AW vs MW3

[QUAKETALLICA]

I'm torn between getting Advanced Warfare and Modern Warfare 3.

I grew up as a kid when the Modern Warfare trilogy originally came out, so I have distant memories of MW2 and 3, though I never actually owned them at the time (played at friends' houses). Recently I bought CoD 4 and MW2 and have played the crap out of them. So I really want MW3, as I remember it having the most epic campaign of the series, and I really want to finish the story. Especially with the current war in Ukraine, it's the COD campaign that feels most politically relevant today.

On the other hand, though, I know the graphics and gameplay are practically untouched since MW2, with some slight balancing improvements but more or less it's the same game. And with CoD, you know the story's going to be over in like 2 or 3 days, so it's the multiplayer (and to a lesser extent co-op) that keeps you playing in the long haul.

With Advanced Warfare, I'm really into the futuristic movement and sci-fi aesthetic from 2014 era shooters, since I've also been enjoying Wolfenstein The New Order. I feel I would enjoy the AW multiplayer a lot more because of the jet packs that really shake up the established CoD formula rather than more of the same. But from what I can get from the trailers, the story isn't as interesting (other than having Kevin Spacey).

If Activision--now Microsoft--actually charged a decent price for these titles, e.g. $5 on sale, I'd happily get both. Instead it's 4x as much and they still can't even include DLC maps.

Which would you recommend?

[temps]

IMO Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is what you should get if you like sci-fi COD. But I'm a space guy, so perhaps I'm biased. That was a great campaign.

Anyway, get Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Can't speak much for the multiplayer, but the single player was really quite fun, even if it was only several hours long.

Personally, I'd rather have a single player experience I intensely enjoy for 8 hours than a relatively unexciting multiplayer experience I play for 100 hours.

[QUAKETALLICA]

@temps Thanks for the reply! I would close this thread if I could. I landed up getting MW3 off a CD Key site selling it for 13 euros. Though after PayPal $1 fee and currency conversions it came to actually $15 USD. I did kind of land up regretting my purchase. I saved $5 I guess, but I lost Steam's ability to refund within 2 hours.

Was it worth it? Meh. The campaign wasn't as good as I remember. Part of that is I read spoilers online that kind of hurt the shock value of some moments, and part is that I played about 75% on Veteran difficulty which really killed the pacing, before saying "Screw it," and going down to Hardened (and finally Regular on the last mission).

But mainly the problem is that the campaign just felt so predictable. There was one moment where I said to myself, "Oh look, I bet he's going to open the door, and Makarov's going to be there and shoot me," and precisely that happened 2 seconds later. I didn't remember that from 10 years ago. I could just tell because they did the exact same thing in MW2 like twice. Pretty much every scene or moment in the game/movie has a direct parallel in MW1 or 2. Not only is the gameplay completely recycled and unchanged more or less since Call of Duty 2, but even the story beats and levels are so predictable and just recycled from previous Modern Warfare's.

And of course Multiplayer is just MW2 but less fun without all the silly overpowered crap that made that game fun. Yeah it was broken, but trying to rack up enough kills for a nuke was fun.

I will say at least they did a good job connecting the storylines from the first 2 games, and it had a damn satisfying ending, so at least that's something. In that sense, it's a lot like Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. You had the first Terminator/Modern Warfare that blew everyone away, the sequel which was highly anticipated and hugely famous/successful, and took the series to new heights, and then the third one was decent but just recycled the same story as the 2nd one.

[Manuel]

if like space man, buy infinite warfare