‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III’ tries something new: Player freedom

The story mode of video game “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” will offer choices never seen before in past campaigns.

[spicelicka]

Choose whether to pay respects or not

[jjb1981]

F

[PunksOnN4G]

They just purring everyrthing on the warzone map that's why single player is now some open world BS this game is legit DLC

[Profchaos]

F

I'll miss you properly structured single player campaign and the conclusion of the new mw story arc.

I'm one of the few who actually enjoy cod campaigns so gives me one less reason to buy this DLC

To me the cod campaigns represent the junk food guilty pleasure of gaming put a campaign on get pushed from waypoint to waypoint enjoy the story while blowing everything up it's a nice contrast to solving puzzles in Zelda or carefully planning my inventory in something like fallout it's just shoot shooty bang bang for 6 hours and a reason to simply turn your brain off like a Michael bay movie

[KeeseToast]

Agreed. Not every game needs open levels with optional objectives.
In this day and age the "CoD rollercoaster" campaign became quite unique compared to most game releases.

[RaidenBlack]

Agree with the typical CoD campaign offering part ... CoD campaigns are my guily pleasure as well
Though I am not fan of the decision of labelling an MWII DLC as 'MWIII', instead of releasing MWIII as proper future standalone game ... I am slightly curious what they're doing with this campaign
Black Ops II & Infinite Warfare campaigns also had some varied choices ... but this 'MWIII' one might be far more wide open.
So, lets wait n see
But 70 bucks for a DLC is not a good idea

[senorfartcushion]

Yes. Linear games have always been short, fun puzzle games. To solve again and again to get used to the systems and player count. It's really irritating how linear has become a bad word amongst both critics and publishers.

Linear games are fun. Their scopes feel bigger because you get more than one location per game, unlike an open world, and the graphics in each level are better than in large open worlds. The Devs have to make more varied assets too. This is bad news for me as a Cod fan.

[P_Bomb]

“t's really irritating how linear has become a bad word amongst both critics and publishers.”

Yes. This 👆

[Chard]

To this day I haven't succeeded in Mile High Club on Veteran

[oof46]

I'll see it when I believe it.

[ModsDoBetter]

We'll see, ever since Warzone launched, thats been their focus with MP and SP being an afterthought.

That being said, the MW2 campaign was great with incredible graphics and voice acting.

Just a shame the store is full of nonsense like Snoop Dogg, Nicki Minaj, footballers, TV Show characters, literal cats and rats.

[Ashunderfire86]

Wait didn’t they do this in Black Ops 2 and Cold War?

[senorfartcushion]

Yep

[Ashunderfire86]

Yea those 2 games had different decision making what this article is talking about? Most ridiculous statement since Cod developer saying, "Fish move out of the way when it swims next to you." Then we saw Mario 64 doing the same thing decades ago! Buzz words!!!!

[Muigi]

New is a stretch.

[senorfartcushion]

Does that mean open world or what? Cold War let you have story choices in-game.

[Ashunderfire86]

No just an open linear level similar to Crysis, and even the classic Splinter Cell series that different paths in some of it's games. I think choice based gaming is now the standard for many games! Even Armored Core 6 is doing this! Plus Remnant 2 is all about that with procedural generation levels, and character decisions.

[EazyC]

I've always preferred linear games with multiple paths -- Splinter Cell and the older MGS games did this with style.

As others mention, this seems like they're just flatly making Warzone assets first and foremost.

[Ashunderfire86]

Yea Splinter Cell had a crazy sequence where I had to decide if I should go to an elevator to kill this female terrorist, and her thugs, or do something else. Man I wish A Plague Tale Requiem was all about decisioning making as well, but they leave that sad decision at the end! But there are multiple paths to get to the same end point though.

[LordoftheCritics]

Activision: Just design anything and label it as ''player freedom''

Boom rich!!!

[jjb1981]

I feel like they're just gonna use the Warzone map, make narrative campaign for it and call it player freedom. Get from one side of the map to the other.

[LordoftheCritics]

That is exactly what I'm expecting.

[Smok91]

Player Freedom…I wonder how much extra that costs.

[Ninver]

You have the freedom to empty your wallet for pay to win dlc

[rgraf77]

Damn, even Call of Duty is turning into a boring open world game. wow

[gold_drake]

please no more open world bs.