Let's compare Modern Warfare 3 2023's MP trailer with Modern Warfare 3 2011's MP trailer

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I'm tempted to leave it at the headline and direct you to the comments - it's after five, you know, I'm usually in the bath by now - but I'm supposed to be some kind of "professional writer", so I guess I'll waffle for a few paragraphs. Activision have put up a trailer for nu-Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's multiplayer, ahead of a full live reveal at the Call of Duty: Next event on 5th October. I caught the news on a social feed somewhere, went hunting for the Youtube version and, much to my distress, managed to dig up the multiplayer premiere for the original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, released in 2011 - almost 12 years ago.

Rather than just posting the correct video and going off to cry about my advancing seniority, I'm brazenly posting both so you can trace the evolution (or not) of this shootiest of first-person shooter franchises. It's bizarre to think of any game series being this venerable, and changing so much while remaining the same.

What do the two videos share? Well, both are hectic montages of player characters galloping through multiplayer maps, with bombs and bullets popping off all over in a manner that is more Naked Gun than Black Hawk Down. Both emphasise the game's massive spread of weapons, perks, modes and streak rewards. Both throw around slow-mo like it's going out of fashion.

The obvious big difference is tone. For Modern Warfare 3: 2011 Edition, war is a serious business, however gadget-laden. It is about faces creased by desperation, sobering orchestral motifs and people howling "Contact!" like King Lear re-entering the stage carrying the dead Cordelia, except that instead of the dead Cordelia, King Lear is packing throwing knives and a Dragunov with variable scope zoom. The