Gamers are starting to realise that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 isn’t the annual entry they are accustomed to, with recent leaks teasing a game that is more of a substantial expansion than a fully-fledged game. Given the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:past Modern Warfare launched less than a year ago and I’ve already touched on the frailty of said situaﷺtion, this is no shock.
According to Twitter user , Modern Warfare 3 will launch with all the original Modern Warfare 2’s multiplayer maps from 2009, albeit completely remade with new visuals while the initial designs remain intact. Fans have been asking for this for years, hoping that it might come in the form of a standalone experience given the campaign has been around in remastered form for ages. But to sell an entirely new game and make its annual schedule of releases a litᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ🅠ᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚtle easier to stomach, all of these are now being rolled into Modern Warfare 3.
On the one hand, seeing the return of these classic maps has me incredibly excited. On the other, it’s achingly obvious that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Activision and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sledgehammer Games are trying desperately to inflate the value of a game which has been subject to a far shorter production cycle and is unlikely to provide the amount of content and value we’ve come t♛o expect from the series. It’s not even subtle, right down to the return of existing perks and features which try and capitalise on our nostalgia rather than pushing the series forward with its own ideas.
Older weapons and skills are set to be reissued too as part of the new game - if leaks ring true, and given the track record of those behind them and Sledgehammer Games now coyly acknow💙l🐠edging their existence on social media, they almost certainly will. It’s a matter of time until the in-game reveal event begins and all the beans are spilled. Some folks are along for the ride, while others are understandably irritated that this year’s game is nothing more than a glorified reissue built to compliment the live-service repertoire of Warzone instead of doing right by fans.
Activision is in a weird place right now, and has even ente𒈔rtained cutting back on its annual releases if the Microsoft acquisition goes through, so maybe this is the start of that changing tide. A smaller, more incremental update, but one that still presents itself as a fully complete game with a full price tag to boot out of greed and necessity. While you can’t discount the several multiplayer maps now remade in a new engine with new physics and other such bells and whistles, on a basic level these are maps that already exist in a game that 🌃costs about a fifth of price.
And outside a free-to-play Warzone, that will be the only multiplayer offerings at launch alongside the campaign. Which itself is remaining expectantly tight-lipped given I imagine it’s very short and will make up for its brevity by tying ideas and cutscenes into Warzone just like last time. It bums me out, but shouldn’t surprise me when No Russian and Makarov were teased as part of the end credits, albeit now taking place in what appears to be𒈔 a stadium instead of an airport.
Players seem intelligent enough to read between the lines, and hopefully they aren’t all putting their pre-orders down before any gameplay of substance has been shown. Activision wants you to 🍎be one of the millions who will front up the cash regardless, but when it isn’t offering a package worth the asking price, we need to stand up against it to avoid such greed being normalised once again. I’m here for the nostalgia and a new campaign, but not when everything elseꦛ around it feels so lacklustre. Bring on the reveal so we can see more.