Thoughts on the Matter

Here’s a very short review of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. For the uninitiated, MW3 is basically MW2 with a new maps and a couple of new game modes.

Graphically it’s outdated, reminding me of CoD4. What I mostly noticed about the graphics were the blurry textures. There’s just no excuse to have this poor quality work in a game released in 2011. Relating to graphics criticism is the lack of an ingame POV slider. This is pretty much essential for any FPS on a PC and while you can use dev console to change the setting, there’s no real reason to omit this from the options. Inserting a new slider to the options menu is not that difficult.

Audio is, well, a bit of a meh. Nothing to write home about, just your standard bangs, booms and aaargghs.

The gameplay itself is solid as expected.

Verdict: Unsurprising sequel to an equally unsurprising sequel. There’s no reason to buy this if you’ve got any CoD game from CoD4 onward.

2.5/5