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This is an article about how Black Ops is better than Modern Warfare 3, this is written by Kent Sobey. In this article he explain why Black Ops is better than Modern Warfare 3, he expresses his opinions about the game. I disagree on what he says but everyone has their opinions.




Stop and listen!
The first point I want to make is that this is just a comparison of the multiplayer modes and not the game as a whole because MW3 would win hands down if we included the single player.

It was damn near flawless so I’m not going to include that. (Ed: Some would argue with that…

When I first started playing MW3 online I was struck by how similar it is to MW2 in its look and feel. It’s almost identical.
Then it occurred to me that Infinity Ward was making a sequel to their previous installment in the franchise and not the last one I had purchased.

I know this may seem like a really stupid point but I think it’s important to remember. To the consumer MW3 is a sequel to Black Ops and not MW2 in terms of the order in which we played them.
What does this really mean? Well to me it means that they can’t remove features that Blacks Ops added which we all started to love – like the dive for example.

A small thing that shouldn’t really make that much difference but I was really annoyed when I first tried to dive and just ended up lying down rather rapidly. Why would you remove that, I need to get away from a chopper!
Despite being a little irritated by that, I could move on because let’s face it; it’s not the end of the world. But then, while I was running on a seemingly clear path, I got stuck on nothing. You would think that the fighting men of the world would be able to hop over a small ledge of 1 foot or a little gravel on the ground, but alas, they can’t.

Among other things…
To put it bluntly, the multiplayer maps in MW3 are rubbish. (Ed.: I love Seatown!!!)

There’s too much clutter and not enough symmetry. Not only that, but they encourage campers with a hideout in every corner and have pieces of nothing that I seem to get stuck on regularly.

The Black Ops maps were far from perfect, I’ll admit but I would pick them over these any day.

If you want to run and gun you better be amazing at the game because there will be someone hiding behind a door somewhere ready to end your MOAB streak with a shot gun prepped.

There’s nothing wrong with stopping and guarding a room for a few minutes but when you lay prone with your sight zoomed on the door and can get away with it 35 times there’s something wrong with the map.

There should always be a way to deal with that like a grenade through a window, or a back entrance but they didn’t seem to think about that much at all.

I must stop here and add that although I find many things about Modern Warfare 3 very annoying, I still love it and think there have been some amazing innovations that have come with it.

I just feel that they have lost all the good stuff that came with Black Ops to make way for the ‘new’ good stuff. Why not just have it all?
Another Example of something that’s been lost is the wager matches.

I know that they rely on a currency system in Black Ops but they could have kept them in without having that monetary system. Why not use your experience as currency? Surely they could have thought of something clever to keep them in?
And finally, what is with the spawn points in MW3?

On many occasions I have spawned and been dead within a few seconds. THIS SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN! The maps and spawn point should not allow for it. I am fully aware that sometimes it’s damn near impossible to make this dream a reality but come Black Ops did it a whole lot better than MW3 does.

I can think of several occasions that I have died and then spawned with my gun aiming at someone’s head. I didn’t even have to move to get a kill, just pull the right trigger. Now, I love getting kills but this is just ridiculous.

I can also think of an occasion that a stealth bomber has killed me twice. Yup, that’s right. It killed me on one end of the map and I spawned on the other end only to have it kill me again. I don’t think I have to tell you how annoyed I was by that.

I’ll add one more thing before I move on to the conclusion. This is admittedly a pet peeve of mine and probably just a matter of personal preference too.

Quick scoping should not have been put back in the game. There, I said it. I know that it exists in Black Ops but it’s not nearly as easy to do and frankly was only added because people moaned that it wasn’t there to begin with.
I don’t understand why people play in this way. It’s not a shotgun, you shouldn’t be running around that much with it and yes, it is cheating, even if Infinity Ward says it’s ok. And no, it’s not that hard to do; if it was then everyone wouldn’t be able to do it would they?

To sum it all up…
My conclusion from all of this and the many other things I haven’t mentioned is that Black Ops is a better game and I much preferred playing it online.

I’m not saying I’m going to go backwards and keep playing it because I do enjoy MW3 too, I just think that it’s missing a lot of the good stuff that should really be there.

I think Treyarch and Infinity Ward should probably work together a little more when making Call of Duty games. They are both owned by Activision, they both make great games and they both have amazing ideas. Now let’s see if we can get all of the amazing ideas into one game please.

I also miss the dolphin dive :cry:

I must say that I do agree with most of the points stated in this article. I really do feel like they just made MW2 over again but balanced it out more. Where Treyarch took more of a daring approach and made a game with a TON of new features. At first I didn't like that in BO you had to actually get the kills legitimately to earn a killstreak but the more and more I play it I like it more. IMO I think the killstreaks just seem and feel more balanced in BO then they do in MW3.

I miss watching theater with people and being able to spectate someone else in 1st person. Also being able to check the scoreboard... Why the hell would they remove those anyways?

I miss it WAY better than mw3

Yeah I personally prefer Black Ops over MW3...mainly due to the diving and attachments on guns ^^

I miss all the above stated... AND i miss the custom reticles, changing red dot colors, I REALLY miss my Gun Game......... and unfortunately for me, I was console banned from Black Ops about a month after it came out. So I can't go back to it, unless I get a whole new console (in this economy, yeah right!)

Great article, I dont' play MW3 anymore and me and my friends have moved back to BO.

What I like about BO is that to me it requires more skill. Guns actually have recoil (yes, even the Famas). Go on MW3, and all guns (except for maybe the AK47) has a default laser-beam attatchment and you are granted a default no recoil perk. When I switched back to BO the first thing I realized was the difference in recoil. I didn't hit many of my shots and knew my aim wasn't that bad.

MW3 killstreaks are just a cluster****. Especially the goddam stealth bomber. What I like about MW3 though is the Specialist strike package, that was really clever. But other than that, you basically have a MW2 Pave-Low powered Attack Heli and a steroid version of that as the Pave Low. There's so much stupid stuff that they incorporated like Lag compensation, when they actually punish people for having a good connection. That's like giving A students harder tests just because they're smarter than their classmates.

The maps as you've stated are downright terrible. Other than the points you've said, people blend in with the maps. It's impossible to get someone lying down as they don't stick out as they have in previous CoDs, which definitely encourages more people to lie down in a single spot and not move at all.

What I love from BO most was the Combat Records-- which was basically CoD Elite, which is a broken system wasting all money and time and just shows that Activision wants an excessive amount of money. It's ridiculous how the Clan operations were put in the service NEARLY 4 MONTHS after release.

FOUR GODDANM MONTHS.

I didn't pay for it since I know stupid shit like that would happen, but I do feel kinda bad for the people who did. Four months is 1/3 of their yearly subscription, and its just absurd how they were basically giving us a "Beta" version for us to test.

I myself love black ops but i feel bad when i go onto it , Yes it is strange but i feel i should be playing MW3 as its the latest one and i don't want fall behind , And when you get a job its difficult to spare any free time for them both .

I think MW3 is better