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Modern Warfare 3 Details Leak
fysdt writes "Details on the next Call of Duty game, Modern Warfare 3, have not simply leaked onto the internet; they have flooded. Among other details, a November 8 release date was mentioned. According to a report coming from Kotaku, what was just a month ago among the best kept secrets of the gaming industry — information on the next Call of Duty game — has now become anything but."
The plot is the bin Laden raid. Except, you have to fight your way past thousands of his men instead of how raids are actually done.
ok now that I got that out of the way, I'd like to say that modern warfare 1 was brilliant, MW2 was fun but IWnet ruined it for pc gaming and killed the idea of having a LANparty. Now because of activision's "bold moves" EA has followed suit and it's neigh-on impossible to find a modern AAA shooter that allows you to have YOUR OWN (aka not rented) dedicated servers. Seriously, pc gamers helped make these companies huge, and now we're treated like we dont matter. I'm prettymuch done with both EA and Activision (ok, blizzard is the exception).. Sigh, I just wanna have a 32 person LANPARTY. :\
it will a half finished game where you have to buy the rest?
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In campaign mode you mostly shoot at bad guys and hide behind convenient piles of things. There is a vague story however it won't get in the way of shooting things (don't worry). A new AI system has been designed that will ensure nothing out of the ordinary or interesting happens.
In multiplayer you mostly shoot at other people online and use cover to grief people repeatedly. It promises to have different maps than the previous release as well as a system that rewards 14 year old males dual auto-shotguns with continuous fire.
There are some interesting new features like the new "vampire mode" which allows you to co-operatively shoot zombies, robots and ninjas in the undersea world of Rapture with your friends or people you hate that randomly attach themselves to you online.
Oh there, will be one "controversial" story point where you trigger a nuclear meltdown (this grants a special achievement entitled "Do nuke-them, forever" though this mission may be bugged and will be released later as DLC at a future unspecified date)
CoD was good. CoD 2 was fantastic.
It's been downhill ever since.
I put my books on Amazon, Smashwords, Demonoid, ISOHunt and Pirate Bay. Search for 'Michael Cargill'
Sorry, no multiplayer on PS/3 because PSN will still be down.
$60 for 2/3rds of a game
How is this making slashdot's front page, yet we haven't heard a peep about Battlefield 3 yet, it's direct competitor who has been pounding their marketing war drum since at least October 2010? And arguably the better engine (not to mention an emphasis on PC localization).
moox. for a new generation.
Leaked? How come all these 'leaked' video game articles always look like perfectly assembled press releases?
Here are the original Kotaku articles:
http://kotaku.com/5801226/the-modern-warfare-3-files-exclusive-first-details-on-the-biggest-game-of-2011
http://kotaku.com/5801353/modern-warfare-3-multiplayer-features-battles-in-brooklyn-clash-in-mogadishu/gallery/
http://kotaku.com/5801345/where-youll-go-how-youll-kill-and-who-will-die-in-modern-warfare-3
I wonder if they were delivered pre-written?
Full Disclosure: I loved MW and MW2. I would still be playing MW2 if PSN network wasn't completely fucked
If it was a real leak I don't think seemingly legit sites like Kotaku would revel in the information the way they do. This sounds and looks more like an experiment in viral marketing.
The annual release makes the previous games obsolete. What I hate about this (in concept, mostly, since I don't play much COD/MW) is that a game has about one year of life left at launch. Then they launch a DLC map pack three months in. So that's $15 for maps that have nine months of life left. Then they release more DLC six months in, for another $15. So that's full $15 price for only half the original life span. Then (if I recall) they usually release a third and final map pack for these (the last three titles, at least). So another full $15 for only a quarter left of the life span.
You know these games are going to be popular. Just fucking make the content and release it up front. Charge another $45 for it and people are going to pay it, because then they can get a full year of content out of it (and those of us who grow tired of the same few maps in the first few months and stop playing out of sheer boredom, before the first map pack is even released will probably stick around longer).
Also, this was "leaked" in as much as someone said "let's get this out there and see people's reaction while there is still time to change some of our direction if there is a backlash".
Really, does the Slashdotter crowd care? I assumed that Shub-Internet had risen and swallowed Activision and Infinity Ward whole. Are they still making games? A pox on the lot of them. Those jerks have proven conclusively that they hate us PC gamers, to the extent that most of the Infinity Ward employees quit and started a new company. I'll be waiting on that game, thanks. Keep your money. While I'm at it, screw EA too!
The game will feature a storyline
Well that's new...
"a Russian force invades Manhattan." Oh no. No no no no. Please can we come up with a new plot?
Yay another full/overpriced game using the same old tired engine and shoveling out more crap for the masses to buy. Keep moving on folks nothing to see here. I'll pass.
Cheaters. PCs, your own servers, these are all too vulnerable to cheaters and their hacks. Punk Buster used to do a pretty fair job back in the day, but when Valve and their completely POS STEAM set up with VAC...another POS, everything went right into the toilet. When the only way to compete is to use hacks yourself, the game is destroyed.
I am wanting to find a secure system to play in. I was hoping the PS3 would be free of these cheaters, but some punks have this burned down still. One of the posters is correct, it's going to destroy the industry, people will just leave. There are other things to do in life besides play computer games that are full of cheating waste of human skin punks.
We need draconian laws for this. Lets make one that reads if you do a million dollars of damage to a company, like hack their game, and ruin it and it adds up to that or more, you are executed. We used to hang people for stealing horses, but we can't hang someone over stealing/destroying the equivalent of hundreds of horses? This should count for virus writers/distributors as well. This Anonymous bunch...for their weeks now of interrupting so many people's enjoyment of their property, we execute their leader and 25 years no parole/hard labor for the rest.
We also need a global ID card, that is chipped with your DNA sequence, retina scan, medical records, criminal records, educational records, banking/financial records, driving/piloting records, licenses and permits included, as well as GPS tracking. Don't leave home without it, it's a crime. You will be detained until your card is reunited with you. Should you refuse a card, you shall have to be segregated from the rest of law abiding society where you will have to fend for yourself.
Take the Red Pill.
Same tired rehash of the same theme. I wish people would actually innovate in games like they used to.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
Games like this tend to go gold/platinum merely because gamers (or more likely, their parents) "buy the game on spec" sheerly on the brand name. The game industry gets it and uses that to their advantage. The trick is to discourage people from buying games like this so if you're a gamer and see someone who's making this decision and "just say no". Harder than it looks really ...