In this case, that's fine, since the single player campaign is so engrossing and well made. The single player game is also very long, which seems to be a trend these days. And of course the endless enemy respawns if you don't always plow ahead. Hm.) Trucks that drive by you when you hide, and then you stand up to see that the route they drove is in fact blocked so they must have disappeared into thin air. Some sequences are perhaps overly familiar, including a sneak through an African village that long-time MW fans will recognize as a homage of sorts to the ghillie suit routine in the first Modern Warfare. (Check out my Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 screenshot gallery for some exciting imagery from the game.) And then the plane breaks apart mid-battle and crashes with you in it. An airplane hijacking where pressure is lost, and you shoot opponents while floating weightless amid flotsam. A crazy fall down a mountain while buildings collapse around you, culminating in a fall into a river. The set pieces in this game are incredible and come at you again, and again, and again. And then the action moves to London, Paris, Prague, and Berlin. Even in the single player game, which many hardcore gamers simply ignore for the longer-lasting multiplayer experience, the stakes are higher, the game is better, and the drama feels, well, real. In BF3, you're fighting what amounts to World War III, too, sure, but it's mostly happening in Iran, and where's the drama in that? With MW3, the Russians have invaded the United States and are actually winning as the game starts, having destroyed Washington D.C. What the heck, I'll take it even further. Both were eagerly anticipated, but only MW3 makes me want to keep playing past the point where it doesn't even make sense anymore. And if you're looking for the real difference between the lackluster but professionally made Battlefield 3 and the exhilarating and just perfectly honed MW3, there it is. I stayed up through the night, first to purchase Modern Warfare 3 at a local Best Buy's midnight opening, waited in line for over an hour, and then played both the single player and multiplayer experiences until after 4 am. When this happened, it was 3:30 am on the morning that MW3 was released. And by the time it was over, I was grinning like a madman and enjoying every second of it.
But it was superior in every way imaginable to anything in that other game.
It's a beautiful, heavily scripted, and cinematic experience similar to those found in the recently-released Battlefield 3.
For example, there's a sequence near the beginning of the Modern Warfare 3 single player campaign in which you charge through a building in a besieged, World War III-era New York skyscraper, attack the enemies on the rooftops, use remote controlled predator drones to attack those on other rooftops, and then engage in a crazy, between-the-buildings helicopter dogfight.
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