MW3, while not perfect, I have a deep love for. I remember running home from school every day and playing search and destroy late into the night with my friends. So many laughs, rage, and tears. Something that I’ll never forget and always hold dear in my heart. If I could go back, even for a day, I’d do so in a heartbeat.
After playing COD4 in game caffes with friends, this was my first COD I played on my PC. I loved it and since I haven't played MW2, I can't quite see things from the same angle. I love this game.
Tbh MW3 remains my favorite Modern Warfare COD, and is one of my favorite games of all time. I just love how it went all in on the WW3 aspect with setpieces like the New York battle and the invasion of Germany, while also concluding the OG series with a bang. It really did feel like the peak of the franchise and probably will be until the final game in the new trilogy.
@@RegularFlyGuy Nope. I played the others and they were great. And no MW3 wasn't the weakest campaign at all. All the campaigns are masterpieces that complement each other very well tbh.
It's a bit of a shame that we never got to see what the OG Infinity Ward had in mind for the campaign and MP for MW3, I get the feeling it would be very different
Yea Activision is well known for mistreating employees and basically lying to them about pay increases depending on how well a game does. I don’t blame them for using their blue chip to force Activision into higher pay.
People always say the score streak system was the best but I think the point streak was the best system. It was way more easier to understand and still rewarded people playing the objective
But the russian government werent involved in the war, it was ultranationalists. Basically well funded terrorists. We literally save the russian president in the campaign
@@g3tshotheett Bro, if that's the logic, Russia would never even THINK to invade the US. They'd send Nukes or we'd be fighting proxy wars cause the logistics to invade a continent where you have no allies is astronomically unrealistic.
@@chandler2 There would be a thousand red dawns in every state. Crips and bloods would be shooting at paratroopers. Every liquored up hillbilly with a shotgun would be skeet shooting drones. Latino laborers would be booby trapping the roads. It would be a fucking nightmare to invade Florida alone much less the entire country.
@@user-ll8ht1ug3bnot really, og MW2 was one of the most slandered video games on the internet at the time of its release, not alot kids know this about the "good ol days" but even back then the devs still got shat on constantly by angry gamers
MW3 integrated Specialist, Gun proficiencies, new attachments, has the most maps and guns at launch. It thankfully didn’t have Danger close, Stopping power, or as many glitches. Maps were good and bad like any other and the color palette was slightly better in MW2 but MW3 wasn’t bad. The campaign wasn’t bad in MW3 either. It stayed true and finished the trilogy.
5:15 actually, according to ex devs, Activision is the one who started the nonsense. Bobby wanted Vince and West gone, they even had a plan at Activision called “operation icebreaker” to force them into a position where they could be fired. 11:00 Hanz Zimmer just composed the main theme of mw2. Not the OST 27:40 it’s definitely not “objectively the best quality one” lol I still think Cod4 was higher quality and more deeply thought-out
MW3 will always be a top 3 cod for me. i miss when it was simple and you could throw on ur two attachments that was the same exact for everyone. now you have to kit ur weapon out with so many attachments and make things work out
I’d probably be calling it my favourite CoD. But MW2/BO1 both combined hold that crown. Two very different feels to them but I loved them games so much and I couldn’t decide which one I prefer. MW2 for the CHAOS. BO1 for the calmer steadier gameplay
modern warfare 3 was the first cod I ever owned when my uncle got it for me for Christmas when I got a ps3 the same Christmas. it will always hold a special place in my heart and I never put more time into a cod until MW 2019 I will always defend MW3 and will say it is my favorite even if its thanks to nostalgia and has some problems i choose to ignore. love the videos keep making these!!!
I loved MW3. So many great maps, AWESOME DLC maps, the Faceoff mode was incredible with it's own fun maps. This to me is the last COD that I fully enjoyed.
Easily in my top 5 CoD games of all time. Back then, I never understood all of the hate that the game had. I thoroughly enjoyed all of it, even the co-op missions that were so-so.
It’s because it came out the same year as Battlefield 3.. and even if you were a CoD fan who enjoyed MW3 when it came out I feel like you were lying to yourself if you didn’t recognize how inferior of a game it was to it’s Battlefield counterpart. I remember clowning on Call of Duty and all the videos making comparisons between BF and CoD around this time because of how linear the gameplay was and the outdated graphics.
@@alexschneider8494 I always saw 2011 as the year of complete juggernauts in the gaming industry. We got MW3, BF3, Dead Space 2, and so many more games. As a kid/teenager, I put in countless hours into both BF3 AND MW3. Of course, the graphics didn't even compare to BF3 with the Frostbite engine, but 12-year old me didn't care about that so long as the games were awesome and I had friends to play with.
@@Dusty_CA Yeah, I played both. I just remember specifically this being around the time when the narrative about Call of Duty copy and pasting the same game every year came about. It wasn’t completely wrong though, MW3 was essentially a slight reskin of MW2. The sentiment in the gaming community that Call of Duty was inferior to Battlefield started with Battlefield 3 and continued up until Battlefield V’s release. I remember meme videos popping up comparing Battlefield 4 to Call of Duty Ghosts when both were coming out and people were making fun of the Ghosts’ dog model, fish AI, and destruction lol
@@alexschneider8494 Oh for sure, I won't deny that. MW3 kinda started it and it just started getting worse and worse after BO2. I'll give credit to IW for trying new things at the time, but when you're trying to put up the same mechanics and flashy bits as a franchise that has arguably 'mastered' it (like destruction), it just looked a lil' comical.
I just remember playing face off 3v3 after school all the time with one of my friends who recently passed away and another. Some of the best games of my life that was like our pre cursor to game battles 😂
Man Modern Warfare 3 this and MW2 were two of the greatest games I l’ve ever played they’re such old games now but you can always go back to them and relive it
I love MW3 to death and have fond memories of it. Waking up early on a schoolday to get a few games in before heading off, coming home from school and playing Infected and Ground War almost all day, hearing that my eldest sister pulled multiple all nighters playing her friends, messing around in Spec Ops Survival and crying when Soap died in the campaign. Ah the PS3/360 era of CoD were so much fun, wish we could go back to those days instead of where CoD is right now...
BO1 was my 1st ever COD but I spent 99.9% of the time playing zombies. Very little multiplayer so MW3 was my 1st real multiplayer experience and it’s always a special place to me. I love MW3 a lot. I was only 10 when it came out but I was doing something 😂
Hopefully Ch0pper sees this : One thing to note about the MOAB was that it did give you and i think your team double xp until the game ended. Also Face off was easy to exploit. You and a buddy could do 1v1 or if you had a second controller, 2v2 and just do challenges and get gold camo easy. it was broken. Another thing as well was there was a calling card that literally you could only get if you killed someone wearing that calling card. Mw3 also introduced my favorite game mode Drop Zone. And another few things you forgot to mention was that when you prestiged, you earned tokens and you could spend them however you wanted like double xp or getting a certain calling card or an extra class slot. And i think this was the first cod at add 10 more prestiges later on in the game.
My 1st experience with MW3 was playing it against my friends on ps3 spitscreen for 3/2 Months. That's where most of my nostalgic memories of it come from. After that, I bought the physical copy for my PC and I play it occasionally to this day. The biggest problem I have with it is the dull, gray color scheme that often makes enemies hard to spot.
this game was my childhood. so many good memories playing infected private matches on dome & seatown abusing funny glitches to troll kids lol + ffa last kill trickshot on terminal was so fun besides the prepatch akimbo fm9's being absolutely BUSTED I cared so much about that elite clan bullshit at 13 yrs old it's actually so cringe looking back lol
MW3 was my first COD. I was still young and I didn’t have xbox live yet, so I was only limited to campaign, spec ops, and survival. With that being said I can’t say anything about mp. I had good times on that game regardless of not playing online, I’d just have friends over and do split screen. The campaign is really good and fun through and through. It also had a satisfying ending to me. Survival was really fun too. BO2 was my first time playing multiplayer and I’m glad it was bc that game is the GOAT.
The First COD I ever played was COD 2, but the first COD I owned was MW3, and I still remember it fondly, and honestly would love to play it from time to time, but nowadays it's so expensive to try to get a PS3 Controller and mine broke for not being used for a few years.
multiplayer was undefeated in this game. The amount of content on drop was also at a peak. So many great maps and guns, no dlc/ season drop system needed. Was amazing.
Thank you, sir! This is probably the most fair and balanced critique of MW3 I've seen yet. So many people sing it praises as a perfect 10/10 out of nostalgia, while it definitely has severe problems, especially in the campaign. But calling it outright bad wouldn't be fair either. It's... troubled.
This was my absolute favorite CoDs, there was one kill streak you could get with Specialist that you forgot to add :) loved 1v1,2v2,3v3’s because you could download packs and play certain maps against people instead of having to go to a map you hate.
Starting with the boys on cod 4, and playing everything up to ghosts which we quit. MW3 was such a great multiplayer. Great maps and iconic guns. Played this game every single day. Its a top 5 cod for sure.
It’s pretty insane how despite all the issues behind the scenes and less development time, MW3 still launched with more content than most of the recent cods. Like how is that possible?
"Something something gaming expensive, something something innovation groundbreaking." - AAA publishers after pumping out somewhat functional UI with a game attatched
Mw3 is my favorite modern warfare because of survival mode! That mode is super fun and I remember spending countless hours playing it with my brother after school 💪 good times
MW3 is the reason you have Treyarch fans and infinity ward fans When it came out all of my friends played for like a week or 2 and jumped right back to Black ops cuz we prefered it And it was still heavily active during MW3 life cycle Looking back it wasnt horrible but couldn't compare to BO and later BO2 for a lot of people
Really good break down my dude and I agree with a lot of what you said. I really liked MW3 and miss it more then MW and MW2. My favorite part of the MP was that each class set up could have their own set of streaks either assault,support and specialist. Which you didn't mention lol
28:42 in a similar vein, after playing far too much MW2 multiplayer there was a time when I'd see something, like a bird or a plane, flying by out of the corner of my eye, and my monkey brain would think "enemy AC-130 above!!!" 😅
mw3 is legendary so many memories, prestiging, tokens, double xp , cod elite , all the clant challenges u could do to get the colored clantag, its hella dope
I loved MW3. My love for cod started with cod4 I was 11 when it was released. Cod4, cod5, mw2, Black Ops then finally MW3 was peak childhood memories for me and some of the greatest years of my life. I will honestly always look back on those times with love. Currently saving up for an Xbox series X and the new mw3 after taking a 10+ year break from gaming. Can’t wait to get back online, even if it will never be as good as the “golden era” ❤
I'm not sure if you were aware, but Glen Schofield some years back after exiting Activision put to rest at least some of the speculation about who worked on what on MW3. In an interview (Game Informer magazine? I forget right now, but its something you can Google), he revealed Sledgehammer mostly worked on campaign, with assistance from IW. IW mostly worked on MP, with assistance from Sledge. I mean, Glen didnt go into super detail about it, but gave the gist of which studio worked on what. So maybe that's why you thought MW3 felt different?
I am unaware and I cannot give reliable sources, but I remember reading somewhere that iw worked mainly on campaign and sledgehammer on the mp, in other words the other way around, which makes more sense from some perspective
@@Cutie_Yuri i see, thanks for the info, i always thought it made more sense that IW worked on the campaign since it would be weird to put some other random studio on a in-house story
7:53 Thank you, even you as a youngster capture exactly what i was feeling when i played mw3 for the first time. At first i didnt knew what it was ofcourse, but later discovering what went on in the background, it all made sense. It played and looked different,but it ofcourse also ran on a different engine ofcourse IW 5.0 Still it grew on me eventually, but it was a sad era for IW which lead up to now.
Face off was the peak of cod multiplayer enjoyment for me. Never had such an easy genuine social experience in games like that. Made a lot of friends from that back then and nothing will probably come close to that again because of how the internet and social norms has changed so much
this game gave me my first every day multiplayer gaming experience, my first online friends, my first 1v1s against angry people, my first modded lobbies, etc. it was also the last CoD I played the single player for. I think quality wise BO1 and 2 dumpster it, but, nevertheless, it was a great experience.
As someone who grew up on MW3 I hate when people make it out to be a let down from MW2, it’s story was elite, the multiplayer and maps were elite, and the coop survival mode was elite. 10/10
I've still got the box set that mw3 did, I loved that game, that and mw2 to black ops 1,was the golden age for me and my mates, we got back together for the new mw2, and have never been more disappointed in our cod careers
I swear on 360 I remember seeing at least one million people playing multiplayer the day it launched. I was a freshman in high school and the hype was unbelievable 😂 Whenever I reminisce on that time period I remember all the MLG memes, the Skrillex montages, the conversations my friends and I had, idk how to explain it but it made me feel like apart of something. I’m convinced we broke down so many social barriers because suddenly anyone could be a cool kid if you were decent at quick scoping. I think we’re a year apart in age so I like to believe our experiences are somewhat similar lol
I remember bailing out of MW3 right after i hit second prestige. It was fun for that time but I ended up going back to Black Ops 1, getting hooked on that again and playing that almost exclusively until Black Ops 2 came out
While this game lacked a certain charm, it was very addicting and the change to the weapon levelling system was welcome. The weapon variety was fun to mess around with as while there were the top guns (ACR,MP7) you could still win most fights with skill no matter the weapon. Edit: That little comment about the stealth bomber was hilarious, I found out so early on that advanced uav into stealth bomber was easy 5-6 man kills on a lot of the maps.
The removal of stopping power I personally believe was the end of CoD being balanced. This is where it happened. This is where it started going downhill. It made it so you had to trade something for it. Invisible to radar more damage more health. Choose one. Just like attachements.. you want two attachments? best forgoe your equipment. You dont get that anymore its just have everything and because of things like this nothing is unique or a decision in Modern CoD
This was the best game in the original Modern Warfare trilogy. Best guns and was the most polished. It was definitely an upgrade from MW2 which was also amazing in it's own right
@@sameebe lag comp perks selection was dull which leaded to basically 80% running the same perks annoying death streaks the first cod where meta weapins were constantly used(fmg9 akimbo, acr etc.) bruh what happend to my commando pro perk (my own opinion) But again the biggest was just the horrendous lag comp for most of the players, but we kept up with it because damn who would have thought that the franchise would be butchered 10 years later.
Those breach sections reminds me IW never changes. "People like the Breach and Clear sections? Let's add 30 of 'em!" with MW3 and now "People liked the Clean House mission? Let's make a whole Clean House Campaign!" with MWII
I think what you were going for is that rather than the experience feeling raw, like the studio came up with these on the spot and felt encouraged to add them, it was trying its best to emulate the older games as a different studio who never really had the same experiences with CoD4 and MW2
wow this are some Behind The Scenes Situations on The Call Of Duty World... MW2 was my first first shooter game... so memorable that up to now i still long for that moments... me and my friends always reminisce on it... this what happens... it started to spiral down...
I remember getting a COD ELITE membership all the way up through BO2 then it shutdown before Ghosts. I still have some of the Game Fuel MW3 cans and codes somewhere in my old COD Collection. It was the first cod I bought myself but I started playing COD at COD 2 on PS2.
I always thought Survival could've been IW answer to Zombies. Maybe add some light story to it, maybe add an end goal. Getting boss rounds could've helped as well. But I think it would've been cool to get killstreaks from MP in Survival. Maybe even add on to the killstreaks since it would no longer be bound to a need to be balanced. Imagine something like Ghost's field streak. Hated it in MP. But I think in a PVE setting. It could've been great. Especially as a way to introduce map specific killstreaks.
Survival mode is the reason that MW3 is my favorite cod. It was my first as well aside from playing the map moon at a friend's house. I know there is nostalgia going through my head but I really do feel that the multiplayer was the most fun I ever had in a cod. Nothing truly compares to the feel of this game since, In my eyes. Except black ops 2 or even 1
A hit title gives you the structure to create a successful sequel with a lot of room for improvement. The 3rd version is usually just fine tuning the 2nd game with limited updates, ie the “don’t fix what isn’t broke” mentality.
MW3 was my first cod I played MP on, I had played the campgains for mw1 and 2 before hand before I had internet then when I moved and got internet mw3 came out, loved it so much, one of the best cods of all time still to this day in my opinion
I appreciate your work as a RUclipsr and how much detail you put into these videos. I find it very interesting how different we are though. Like you dislike how they didn’t reinvent the wheel, but rather just made it better. I think that’s a great idea, fix what’s broken and keep the great parts. You dislike the MOAB system. I thought it was amazing you could stack MOABs, or keep playing a game you’re killing it in. I hated how a MOAB would end a game because I would want to keep killing. And yeah you get more kills with a chopper gunner, but a MOAB is a free kill streak like you said. And leaving the map grainy is awesome. I just remember going on RUclips and watching people stack MOABs and it was great. Especially when more than one player had one, you wouldn’t need to worry about the game ending.
Looking forward to the Black Ops Cold War retrospective. Probably my favorite COD in the last 5 years. Still play it from time to time and it's always fun!
Ever play style in mw3 was valuable to me whether you want the camp, rush or use a shotgun or submachine gun, everything was valuable. That's why it was fun for me
My first COD i bought myself after I could try it out beforehand at a friend, playing turns each wave through nights. After that, online co-op was possible. Good times
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MW3, while not perfect, I have a deep love for. I remember running home from school every day and playing search and destroy late into the night with my friends. So many laughs, rage, and tears. Something that I’ll never forget and always hold dear in my heart. If I could go back, even for a day, I’d do so in a heartbeat.
same but it was after my day of work, we were playing all night with my irl friends (I even got fired because I was always late at work😅).
Still to this day I remember when they previewed the “Black Tuesday” Mission. Still gives me goosebumps to this day man
Looks perfect compared to mw2 vanguard , Cold War
You still can :) You can find lobbies on Steam PC to this day
Tears? Did you rage that badly?
MW3 after school online with all your friends was peak childhood
Mw2 and waw after school was peak childhood imo but I might be a bit older than you so my childhood games were different from yours
Me and my best friend used to run 2v2s four hours
@@Rheper. born to late to settle the west, born to early to explore the stars, but we were born at the perfect time for peak online gaming.
After playing COD4 in game caffes with friends, this was my first COD I played on my PC. I loved it and since I haven't played MW2, I can't quite see things from the same angle. I love this game.
Tbh MW3 remains my favorite Modern Warfare COD, and is one of my favorite games of all time. I just love how it went all in on the WW3 aspect with setpieces like the New York battle and the invasion of Germany, while also concluding the OG series with a bang. It really did feel like the peak of the franchise and probably will be until the final game in the new trilogy.
For real! The campaign was a cinematic masterpiece
A lot of the stuff he said was filler was phenomenal imo I loved this story it's up their with bo 1 for me
Was it the first game you played? Because mw3 campaign, while good, is the weakest of the trilogy by a wide margin
@@RegularFlyGuy Nope. I played the others and they were great. And no MW3 wasn't the weakest campaign at all. All the campaigns are masterpieces that complement each other very well tbh.
I feel that. Campaign is really great for the most part, Spec Ops and Survival are amazing and the MP was fun if unbalanced sometimes.
Bro this to this day is still my favorite COD I had soooo many good memories on MW3
Dam right
It is my favorite too, but not because of the memories, but for the balance and content
AGREED
Same
Even better than bo2?
It's a bit of a shame that we never got to see what the OG Infinity Ward had in mind for the campaign and MP for MW3, I get the feeling it would be very different
I always thought about that. It sucks 😕 they made the goat cods imo (mw2, cod 4)
But at least mw3 was still a lot of fun
Modern warfare 3 wasnt a victim of sabatoge. It was collateral damage from activision's mistreatment of their employees.
Yea Activision is well known for mistreating employees and basically lying to them about pay increases depending on how well a game does. I don’t blame them for using their blue chip to force Activision into higher pay.
Right? Like what a small dick take saying workers fighting for their rights is sabotage
People always say the score streak system was the best but I think the point streak was the best system. It was way more easier to understand and still rewarded people playing the objective
I liked the way some of the spec ops missions continued certain side stories from the campaign
Arguably the worst part about MW3 is we didn't get to burn down Moscow in one of the last missions, which was teased in MW2. Smh
But the russian government werent involved in the war, it was ultranationalists. Basically well funded terrorists. We literally save the russian president in the campaign
Realistic the US would never go to moscow
@@g3tshotheett Bro, if that's the logic, Russia would never even THINK to invade the US. They'd send Nukes or we'd be fighting proxy wars cause the logistics to invade a continent where you have no allies is astronomically unrealistic.
@@g3tshotheettthe game looks like a Michael bay movie. It was never realistic
@@chandler2 There would be a thousand red dawns in every state. Crips and bloods would be shooting at paratroopers. Every liquored up hillbilly with a shotgun would be skeet shooting drones. Latino laborers would be booby trapping the roads. It would be a fucking nightmare to invade Florida alone much less the entire country.
With Modern Warfare 3 having so many development issues, it’s strange if turned out 100 times better than Modern Warfare ll
I wouldn’t say it’s 100 times better, but it definitely improved on what MW2 was lacking, and proved to be a great sequel.
I was talking about this years modern warfare I’d say mw2(original) and mw3 are on par with each other, it’s about preference which one you perfer
Games are much larger and more complicated now
@@thegreenpatriot8896 but MWll strays far away from the regular cod formula instead of taking MW19 and improving on what people didn’t like
@@user-ll8ht1ug3bnot really, og MW2 was one of the most slandered video games on the internet at the time of its release, not alot kids know this about the "good ol days" but even back then the devs still got shat on constantly by angry gamers
Take me back so many memories playing this game
MW3 integrated Specialist, Gun proficiencies, new attachments, has the most maps and guns at launch. It thankfully didn’t have Danger close, Stopping power, or as many glitches. Maps were good and bad like any other and the color palette was slightly better in MW2 but MW3 wasn’t bad. The campaign wasn’t bad in MW3 either. It stayed true and finished the trilogy.
5:15 actually, according to ex devs, Activision is the one who started the nonsense.
Bobby wanted Vince and West gone, they even had a plan at Activision called “operation icebreaker” to force them into a position where they could be fired.
11:00 Hanz Zimmer just composed the main theme of mw2. Not the OST
27:40 it’s definitely not “objectively the best quality one” lol I still think Cod4 was higher quality and more deeply thought-out
MW3 will always be a top 3 cod for me. i miss when it was simple and you could throw on ur two attachments that was the same exact for everyone. now you have to kit ur weapon out with so many attachments and make things work out
I wish we could see just how different MW3 would've been under the original IW devs who left
I’d probably be calling it my favourite CoD.
But MW2/BO1 both combined hold that crown. Two very different feels to them but I loved them games so much and I couldn’t decide which one I prefer.
MW2 for the CHAOS.
BO1 for the calmer steadier gameplay
@@FeedmRicenot to mention bo1s campaign
modern warfare 3 was the first cod I ever owned when my uncle got it for me for Christmas when I got a ps3 the same Christmas. it will always hold a special place in my heart and I never put more time into a cod until MW 2019 I will always defend MW3 and will say it is my favorite even if its thanks to nostalgia and has some problems i choose to ignore. love the videos keep making these!!!
I was also a Christmas noob but for me it was cod 4
@@frogfromtwitch COD4 is the best:'))
Whats good about mw19 besides the campaign and graphics?
@@lawrencemorris2261the reworked movement system and the factions for each team, at least for the first few seasons.
I loved MW3. So many great maps, AWESOME DLC maps, the Faceoff mode was incredible with it's own fun maps. This to me is the last COD that I fully enjoyed.
Nah. maps were not as good. Maybe just hardhat.
Easily in my top 5 CoD games of all time. Back then, I never understood all of the hate that the game had. I thoroughly enjoyed all of it, even the co-op missions that were so-so.
It’s because it came out the same year as Battlefield 3.. and even if you were a CoD fan who enjoyed MW3 when it came out I feel like you were lying to yourself if you didn’t recognize how inferior of a game it was to it’s Battlefield counterpart. I remember clowning on Call of Duty and all the videos making comparisons between BF and CoD around this time because of how linear the gameplay was and the outdated graphics.
@@alexschneider8494 I always saw 2011 as the year of complete juggernauts in the gaming industry. We got MW3, BF3, Dead Space 2, and so many more games. As a kid/teenager, I put in countless hours into both BF3 AND MW3. Of course, the graphics didn't even compare to BF3 with the Frostbite engine, but 12-year old me didn't care about that so long as the games were awesome and I had friends to play with.
@@Dusty_CA Yeah, I played both. I just remember specifically this being around the time when the narrative about Call of Duty copy and pasting the same game every year came about. It wasn’t completely wrong though, MW3 was essentially a slight reskin of MW2. The sentiment in the gaming community that Call of Duty was inferior to Battlefield started with Battlefield 3 and continued up until Battlefield V’s release. I remember meme videos popping up comparing Battlefield 4 to Call of Duty Ghosts when both were coming out and people were making fun of the Ghosts’ dog model, fish AI, and destruction lol
@@alexschneider8494 Oh for sure, I won't deny that. MW3 kinda started it and it just started getting worse and worse after BO2. I'll give credit to IW for trying new things at the time, but when you're trying to put up the same mechanics and flashy bits as a franchise that has arguably 'mastered' it (like destruction), it just looked a lil' comical.
@@Dusty_CADon’t forget Arkham City and Dark Souls.
I just remember playing face off 3v3 after school all the time with one of my friends who recently passed away and another. Some of the best games of my life that was like our pre cursor to game battles 😂
It may be bad when they were developing it, but it is thousands of times better then what we have after ghosts
This game was actually peak, on cod4 levels. I may die with this statement
Man Modern Warfare 3 this and MW2 were two of the greatest games I l’ve ever played they’re such old games now but you can always go back to them and relive it
The Specialist top tier streak reward with pro unlocks was such a beastly thing to have.
A walking ninja AA tank
I love MW3 to death and have fond memories of it. Waking up early on a schoolday to get a few games in before heading off, coming home from school and playing Infected and Ground War almost all day, hearing that my eldest sister pulled multiple all nighters playing her friends, messing around in Spec Ops Survival and crying when Soap died in the campaign. Ah the PS3/360 era of CoD were so much fun, wish we could go back to those days instead of where CoD is right now...
BO1 was my 1st ever COD but I spent 99.9% of the time playing zombies. Very little multiplayer so MW3 was my 1st real multiplayer experience and it’s always a special place to me. I love MW3 a lot. I was only 10 when it came out but I was doing something 😂
MW3 and BO2 are still my favorite CODs. I miss MW3 heavily and would love to revisit a very alive MW3
Chop easily your retrospectives on past CODs have been both so entertaining and well put together. Absolutely amazing vids !!
i want to go back and play this game so bad. last game before all the intentional over the top visual recoil. it played sooooo smooth
There is. Use Plutonium and follow the instructions to set it up, then play.
is that for pc or @@mercenarydelta7351
What are you talking about? Older cods had more visual recoil and flinch lmao.
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Damn I never knew that Knuckles the Echidna was a soldier in World War 3 before joining his tribe, mad respect tbh
Hopefully Ch0pper sees this :
One thing to note about the MOAB was that it did give you and i think your team double xp until the game ended. Also Face off was easy to exploit. You and a buddy could do 1v1 or if you had a second controller, 2v2 and just do challenges and get gold camo easy. it was broken. Another thing as well was there was a calling card that literally you could only get if you killed someone wearing that calling card. Mw3 also introduced my favorite game mode Drop Zone. And another few things you forgot to mention was that when you prestiged, you earned tokens and you could spend them however you wanted like double xp or getting a certain calling card or an extra class slot. And i think this was the first cod at add 10 more prestiges later on in the game.
This just gave me so much nostalgia man 😭 drop zone was so much fun as a kid
Drop zone was the OG hardpoint
I did the prestige token glitch and unlocked 200 days of double xp 😂
@@ClassicCOD I think I did too 😂
Also the M.O.A.B. permanently EMP'd the enemy team and they didn't have a minimap or be able to call in streaks.
My 1st experience with MW3 was playing it against my friends on ps3 spitscreen for 3/2 Months. That's where most of my nostalgic memories of it come from.
After that, I bought the physical copy for my PC and I play it occasionally to this day. The biggest problem I have with it is the dull, gray color scheme that often makes enemies hard to spot.
Turn up digital vibrance.
My favorite part of the game is where “Makarov blows.” It was a story beat I was not ready.
One of my biggest issues with MW3 multi-player was the locking off of third person to just split-screen.
this game was my childhood. so many good memories playing infected private matches on dome & seatown abusing funny glitches to troll kids lol + ffa last kill trickshot on terminal was so fun besides the prepatch akimbo fm9's being absolutely BUSTED
I cared so much about that elite clan bullshit at 13 yrs old it's actually so cringe looking back lol
Multiplayer Gameplay wise this was my favorite in the series hands down, still pop back to play it every now and then
The trilogy for me after school was MW2,BO1 and MW3. It was peak childhood
MW3 was my first COD. I was still young and I didn’t have xbox live yet, so I was only limited to campaign, spec ops, and survival. With that being said I can’t say anything about mp. I had good times on that game regardless of not playing online, I’d just have friends over and do split screen. The campaign is really good and fun through and through. It also had a satisfying ending to me. Survival was really fun too. BO2 was my first time playing multiplayer and I’m glad it was bc that game is the GOAT.
MW3 better on multiplayer
@@bperez003nah mw3 camping is OD
The First COD I ever played was COD 2, but the first COD I owned was MW3, and I still remember it fondly, and honestly would love to play it from time to time, but nowadays it's so expensive to try to get a PS3 Controller and mine broke for not being used for a few years.
multiplayer was undefeated in this game. The amount of content on drop was also at a peak. So many great maps and guns, no dlc/ season drop system needed. Was amazing.
I came back to these old videos sense the new MW3 (2023) just started (beta) i gotta compare this game to the new one
Thank you, sir! This is probably the most fair and balanced critique of MW3 I've seen yet. So many people sing it praises as a perfect 10/10 out of nostalgia, while it definitely has severe problems, especially in the campaign. But calling it outright bad wouldn't be fair either. It's... troubled.
This was my absolute favorite CoDs, there was one kill streak you could get with Specialist that you forgot to add :) loved 1v1,2v2,3v3’s because you could download packs and play certain maps against people instead of having to go to a map you hate.
First game I had on my Alienware laptop. This game gave me such chills. I loved the trailers this game was fucking peak high-school for me.
Starting with the boys on cod 4, and playing everything up to ghosts which we quit. MW3 was such a great multiplayer. Great maps and iconic guns. Played this game every single day. Its a top 5 cod for sure.
It’s pretty insane how despite all the issues behind the scenes and less development time, MW3 still launched with more content than most of the recent cods. Like how is that possible?
"Something something gaming expensive, something something innovation groundbreaking." - AAA publishers after pumping out somewhat functional UI with a game attatched
Mw3 is my favorite modern warfare because of survival mode! That mode is super fun and I remember spending countless hours playing it with my brother after school 💪 good times
Such an underrated game
This is my favorite call of duty of all time this has so much going for it so many maps modes they improved from Mw2 I still play this all the time.
Agreed man! Going back to this the most, meaning, i also play it a lot for some hours still
MW3 is the reason you have Treyarch fans and infinity ward fans
When it came out all of my friends played for like a week or 2 and jumped right back to Black ops cuz we prefered it
And it was still heavily active during MW3 life cycle
Looking back it wasnt horrible but couldn't compare to BO and later BO2 for a lot of people
Really good break down my dude and I agree with a lot of what you said. I really liked MW3 and miss it more then MW and MW2. My favorite part of the MP was that each class set up could have their own set of streaks either assault,support and specialist. Which you didn't mention lol
28:42 in a similar vein, after playing far too much MW2 multiplayer there was a time when I'd see something, like a bird or a plane, flying by out of the corner of my eye, and my monkey brain would think "enemy AC-130 above!!!" 😅
mw3 is legendary so many memories, prestiging, tokens, double xp , cod elite , all the clant challenges u could do to get the colored clantag, its hella dope
The moab also EMP'd the enemy team for a certain time and also gave you and your team double XP for that match
The weapon proficiencies and simplistic weapon building were far better then the 100s of random attachments that barley do anything in gunsmith now
I loved MW3. My love for cod started with cod4 I was 11 when it was released. Cod4, cod5, mw2, Black Ops then finally MW3 was peak childhood memories for me and some of the greatest years of my life. I will honestly always look back on those times with love. Currently saving up for an Xbox series X and the new mw3 after taking a 10+ year break from gaming. Can’t wait to get back online, even if it will never be as good as the “golden era” ❤
I'm not sure if you were aware, but Glen Schofield some years back after exiting Activision put to rest at least some of the speculation about who worked on what on MW3.
In an interview (Game Informer magazine? I forget right now, but its something you can Google), he revealed Sledgehammer mostly worked on campaign, with assistance from IW. IW mostly worked on MP, with assistance from Sledge. I mean, Glen didnt go into super detail about it, but gave the gist of which studio worked on what. So maybe that's why you thought MW3 felt different?
I am unaware and I cannot give reliable sources, but I remember reading somewhere that iw worked mainly on campaign and sledgehammer on the mp, in other words the other way around, which makes more sense from some perspective
@Alcerix Xia It was Sledge did SP, IW did MP, per Glen Schofield, it was still a collaboration
ruclips.net/video/oJrwtp8CTeg/видео.html
@@Cutie_Yuri i see, thanks for the info, i always thought it made more sense that IW worked on the campaign since it would be weird to put some other random studio on a in-house story
Coming back to this after we’re supposedly getting MWIII (save us Treyarch)
7:53
Thank you, even you as a youngster capture exactly what i was feeling when i played mw3 for the first time.
At first i didnt knew what it was ofcourse, but later discovering what went on in the background, it all made sense.
It played and looked different,but it ofcourse also ran on a different engine ofcourse IW 5.0
Still it grew on me eventually, but it was a sad era for IW which lead up to now.
this was by far my favourite cod out of all of them
THE ACR AND MP7 and most snipers felt sooooooo good
Face off was the peak of cod multiplayer enjoyment for me. Never had such an easy genuine social experience in games like that. Made a lot of friends from that back then and nothing will probably come close to that again because of how the internet and social norms has changed so much
this game gave me my first every day multiplayer gaming experience, my first online friends, my first 1v1s against angry people, my first modded lobbies, etc. it was also the last CoD I played the single player for. I think quality wise BO1 and 2 dumpster it, but, nevertheless, it was a great experience.
As someone who grew up on MW3 I hate when people make it out to be a let down from MW2, it’s story was elite, the multiplayer and maps were elite, and the coop survival mode was elite. 10/10
Haha me too man, its basically personal preferences and which one you played first
Both 10/10 games, but im with you man, MW3 is my favorite too
I agree it's the better than MW2.
Lol yes I agree fully here.
I've still got the box set that mw3 did, I loved that game, that and mw2 to black ops 1,was the golden age for me and my mates, we got back together for the new mw2, and have never been more disappointed in our cod careers
i dont know if i really miss being young back when mw3 came out or the game and its very strange choices
I swear on 360 I remember seeing at least one million people playing multiplayer the day it launched. I was a freshman in high school and the hype was unbelievable 😂 Whenever I reminisce on that time period I remember all the MLG memes, the Skrillex montages, the conversations my friends and I had, idk how to explain it but it made me feel like apart of something. I’m convinced we broke down so many social barriers because suddenly anyone could be a cool kid if you were decent at quick scoping. I think we’re a year apart in age so I like to believe our experiences are somewhat similar lol
I remember bailing out of MW3 right after i hit second prestige. It was fun for that time but I ended up going back to Black Ops 1, getting hooked on that again and playing that almost exclusively until Black Ops 2 came out
Mw3 will always be my favorite. Campaign was fun. Online was epic. And when my internet wasn’t working right lan spec ops with my friend was perfect.
While this game lacked a certain charm, it was very addicting and the change to the weapon levelling system was welcome. The weapon variety was fun to mess around with as while there were the top guns (ACR,MP7) you could still win most fights with skill no matter the weapon.
Edit: That little comment about the stealth bomber was hilarious, I found out so early on that advanced uav into stealth bomber was easy 5-6 man kills on a lot of the maps.
The delta force in this game is my all time favorite group of guys they had a lot of personality and are extremely underrated
Wish we can see the original MW3 not this altenate MW3 where the important person who in Charge leave the company
The removal of stopping power I personally believe was the end of CoD being balanced. This is where it happened. This is where it started going downhill. It made it so you had to trade something for it. Invisible to radar more damage more health. Choose one. Just like attachements.. you want two attachments? best forgoe your equipment. You dont get that anymore its just have everything and because of things like this nothing is unique or a decision in Modern CoD
This was the best game in the original Modern Warfare trilogy. Best guns and was the most polished. It was definitely an upgrade from MW2 which was also amazing in it's own right
Be careful, the MW and MW2 meat riders are coming for you
@@AceShadowbloodcivic never been afraid of them lol. They do be meat riding tho
Big fax bro even as a kid playin this game I never understood why ppl hated on this game so much. So many memories man 😭🫡
@@Talons97 u was ahead of ur time mane 😂🫡
@@sameebe lag comp
perks selection was dull which leaded to basically 80% running the same perks
annoying death streaks
the first cod where meta weapins were constantly used(fmg9 akimbo, acr etc.)
bruh what happend to my commando pro perk (my own opinion)
But again the biggest was just the horrendous lag comp for most of the players, but we kept up with it because damn who would have thought that the franchise would be butchered 10 years later.
Those breach sections reminds me IW never changes. "People like the Breach and Clear sections? Let's add 30 of 'em!" with MW3 and now "People liked the Clean House mission? Let's make a whole Clean House Campaign!" with MWII
Oh god that Kitchen corner on Resistance, so many memories just came flooding in
I think what you were going for is that rather than the experience feeling raw, like the studio came up with these on the spot and felt encouraged to add them, it was trying its best to emulate the older games as a different studio who never really had the same experiences with CoD4 and MW2
wow this are some Behind The Scenes Situations
on The Call Of Duty World...
MW2 was my first first shooter game...
so memorable that up to now i still long for that moments... me and my friends always reminisce
on it...
this what happens... it started to spiral down...
I remember getting a COD ELITE membership all the way up through BO2 then it shutdown before Ghosts. I still have some of the Game Fuel MW3 cans and codes somewhere in my old COD Collection. It was the first cod I bought myself but I started playing COD at COD 2 on PS2.
I didn't like how mw3 looked during it's prime but now looking back it aged well. Compare mw3 to black ops 1, it looks amazing.
I always thought Survival could've been IW answer to Zombies. Maybe add some light story to it, maybe add an end goal. Getting boss rounds could've helped as well. But I think it would've been cool to get killstreaks from MP in Survival. Maybe even add on to the killstreaks since it would no longer be bound to a need to be balanced. Imagine something like Ghost's field streak. Hated it in MP. But I think in a PVE setting. It could've been great. Especially as a way to introduce map specific killstreaks.
Survival mode is the reason that MW3 is my favorite cod. It was my first as well aside from playing the map moon at a friend's house. I know there is nostalgia going through my head but I really do feel that the multiplayer was the most fun I ever had in a cod. Nothing truly compares to the feel of this game since, In my eyes. Except black ops 2 or even 1
I have waited so long for this video !
I miss this title and emblem system. Also this prestige system was exactly everything we can need. Good times with this one.
A hit title gives you the structure to create a successful sequel with a lot of room for improvement. The 3rd version is usually just fine tuning the 2nd game with limited updates, ie the “don’t fix what isn’t broke” mentality.
I absolutely loved the fact that you mentioned Santa Clarita Diet, cause I had the exact same experience when seeing this voice acting session video
MW3 was my first cod I played MP on, I had played the campgains for mw1 and 2 before hand before I had internet then when I moved and got internet mw3 came out, loved it so much, one of the best cods of all time still to this day in my opinion
I appreciate your work as a RUclipsr and how much detail you put into these videos. I find it very interesting how different we are though. Like you dislike how they didn’t reinvent the wheel, but rather just made it better. I think that’s a great idea, fix what’s broken and keep the great parts. You dislike the MOAB system. I thought it was amazing you could stack MOABs, or keep playing a game you’re killing it in. I hated how a MOAB would end a game because I would want to keep killing. And yeah you get more kills with a chopper gunner, but a MOAB is a free kill streak like you said. And leaving the map grainy is awesome. I just remember going on RUclips and watching people stack MOABs and it was great. Especially when more than one player had one, you wouldn’t need to worry about the game ending.
The good old days of no terrible SBMM system. CoD matches nowadays feel manipulated and fake.
It was a good time when I was 12, would play this mp, and if I wanted to play zombies, pop in Bo1. Best weekends ever
@21:35 Lol 8/10
That's a tough gag to pull off, but it's a Goldie. Keep it up!
It's all in the delivery.
My favorite parts of these videos are all the cuts to the awkward ass interviews with devs/voice actors. Shit always kills me 😂
I always felt like Mw3 was just a watered down version of Mw2 but it was still good on its own.
Bruh I actually was eating a burger when you asked to put down a burger and subscribe …. Thought you were talking directly to me.
Mw3 probably would have been better if they had set up two storylines. One chasing down makarov and another with a new villain being set up.
Looking forward to the Black Ops Cold War retrospective. Probably my favorite COD in the last 5 years. Still play it from time to time and it's always fun!
For me and my friends, we remembered MW3 being more fun than MW2 and played it much more
I don't know about more fun but I played it more in it's prime than I played modern warfare 2
Ever play style in mw3 was valuable to me whether you want the camp, rush or use a shotgun or submachine gun, everything was valuable. That's why it was fun for me
13:54, the mom would reappear as one of the default faces in ghosts MP.
Also MW3 was my first CoD.
Your Ad at 11:25 was genius. Love it
My first COD i bought myself after I could try it out beforehand at a friend, playing turns each wave through nights. After that, online co-op was possible. Good times