Moving from standing, to crouching, to lying prone is simple enough, and in fact can all be done with the tap/hold of a single button (in our case, the B button).
They are perfect for the relatively simple actions required to navigate the game and be successful, if only because there aren't that many things you need to do. If you've played a fps in past decade you'll pick them up quickly.Ĭontrols in Modern Warfare 3 are based on the now standardized scheme of almost all shooters. Of course, it's much more complicated than that to a degree, but if we had to absolutely boil it down to something, it would involve fightin' 'round the world. (What?) Grenades will be thrown, air strikes will be ordered, and health will magically regenerate while you hide behind a stack of wooden crates.Įssentially, the game's entire basic mechanic involves moving around linear maps using a large variety of weaponry while navigating various stages with very light platforming elements, in order to best shoot your enemies and avoid being shot. If not, you might have trouble (at first) figuring out which tango is on your 6 and which exfil point is the contact dropzone. If you're into military tactics and real weaponry, you'll likely feel right at home. You get your favorite gun and move from cover to cover, eliminating enemy soldiers and calling out orders and enemy locales related to the specific area you're infiltrating/defending/scouting. Players are guided through the game's campaign at a rather quick pace, and are otherwise dropped into battles and given specific objectives to fulfill in a Point A to Point B manner-though usually, there are a lot of surprises thrown into the mix. The modern kind, with intelligence based on real-time countries and factions, electronically triggered drone raids, EMP detonations, and lots, lots, of explosions. Modern Warfare 3's core gameplay involves-what else?-warfare. We did our best to take Modern Warfare 3 as simply an individual product, at least where gameplay is involved. We neither adore the Call of Duty series, nor do we have any prior grudges against it. Doing our best to ignore both the good and the bad hype, we gave the game an objective inspection*, though one not lacking in considerable previous experience. We sat down with the game and a nice chunk of time, and carefully delved into the campaign and multiplayer modes. Love it or hate it, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is here to stay. Critics tend to consider it to be a shallow mash-up that is overhyped and underdeveloped. Fans tend to consider it to be the best of Battlefield 3's realistic warfare and Gears of War 3's "summer blockbuster" pacing. They boast a mix of realism and over-the-top, explosive action, and Modern Warfare 3 makes no exception to this rule. The Modern Warfare games have become something of an industry standard for video games, specifically for military-based, first-person shooters.