.1 by: PRHEC on 09 Nov 2011, 15:49 GMT

Your just a fanboy. Anyone can see this game is crap


Comment #2 by: MWJunkie on 09 Nov 2011, 13:55 UTC reply to this comment

This is exactly the problem when you Over Hype a game. No matter how amazing the game is or isn't it could never live up to the fanfare that surrounded its release. Battlefield 3 was advertised but not oversold, thus when the consumer purchased the game they had no raised hopes, as a matter of fact, most already knew what to expect because of the Open Beta Release. Modern Warfare 3 advertising and Hype basically sold its release as so amazing that it would change everything falling just short of calling it the cure for Cancer... Bad Marketing decision..... The truth is, MW3 is a great follow-up to MW2 but is not going to revolutionize gaming, it'll just make it fun for a while until something new releases... I would rate it more of a 5 or 6 but not a 1 or 2..

Comment #2.1 by: TDubs on 09 Nov 2011, 18:15 GMT

BS this game is not good...way to many killstreaks flying around and tiny maps.

Comment #2.2 by: Shulk on 14 Nov 2011, 18:10 GMT

Skyrim lived up to everyone's hype, surpassed it even. Goes to show the difference between real gamers and their game vs. that of the games of the average joe and shallow gamer with no depth in his/her gaming library. Try playing real games by developers who actually give a crap about the consumer and their fans.

Comment #2.3 by: blzbob1903 on 10 Jan 2012, 06:43 GMT

Great point Shulk, the modern warfare games are simplistic and basic as they come and leave nothing to the imagination.

Comment #2.4 by: Reaper on 30 Mar 2012, 06:14 GMT

This game sucks * ! No map selection. No Server hosted/generated games. Tremendous lag issues. Terrible!


Comment #3 by: shelld82 on 09 Nov 2011, 14:22 UTC reply to this comment

game is just oky, battelfield 3 is ten times the game this is. graphics are just blaa, game play is wore than black ops, maps suck and after a few times on each map your done with them. the special ops are oky, i thought zombies on black ops were better cause you could have 4 players and it was just fun. HUGE LET DOWN, i wish i would have gone with battelfield 3, guess ill be spending a lot of time at my freinds house playing BF3 till i can get mine.

Comment #3.1 by: bringbackinfinityward on 15 Dec 2011, 06:49 GMT

wow really i thought all the maps were too open spaced and none of the weapons got good range for these crap maps...mw3 sucks i bought it yesterday and im already frustrated and bored of playin it...there is not even 1 good thing i can say about this piece of crap....its a shame of a game...who the hell is sledgehammer games...ovbiously someone Activision souldnt have hired cuz they just ruined their reputation unlike infinity ward who made the best call of dutys there ever was (cod4) and even world at war is better than this piece of crap! Activision should be ashamed of themselves totally for ruining the call of duty series and putting it in the hole for the rest of eternity

Comment #3.2 by: UncageRage on 16 Mar 2012, 02:55 GMT

blame Raven Software, they handled the multiplayer aspects, and the best game they're known for is Singularity, which nobody has even heard of. They have NO experience in a first person shooter, and obviously cant make a decent rememorable map, but instead they make maps so close together that earthworms start feeling claustrophobic freakouts. This game's spawns are THE WORST out of the entire series, the best being COD World At War, the least game i could take seriously. If it wasn't hacked like crazy and if they fixed the MP40, i'd be playing that, or better yet, COD 4, but IMO they're both equally good games, with WAW being underrated due to it being a WWII shooter. i say burn COD down to the ground and walk away. Medal Of Honor: Warfighter is gonna become Battlefield 3.5, but still better than MW3 if they ADD THE KILLCAM. Far Cry 3, Assassins Creed 3, Max Payne 3, Grand Theft Auto 5, Battlefield 3's winter DLC, these are all going to take slices from the Call of Duty franchise, and after this year, Activision is gonna kill COD like they did with the Guitar Hero series, you mark my words


Comment #4 by: Ben on 09 Nov 2011, 14:28 UTC reply to this comment

Modern Warfare 1 + Modern Warfare 2= Modern Warfare 3.
Im getting Skyrim

Comment #4.1 by: Tony Montana on 11 Nov 2011, 06:23 GMT

Same here, Skyrim is going to be epic.


Comment #5 by: G4M3R on 09 Nov 2011, 15:14 UTC reply to this comment

The game is nice. These less ratings are given by people who aren't really gamers.

Comment #5.1 by: Grimmreaper2 on 09 Nov 2011, 18:00 GMT

Who arnt really gamers? LOL so you know these people?

Comment #5.2 by: TDubs on 09 Nov 2011, 18:16 GMT

No its a rehash and it gets old quickly.

Comment #5.3 by: 8a on 10 Nov 2011, 23:37 GMT

this game sucks everything is the same they had more than e tear or years to come with something better ,this time treyarchwon over infinity ward


Comment #6 by: prhec on 09 Nov 2011, 15:33 UTC reply to this comment

So far I am not impressed with the multiplayer, besides the same old stuff the feel is sluggish. Sometimes its like being stuck in molasses. The weapons are terrible, too much kick terrible accuracy and take down power is questionable at best. The code has serious problems in scoring and accountability. Take for example playing team death match yesterday I was killed by a player I shot first and killcam shows his shots were at least 12 inches to the left of me, not one solid hit but I'm dead. Another instance I get a beautiful head drops my advesary get 1200 xp for completing headshot challange but an assist not a kill. Done with this game worst COD ever. Campaign is BLAH BLAH BLAH.

Comment #6.1 by: merc on 24 Feb 2012, 02:40 GMT

Well I not only have to agree about how sluggish the game is but the accuracey issues is a big one as well. Watched a kill cam in which a snipers cross hairs were barely aligned at the very bottom of the scope but still recorded a kill. I also find that the game sometimes does not record all ones kills either. The graphics in Treyarchs Black OPS is much better hands down. The sounds from the weapons are all muffled and are not realistic in anyway. How can this be when they can draw from a library of sound effects that they already have and are much better. The leathality of the weapons also seems to be pretty much all the same, got killed by a shotgun from the other side of the map I was playing on; I mean what the hey! Story line in single player is stuck in a rut for sure. My two biggest complaints however with the online play is, number 1 cheating and number 2 snipers. Call of Duty games are pretty much run and gun and there should be options to play with out snipers.

However cheating is so bad and to all that cheaters take note: A cheater, liar and a thief are all the same person. This is a game and cheating has nothing to do with skill. As far as Activision doing anything about it no matter what they say they do nothing nor do they care. When a game takes two years to produce and the cheats are out the very same day and there are a lot of them, then it is apparent that you are not protecting your code. In fact from my view it appears they are selling there own code and if not well it is going to be pretty hard to convince me that there is no colusion.

So as far as a rating goes it gets a minus 10 and when will I purchase another Activison game, as soon as we set up a space colony on the sun.

So long Activision!


Comment #7 by: rock on 09 Nov 2011, 15:40 UTC reply to this comment

save your money- mw3 is garbage, rent it and try it before you buy it

Comment #7.1 by: terrorFX on 10 Nov 2011, 00:58 GMT

Yeah, BF3 took it this time.... COD same old game engine & graphics... lame!!
If I had mod tools for Black ops, I could have made better maps...seriously!


Comment #8 by: Jared B on 09 Nov 2011, 17:38 UTC reply to this comment

I'm not sure what people were expecting from this. It's just an updated map pack. The COD games kinda turned in Madden. Battlefield wasn't good, i returned it 2 days after getting it. The reason most reviews are bad is cause the people who like the game are busy playing it. It's probably people who can't afford it sitting on here venting cause they're poor,


Comment #9 by: bob on 09 Nov 2011, 17:43 UTC reply to this comment

its not about over hyping this game, i could care less about hype. i just got a ps3 this summer and have only played black ops in the cod franchise aside from a few times at friends houses so i dont have the "i already played this game" argument, i am really disappointed with this new game. i wasnt looking for anything different from black ops all i wanted was more of the same with slight improvements and i got a crappier game i will continue to play black ops because i like it better

Comment #9.1 by: Dangerboy on 10 Nov 2011, 20:03 GMT

Dude,If you liked Black ops, try World at War. Same creators. Same pace


Comment #10 by: mr.fantastic on 09 Nov 2011, 17:55 UTC reply to this comment

This game is mw2 with a mappack and new skins. The graphics are crusty and outdated, the game essentially feels exactly the same as mw2--same crappy matchmaking system. Seriously? If I wanted to play a console game, I would have bought a console. I want ranked dedicated servers... BF3 pummels this game in every regard, and it should. MW3 is nothing more than a glorified rerelease of a game we all bought years ago, with a bit of lipstick.


Comment #11 by: chronic on 09 Nov 2011, 17:57 UTC reply to this comment

what garbage this game is.Not worth the money or time.Out of the 3 call of duty games I have played this the worst.I want a refund.Its a game that stated realism that falls short in actual game play.I regret fully purchasing this edition of call of duty.The online gaming parts is dull and old and I finished single player campaign in the matter of hours .This game is no more a money grab than caring on quality.Activision you screwed yourselves dont hope on much success in the future with what you sold us. Last CoD game I will buy or play. ( BTW 15prestige black ops) so I not new to i


Comment #12 by: Grimmreaper2 on 09 Nov 2011, 17:58 UTC reply to this comment

Im afraid its gotta be said this game has too much profit and not enough heart, they have the ability to make this game ELITE but they wont, why upgrade the game engine when you can save money and still make millions?
If they had changed the game engine and freshend everything out it would of been serious challenge between battlefeild 3 and MW3, BF3 has the new frostbite 2 and has given the ability to fly jets, drive tanks ect ect again, this is why i would rather play BF3 to MW3 because its simply more broader than the same old sprint around the map and shoot anything moving, Im not a BF3 fan boy i have been a loyal COD player for years but its about time for something different and i think EA are going in the right direction


Comment #13 by: Storm on 09 Nov 2011, 19:07 UTC reply to this comment

This game is just an overpriced map pack for MW2. I'm taking mine back and getting BF3. Hopefully that game wont suck either.


Comment #14 by: NoobPwner on 09 Nov 2011, 19:34 UTC reply to this comment

I think you are all a bunch of haters. We knew that this game was going to be repetitive as there is not much you can do with a game like this. We all buy the game for the multi-player and the only people complaining are the ones dying repeatedly and cant suck it up enough to improve.

Comment #14.1 by: Dangerboy on 10 Nov 2011, 20:05 GMT

I consider myself an OK COD gamer, but every time I respawn, I get shot in the Back. Hate that!

Comment #14.2 by: THIS GAME SUCKS (BLACK OPS IS GREAT) on 13 Jan 2012, 22:22 GMT

I have a +7 K/D and this game is horrible. I know i'm good, shooting people isn't the problem you * . It's the fact that everything is just so awfully bad. I will never purchase another game developed by infinity ward. (15th prestige black ops legit)


Comment #15 by: Saint Nick on 09 Nov 2011, 21:40 UTC reply to this comment

I have played both Battlefield 3 and MW3, and here are a few things I considered when playing both. Multiplayer for MW3 was absolute garbage. Graphics were almost identical to that of its MW2 days. Shadows gave block type shapes. Very 2 dimensional damage to walls. Campaign was, eh. If anything the co-op is the only redeeming part of the game. As for Battlefield 3, you get to USE use vehicles, not just shoot from one. The environments are HUUUUUUUUGEEEE...*echo*. People can say all they want about how battlefield didnt have the hype, doesn't have that great of graphics. Let me ask you a question then. How large are the maps in MW3? Small-med. Can you destroy whole buildings? No. Can you operate tanks, jets, heli's? No. I rest my case, and have officially declared I will never buy another call of duty video game until after it actually makes a state of the art game, like it did with MW1.


Comment #16 by: xRabidChihuahua on 09 Nov 2011, 23:30 UTC reply to this comment

I would have to give it a 1 on a scale of 1 to 10. this is the most disappointing game i have ever played. I just hope i can get most of my money back. and if they do come out with anether cod like this i will have to shoot myself in the head. I'm so glad i have Battlefield 3 to play


Comment #17 by: Pestilence on 10 Nov 2011, 01:08 UTC reply to this comment

MW3 sucks. After playing bf3, mw3 graphics reminds me of playing mario bros on nes. Even if the game wasn't hyped I would still hate it. Its just old and I was tricked into wasting 60 bucks on an old outdated game by great reviews by idiots.


Comment #18 by: smiley on 10 Nov 2011, 01:21 UTC reply to this comment

Well I bought MW3 because I loved blackops. I hated MW2 but loved Cod4. Call of duty MW3 is not a cod game. It's a wannabe battlefield game...which it fails at. Infinity ward just has fanboys because CoD4 was awesome, but what people don't realize is that Black Ops is really the only game to even improve the Multiplayer and single player game play. Leaning, diving, dedicated ranked servers. All of this absent from MW3. This game is a downgrade from black ops. Worse graphics, worse single player, worse multiplayer experience. CoD games have always been a somewhat tactical, fast paced gameplay. IW has strayed far from that. If you want a game that MW3 was trying to be like then go buy BF3 because you're experience will be way better. MW3 has failed on all levels for me. I'll give it a 4/10...being courteous.


Comment #19 by: MW3 is epic on 10 Nov 2011, 03:27 UTC reply to this comment

This game is very, very, VERY good. If you sat down for more than 5 minutes, because you played battlefield 3 and felt you needed to keep the status of it being better than all other games, This game is amazing. The spec ops is beautiful. All my buddys said it would suck. They played it for five minutes so that they didnt feel engaged and then still said it sucked. That was yesterday. Today, they said they didnt get to play it enough. So they came over and played it more. My friend left with the remark that he would be playing the game, at his house the next day. He said hes getting it. The multiplayer is unique. It gives you a choice for all of the different things you want. If you have played the game for more than 5 minutes, youd realize that there are TONS of guns, TONS of new things, and they brought back all the things that i thought were amazing. It is quite like the first modern warfare, but that one was my favorite. The gameplay is EPIC. For all you people who say that the gameplay is terrible, what all can you get from a first person shooter? Less first person shooting? There not going to change. This one changed alot. It took the best part of all the call of dutys and then some. And if you think it sucks so bad, make your own call of duty. This game is great. If you have ever played a video game, you will LOVE this game. PSN name is gizmorulz. add me peeps.

Comment #19.1 by: Catlin on 11 Nov 2011, 19:03 GMT

You are a retard,if you werent such a braindead zombie,you would realize that we have all been playing the same game since 4 years ago,EXACTLY the same game,such a crock of * for the devs to try and pull this on us.


Comment #20 by: Bubba333 on 10 Nov 2011, 06:03 UTC reply to this comment

I agree. MW3 is garbage. The biggest crap-fest about is is the terrible lag that makes even the Core mode deadlier than any HC mode I've ever played. And the bit about the Killstreaks NOT dominating? No, that's simply not true. And, unless you want to rarely get a good Killstreak bennie, stick with the Support Package. Again, the game's horrible and I'll stick with BF3 and trade MW3 in for Skyrim.


Comment #21 by: CoD Fanboy on 10 Nov 2011, 07:39 UTC reply to this comment

OK, first a little pre-history: I've played every single CoD game for PC since the first one and am a huge fan of the series. I actually think that MW2 was the best so far and really enjoyed the multiplayer.
Now that being said - this one is complete and utter * ! I'm extremely disappointed, mainly with the way that the atmosphere is much more like Black Ops (which was terrible), and the soundtrack is a total failure. Well, I guess not everyone is Hans Zimmer, but come on, even CoD 1 had better music, not to mention that you could actually hear what was going on over it. This thing ... All the guns have identical sound (like BO), your gun sounds OK, but anyone firing more than a meter away from your position is heard as if firing from the other side of a mountain, thin metal sheets appear to have the sound isolation of freakin bunker doors. As a result you can in no way tell who's shooting you, where he's shooting you from, or what he's shooting you with. The explosions appear to be a straight copy from BO (which were quite alful to me) and as a general the game doesn't feel like it's been developed by IW, it's like another * production of Treyarc... Oh, and btw, the graphics in general is not that good - I have the textures and image quality on "Extra", Antialiasing on 4x and it's still all blurry and grainy, where the hell is the sharpish graphics from MW2?
In general - I think it's a poor game, extremely disappointing, and btw, I'm not the only CoD fan from my friends to say that. The only thing that I really liked here was the AC130 in Paris - ABSOLUTELY EPIC!!! Which just makes me more disappointed btw, since I feel that all the potential was just wasted with poor sounds and unimpressive graphics... I really wish that this game was developed by the team that worked 2 years ago on MW2.

Comment #21.1 by: MW2 Fan on 15 Nov 2011, 23:38 GMT

Can't agree more! MW2 was the far superior product. They took the campaign platform from MW2 and that worked well, why couldn't they do that for the multiplayer? The graphics are worse than black ops and I didn't think that was possible. The controls are sluggish and horrible. It is doubtful I will play the multiplayer much at all. If you are buying for multiplayer, save your money for other games. Not worth it and thoroughly disappointed.

Comment #21.2 by: troyrx on 18 Nov 2011, 21:36 GMT

Agree 110% the guys that were fired made call of duty what it was and yes MW2 by farrrrrrrrrrrr the best, i hear the guys who got fired started their own division with EA RESPAWN ENT.


Comment #22 by: Ice on 10 Nov 2011, 13:17 UTC reply to this comment

For the price the game is absolute rubbish nowhere as good as mw2.


Comment #23 by: Iamthecowboy on 10 Nov 2011, 21:43 UTC reply to this comment

I was super excited to play this game, but very quickly, I realized I wasted my money. First, lets start wtih the graphics, what's up with the color scheme, and why are the maps so cluttered? Second, the sounds, why do the helicopters sound like electric fans, and the guns sound so fake? Third, all the stuff people complained about in earlier games such as last stand, and camping, they are still super present! Other dislikes, I can't turn off the stupid music. They might like it, but I don't. If you are playing in a party, their team colors are yellow and closely match all the maps so you can hardly tell them apart. I have not been able to get my Elite working yet either. I am telling all my friends to NOT buy this game.


Comment #24 by: sss on 10 Nov 2011, 21:52 UTC reply to this comment

thought it just feels like new maps, that they would have added to mw2 , it looks dated ,i think the break up of infinty has affected the game


Comment #25 by: Perturbed in Parker on 10 Nov 2011, 22:06 UTC reply to this comment

The gamestop employees lied to me! I traded my release-date backwards compatible ps3 in so i would have enough cash to buy mw3 elite. Why? The employees at gamestop told me that if i bought the game without the elite package, i would have 5 maps. They also said that players with elite would only play with other players who had elite, and they would play together on faster servers than everyone else who didn't buy elite. I feel robbed and cheated. To top it all off, the game sucks.


Comment #26 by: mw3sucks on 10 Nov 2011, 23:44 UTC reply to this comment

MW3 is straight garbage. The graphics are horrible. It's the year 2011 NOT 1990. The guns are way to over powered just like in Black Ops. Is rather have IW add map packs and a weapons pack to MW2. This game has more similarities to Black Ops than MW2. The developers are complete morons. Maybe they should of released a beta so everyone would of seen what a piece of * game this is. IW can * off!


Comment #27 by: IKneX on 11 Nov 2011, 00:24 UTC reply to this comment

ive been playing CoD since it very first came out on PC and always have been a huge fan of CoD. But MW3 did not do anything for me, therefore my copy of MW3 has been returned and I have purchased battlefield 3. Maybe if CoD comes out with something "new" and not a remake id be interested in the CoD line of games again.


Comment #28 by: Harper on 11 Nov 2011, 03:35 UTC reply to this comment

Despite all of the other posts from all of the other players, I think that mw3 is better than the first cod games. I think the only reason these reviews are so negative is because no one is really use to the game yet. Everyone is just saying what they don't like and nothing about what they do like.

Comment #28.1 by: THIS GAME SUCKS (BLACK OPS IS GREAT) on 13 Jan 2012, 22:32 GMT

No, I like cod4 right away, world at war, mw2 and black ops. ALL had good and bad things but the bad things you just kind of dealt with and hoped the next game would be better. They have regressed so much it's a shame and I feel robbed for paying sixty dollars of my hard earned money


Comment #29 by: xFaded on 11 Nov 2011, 04:44 UTC reply to this comment

multiplayer in this game is garbage.


Comment #30 by: leo75 on 11 Nov 2011, 05:47 UTC reply to this comment

Extremely disappointed with this game. My girlfriend bought it for me as a surprise, and I actually feel bad that she wasted her money on it. I really feel like I owe her 60 bucks. What most people don't know is that this game actually came out a few years ago, and was called modern warfare 2. Seriously, this game is nothing more than a modern warfare 2 map pack. I really feel like they did not even attempt to change anything. This game is absolute garbage, and I will never play another COD game again. GARBAGE!!!!!!

Comment #30.1 by: CoD Fanboy on 11 Nov 2011, 10:56 GMT

What are you talking about, mate? MW2 had quite good sound and an epic soundtrack on top of the far sharper textures. This thing doesn't come a mile close to MW2...


Comment #31 by: Mojo on 11 Nov 2011, 09:22 UTC reply to this comment

MW3 was very disappointing....a smack in the face to all gamers....awful...I can't believe this game sucks so much...isnt it 2011?...this game takes me back to 99.......fckn woooow.....god awful...save your money..


Comment #32 by: dlampro on 11 Nov 2011, 19:05 UTC reply to this comment

MW3 = MW2 w/ map pack.
2/10


Comment #33 by: Tarheal on 13 Nov 2011, 16:34 UTC reply to this comment

I hate this game. It is based off of MW2 which was a lot better. The only reason I am still playing this game is because I just spent $60 and I feel like I need to get something back from it. But the only thing I am getting back is a headache.


Comment #34 by: kprat on 14 Nov 2011, 01:48 UTC reply to this comment

there is no vision on this game any more COD revolutionize FPS but now some one else is going to have to make it better cause activision is going to ride this same crap out for as long as they can just think about it they put no extra effort into this game yet the online gaming keeps getting worse and worse and they choose not to fix any of the problems that have been plaquing the game since WaW and now they have finaly sunk the ship with there vision less efforts of just slapping new maps into the same game and thats it people are paying hard earned money for a few new maps and a ton of time waiting to get into a room to play with there friends its time to call it quits after this i will never buy another game from Sledge hammer or activision one word posers


Comment #35 by: Telling it like i tis on 15 Nov 2011, 08:27 UTC reply to this comment

Mw3 is garbage. Nice graphics but gives campers a paradise to cower in. Sound affects= FAIL, audio in lobbies=FAIL, lagging servers =Fail, = lobby organization and ease of use= FAIL. Save your $$$$$$$. WAIT for next new maps for Black Ops or Ne COD.


Comment #36 by: Brandon130 on 17 Nov 2011, 17:13 UTC reply to this comment

Black Ops was better than MW3


Comment #37 by: troyrx on 18 Nov 2011, 21:31 UTC reply to this comment

they should have never fired those guys who created Call of Duty


Comment #38 by: price on 19 Nov 2011, 02:44 UTC reply to this comment

lol , sometimes i think ea pays some people to give bad ratings to call of duty games , modern warfare 3 is far way better than battlefield , who knows call of duty and plays battlefield 3 will know ea didn't save effort to steal call of duty style , lots of details in call of duty were exactly copied to battlefield 3 but guess what , modern warfare is still the best
the story is 9/10
game action is 10/10
personal attaching to the game is 20/10 i'll buy next call of duty without thinking , because i know they will do lots of effort in it
graphics are 8/10 still same engine as before but that doesn't make it less awesome it's still greatest game ever
final word , you don't like call of duty then don't play it , don't try to show in call of duty world and fans to promote your little game battlefield

Comment #38.1 by: MW3 Sucks on 25 Nov 2011, 20:48 GMT

Im pretty sure MW3 is just a knock off. BF3 Was way better. Maybe you should realize that the game sucks to some players and is great to others. Not everyone will agree with a game. But im so a BF3 player any day.

Comment #38.2 by: MW3=garbage on 07 Jan 2012, 09:19 GMT

Maybe you dont realize that battlefield 3 was in development and released before MW3. So if anything cod copied them. I would like to know what details battlefield copied. They would never copy anything from cod because they aren't braindead monkeys. Battlefield 3 may as well be a training program for upcoming recruits in the military. You can stick to your little kid game. The grown-ups will play battlefield. You really should feel insulted that activision and sledgehammer believe that you are stupid enough to except their game as a realistic military experience. Go ask any vet who has killed someone and ask how many bullets did it take to do it. I guess activision was right about you.


Comment #39 by: fuk cod mw3 on 20 Nov 2011, 10:31 UTC reply to this comment

This game sucks , campers paradise really that is what millions of dollars goes towards this game is as good as super morio bros. my bad that game is way better , * posers


Comment #40 by: 30 day returm on 21 Nov 2011, 19:41 UTC reply to this comment

I'm almost at a loss for words, but to summarize....insanely horrible!!! A lot of gamers say that MW3 is like MW2 with a map pack...that is BS! MW2 is exponentially better. Start easy - Graphics are one of the first aspects a gamer will notice. The graphics are worse; it's almost like the game actually took a few steps backwards with technology. Sound; I thought my speakers were broken. Every crisp, clean sound from previous editions went through an "under water" / "muffled" audio program and then were thrown into this game. Simply terrible. I can't even tell if I have a C-130/pred missile on my @ss because the incoming rounds sounds like my sh** as it hits the water. Again horrible. Game play is sluggish, lags and needs some serious work. Even the little details took a turn for the worse.... weapon cammo looks cartoonish, titles and accolades look elementary and I'm thrilled there's a 30-day return policy at Best Buy. What a freakin' waste of time and money.


Comment #41 by: nunyafnbiz on 24 Nov 2011, 07:14 UTC reply to this comment

I played black ops religiously. Would * on mw3 if it caught fire. My daughters using it as a coaster right now


Comment #42 by: ShooterTactics on 25 Nov 2011, 19:18 UTC reply to this comment

MW3 should actually be called MW 2.5, same old crap as stated. NO REAL dedicated servers for PC platform. Oh yes they have them but you can't rank up, so why play on a dedicated server? iwnet STILL SUCKS!!!!!!!!! Hackers, Cheaters, and Bunny hoppers STILL exist!!!! Why don't game makers stick to what they do make games, and NOT try to run servers!!! I think the Modern Warfare series has hit the end of the road!


Comment #43 by: Cube_man on 27 Nov 2011, 07:15 UTC reply to this comment

DO NOT BUY!!!!!!! Took 1day to beat campaign and multiplayer maps suck! (and i always say COD over BF.....not anymore)


Comment #44 by: murf on 28 Nov 2011, 15:05 UTC reply to this comment

cod mw3 is the worst shooter game of all time sledgehammer games let the pros build cod games and go back to your hole


Comment #45 by: bf3notMW3 on 07 Dec 2011, 20:03 UTC reply to this comment

Been paying 60 bucks for every cod from 3 to recently released mw3...big investment...and yet the game is no where close to being what it should be...tr errible maps and even worse mp game structure the only reason its still being played is because its the only game alike....no one else seems to have the balls to step up and put cod to forever rest


Comment #46 by: LetDownCoDFan on 09 Dec 2011, 08:32 UTC reply to this comment

I feel that if Call of Duty doesn't do something and fast, that Battlefield is going to leave it in the dust!!! I have always been a CoD HEAD!! Why come out with Call of Duty: Black Ops and have this new awesome gameplay with great graphics just to go back to old and plain? Black Ops also gave the users a better mic system... Now when I play Modern Warfare 3 I feel like I'm talking through a static mess!!! I hate to say it, but Battlefield 3 kills Modern Warfare 3!!! I was really hoping to tell my Battlefield friends who won't give CoD the time of day that Modern Warfare 3 smashes BF3! Instead I had to tell them that MW3 just plain out SUCKED! A lot of people are taking they're Modern Warfare 3 games back to get something else. I thought about giving mine to my nephews for Christmas.... If Activision doesn't do anything about this I'm affraid to say that I WILL BE DONE WITH CALL OF DUTY PERIOD.


Comment #47 by: bringbackinfinityward on 15 Dec 2011, 06:46 UTC reply to this comment

call of duty modern warfare 3 sucks and is the worst call of duty in the entire series and world at war is even way better i cant believe i wasted my money on this piece of crap


Comment #48 by: mw3 gave me aids on 20 Dec 2011, 10:51 UTC reply to this comment

I'm shocked how bad online play is. I waited for so long to have a blast playing this (as I did with mw2). I thought nothing could possibly be worse than blops was. If blops was rock bottom, than mw3 borrowed their shovel and dug deeper. I keep getting back on hoping it'll get better, but I know i'm wasting my time. To put it colorfully: mw2 was like eating lobster. mw3 is like eating a pb & j sandwich at a gas station and getting food poisoning from it. I'm going to give Sledge Hammer games a break because they're obviously a family business. Seeing how they didn't hire people based on education or experience. It's a fitting name for a business that destroys games. I wonder how much money treyarch made off this game. A lot of elements were either bought from blops or ripped off. If so we'll see a huge lawsuit coming shortly. Also, I think in the map packs that come out in the future should include more camping friendly maps. There was a couple of times where a camping person had to move to kill me and it looked inconvenient. Not to get picky but adding additonal recoil couldn't hurt. On more than one occasion my gun didn't reach the top of the screen when I fired it. I am a fan of when two people fire at each other and you start to take damage, all of your additional shots don't register. It makes it a lot easy to get the game over with. The spawn system is a great story. The company had a special event where a mentally handicapped person could help the developers with the game for a day. He said he wanted to make the spawning better than blops', and by god he gave it his all. I salute you sir


Comment #49 by: DJ Krispy K on 24 Dec 2011, 03:23 UTC reply to this comment

So I went to my friends house cause he got MW3 and I decided to try since I wasn't going to waste my money on it. At first I was going to spend the night. Then I tried the game. I decided to go home so I wouldn't have to even be around the game. It's awful, truly awful. I have been playing CoD since CoD 2 so I'm no stranger to how CoD plays, so it's not that I didnt like it cause I'm not good at it. Im in the top 3 every match I play of every game, so it's not that I hate it cause I'm not good, it's just a terrible game. I don't care about the graphics as much, they are decent considering how old the engine is. I honestly felt like they wasted time and then at the last minute realized that they had to make the game, then just threw it together without even making sure that it worked. The ONLY redeeming quality is spec ops. Survival is fun and the missions are nice if you have a friend over. At this point, I don't know if I should be mad at activision for not just giving CoD a break or IW and sledgehammer games for making such a bad game. At least treyarch tried to change things and make a good game. Very disappointed, I think I'll stick with battlefield 3


Comment #50 by: suckkkkkkks on 29 Dec 2011, 10:14 UTC reply to this comment

mw3 sucks *


Comment #51 by: JJnick41 on 31 Dec 2011, 01:22 UTC reply to this comment

I have a listed of problems with this games don't know you guys have the same but these are my problems
.Somethings it's hard to tell your teammates from the enemy
.Lagging is still a problem
.Spawning is bad
.A few overpowered weapons
.Weak * grenades
.Maps
.Hit Detection
.Camping because the maps are so bad
.Shooting the enemy and the bullets pass throw them
.The voices on the mic and game
I have to admit when Black Ops first came out I never liked it but after understand it I realize that it was a really well balanced game. For example why can't the advance UAV find someone using the assassin pro perk that makes no sense


Comment #52 by: jjnick41 on 31 Dec 2011, 01:39 UTC reply to this comment

This is my listed of problems with MW3 don't know if you guys have the same problems:
1.Lagging is still a problem
2.Telling your teammate apart from the enemy is a problem sometime because I have notice some of the enemies with the colour green over their heads but it turns red when they getting closer.
3.Spawning
4.A few overpowered weapons
5.Weak * grenades
6.Maps in mw2 and blk ops I can safely say they have maps that I love but in mw3 I have found maps that I love I probaably just like them to a certain point.
7.Hit detection
8.Camping but that's a player thing not a COD
9.shooting the enemy feels like shooting a ghost a time because bullets just go straight through them
10.Game sound to a certain point and the sound of the mic

I have to admit I never really liked black ops when I first started but after playing it for sometime I realize it's a well balanced game compared to mw3 and i'm liking a lot more. Sometimes I just want to sell mw3


Comment #53 by: blzbob1903 on 10 Jan 2012, 06:37 UTC reply to this comment

I am sick of linear games. Game designers have no imagination, it is really not much different than the original contra where you have a set path to follow and have to kill people on the way. The campaign is so pathetic its simply a follow me style. Absolutely no creativity. The gameplay for black ops is much better in multiplayer. it is really just new (bad) maps for the same old game (with less interesting features).


Comment #54 by: ActivisionSUCKS! on 11 Jan 2012, 04:54 UTC reply to this comment

After playing COD MW3 for many hours and going through 2 discs (1st one being destroyed out of pure frustration at the poor quality of its online multiplayer hit detection/lag/cheaters. I've finally decided to just dump that garbage altogether. Biggest was of my time and money.


Comment #55 by: Martyr92 on 11 Jan 2012, 15:54 UTC reply to this comment

I wasted 60 euro's on this game, a real shame. They said it'd be like CoD4, which is, IMHO, the best of the series, but it looks more like an even more random version of MW2. Why?

1- Gun on gun fighting is back? LOL Mmore like, Killstreak spam vs Killstreak spam, right?
2- Maps suck. An opponent could come out of 4 windows, 5 corners, 4 doors without you having any real way to predict it. Random. They also look bad.
3- Spawns are horrible. You could spawn in front of/behind 5 enemies. Random.
4- The proficiency that removes recoil is * unbelievable. Come on, the only thing you have to do with automatic weapons is controlling the recoil, if you take that away then it's too easy!!

A real disappointment, the game had potential but they wasted it. I'm going back to BC2 and CoD4. Good Job Infinity Ward.


Comment #56 by: stolingbock on 20 Jan 2012, 17:32 UTC reply to this comment

I am a deployed soldier and we got a XBOX and MW3 playing here. I thought for a second that they were playing Counterstrike for a moment. The reason I did not buy BF3 for the deployment was due to the fact that we have no posibility to conect our XBOX to the internet. I hate the part where you need to conect to the internet to play MULTI player for BF3. as soon as I get back to the states I will play BF3 on PC (the only real way to play BF3) until I forget all of the bad memories with MW3. Have you noticed that in MW3 people are untuchable most of the game if they play it right. The jugernot is a cheat. Over 5 RPG hits and nothing could kill him until somone got the C-130 and railed on him from the sky... then that guy was invincible until his time was up but he just recieved the jugernot outfit. I quit after that. BF rocks because of the environment. You can desimate buildings with campers unlike MW and you do not need 4 stingers to kill a plane (oh yeah they only give you one stinger though so to take down a Ospray you need to launch a stinger... suiside, launch a stinger... suiside, launch a stinger... suiside, launch a stinger... suiside and then you might get one kill. That is not the game I want to play ever.


Comment #57 by: disillusioned gamer on 23 Jan 2012, 01:18 UTC reply to this comment

The game is terrible, its laggy too boot even when everyone is showing full bars, yet some players seem to kill others instantly yet while watching the kill cam the player is shooting you and on the last set of bullets kills in one hit. Maps are way too narrow, there is too much to navigate on the maps and its way too easy to camp or noob in this game. Weapons sound deeper but totally unrealistic its like the developers decided the guns werent testerone enough so they put them through puberty and made them sound deeper, which at first sounded cool but in practice is stupid along with the weapon leveling, so I have to not only level my self up but my guns too. I played battlefield 3 and at first the game was fun, but as I played ive begun to find certain players seem to have advantages in the game like they know where everyone is, I mean I find players who score like 20 plus, now I have gone that high too but when i played with good teammates, yet these guys seem to be doing really good, which points to hackers. I read a post on BF3 about hackers and its like if punkbuster doesnt pick it up or the host/moderator, they dont do a thing about it even if you report them. Im starting to become really tired of fps genre's anymore. I find games like gears of war and batman to be way more fun than COD and BF since they have engrossing stories and are able to be played alot. FPS is garbage anymore CODMW1 is still the best, now if only they had the SERVER setup like that with the equipment and options like MW2 but without the crap from MW3 I would be happy


Comment #58 by: nickname on 25 Jan 2012, 19:00 UTC reply to this comment

This game makes me think I'm just too old to be entertained by video games. If you're under 14 you probably won't realize how boring the game is, or that the only way to win consistently is by having a really fast net connection.


Comment #59 by: stoner4ever on 31 Jan 2012, 08:05 UTC reply to this comment

This game was really boring and stopped playing it after a couple hours. I started playing COD 3 and prestige thru every game you could till this one. I am going to sell it which is very disappointing. I defiantly won't be buying the next one. COD just lost a fan.


Comment #60 by: xxXsniper1839Xxx on 25 Feb 2012, 17:57 UTC reply to this comment

Hahahahaha, i dont know why I wanted MW3. Its a massive fail, selling it for Battlefield3!


Comment #61 by: MW3 SUX BIG TIME on 03 Mar 2012, 14:04 UTC reply to this comment

I think they failed with ModernWarfare3, the maps are small, elite is overpriced(fell sorry for XBox 360 users),same titles and emblems,guns are overpowered and same old killstreaks.
Battlefield achieved what gamers wanted,the ability to fly Jets without getting 7 kills without a death,maps are nice and big, guns are good, sniping is realistic, and i think there are many more but just too many things that make Battlefield a very enjoyable game.But don't waste your money on MW3,i have both and play Battlefield mostly.


Comment #62 by: UncageRage on 16 Mar 2012, 02:45 UTC reply to this comment

this game is less of an individual product and more of an expansion pack to a game released in 2009. the maps are the worst in the series, the single player is confusing, and the multiplayer plays in a strange way, similar to Black Ops, and COD Elite is just a ripoff, especially to the PS3 and PC gamers. DO NOT even bother with this game's DLC, its not that good


Comment #63 by: Callofdutyblows on 21 Mar 2012, 22:29 UTC reply to this comment

Cod mw3 blows. It's built all around idiots who run all over the place and shoot with no strategy whatsoever, another game catering to the lowest common denominator, at least in the past, the maps leveraged short and long term shoots, and penalized people who just wanted to run wild and shoot all over the map, sure this is good in a closed room
Or tight space, and it forced good close combat skills, but now that is all there is, this game sucks royally.


Comment #64 by: Reaper on 30 Mar 2012, 06:10 UTC reply to this comment

COD Modern Warefare 3 sucks * . Ever since they changed the format from Call of Duty 3, server hosted games to peer to peer, there have been terrible lag issues. Plus you can't select the map you want to play. They make you play all of there maps randomly which really sucks. Whoever the exec or project managers that approved these changes should be fired! Terrible game.


Comment #65 by: Buyer beware... on 31 Mar 2012, 21:27 UTC reply to this comment

Initially addictive with lots of bells and whistles. Unfortunately, the online is a hateful Pavlovian experience with laughably bad maps plagued by subtle but significant connection problems. MW/COD 4 was the original Matrix, and, well, we saw what happened with each sequel. I have never felt so betrayed/suckered by an ad campaign. I will never buy from this series again.


Comment #66 by: The-_-Meister on 16 Apr 2012, 15:55 UTC reply to this comment

im sick of cod fans saying its not suppose to be realistic wait wait a military game that uses real guns and armys is suppose to be fake? honestly the creators of this game only know 1 thing guns kill at times i feel in cod logic that pistols have better acc then snipers and the sight on the sniper changes its acc? people say its arcade and suppose to be fake then why are the guns and places and armys based on real things ether the answer is A. its a cover up for a shity game or B. anther thing they stole most people dont know this but the makers of cod had worked for the makers of battlefield from what i understand they stole the beta of MoH and made Cod the makers of Cod cant make there own ideas, Kill confirmed stolen from homefront, infected i didnt know i was playing halo? ill be surprised if they ever make there own game. people say im a bf fan boy FU*K no i just want people to pull there head out of the pile of sh*t that is cod. let cod be what its suppose to childrens online daycare

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