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Katerine Aldrige
I quickly decided to learn the technique for myself after I would see an enemy run towards me, speedily slide sideways and then pop back up almost instantly, throwing my aim off from doing strictly headshot damage. It also grants you an opportunity for surprise when an enemy is mounted to a wall or horizontal surface, leaving them at a disadvantage when you slide and get back up to shred them while they try to leave their position.
I also like that in the days after launch, Sledgehammer was quick to adjust the time to reactivate Tactical Sprint after slide canceling, making the movement tech even better by increasing the sprint recovery speed. That kind of fast reaction gives me hope for the future of Modern Warfare 3.
Finally, perhaps the biggest silver lining to so little having changed between Modern Warfare 2 and 3 is that it was very nice to start it up for the first time and see my previous weapons already accessible in Modern Warfare 3 off the bat, and not be back to square one in creating my own classes. On that note, I was so happy to see my Operators and skins in my multiplayer locker!
Even though Domination is an objective-based mode, the spawns being so close to each flag point your team actually does have captured does make a difference in people at least trying to play the proper objective, so if you get sick of playing Team Deathmatch, Domination is not a bad mode to try and get that Win Challenge in.
I love pasta. I love classic pasta with red sauce and I also very much enjoy white sauce or buttered noodles \u2013 I\u2019m really not picky. However, when I order a supposedly new and exciting dish on a fancy plate covered in garnishes, only to find I\u2019ve actually just been served last week\u2019s reheated leftovers, I\u2019m less than impressed.
In that same vein, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3\u2019s multiplayer modes are fun comfort food gaming and I am enjoying the mayhem with the return of some classic maps like Highrise, Rust, and Afghan. But I cannot get over the feeling that it\u2019s more of a map pack for Modern Warfare 2 than its own spin on the series\u2019 ideas, and that\u2019s a letdown compared to what Call of Duty has spent years training us to expect from a full sequel. Sure, there are some quality of life changes in gameplay mechanics in Modern Warfare 3, but they come along with some questionable progression tweaks that certainly don\u2019t make it better, and I\u2019m not feeling like the time I\u2019ve invested has been rewarded as much as I\u2019d expected.
First, let\u2019s address the elephant in the room: Yes, it was reported that Sledgehammer only had a year and a half to develop Modern Warfare 3, half the usual time of a new Call of Duty. Other reports revealed that Modern Warfare 3 was originally planned as an expansion to Modern Warfare 2, with current and former employees on the team believing it would be an expansion until development was pretty far along.
That explains a lot, including how when you first load it up, you\u2019re greeted with an in-game pop up screen telling you that Modern Warfare 3 is now available to purchase \u2013 even though you just did that. That ad makes sense for anybody who started it up wanting to play Warzone, DMZ, or Modern Warfare 2, but how does it not know that I already own Modern Warfare 3? I have had so many issues with this launcher and I don\u2019t know why Activision insists on it \u2013 but that\u2019s a rant for another time.\u00a0
If we do look at Modern Warfare 3\u2019s multiplayer as a map pack, it\u2019s actually not bad. Rust is definitely my favorite \u2013 it\u2019s an extremely chaotic map due to its wildly fast-paced flow. Every corner you turn will have an enemy waiting for you, so it\u2019s a great map to sprint around in and level weapons. Afghan and Highrise have great close-quarters fights too, but I like them more for their sniping opportunities, where I feel encouraged to find really sneaky angles and pick enemies off from across the map.\u00a0The flipside of that is that, out of the maps currently in rotation, I absolutely despise Quarry. It feels plucked straight off Warzone\u2019s Point of Interest and plopped into Modern Warfare 3 with no changes. The lanes feel much longer and wider, which does not help the feeling of the map being way too big for 6v6 matches. Fights are often sequestered to three buildings (one small tower in the middle and two on either side of it) and it feels more like you run and get shot from across the map more often than actually get to the fights, unless you happen to spawn right next to one of the points.
So we can safely say that I\u2019m okay with the launch content, but I do have some more positive things to say about the updates to how we run around these maps. It took Call of Duty some time to find its flow with sliding and sprinting to keep up with the standards of its contemporaries after Fortnite and Apex Legends took the spotlight, but Modern Warfare 3 definitely feels like we\u2019ve hit our stride with how multiplayer should move going forward.
Slide canceling is back (after we first got a taste of it in Modern Warfare 2\u2019s beta but were robbed of it when it launched). This is a maneuver that you can pull by combining Tactical Sprint, sliding, hitting the slide button again to stop, and then hit jump to cancel the slide end animation that would normally slow you down. Once you master it you can maintain more momentum and keep sprinting after slide canceling without losing speed, and that allows you to do things like throw your enemy off track when moving towards them and ducking out of headshot height.
Since everyone has access to this tech no matter what their loadout, it can create incredibly fast 1v1 firefights when running around a map. I love feeling like I\u2019m constantly on my toes while slide canceling around corners to make sure I can keep my head down and sprint through to get away safely through areas.\u00a0
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the most fun I\u2019ve had in CoD multiplayer in a good long while. It\u2019s taken what was already a mechanically solid multiplayer game and improved on it with a weapon customization system that's almost limitless in its possibilities, and its new focus on bigger maps with tons of players has paid off bigtime. The giant Groundwar and Invasion maps have struck a fantastic balance between hectic and manageable, giving them a feeling of controlled chaos, and the cooperative Spec Ops missions are a treat to play through. That\u2019s on top of the usual load of modes, and they all let the excellent, weighty gunplay shine. That said, performance issues on PC and even some across consoles put a damper on the fun, and at launch there are a lot more issues than I would have expected \u2013 including temporarily turning off that awesome weapon customization. But aside from those hiccups it\u2019s been great, and the constant stream of unlocks are a really effective carrot on a stick that keep me interested moving forward. - Seth Macy, November 1, 2022
Mantling is also faster this time around, so you\u2019re not at a disadvantage when you choose to try to hop over a wall and become a hanging duck. The ready time after mantling is slightly faster, so I\u2019m able to actually react quickly to an enemy approaching me after I finish a mantle. Of course, there is still a delay, and if you\u2019re caught by an enemy while you\u2019re still mantling you\u2019re just dead, but overall movement speed just feels more coherent.\u00a0
Another welcome tweak I\u2019ve noticed is that the weapon recoils aren\u2019t as visually harsh as they are in Modern Warfare 2. The sight not shaking around as much and having less muzzle flash when firing subtly helps me play a little better since I\u2019m no longer feeling blinded when trying to take down enemies.
Finally, perhaps the biggest silver lining to so little having changed between Modern Warfare 2 and 3 is that it was very nice to start it up for the first time and see my previous weapons already accessible in Modern Warfare 3 off the bat, and not be back to square one in creating my own classes. On that note, I was so happy to see my Operators and skins in my multiplayer locker!\u00a0
One of my bigger criticisms of Call of Duty\u2019s model of putting out a whole new game every year was that money I\u2019d spent previously would just be lost to the wind and never seen again (unless I go back to play the old games). It\u2019s a nice inclusion that I feel like should\u2019ve been implemented quite a few games ago, at least within the Call of Duty sub-series (eg Modern Warfare weapons transferring to another Modern Warfare game, and Black Ops weapons moving to the next Black Ops sequel), but I\u2019m happy it\u2019s a part of Modern Warfare 3 and hope it continues like this in the future.
Modern Warfare 3\u2019s campaign commits the biggest sin possible for a globe-trotting action thriller: it's boring. What had the promise to be an intriguingly spun web of mystery instead ends up being a dusty cobweb you'd find at the back of your shed, clinging onto 15-year-old garden toys you once had fun with. It's a pale imitation of the past, made up of underbaked story moments that clash with attempts to introduce new open combat missions designed to encourage player freedom that instead fall flat on their face. Yes, the gunplay is still great and the graphics and sound design are top-tier, but I couldn't help but feel I was playing a shinier, less subtle version of something I've played too many times before. If this is the quality we've come to expect from Call of Duty campaigns, maybe it's for the best if a year or two is taken to reset and raise this low bar back to the heights of old. \u2013 Simon Cardy, November 3, 2023
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