Topic: MW3 trailers & gameplay, oh my!

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So for those that don't know, or maybe have lives outside of the CoD series (pffft on you loosers) this weekend is CoD XP in La-La land...that is...a gigantic reveal bash complete with zip line, re-created burger town, real life recreation of the map Scrap Town set up for paint ball and more consoles that you can shake a stick at that those who bought tickets for the event can demo where they (Infinity Ward/Sledgehammer) are at with development of MW3.  Oh yeah, and there's this little $1million dollar tournament going there too if all that wasn't enough.

And this also means let the trailers and gameplay vids fly!

MW3 Official Multi-player trailer...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Multiplayer World Premiere

MW3 multiplayer gameplay...

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 - Multiplayer Intense Gameplay

IMO...the first thing that stands out is this looks a whole lot like MW2...so much in fact that many are already call this MW2.5 (and the h8tr's have mocked that by calling it MW2.2 LoL!).  Now is that a bad thing?  Wasn't MW2 one heck of a game that folks even still play and talk fondly about today?  Wasn't MW2 a pretty monster sized hit of a game?

What will be interesting to see is the differences and if being stuck 2 years in the past hurts CoD.  What I mean is that for BF:3 players on PC, we're going to get a DX11 game with all the bells and whistles that DX11 brings us while MW3 is going to be, well in a lot of ways, stuck in DX9 not to mention be kind of same old, same old in character and world modeling.

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For me, MW2 had decent graphics.  In fact, they were better than Black-Oops and the game play was very smooth (no laggy spikes, or less of it).  Now, the looming question for:  Will there be dedicated servers and a map editor?  I personally care little for single player missions too.... Co-op can be cool though

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On the consoles...no, there will continue to be no dedicated servers.

For PC, we'll see.  Even if there isn't, just like anything else, if they don't give out the tools then peeps will crack it themselves and you'll be able to play on it, just not ranked on the "official" servers.

Mod tools will come much after launch.  For some wierd reason, Activision just isn't down with the whole modding thing.

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