Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 | Call of duty is a great series, don't get me wrong, I think the games have a high polish and offer an addictive, fun and fast paced style of gameplay. However, there are two main factors that decide the quality of a first person multiplayer shooter, the maps and the balance, both are off by quite a bit.

The maps fail in two ways, they are much too small, and they are dreadfully bland. The worst part of the game, its spawn system is just as bad as it was in modern warfare 2, unfortunately since the maps are much smaller, you spawn into gunfire, or a guy spawns with you in his sights more often. I liked ground war in previous games, but the maps are just too small for it. My other qualm is that there are too many inside areas, which makes camping too easy, and break up the maps too much. The only hope is that the map packs are better, but this requires an extra investment, and are not likely to offer better gameplay because modern warfare 3 promised close quarters gun on gun combat, which because of spawns does not work.

The balance of the game is horribly off, with problems in the weapons, and the point streaks. The weapons have much of the same old problems, snipers are too easy to use and offer no drawbacks, especially with quickdraw. The shotguns are nerfed to having no range, damage or, accuracy. Either nerf them and have them be secondaries or leave them and have them remain primaries. The weapons system gives aid to those who want to use overpowered sniper rifles for everything, while hurting those who use explosives. I was unhappy that all explosive damage was down, while the grenade launchers of old were too strong, there was no need to make the well balanced lethal grenades weak too. The strike packages also are messed up, simply put, the support package is way too strong. Anyone can get 18 kills in a match, sometimes twice, and anytime they do they get three of the most overpowered killstreaks, the juggernaut, the escort airdrop, and the EMP. By making those and the stealth bomber so easy to obtain it lets anybody get packages that are too strong.

In the end this game is fun, it is addicting, but it is so frustrating to play especially when against a party, the small things add up to make it less than stellar, with every step forward, it takes a step back, it could have been great, but map variety and balancing killed it and made it only good... Read Next→