News - Modern Warfare 3 review round-up, it's judgement day

[HEXUS]

It's launch day and the critics have sharpened their pencils...

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[Tarinder]

Got it this morning on the PS3. £28.99 from Sainsbury's if you buy £30 of other stuff (five boxes of 15-bottle Carlsberg Export for £6.89)

[shaithis]

Even Hexus seems to be nothing but console these days

[jackvdbuk]

Even Hexus seems to be nothing but console these days

agreed. though my copy on PC. YES PC. has just arrived,

time for work however and will let you know if it is any good later, MW2 was one of my favs.

[Platinum]

"Videogamer – “Modern Warfare 3 doesn't do anything new"

Yet you give it 90%, Activision must have paid record amounts for there reviews this year

[Hicks12]

So they're all basically saying its a £30+ patch/dlc pack? Nothing new there then...

cant believe the reviewers sometimes, how can you call the SAME game over and over Good again and again... games are meant to be different?...

[Hoonigan]

I'm getting sick to the back teeth of this game now, I'm genuinely starting to feel sorry for the people who buy it every single year, there's not a great deal of difference between MW, MW2 and MW3 (apparently, not played it yet).

Has anyone played the campaign yet? What's the story like? A few of my mates got FAR too excited with the trailer "ZOMG, look, there's T5's in London!!!!"

[Noxvayl]

Your a PC gamer Hicks12, that's where your view converges from reviewers. I doubt console games need to live up to the same standards as PC games and as such developers prefer making them and reviewers give them better scores for doing less work.

I really wish developers would stop porting to PC though, it's not good enough and I'm not interested in supporting them if they continue that trend.

[danroyle]

this game gets so much hype its insane i got up for work this morning flicked on the tv at 6 to be greeted by the inside of a game store and a load of people going im here cos i wanna be the first to play it.

I dont hate cod i hate the hype and bias reviews. I will buy it too at some point but my usual rule for Cod is i wont pay more than £20 and i have stuck to that every year but this year i have decided i wont pay more for Cod than i have BF3 so i wont be getting it until its under £15

[MaddAussie]

I havent played more than 5 minutes of any of the COD games since COD2.

[redddraggon]

I havent played more than 5 minutes of any of the COD games since COD2.

Same here. Although I did have COD3 on the 360, didn't really play it though.

Surely Skyrim is the big release this week? I've been waiting for that since I completed Oblivion.

[shaithis]

Surely Skyrim is the big release this week? I've been waiting for that since I completed Oblivion.

Yet another console port that will probably get rave reviews (by people only reviewing on XBox/PS3)

[redddraggon]

Yet another console port that will probably get rave reviews (by people only reviewing on XBox/PS3)

Shame it's a console port, that was one (of many) of the reasons I went for the 360 version instead of PC.

[Mooman55]

Mr. Williamson, your fact's are wrong. If you are talking ONLY about Xbox 360, your arguments are true but general speaking, Battlefield 3 PC has average of 89 at the moment. Why you people only look at just Xbox 360 scores, is it industry medium? There are at least 3 valid industry medium, PC PS3 and Xbox 360.

[Mooman55]

Also, first review released just 4 hours ago, give it a little time will you? Battlefield 3 had 95 average at some point. Just saying.

[cptwhite_uk]

It's really a shame, Battlefield 3 is clearly a superior game, especially on PC. Console is a different market, and I dare say that Call of Duty's more simplistic twitch and fire gameplay is more suited both from a technology stand-point and also from a user stand point.

Consoles are for people who want "pick up and play". They're the film equivalent of a blockbuster "in 3D" with massive explosions and little plot. Whereas the PC has a more refined userbase - higher expectations for creativity, technical accomplishment (in terms of audio and visuals), and will happily play 1 game for years in many cases/

It's not hard to see where the money is - consoles. They're a standardised platform, easier to test and development for, with a large userbase and consumers with shorter attention spans (a larger percentage of kids compared to PC users) who are more likely to by into series iterations and play games for shorter time scales (i.e. buy more games).

PC users are also more savy - they expect stuff for free, or for very little money. I'm guilty of this.

Let's be honest - we'd happily spend £200 on a graphics card, but I'll be damned if I'm paying more than £20 for the game to utilise that card. Silly really, how many of us have a list of games we've bought in haste in the steam sale because it was a bargain and have yet to even install.

PC games publishers should get wise - make their games downloadable, support them but just charge an upfront price of £50-80 per game. If it's a triple A title we'd probably still buy it, you just need to change your mind set - many people will have spend hundreds to get their system ready for the latest titles anyway.