There are some truly bad people out there — and, as is customary for these kind of games, the world is stuck in a fighting funk: a global act of conflict that once again plunges videogame players into the hazardous terrain of war. But then, just stop and imagine what a game like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 would consist of were developers to omit the whole “combat” thing. And so, we dive into this monumental Activision title, co-written by award-winning film and television writer Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby, Casino Royale), with the full anticipation of developing blisters on our thumbs.
Much like the previous installments in the Call of Duty and Modern Warfare franchises, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 jumps around quite a bit — allotting its eager players to take on several different personas throughout the game, all of whom are attempting to defuse the madness that has plunged the planet into a unsteady state of battle. Picking up right where Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 left off, with World War III threatening to destroy everyone and everything imaginable. Jumping around from one character to another, as well as from one location to another, this game is a spectacular (not to mention massive) first-person shooter.
Witness as historical landmarks all around the world fall before your very disbelieving eyes, courtesy of some truly smashing graphics and a soundtrack that is almost too real for its own good. The story itself is a bit hard to describe since it not only jumps around a lot, but it isn’t terribly enthralling overall to begin with. But who cares about the single-player action, right? The big to-do with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is its multiplayer fun. The game’s sixteen different maps can be utilized to a completely new degree when you play online, with different challenges and rewards awaiting you should you succeed in blowing the piss out of your friends (and enemies) in cyberspace.
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