Flame Wars: Battlefield 3 versus Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - 1.1
Flame Wars are as inevitable as teenage pregnancy in the United States, spats between siblings and playacting from the Barcelona side in a football match. So rather than fight the ‘inevitable’, it would be better to provide a platform where gamers and ‘wannabe’
debaters can have a go at each other.
However, before Bettor.com can let the Call of Duty and Battlefield fans go at each other’s throats and call in airstrikes on each other, a bit of a foundation would be best.
Starting off with Activision and their upcoming title, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
When the game was announced, it did not come as a surprise, mostly because of the fact that Activision tends to roll out one Call of Duty title every year. The annual cycle alternates between Infinity Ward, responsible for the Modern Warfare series, and
Treyarch who release the games which have the now famous Zombie modes.
Instead of having control over what the publisher wanted to release and when they wanted to do so, Activision suffered a number of leaks with details of the game. The plot of the single player campaign and the multiplayer perks and killstreaks made their
way onto the internet well before the publisher would have wanted.
Numerous leaks followed, none as significant as the one that preceded it, yet before long it seemed that everyone knew what to expect from the game.
To be honest, it seemed as if Modern Warfare 3 was set to be more of the same. To everyone’s surprise Activision confirmed that in essence it was pretty much the same.
Case in point: the developers, Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer, confirmed that Modern Warfare 3 was based on an enhanced version of the engine that ran the previous game. To put it layman’s terms, it was the same car but with a tuned engine.
Neither the publisher nor the developers seemed concerned about this though as they boasted they had perfected the gameplay and also were quick to point out and emphasize on the fact that the third instalment in the series was the only first person shooter
on consoles which ran at 60 frames per second (all the others, including Battlefield 3 ran at 30 frames per second).
Also to be fair, the Modern Warfare gameplay ‘formula’ worked so well for the first two games, so changing something that is near perfect would be a bit on the unwise side.
Having said that, Sledgehammer, have been busy revamping the multiplayer component of the game, which just so happens to be the main reason people fork out their, or their parents’, hard earned cash for the game.
So far the changes seem promising, as the core gameplay remains intact with the rest receiving a makeover.
Battlefield 3 may already be out and Electronic Arts are boasting of sales figures around the 3-million units sold mark, however, if history were to repeat itself, that figure would seem minute if Modern Warfare 3 can emulate what Modern Warfare 2 and Black
Ops managed to achieve during their launch week.
Read on in the next part of this article...
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