Played this a lot on the Xbox 360 only for the gem that was the survival mode. The PC port is functional, but nothing noteworthy. This game came out during the era where PC ports were an afterthought.

After finishing the bombastic, popcorn campaign, MW3 has a multiplayer mode that is basically filled with hackers and excessive lag and a spec ops mode that allows for 2 player coop in missions + a survival mode.

Honestly, the only mode that got me coming back was the survival mode, a wave-based horde mode which was a derivative of other horde modes from games like Black Ops zombies, Halo firefight, Gears horde, etc. For what it is, it's pretty damn fun. 16 built in maps with varying difficulties. You get access to three armories that provide you weapons, perks, explosives, AI squads for aid, sentry turrets, airstrikes, etc. Waves past 25 start becoming more challenging since enemies start becoming bullet sponges and juggernauts and attack choppers start spawning more often.

For those small number of players who avidly enjoyed the survival mode, check out Trepang2. It's a FEAR inspired shooter that has a horde mode that feels like a true successor to MW3's survival mode. Faster and gory combat, better enemy AI, and more maps that are smaller and tighter. MW2019's survival was a huge letdown, especially for solo players.

This game is only worth if you wanna relive the nostalgic 7th gen console era and if you can find this game on sale with all its DLC. The game still being close to full price more than a decade later is criminal, but that's Activision for you.

Got it for the singleplayer, because multiplayer is a security risk. It was alright. Definitely not £30 alright. DEFINITELY not £45 of DLC packs "alright". And lets not forget this game is.... 13 years old. And the MULTIPLAYER IS A SECURITY RISK. If they ever put this thing on sale for like £5 it might be worth the price. Only reason I bought this one is that the "High Seas" edition wouldn't work on my PC (MW1 and MW2 work just fine though, not that I'd encourage you to use anything other than steam, and pay £30 each for the privilage of a decade-and-a-half year old security risk which has lost 60% of its value because >>DON'T PLAY MULTIPLAYER<< )

Anyways. Story was good, overpriced tho, seriously activision if you made the "MW franchise bundle" like £40, you'd have gotten £10 extra from me, and probably a lot of others too. Slash the prices, your golden goose has passed it's sell-by date and would look much better in the discount section. Also you've remade all these games already and you're probably making a killing off them on their own.

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