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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 would go back to black ops, but my OCD won't let me. i have to get to 15th on MW3 :fa:

The Modern Warfare series to me is starting to get old and boring now, it just does not feel right anymore especially MW3 and it looks too kiddish and cartoony. Cod4 as it is the first modern series felt much more mature, realistic and much better than MW2 and MW3.

Black ops and dolphin dive for the winn! and zombies, and famas, and galil, and aug, and rapid fireeee!!!

It really is so much better than mw3, and my opinion here i think mw2 looks so much better than mw3, cleaner, the user interface is so much better. Black ops is one of my favorites with WaW and MW2

i miss playing mw2, and cod4. those were the good ole days ahhhh

Sometimes I wish my friend's actrully played black ops. BO is horrible w/o a good team.

That Feel when I find black ops is a good game and I was so ready to call it shit, the online is good but there were flaws in the spawning system and I though the maps were pretty wank especially if you wanted to actually snipe there were no maps where you could sit and do that for instance maps like Block, Crossfire and Overgrown on cod4 were great for sniping all we have on black ops is Havana which is pretty shite.

To be honest though the Call of Duty franchise is shit anyway the people that play online are fucking idiots there are no tactics and everybody is 12 years old battlefield is where it's at.

This article would have been okay minus the usual and at this point cliche use of "camper" in relation to the maps being camper friendly. The maps in Black Ops were better and had PLENTY of places to camp, I mean I doubt there are any less camper complaints when BO was in its prime compared to MW3. MW3 maps are smaller which was supposed to encourage more movement which of course doesn't matter either way since people will camp and/or play defensive.

It depends on your endgame. Do you want people to run around so it's easier for you to see them, or are you against people laying prone? I am against the latter. I do not need guys running 24/7 in order to get kills. Camping is exaggerated quite a bit anyway. Berlin Wall, Zoo, Kowloon, Array amongst others had plenty of areas to camp. This is a function of the players not the maps. There is no way they will ever force people not to camp.

I will say I enjoy MW3 multiplayer much more because it's a more fun game for me. I did like how Black Ops didn't have stacking killstreaks nor Support which made it impossible for noobs to compete with you. Chopper Gunner, Blackbirds and Dogs could be abused and the only defense was to back out or get betterMW3 tried to desperately to balance out Assault with Support thus helping terrible people get Stealth Bombers and EMPs for nothing.

blackops>mw3, when u play and pwn some blackops then u goto play ur mw3 the movement looks shit and the stuff when u throw grenade or
run with a snipa rifla, shitty animations IW.