Began the title yesterday and have had some progress. I'll briefly comment on my impressions, beginning with the bad ones first. Please take them with a pinch of salt! Like some guy who trolled on various forums about this one being a new map for MW2 (jecelecter had posted it before), I think I may have to concur with that one. This iteration doesn't feel like a new game on any account. Visuals look exactly the same I had played on MW2 almost 2 years back with the 'new and improved' IW 5 engine (as the devs. put it) not bringing anything new to the board. A direct comparison to the FB2 engine used in BF3 would be blasphemous and harsh! Talking about similarities with MW2, the menus, the loading screens with the briefing system in place, sounds and tracks, playing as multiple characters across the several campaign, the HUD, the on-screen violence among others, appear to be exactly the same as what MW2 offered. Lack of innovation in the game is very clear. IMO instead of releasing the game as MW3, they should have outed this as some sort of expansion pack or like how Starcraft II is being developed based on the multiple factions. This would have garnered fairly lesser criticisms from the reviewers and folks of the
other camp as well.
The story continues where MW2 concluded. General Shepherd is killed and a severely wounded Soap MacTavish and Capt. Price is evacuated from Afghanistan by Nikolai when he arrives at the scene with a chopper. The trio head to Himachal Pradesh where Nikolai's friends have camped at a safehouse and Soap is given medical treatment. In the meantime, Makarov - the primary antagonist of the series who has fled the scene, has his men attack the camp. It is then that we step into the shoes of Yuri and aids the three in safely escaping out of the country when the attack ensues.
But what MW3 excels like its predecessors did is in the gameplay department which ensures a thrilling and an engrossing ride, no matter how bad the storyline or the visuals are or unless one is hellbent on finding the flaws in the game or pitting against BF3. If you found the F/A-18F Super Hornet gameplay in BF3 to be good or assisting Capt. Price escape from the Russian Gulag or the snowmobile ride in MW2 to be gripping, wait until you play this one! You are in for some epic rides in the game with tonnes of
OMG moments thrown in. There are plenty of brilliant set pieces in the game. I wouldn't want to spoil it for those who haven't attempted the game yet. The campaign is super fun.
As they say, all good things must come to an end, and I for one am glad that Activision decided to end the MW series with this one and not drag it any further. Like I mentioned before, they should have released the game as an expansion pack for MW2 or the continuation of the game with a TBC note mentioned at the end of MW2. They shouldn't kill the IP which has garnered a lot of interest among FPS and war-based shooter fans and should probably concentrate on the WW based battles.
quan chi said:
Anyone getting very very low performance on ati.:-[
Runs absolutely flawless with every setting maxed out. Image quality is set to 'native'. Read somewhere that this setting gives the best IQ. Texture issues are also resolved this way.
