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Let’s compare Modern Warfare 3 2023’s MP trailer with Modern Warfare 3 2011’s MP trailerIn Eminememoriam
In Eminememoriam
Image credit:Activision
Image credit:Activision
Rather than just posting the correct video and going off to cry about my advancing seniority, I’m brazenly posting both so you can trace the evolution (or not) of this shootiest of first-person shooter franchises. It’s bizarre to think of any game series being this venerable, and changing so much while remaining the same.
What do the two videos share? Well, both are hectic montages of player characters galloping through multiplayer maps, with bombs and bullets popping off all over in a manner that is moreNaked Gunthan Black Hawk Down. Both emphasise the game’s massive spread of weapons, perks, modes and streak rewards. Both throw around slow-mo like it’s going out of fashion.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Multiplayer Trailer - World PremiereWatch on YouTube
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - Multiplayer Trailer - World Premiere
Watch on YouTube
And Modern Warfare 3: 2023 Edition? It depicts war as a massive jape, a slapdash eSport with bonus points awarded for style. Get stuck in, bro! Here’s some fucking Eminem and here’s a skull mask and here’s some shoulderpads with glowy green graphics card shit on them. (Thesongactually dates back to one of Modern Warfare 2’s single player trailers - Call of Duty sure loves Eminem.) Where the 2011 video makes the violence feel arbitrary, with people getting iced from blind angles just as they’re making headway, the 2023 footage turns the guns into percussive instruments and has you overwhelming dug-in opponents through sheer force of swagger. Slide in there and flaunt those cosmetics! It’s only a game.
Any thoughts to add to all this? If nu-Modern Warfare 3 fires your cylinders, you’ll probably want to sign up for the forthcoming Modern Warfare 3 PC beta. Preordering players get early access, which begins Thursday, 12th October at 10am PT. There’s an open beta a few days later on Saturday, 14th October at 10am PT. Both the early access and open betas end at 10am PT on Monday, 16th October.
