Post by Dan @ 04:12pm 08/11/11 | 29 Comments
After a year of anticipation, after the breakout success of the first-ever Call of Duty® XP live fan event, and after pre-order numbers that toppled even those of 2010’s mega-seller Call of Duty®: Black Ops, the final dye has at last been cast. Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 is now available at retail outlets across Asia-Pacific. Also launching today is the revolutionary new social gaming network Call of Duty® Elite, conceived expressly to help Call of Duty®’s 30 million devoted fans Play Together Better™.As one of the biggest franchises in gaming history, each new Call of Duty release catches is fair share of community criticism, but one thing even the most jaded Aussie gamer shouldn't fault is the simultaneous global launch that due to time differences actually saw the game launching Down Under before North America and Europe (ignoring some broken street-date shenanigans).
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is now on Aussie shelves (and Steam for PC) for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Read the official press release while you wait for our review.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Launch Trailer
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Posted 04:16pm 08/11/11
Posted 04:17pm 08/11/11
Posted 04:20pm 08/11/11
A year? so a game in development for a year has become the most anticipated game in history? I think activision has a malignant case of big-headedness.
It's going to be funny when skyrim outsells this.
Posted 04:20pm 08/11/11
Posted 04:25pm 08/11/11
Posted 04:27pm 08/11/11
Call of Duty is as successful as it is because of the heritage created by Infinity Ward's solid foundations of making a kickass multiplayer shooter with mostly kickass singleplayer campaigns to boot. That, and an absolutely insane marketing budget.
The 12 month churn cycle and lack of technical progression has understandably raised the ire of a lot of hardcore gamers, but there's clearly also a lot of tall poppy syndrome happening here too.
Posted 04:27pm 08/11/11
correction.
Posted 04:33pm 08/11/11
1, 2 and 4 were awesome games
i don't count 3 because it was console only and i didn't play it, i'm sure it was good
4 is still the best cod ever, it was fresh and so good
they just haven't really progressed since is the problem, they added in the streak stuff and that's about it. and to boot they've sped up the churn out of the samey stuff with the 12month cycle
but it's still so insanely popular, no one seems to care they buy one each year and that's the same - especially the console only people
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Posted 04:34pm 08/11/11
It's clear to anyone over the age of 18 that skyrim is without question the better game and should by all means outsell this trash. However there are many more 16 year olds with xboxes who love to "pwn noobs" so saddly MW3 will be a huge seller and infinity ward will keep thinking it's cool to release the same game every year. I mean after all it worked wonders for Guitar Hero right? Oh wait that entire franchise was ran into the ground.
Posted 04:45pm 08/11/11
Posted 04:50pm 08/11/11
Posted 05:01pm 08/11/11
Tell your mate (for single-player, at least), to go back and have a play through a few of their SP missions then go back into this. The lighting alone here is fantastic, it really looks good in comparison to the other games (obv no BF3 though)
Posted 06:22pm 08/11/11
Anyone who thinks differently obviously is either a console kiddie or being payed to say so.
Posted 07:31pm 08/11/11
Posted 07:46pm 08/11/11
Posted 11:06am 09/11/11
Posted 12:46pm 09/11/11
Posted 12:58pm 09/11/11
Posted 01:13pm 09/11/11
It's to get you TO go through a brick and mortar store, because EB/Gamestop would be doing something to make the price ridiculous.
No, its not active yet for PC, but I think you can sign into or create account or something. No date on when it will be available. Though apparently if you become a subscriber, you get all the map packs and earlier updates, but if you stop paying, you lose everything.
Posted 05:03pm 09/11/11
Posted 06:54pm 09/11/11
Posted 11:55pm 15/11/11
source: http://www.vgchartz.com/article/88431/modern-warfare-3-tops-93m-first-day-biggest-industry-launch-ever/
Posted 10:27am 10/11/11
I wonder what the numbers were for BF3.
Posted 10:32am 10/11/11
Sadly, BF3 didn't even get close to toppling COD though. 3.5 million were sold in the first week, like a third of the amount of MW3 that was sold on the first day :(
http://www.vgchartz.com/article/88353/battlefield-3-sells-more-than-35m-copies-in-first-week/
Posted 10:32am 10/11/11
The last I heard they were just short of six million sales after two weeks.
Posted 11:09am 10/11/11
Posted 11:12am 10/11/11
Posted 07:58pm 14/11/11
You should pay attention to those 'reviewers' other reviews.
There's a guy there who gave BF3 a 10. Reviewed all three MW3 versions (PC, PS3, 360) and gave them all 0's. I doubt he has even bought the game let alone played it.
Edit: grammar correction.
Posted 11:52pm 15/11/11