i have been a COD series fan till now and liked all cod games. Have played lot of cod1, 2, 4, 5, 7 and loved it to maximum. Here are my first impressions on the COD MW3.
Played single player first three missions yesterday. In the first mission had turned the occlusion setting high so was really disappointed with the graphics. Then read on overclock that the game looks better in Native setting in occlusion. After doing that game looked much better. the gameplay is ditto same as mw2, lot of scripted events etc. The music was getting mixed with the gameplay noise and creating that effect. overall and average experience till now.
Then played multiplayer, and to my surprise didnt find dedicated server list. I had read that there will be dedicated servers for this. Didnt even find any article on people complaining about this issue. This is was the main reason i bought black ops last time which i enjoyed maximum. Even these days i play that.
The multiplayer is exactly same mw2. It made me join in some far away server. It became very difficult to play in that high ping server. Was getting killed just like that. Played in 4 different maps. The maps seemed very small. The maps that i played were not even close to what are there in mw2, mw1 and black ops. Having said that didnt even like the movement of players in the game. Looked very artificial(may be this the effect of playing bf3, but will play black ops again to check this). Other than that the audio too was not appealing or say the gun noise was not that good.
Havent played spec ops yet, have some friends who will play that. Hopefully that is good. Spec ops in mw2 was gr8. There is survival and campaign in spec ops. Survival seems to be mordern version of zombie mod in world at war/black ops.
overall seems like i have wasted 2.5k...