Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 review – Not a total misfire

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Any fan of the Call of Duty franchise will tell you that the conversation around this year's new entry, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, has not been positive for the most part.

Reports that MW3 was originally planned as a DLC for MW2, only to be changed into a full-price release midway through production, certainly started things off on a sour note. Nobody likes to be charged more than they were initially expecting, do they?

What didn't help matters is that MW3's single-player campaign, which released earlier than the multiplayer modes for players that pre-ordered the game, marked a stark change from what fans have come to expect. While there were some traditional linear levels, there were also 'open' missions that looked more like Warzone maps with a few objectives dotted about.

Again, this pre-announced feature would've put a sour taste in the mouth of traditional CoD campaign fans before they'd even completed the game's sizeable install and started playing. So, surely the game is a total car crash and not something we'd recommend at all? If that kind of takedown is what you've been expecting to read here, you'd actually be wrong!

That's right, folks. We're here to provide one of the more positive and optimistic MW3 reviews, as we've actually had a pretty good time with it so far. Sure, it still stings that this could've been a more affordable DLC as opposed to a £60 investment, but reports of this being a terrible game are way wide of the mark.

Even the campaign, which received most of the ire we've seen, is better than you might expect. The graphics are top-notch, some of the level design is really fun (the very first level has a great segment where you descend through a prison and wipe out foes on every floor, for