Our Modern Warfare 3 Multiplayer Observations from XP2011

❘ Published: 2011-09-06T13:13:50

Multiplayer:
-Felt like I was playing Call of Duty 4:MW with MW2’s graphics and U.I.
-Graphics and Menus appear identical to MW2 with the exception of an image of a real soldier in the background similar to Black Ops.
-Killstreaks or Air-support were rarely called in the games I played, mostly gun on gun gameplay like 402 promised.
-However it seemed like the UAV was called every 2 seconds.
-Respawns were VERY well balanced. I was never spawn camped and always respawned by my team.
-“Village” map seemed very similar to Black Ops “Jungle Map” with an added Cavarn/Huge cave.
-Facebook integration was already built-in to the “after-action” report when scrolled all the way to the right however it required you to log-in.
-When spectating in 3rd-person, there is no “Texture Loading” delay like there was in Black Ops.
-MW3 Multiplayer is the best CoD yet in my opinion.
-“Kill Confirmed” WILL dominate. Best gameplay mode. PERIOD.
-The Perk & Killstreak list we LEAKED back on August 18th was real 😉

Spec-Ops:
-Being a huge Zombie fan, I thought Spec-Ops was better than zombies in my opinion.
-Captures the tention of being “over-run” like in zombies.
-You have to make a mad dash to the armories between rounds.
-Felt like we were fighting for our lives.
-Originally we were upset when they announced only 2-players, but now we can tell it was clearly designed as a “buddy system”.
-No way it would work with 4-players, “suspense” would be lost.
-Spec-Ops was the talk of the show, everyone we talked to “liked” multiplayer but “loved” Spec-Ops.

Visual Observations:
-The ACOG and RED-DOT from COD4 return (Trijicon ACOG BAC)
-402 tweeted that there were 2 different MP5’s (CoD4 MP5 and the MP5K). Spec-Ops version is called the MP5k however it is visually IDENTICAL to the “Mp5” from multiplayer.
-The new “Dual Scope” is now called the “Hybrid Scope”.
-Hybrid scope is visually different on the SMG. No flip-up magnifier, instead it has the MW2 Red-Dot on top of a Elcan SpecterDR scope.
-USP pistol makes a return for the 3rd time. It now has a Streamlight TLR2 flashlight attached.
-New Colt CM901 or the “CM901” is the .308 variant based on the wide magazine. It fires and reloads EXACTLY like the Scar-H from MW2 (also a .308).
-The new MP5 in singleplayer has a front grip in most of the trailers however in MP it’s missing the front grip and is not an option.
-UMP is visually identical to the MW2 UMP.
-AK47 visually different but fires and reloads identically to CoD4 & MW2.
-Dragonuv SVD is now “modernized”
-Killstreak “Strafe-Run” has 5 Apache Helicopters going straight accross the map in “V” formation. Damage similar to stealth bomber.