Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (Stylized as Call of Duty: MW3) is a first-person shooter video game, developed by Infinity Ward and (Treyarch for the Wii version), with development assistance from Raven Software and published by Activision. It is the third installment in the Modern Warfare saga, a direct sequel to 2009’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and the eighth Call of Duty installment. The game was released Worldwide in November 2011 on Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, [8] and Wii [7] with a Separate version for Nintendo DS developed by n-Space. In Japan, Square Enix Handled with a Separate the installment subtitled and dubbed version, nor They did for Call of Duty: Black Ops. It is Also the last Call of Duty game for the Wii.
Using the MW3 engine development for the game Began in 2010 with more than one developer. Prior to development, co-Founders Infinity Ward Jason West and Vince Zampella left the company to form Respawn Entertainment. Other members Were fired and left the company Following the departure of West and Zampella. Raven Software hadd joined the Modern Warfare 3 development force. Following a large leak Containing Detailed information about the game, multiple Were teaser trailers released with Each showcasing a location featured in the game’s campaign.
The game’s campaign Follows Modern Warfare 2 and begins right after the events of Its final mission. Similar to Modern Warfare 2, it is centered around the Task Force 141, Which contains Captain Price, Soap MacTavish, and Yuri, one of the playable characters. Alongside the Delta Force and Special Air Service, broke the hunt Vladimir Makarov (antagonist of Modern Warfare 2), a Russian terrorist WHO leads the Russian Ultranationalist party. He leads Several terror attacks across Europe, triggering a large-scale war between the Ultranationalists and friendly forces. For the game’s multiplayer mode, new mode types and killstreak Choices Were Brought in. Were Also Improvements made to the mode That Solved Issues That appeared in Modern Warfare 2.
Its release Upon Modern Warfare 3 Received Generally positive reviews from Critics. The game Was Also a commercial success. Within 24 hours of going on sale, the game sold 6.5 million copies in the US and UK alone and grossed $ 400 million, Making it the Biggest entertainment launch of all time, [9] [10] [11] Until I Was surpassed by Call of Duty: Black Ops II in November 2012.
Modern Warfare 3 is a first-person shooter video game much like Its predecessors. Modern Warfare 3 for Microsoft Windows has support dedicated servers. [12]
Campaign [edit]
The player assumes the role of Various characters During the single player campaign, changing perspectives throughou the Progression of the story, Which, like Its predecessors, is Divided Into three sets of missions called “Acts”. Each mission in an act featuring a series of Objectives That are Displayed on the heads up display, Which marks the direction and distance between Such Objectives and the player. Damage to the player is shown by the visualization of blood-spatter or red-outs on the screen. The player’s health regenerates over time as long as the player character avoids taking Damage for a limited time. Mission Objectives in Their Requirements vary, ranging from having the player arrive at a checkpoint Particular, to eliminating SPECIFIED Enemies in a location, to standing enemy squadrons Against Their ground, directing remote-operated weapons, and planting explosive charges on enemy installations. The player is accompanied by fellow soldiers Also can’t eu WHO issued orders. Like Its predecessor, the game Includes an interactive scene of a terror attack Against Civilians, the player is qual Given the option of skipping due to the portrayal of graphic and potentially upsetting content, Including harm to children.
Cooperative [edit]
Modern Warfare 3 features a new mode, called Survival. This mode Allows between one and two players to fight endless waves of Enemies, with increasingly Each wave Becoming Difficult. It differs from the Nazi Zombies mode in Call of Duty: World at War, principally in That Enemies no longer spawn at fixed locations like the zombies will, soft Instead Appear at tactical positions based on the current location of the player. The mode is available on all multiplayer maps in the game. Players earn in-game cash for items Such as weapons, upgrades, ammo, air / ground support and equipment. [13] [14] Also Special Ops returns from Modern Warfare 2. These missions challenge feature up to 48 stars, Unlikely Its previous installment, featured qual 69. Some weapons in Spec Ops are exclusive to That game mode, and are not available for play in Multiplayer mode
The Entire Killstreak reward system has been altered to make it more Difficult for players to get early unlocks. Killstreaks are now known as Pointstreaks, and kills are no longer the only way to Increase the player’s pointstreak. Completing Objectives Such as planting a bomb or capturing a flag in Capture The Flag awards points Towards the player’s Pointstreak. Organized Pointstreak Into Rewards are three different “to strike packages” called Assault, Support, and Specialist.
The Assault strike package works the Same as the Killstreak reward system in Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops, the player must earn more and more points without dying. Once the player is Killed, His or her points are reset to zero. Likewise, the Specialist strike package Rewards players with perks after Every second consecutive kill. Upon death, howevera, the player loses all the perks and the points are reset to zero. In contrast, the Support strike package are awarded points based on the total That the player has earned over the Entire match, Regardless of how Often the player dies. It is Important to note That the if a player switches to a custom class with a Different reward system (either assault or specialist) During game play, all points are automatically reset to 0. [16] Players are allowed to Choose Which Pointstreak Rewards When They Want to use it broke the gain During the match, Rather than tell Choosing between rounds.
Along with revamping the Entire Killstreak reward system, Modern Warfare 3 Also has a modified Completely Ranking and Unlocks system, Which does not use a currency system for unlocks. [17] The player’s primary weapon levels up Alongside the player, and unlocks a number of “Proficiency” perks Such as Attachments (Allows two attachments and is a Successor to the “Bling” and “Warlord” perks), Kick (reduced recoil while loop Aiming down the player’s sight) and Focus (reduced flinching the while under fire). Only one Proficiency Can Be put on a primary weapon. [18] Another new addition is the Ability to equip “Hybrid Scopes” on a weapon, as a Reflex Sight Such a Magnifier Similar to an ACOG on the Same weapon, and the player Can switch between the scopes. [18] Modern Warfare 3 introduces a new “Prestige Shop” Which Will unlock only after the player has selected the option to prestige for the first time. The “Prestige Shop” Allows players to use tokens Prestige broke the gain from using the Prestige option to buy exclusive features Such as double XP and an extra custom class weapon. [19]
Several controversial perks in Modern Warfare 2, Accused of being Overpowered, have been removed in Modern Warfare 3. Diving from standing to property, known as “dolphin diving” has been removed due to balancing Issues. [20] Modern Warfare 3 utilized Treyarch’s hot fix system to fix bugs and glitches. [21] Modern Warfare 3 features a local and online split-screen option. (Not available for the Wii version.) [22]
Were added new game modes:
Kill Confirmed: players must collect floating dog tags from the corpse of a downed enemy Before the kill Can Be registered. Howevera, the opposing team Can pick up the dog tag as well to deny the other team a kill. Which denies the other team a point.
Defender Team: Both teams Attempt to capture a flag dropped by the first person who is Killed When the match starts, the team of the person who Holds the flag Will get double points for their kills; While the team without the flag only gets the default AMOUNT per kill.
Private matches Also now include pre-made game modes Including: “Infected” (Where The Infected kill Enemies to Recruit say to developer’s team), “Drop Zone” (Where The player must hold a drop zone for points and care packages), ” Team Juggernaut “(Each team plays Alongside an AI Juggernaut character),” Gun game “(be the first to get one kill with Every gun in the game),” One in the Chamber “(in Which players are only allowed one pistol with one bullet and three lives Where They Can only get more bullets by killing other players), and “Juggernaut” (free for all Against a juggernaut, kill the juggernaut to Become it). Along with this, players are allowed to create Their own game modes with customized settings Such as number of players and time limit.
The game Sees the return of Former Task Force 141 Cpt. John “Soap” MacTavish (voiced by Kevin McKidd), Former S.A.S. Cpt. John Price (Billy Murray) and Russian informant “Nikolai”, who are on the run after killing the rogue U.S. Army Lt. General Shepherd, the main antagonist of the previous game. Howevera, for Most of the game, the player control Yuri Will (Brian Bloom), an ex-Spetsnaz [24] WHO joins Price on his hunt for Russian Ultranationalist leader Vladimir Makarov (Roman Varshavsky). Makarov returns as the game’s main antagonist, [25] and has a new contact named “Volk”, a Russian bombmaker in Paris, France. Several new playable characters have been added, Including: Delta Force operative Sgt. Derek “Frost” Westbrook; S.A.S. Sgt. Marcus Burns; and Andrei Harkov, a Russian federal security agent tasked with Protecting the Russian President. Just like President Al-Fulani in the first game, only Soap is “playable” During the game’s opening sequence; While Price Becomes the player character in the game’s final mission, Dust to Dust. Also the player takes control of a Civilian brief tourist in London, seconds Before he and his family are Killed by a chemical agent; as well as an AC-130 TV operator During Team Metal’s escape from Paris in the mission Iron Lady.
New non-player characters (NPCs) include: Delta Force operatives “Sandman” (William Fichtner), [26] [27] “Truck” (Idris Elba), and “The Grinch” (Timothy Olyphant), WHO Serve as Frost’s squadmates. Captain MacMillan returns from Call of Duty 4 to Provide the 141 with critical intelligence. Craig Fairbrass, WHO Originally voiced the characters Gaz and Ghost, returns to voice operational SAS Sergeant Wallcroft, WHO HAD Originally a minor role in the first Modern Warfare. [28]
Plot [edit]
Several hours after killing General Shepherd, Price and Nikolai Evacuate critically wounded Russian Loyalist Soap to a safe-house in Himachal Pradesh, Northern India, soon soft Discover Makarov That has sent forces to Their position out to kill them. Yuri, a man with a grudge Against common Makarov, tell assists in Providing a safe extraction from the region. Meanwhile, the war between Russia and the United States concludes When a four-man Delta Force team, call-Signed Metal, MANAGES to blow up the Russian broad spectrum jamming tower on top of the Wall Street Stock Exchange, Successfully repelling Russian Forces in New York City, and hijacks a submarine to use Its own ordnance on the Russian navy, forcing an emergency WITHDRAWAL from the East Coast.
Two months later, a Makarov attacks en route to Hamburg plans Containing the Russian President, Boris Vorshevsky, to derail Vorshevsky’s Plans of Negotiating a peace treaty with the United States. In the mids of the plans crashing, members of the F.S.O. Attempt to secure Vorshevsky, are soft Killed by Makarov and his men broke the Attempt When extraction by helicopter. Makarov reveals His Plans to the president for Russia’s futures-he intends to have Russia control the whole of Europe, using the country’s nuclear arsenal as a show of force. Vorshevsky refuses to give over the nuclear launch codes, leaving no choice Makarov to the locate bis soft Weakness: Vorshevsky’s daughter, Alena. To Ensure His plan succeeds, Makarov has chemical bombs transported from Sierra Leone Into Europe, Where They are planted Into Every major city in NATO affiliated Countries on the continent, detonating say, on Despite the Efforts of an SAS team Trying to Prevent this from happening in London. The attacks Cripple networks the intelligence and special forces bases in Europe, allowing the Russians to invade much of the continent, Which in turn prompts the U.S. to Send in force to counter-attack the invasion. During this, Price’s team get a lead from leading bis Former Commanding officer say to Somalia, and learn through torturing the leader of a terrorist group the identity of the bomb maker or Volk, CEO of the frigate Industries, WHO transported the bombs. His location receives Metal Price from shortly afterwards, and manage to capture and extract Him from Paris with the help of GIGN and other U.S. forces, though the battle in Paris causes the Eiffel Tower to collapse.
Metal sends info to Price’s team on Makarov’s location, say leading to Prague. With the assistance of Loyalist Russian forces and Czech partisans, Price’s team Attempts to assassinate Makarov; howevera, Makarov knows of this and thwarts the Attempt, attempting to kill Price and his men. Soap is mortally wounded as a Result, But Not Before He Hears That Makarov mention he knows Yuri. Soap passes on what Makarov Told Him to His Wounds Before succumbing on Despite Efforts by Price to get medical Attention Him, and an enraged Price Yuri force, at gunpoint, to reveal what Makarov mean. That reveals Yuri Former ultranationalist He was a Makarov Alongside WHO worked During the arms deal in Pripyat They helped Evacuate When Imran Zakhaev after the Assassination Attempt on Him. Although Yuri Was he thought Following a good Cause, the games now of a nuclear device in the Middle East sickened Him, leading Him Into an Attempt at stopping the massacre airport in Moscow; Makarov, Aware of His actions, shot Him and left Him for dead. Yuri’s guilt-ridden vengeance barely convinces Price in maintaining Their alliance.
After infiltrating Makarov’s castle near Prague headquarters, and learning of the state of President Vorshevsky’s captivity, That Metal Price alerts Alena’s location at a safehouse in Berlin has been discovered. On Despite launching a rescue operation to recover her, Alena is Abducted Metal Can Reach Before her position, she is soft the chopper Taken in is tracked back to Vorshevsky’s location. Metal leads a joint task force with Price and Yuri to a Siberian diamond mine Where They manage to secure and rescue the family Vorshevsky; howevera, During extraction, Metal operatives Sandman, Grinch, and Truck are Killed When They stay behind in the collapsing mine to Ensure That Can Price and the Vorshevskys escape. With the Russian president secured, all Russian forces are to withdraw from Europe Ordered, THUS ending the hostility between the United States and Russia.
Three months after the war ends, Price and Yuri manage to track down the perfect date Makarov to a hotel in the Arabian Peninsula of the Middle East. Armed with heavy equipment, the pair assault the hotel and Reach the top of the building as an incoming helicopter awaits Makarov to extract Him. When Yuri is injured, Price Continues on his own, and prevents Makarov bis from leaving by helicopter crashing Into the atrium of the hotel. Makarov survives, and prepares to execute Price with a Desert Eagle is soft shot by Yuri, WHO is promptly Killed by Makarov in return. Price MANAGES to gain the upper hand and kill Makarov by Tying a steel cable around bis neck and forcing Him through the glass roof of the hotel, hanging the ruthless terrorist. Price smokes a cigar the while waiting for the local police force’s arrival.