Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

[Allan]

It's certainly going to be the biggest battle between the 2 publishers, Activision and EA, that I've known.

 

My early prediction is that MW3 will have the better multiplayer, while Battlefield will be far superior on the campaign side of things. The Frostbite 2 engine that EA are using is outstanding. Battlefield looks like it plays like Medal Of Honor, which is my favourite FPS campaign ever.

 

Talking of Medal Of Honor, there have been plenty of whispers that a sequel will be released sometime next year. Cannot wait, if these whispers are true.

[Dan Vito Corleone]

I prefer the MW campaign and Battlefield online.

[Section_31]

Some bloke on you tube says it's the same engine as mw2. He seems to think if mw3 doesn't produce something different, battlefield will over take it. I'm not convinced myself.

 

The CoD games are an absolute con and the ultimate example of style over sunstance. The basic difference between Modern Warfare 2 and 1 was that 2 was shorter. I call that shite.

 

If you're not into the online bollocks then it's worthless.

[Allan]

The full trailer is scheduled to be aired tomorrow in the US during one of the NBA playoff games.

 

As soon as it hits Youtube, I'll be sure to embed the video on here.

[Yozzer]

Didn't they do the same thing with Modern Warfare 2 last time?

[Vincent Vega]

Some screen shots:

 

 

 

and the trailer:

 

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[Kopite Pete]

This is going to be mw2 with a new skin. Surely. I will be gutted if it's as annoying as mw2.

[Mendoza]

Looks fucking brilliant.

[Ted]

Looks like more of the same. But in a Good way.

 

I fucking hated Black Ops, though.

[Guest TK-421]

I like all COD, I'm a proper CODhead me. Would prefer it to be the original Infinity Ward set up but you can't really go wrong with a new COD game.

[Fink]

its no Op Flashpoint on the PC circa 2002

[James]

That gameplay trailer looks fucking boss. I hated the Black Ops multiplayer, so I really hope this'll go back in MW2's direction. Excited for something new, story-wise though.

[AJBlaikie]

They are going to start to charge for some aspects of Call of Duty online in November.

 

Activision has ended months of speculation and announced a subscription service for the biggest game series in the world: Call of Duty.

 

Call of Duty Elite, according to a report on the Wall Street Journal, launches this November with Modern Warfare 3.

 

Parts of Elite are free and parts are not. Free is a Facebook style system that helps players meet.

 

Elite gives players Bungie.net style tools that allow them to analyse their in-game performance. It also provides extra content, including downloadable map packs.

 

The monthly subscription fee is yet to be determined.

 

Activision was at pains to stress that Elite does not force players to pay to play online.

 

The general embargo for Call of Duty Elite lifts later today. Eurogamer will have much more information soon.

[Allan]

Not surprised really, folk had been anticipating Activision creating some kind of subscription based entity to milk their biggest cash cow even more than they currently do, for quite some time now.

[Chairman Meow]

If it's going to be subscription based they can fuck right off.

 

Loved MW2 online, black ops less so and was planning on this being a possible later purchase once I had a gauge on how it was panning out. However they have just made my decision for me and I simply won't be buying it at all now.

[Guest TK-421]

I'll play another FPS where they don't charge subs. Simple.

[Allan]

They are going to start to charge for some aspects of Call of Duty online in November.

 

Activision has ended months of speculation and announced a subscription service for the biggest game series in the world: Call of Duty.

 

Call of Duty Elite, according to a report on the Wall Street Journal, launches this November with Modern Warfare 3.

 

Parts of Elite are free and parts are not. Free is a Facebook style system that helps players meet.

 

Elite gives players Bungie.net style tools that allow them to analyse their in-game performance. It also provides extra content, including downloadable map packs.

 

The monthly subscription fee is yet to be determined.

 

Activision was at pains to stress that Elite does not force players to pay to play online.

 

The general embargo for Call of Duty Elite lifts later today. Eurogamer will have much more information soon.

 

If it's going to be subscription based they can fuck right off.

 

Loved MW2 online, black ops less so and was planning on this being a possible later purchase once I had a gauge on how it was panning out. However they have just made my decision for me and I simply won't be buying it at all now.

 

I'll play another FPS where they don't charge subs. Simple.

 

Calm down dears. The subscription will not be for playing the game online, merely an optional extra, if you wish to analyse your gameplay. Same thing Bungie did for Halo.

 

Microtransactions are the in thing right now, and it would not shock me if this Elite program also includes the possibility of greater customisation of both your character and your weapons. For a small fee of course.

[AJBlaikie]

This this not sound as bad as when I first read it now more details are out. Here are more details

 

Call of Duty: Elite Preview - Xbox 360 - Page 1 | Eurogamer.net

[Chairman Meow]

This is all just the opening shots before they do start to make it subscription only, they are testing the waters to see how many will pay for a bit of extra service.

 

I might just be very cynical (or should that be paranoid) but it seems to me the gaming industry is now at the stage where the market has grown and they are now looking to ring every last penny they can out of it for the minimum outlay to them. Or to put is another way, the bedroom programmers are out and the money men are in.

 

I do have a very long winded version of the above but you will all think I've started wearing a tin foil hat.

[mlwilliams]

10 minutes of gameplay footage from E3. Occasionally lags because it was a live stream.

 

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[norwichlfc]

Just hope they sort out those annoying little kids that spawn camp all the time.

[Lee909]

They were always going to make people start paying for services.They have been bitching about the secondhand market for a while nowso somthing like this was always going to happen.

Wasnt guitar hero activision aswell? because they have scrapped the title which will cost them shitloads,no doubt it will get a reboot in a few years.

[Chairman Meow]

Activision: COD Elite will kill cheaters News - - Page 1 | Eurogamer.net

 

Amid the ongoing Sony hack furore, Activision has pledged to ensure that Call of Duty: Elite, the new multiplayer-focused service set to launch alongside Modern Warfare 3 this November, will help rid the game of cheaters.

 

Call of Duty games have in recent years been prone to exploits, some of which have ruined the online experience of legitimate players by altering their statistics.

 

But Activision told Eurogamer the Beachhead-developed Elite should ensure such problems are a thing of the past.

 

"From a developer standpoint we put an extremely high premium on security," Beachhead boss Chacko Sonny said.

 

"We have dedicated staff focusing on that from an architectural standpoint, making sure nothing we design is exposed, and we're also making sure that we're securing the events and competitions that will eventually become part of the service."

 

"If we just built a platform and a technology, all those edge cases would still exist," added Activision digital boss Jamie Berger.

 

"That's why we have to have this big administrative team there to add the human level of understanding, and assessing individual cases. No machine will be able to tell if another guy cheated in the game. We need people to arbitrate."

 

In January Infinity Ward blamed Sony and the PlayStation 3's compromised security on PS3 Modern Warfare 2 exploits and hacks.

 

At the time Infinity Ward promised gamers that it would not rely on platform holders to stop hackers from ruining its future projects.

 

Being the cynical bugger that I am I struggle to believe they are going to manage this. It's all well and good them blaming the PS3 security but how do they explain the fact that the new MW2 patch is already getting hackers? And indeed the fact that the xbox version has been hacked to buggery throughout and that the ps3 version had hackers before the ps3 core security was hacked.

 

It's not as bad as it was (it was pretty much unplayable for a while) but I've so far spotted definite wall hack use, rocket launchers/grenade launchers that shoot around corners and I'm pretty certain some aimbots too going off some of the across map shots some of them have managed.

[Allan]

Survival Mode trailer:

 

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[macc]

Doesnt look as good as the Battlefield 3 trailers that have been released...