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So, it's finally happened, two of the biggest games known on the market have come out relatively around the same time to go head to head in the ultimate battle for the best FPS game out there to date, so far the Call of Duty series has taken this title effortlessly but lately their games have been considered lackluster or from a few other points of view, rushed. But I've been sitting here watching the obvious and predicted mud-slinging that was going to occur from such an event, but I've yet to see any laid out points of view comparing both games, so here it is! A detailed list of the Best and the Worst of these 2 games since their release this last week. So let's get this inevitable flame war started shall we? Let's begin with the current title owner of the "Best FPS of all Time", Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 3 Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 3 The call of duty series has been around for quite a long time, only until Call of Duty 4 was it really noticed for what it is today, a fast paced action game full of grenades, RPGs and screaming kids bursting your eardrums all over your headset. Though a lot of gamers would argue that the best of the series was Call of Duty 2 which was a game I personally enjoyed quite a lot at the time, but as with the way games go, it was inevitably going to fall off the grid at some point, sadly now it's been replaced by a game that, not only repeats what we've already seen, it goes as far as to re-use what has already been done in previous titles of the same game, its pure laziness on an amazing scale, just take a look at this video submitted by Final Level Games. When I saw this, I immediately face palmed at the aspect that, not only has Activision given us the same game, they've gone as far as to reuse previous models and textures from older titles, I would have at least thought they'd take content from Modern warfare 2 as logically that would make sense, but Call of Duty 4?! ' That's just taking the piss. Now, seeing this it really made me doubt that this could be classed as the "Best FPS of all time", especially with this kind of lackluster care for the game that should be an improvement from the previous titles, so I thought "Ok, there must be something better to find about this game that would even this out" That's when I found out about dedicated servers, a huge mistake they made when they released Modern warfare 2 was to use a peer-to-peer system (Commonly used in consoles) to host online games on the PC, works for consoles as this is what consoles were designed for, but PCs? Hardware varies so much from each user that this would cause many, many problems, and it did. Though much to my happiness I found out that Modern Warfare 3 would be supporting dedicated servers, I was jumping for joy at this because I finally had that feeling that a company listened to its user base and changed something that was clearly wrong, but then that happiness soon turned to disbelief and anger, when I found out that all dedicated servers were unranked and the only way to rank up in the game was to use the peer-to-peer system that had in Modern Warfare 2. Who in their right mind would use a system that was criticized and moaned about so much on the release of a previous title, and pretty much killed it, and then just add it again in a future title securing the same fate as its predecessor, I mean seriously are these developers smoking something magical or was everyone just asleep when this idea was put forward? How can you make the same mistake with a previous title that pretty much killed it and then add it to the newest release, it logically just does not make sense whatsoever. Putting those aside, I had to continue on and look at how the game plays, how it handles and if at all, what did they change to make the gameplay different, so I went and investigated this. Much to my expectations, the game was...pretty much the same as Modern Warfare 2 in terms of graphic quality, in fact I didn't really see any difference at all in terms of graphic quality and animations, it was all the same. The killstreaks make a return to the game introducing pretty much the same things as before, nothing too amazing apart from them now being called "Strike Packages" being classed in 2 different sections, Assault and Support. Most of them would be pretty familiar to the masses who played the previous titles, such as Sentry Gun, Predator Missiles, Attack Choppers etc, though one killstreak that caught my eye was the Juggernaut, this allows you to actually be one of those oh so annoying pains in the ass and bitch slap your competitors with a riot shield until they're nothing but a bloody pulp on the floor, this amused me but I could see that the novelty would wear off after a while and cause quite a considerable amount of rage and "Nerf" requests in the game. And incase a lot of you are wondering, here's a full list of those killstreaks for all of you to see. Assault: UAV (3), Care Package (4), I.M.S, Predator Missile (5), Sentry Gun (5), Precision Airstrike (6), Attack Helicopter (7), Strafe Run (9), Little Bird Gunner (9), Reaper (9), Assault Drone (10), AC130 (12), Pave Low (12), Juggernaut (15), Osprey Gunner (17) Support: UAV (4), Counter-UAV (5), Ballistic Vests (5), Airdrop Trap (5), Sam Turret (8), Recon Drone (10), Advanced UAV (12), Remote Turret (12), Stealth Bomber (14), EMP (18), Juggernaut Recon (18), Escort Airdrop (18) So lets take a review so far, same gameplay, pretty similar killstreaks, they still have the perk system which gives the same types of perks from the previous titles, but slight changes to the names. So again I was thinking to myself, what good is there to this game that would give me any type of positive reaction to this game? The only, truthful thing I could find that really perked my interest, was changing your weapon sights on the fly, I thought that this was a very interesting a good feature to include. There's been many-a-time where you would see an enemy from far away, but you'd have to use a tiny itty-bitty red dot to try to snipe them with, but no longer will you have to do this, a quick press of a button and now you have an instant sniper/thermal scope switched onto your weapon allowing you to take them out with ease, this system is great for on the fly shooting in CQB and the nice, long distance face raping you can achieve from the long-range scopes, it adds that level of fluidity to the game which is something that really gives this game a little bit of justice for the issues that have already been found. Other than that, there really was not anything that I could truly say makes this the "Best FPS of all Time", it's the same content we've seen from previous titles with slight changes to it, the gameplay is the same, the perks and killstreaks are relatively the same given one or two new additions, I'm afraid to say that this is probably the biggest flop of all time on Activision's behalf, they made such great titles in the past in the Call of Duty series, but now it's just getting ridiculous, the amount of sales a game makes does not determine a great game, it's how long it lasts before people start returning it to the store. If I was to give any type of rating for this game, I would have to give it a 2 out of 10, reused content, same gameplay, it's just a very expensive DLC.