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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.

well.. i got really disappointed when i bought mw3.. I didnt liked it that much mw3.. i was used to black ops, the guns there (in my opinion) were better ( ballistic knife :satisfied: ) in black ops we could do our own emblem .. plus the zombies is always fun.. and the maps are way better tho..

There is a source? /facepalm for the love of god can nobody write their own article? Can nobody give their own opinion? Must you feel the need to take other people's content?

They both are shit IMO

MW3 was the best paperweight I ever bought.

All i have to say; EXPLOSIVES SUCK IN MW3!!! ....

MW3 fucking blows. IW fucking BLOWS! the game they made is shit. 3arc has got COD by the balls and IW is just holding onto what they know not trying to do anything different. FUCK EM AND FUCK MW3!

eh i think they are getting worse with every new CoD title. Cod4 was revolutionary, w@w had the best and most diverse maps with a real feel to it (also introduced zombies to the franchise), mw2 was ok but annoying with all of the cheaters boosters and QSers (couldnt join a match without some kid yelling at everyone to qs) plus mw2 added riot shields and omg that was a step backwards - i would love to see a rioter vs a barret .50 cal irl, black ops had connection problems but customization options were aweomse and zombies got better, mw3 is shit tier of all CoD's and it really shows that the dev's started caring more about the money than making an actual good game. Basically IW became more greedy but listens to players more and 3arc has great ideas but needs to listen to the players.

I think both of the games suck and don't/wouldn't play either of them. CoD is dead to me. The new ones suck, and the old ones that were actually good are hacked. Black Ops zombies wasn't even that good, it was nothing like WaW. Black Ops 2 I have no hope for what so ever. They keep ruining the multiplayer and zombies by over complicating them. They were good when they were simple, but that won't change.

Mw3 is realy a big SHI*T