Distraction of the week: Call of duty - Modern Warfare 3

Finishing the fight

Explosions, constant gunfire and angry men constantly shouting at each other can only mean one thing ... one of the highest selling game series’ is back with another instalment.

As with the previous Modern warfare games the player is thrown straight into the fight where the second game left off. The island of Manhattan is under attack from the Russians, and you are forced to fight your way through the city to the dock where you plant charges on a Russian submarine before running for your life over a sinking ship before an extreme motorboat chase.

And from there on the game is literally non-stop action. And like any Call of Duty; you take your eyes of the screen for a second and ...Dead.

Probably the most grabbing points of the Campaign game play are the epic fights that take in all manner of well known places from a desperate chase on the London Underground to prevent a weapon being detonated by the houses of parliament, to an eerie scene of the Eiffel tower crashing to the ground like a tree being chopped down. And not all combat takes place on the ground, with the obvious air support missions (which involve just blasting the crap out of everything your told too shoot) - there is also a level in which the Russian President (unfortunately not Putin) has his plane hijacked which goes out of control forcing you to float through the air in zero gravity while still popping enemies off. It’s a lot like the episode off the Simpson's in which |Homer floats around a space shuttle eating crisps.

But enough about the Campaign, after the four hours it takes to complete you do feel slightly ripped off and angry you queued up for 2 hours at a midnight launch to get your hands on a copy. But alas that is when you turn to online multi-player to begin wasting away the next month of your life trying to earn the title of prestige.

It’s the same as the 2 previous multiplayers’s when first starting at Private (level 1) equipped with nothing but the games own custom classes to protect your sorry ass. But after a few cheeky kills and an infinite amount of annoying, humiliating deaths you work your level up until you start unlocking all those guns that people were killing you with. The levels are good but remain full of annoying hidey holes for those blasted campers.

So overall the game is good, not as epic as modern warfare 2 but after all the trouble the games creators’ Infinity ward had (Find out more by clicking here). I believe they’ve once again created a gaming masterpiece that finishes the storyline from the first 2 game and fills in all those confusing gaps in plot modern warfare 2 brought about.

One of the more graphic cut scenes: 

Rating: 4 out of 5

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