Why Was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 SO MEDIOCRE?! 

Act Man is best game reviewer on RU-vid.

I dunno on black ops 4 I can still have a fun game playing as specter but I guess your right it does have some very boring map design

Act man strikes again!

I hope in the next few years we don't say IW is better than cod in the future"if you know what i mean"

Good on you Act Man, your videos are riveting, you have real opinions, not just popular trendy opinions. You dont incite hate mobs, but your not blindly praising hot garbage for views either. Stay you dude, its working for ya.

Poetic

you stole that...

Wow repeating a joke. Funny.

This comment is a nice blast from the past

Olddie but goodie

Combat Wombat lmao this comment hit home, you should see the E3 release of new Fifas, they audience just doesnt care. Its the same exact shit with maybe new or changed players/teams

@@amandeepbaghiana4510 its a football game... you play football... what can you change with that every year? And its fill of licensing. This is a game they can literally do whatever they like and change things they just didnt lol!

@@amandeepbaghiana4510 because it's football? It never change for the last 50 years or so??

@@sbevexlr848 and yet there's a new game every year

@@Oly1y but that's football every season is has it's things

So you judge MWIII on the campaign not the mp that cod is bassed are

@@ELIZABETHMARLONE2005 The multiplayer is ass too! 🤣 The SBMM doesn’t make it any better…

cod mw3 2011 poops mw3 2023

@@peezyorpj get gud

@@eighto1213 mw3 2011 was a downgraded mw2 2009 and mw3 23 is a better upgraded mw2 22

I always liked MW3, I fully embraced the over the top set pieces and loved it for what it was. I accepted that it wasnt going to be like Black Ops.

@@WiiManElite Yeah, and they said "We aren't releasing a COD game in 2023." I swear, Activision to releasing COD games yearly is like a crackhead to drugs.

@@Lord_Thunderballswho asked

@@ghostwhencodghosts9114 Settle down there edgelord. I see your past comments 😂

Yey! That game is no longer hated and its very good now after that shitty MWIII that came out this year :)

This comment on MW3 videos is the FPS equivalent to "The city's been fucking destroyed" in Sonic adventure let's plays.

This... This is poetry.

*Squish the roach.

Same thing with “Roses are red violets are blue Soap trusted you, and I thought I could too So why in bloody hell, does Makarov know you”

Marley 13 anybody?

gdaan i didn kniow tat we wnted the odl cod bad

Game critics are hard to please sometimes. Nostalgia goggles can never be penetrated.

Yes. Bring back MW2.1

Idk why people didn't like mw3 it's was exactly what it should have been

>mw2 is amazing >mw3 is similar to said amazing game >this makes mw3 bad ok

I didn't want to kill Makarov. I wanted to side with him..such a charismatic villain and he would have made a great new empire. Also the entire NYC mission seemed fake..I don't believe it's that easy to turn a submarines missiles on its one fleet.

Don’t forgot about Menendez.

​@@Starwarsfan1253 and Dragovich

@@Starwarsfan1253 menendez is the best villian and makarov is the second

Cough cough all the villains of black ops 1 - 2 cough cough

My first cod and it was a good one

@@TheBBCSlurpee Same, and my favourite in the trilogy overall

The hate just comes from mw2 fanboys

The hate was justified because it was too similar but i still enjoyed it for what it was worth.

If MW3 had the maps of MW2, it would be the greatest CoD of all time.

Yeah, black ops 1 and 2...

2019 more like: You want two attachments? How about five?

Bo1: u want two attachments? Well u gonna have to buy them and then buy a perk to use said attachments Bo2: u want 2 attachments? Well go ahead but watch out for that pick 10 system and if u want go for 3 or u could put 2 on ur side arm, or u could do both but with pick 10 u can only hav like 1 perk

🤑🤑🤑🤑

Sucks how the whole monenization got out of hands eh? Least back in the day we didn't need to pay more for shit, we only need to play to earn stuff on those games' MP portions.

Yeah it doesn't really make sense they say it just a mw2 copie but with just a bunch of minor improvements but how does that it worse than mw2

Not everyone going to like it that's how it is with gaming there always going to be games that peiple will not like even if the game is loved there will always be a minority or players that will not like it that's gaming no game is perfect. Same thing with the witcher 3 there people I k ow who don't like it as much as or even red dead redemption 2 really some people I met say it's ok I was like ok if that's what you think. That's gaming for you. Loved or hated even games that are hated by gamers there will always be a majority that will play it and like it.

This was definitely my favorite cod of all time

Right?? I LOVE this game And it's my most played game of the 360 cod games

MW3 Was kinda broken at launch which wasn't great, I enjoyed the game and didn't realise its just a rehash of MW2.

I been thinking the same. Every story like this involving the russians are just Laughable now that they have shown how weak they truly are. Slava Ukraini

hahaha I was thinking the same thing. Like damn we gave them too much credit

@@DarkbloomVis we truly did LoL

This is what happens when you only spend money on buying super yachts and mansions for oligarchs

@@MrKvittot bruh

pawtucketpanda yea it’s so much better than the rest

:V you wanna play a motherfuckin zombie game!?

Upon rewatching it seems the game is labeled based on it's "Mediocre" campaign while it's multiplayer and co-op offerings were in peak form at the time. He goes on to argue that MW3 is essentially still the platue for military shooters set in modern times.

It's more like Why was MW3 so good...where the multiplayer levels the campaign. You can see he hints toward it being 'meh' at release but justifiable later on as you play,better then what came out later but still exhausting the franchise name

*Says there is no Difference in Graphics Compared Makarov from MW3 to MW2 look at the huge difference in characters. This dude has no idea what the fuck he is talking about.*

apart from the many criticisms he has

The main reason it was mediocre was due to familiarity and felt like a carbon copy to MW2

@@tor112233 id say the time he spent listing/mentioning the positives outweighs the time spent listing/mentioning the negatives/mediocre

I mean it’s hard to actually hate the game. It’s not doing anything wrong other than not differentiating hard enough from the previous MW games. When you’re spending 60-80$ for a game (on top of paid DLC), people expect it to be worth it and considering how little time there was between the MW games on top of black ops having such variety and sense of personalized style to it unlike the Grey and browns of the Modern warefare games which is a hard to personalize, i don’t blame the folks who sniffed their noses at it and either stucked with MW2 or looked elsewhere. I also don’t think it was the right decision to simply neuter a series’s multiplayer for the sake of “balance”. Balance should be tertiary to priority number 1: MAKE IT FUN, and priority number 2: MAKE IT FUNCTIONAL. That doesn’t mean they didn’t have no reason to tighten up some of the really messed up problems in MW2 or other CoD multiplayers but it’s never a good idea to simply take away what people had fun with or insisting on making the players play the way the developers want you to play it. At that point, you’re just inviting people to stick to the previous games since if everything else is basically the same Except the balance, why move on to MW3?

It’s mainly the similarities to MW3 that made it mediocre.

Shit I'd kill to play ghosts at this point.

Michael that game wasn’t even that bad. Fatigue and launch glitches are why people hated the game.

@@unknown_individual7050 and some people complained about the multiplayer level design in Ghosts, that it was too big and the game was at a slower pace and not the usual hectic pace. Thats the thing about COD players, MW3 copies MW2 thats bad and when Ghosts does something different thats bad. lol

@@BertMagurt never played ghosts, is it worth it?

if it werent a million bucks on steam

*whips out dick*

@@a1d5 relatable

Time to grab the popcorn. Honestly I would watch an hour and a half if its written this well, the act man is really good at what he does

40 mins in and just noticed it was that long. Good job for keeping me entertained for this long. So entertained to the point I lost my perception of time. Fucking hit nirvana by watching this.

I video I will watch the entirety of.

To be fair this modern warfare had a great story and campaign and sec ops mode and new multiplayer maps

Mw3 2011 was just downgrade of mw2 2009 that's what people said and MWIII 2023 Was bit Upgrade of MWII 2022

​@@TheUnknownEdits23156yeah mwiii is actually better than og mw3

​@Destroy5000 meh mwiii is getting new mp maps in season 1

That was for Chernov.

@@ChandranPrema123 ik

His diary was a pre-order bonus for a collector's edition. I actually still have it. They made it wrinkled as if it got water on it and the page where he got stabbed by Shepard be bloody.

@@callmehanson9466 was it actually in russian?

Vietnamese kid here bro. War veterans do that (flipping my pa's collection lol)

Tell your dad he is a fucking legend for that joke.

Wow your dad is a legend haha

wat pipe?

@@Sev3617 *facepalm*

@@Sev3617 the pipe where people camped in

For real it's a great game, specialist is the best thing to come to cod and needs to come back. Sniping was also very rewarding

MW3 lobbies were beyond amazing.

It sucked. Some of the worst maps and loadouts.

BO1 is the best selling COD game.

It’s great but it’s still eerily similar to mw2

To me it was more of a reskin. Could have been a DLC. I agree it’s a solid game. But it’s nothing new.

Yeah in a vacuum. After mw2 tho?

Maximilian Lagerholm Oh definitely. It felt like the same game with a different campaign.

@@Saiegg yeah literally the only difference was spec ops, gun sounds, and the campaign story. Everything else was literally the same

@@infinitig3516 exactly

MIster Ch3if MW2 had the best multiplayer and story

@@JackyWacky-871 Can you just let the bloody comment be itself!

live 922 why

JakeAce I don’t hate the MW2 campaign, but I do think it could’ve been done better. Especially because the whole conflict of the story is based on the confusing plot hole in No Russian

JakeAce nah it didn’t. Campaign wasn’t as good as cod4. And the multiplayer was so broken

Yeah, when I play all these old games, I always think: "at least they can't take this from us".

Yeah, COD become a downfall, people lost their minds for no reason when a new one came out year after year they only focus on graphics instead of scripting and storytelling. Screw that game! Sucked balls, its worse than Ghosts and Vanguard.

​@MarkJacksonvl-lb6rm more like cod is seemingly leaning into more fortnite aspects, it lost its soul.

Now we just need them to release Modern Warfare 3 Remastered

I can relate to this my friend

this comment along with the Anakin profile picture had me dying

Klevis Jerliu soups a good name

Looks like the soap got dropped

NEARMUSICBEATS then you are not a og cod fan

1:13 to 1:35 How the *ENTIRE COD FANBASE* Reacted.

Or any game that came out during that time.

A 7/10 for me is good in video games. 6/10 is decent when I review movies but so-so for gaming.

I like mw3 but it’s the weakest in mw series in my opinion

Captiankirk games for sure

Local man too Angry to Die

Birky Boi *doom guy walks in*

He meant to say PRICE is pissed. He mixed up. An honest mistake !

@@brofuzz5233 i think they know its just funny

Gionni Villalobos Kratos: sup

that's what they're made for mate

Smoked out nigga

All ghillied up

The ghillie suit was a classic

"Don't do anything stupid, let them pass"

I like it, I think the game is a 7/10, a 3.5 out of 5, and a B-

Survival was my favorite on here. It felt fun fighting against so many enemies with friends from all over.

Spec ops and mind gap & uganda missions are only I play.

It was not mediocre but only for bf fans.

zBreezy Survival..ohh I love survival

Right Ladd legit has me in tear fucking hilarious

What are the numbers Mason?!

xD

This was in marleythirteen's video : Captain Price survivor of modern warfare

@@RightLadd oh shit im a dumbass

At 3:33 it looks like he’s fighting a village of tiny people

The spec ops mode was so lit.

Mw3 multiplayer > mw2's Mw2 SpecOps > mw3's

Nah the specs ops in mw2 was better. Survival was the shit in mw3

Mw3 multi was better imo

Muhsin and infected

More like 3 years later

Vampires have the gay.

Ügiustus Keiserus so we finna just skip 4 like that?

@@BreezyB_ 4 comes this year, in 2022, I'm sure MW5 will come

I sure hope that Call of Duty and Activision-Blizzard would not exist in 20 years.

I cried at that moment. I see Prise loosing his mind, and his brother, I can't believe this is happening, it's unexplainable and I can't find good words to describe it. Soap is my favourite character.

@kobeftw2400 and Gaz and Griggs

@@wayfarer5187 incel

@@yaboydolphin why hes just saying that the voice acting is good

The fvck u mean friend? Soap is bassically his son

Fact check true man. Nikolai was critical and because Kamarov was responsible for saving Nikolai, he is just as critical

FACTUAL!

I think the argument is that Nicolai isn't seen during missions, only cutscenes. I could be wrong I haven't played the MW series in years

@@nscaocnjs He's seen in missions in the first half of cod4, is the guy flying the plane near the end of mw2 right after Shephard's true colors are revealed, and is seen in India and heard during the final mission in mw3.

Technically you could count MacMillan too for surviving

That isn't shocking games back then were eaiser and cheaper to make, your IQ is shocking 😂

​@NCCalvin9 "Easier" doesn't apply to coming up with good ideas to make a compelling video game. Production cost doesn't necessarily equate to good quality A game can be expensive or cheap, but neither of those should be a reason to release a crappy game.

@@DrkTheNewGuy Shut up your talking out your ass MW3 in 2011 was hated at launch because it's was the MW2 2.0 it was all the same you don't even know wtf your talking about 😂

​@@NCCalvin9 I never referred my argument with how similar mw3 was to mw2, all I said was cheap or expensive shouldn't be a reason to release a bad game. Your hostility astouding.

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Takes everything you got... Sometimes you want to go...

wanna log in? 30!

that isn't how it feels, that's pretty much *exactly how it IS...* only new modern titles I've purchased are the following: squad, post scriptum & insurgency: sandstorm! those are the only completely modern shooters I'll ever play, can't pay to advance yourself ahead of others & pay to hold and continue to hold an edge over anyone in these games, theyre ALL totally reliant on your skill and more importantly, how well and effectively you can communicate with your squad-mates/teammates. plus the community for squad and PS are literally the best for any game, let alone FPS I've ever experienced. only ran into one asshole in squad and one dickheaded garbage at trolling troll in PS and I've been playing both games for like 5 or 6 months now. fuck cod, play squad! ayyyyeeee that rhymed!! ;)

@@LunaWaves I have to be 30? Well that's unfair.

EA in a nutshell, only you have to gamble in loot boxes. :(

but this shows you can’t please everyone, if they kept those items people might have complained that they overused them, or didn’t add enough new content

@@silasfish5379 True. A game campaign should not feel the same as the other, and those COD games isn't a sandbox game, is a linear game. I played through the MW2 and MW3 and I felt that the level design is awesome and the story aswell. Epic finale.

Might be an unpopular opinion but i feel that mw3 sacrificed this for more different types of gameplay. You have the ac130, the mini tank, the chopper and tank sections, the car chase. Was just a few nice changes of pace from juat going down corridors shooting people

Maybe because at that time we had higher expectations. And people didnt like that it was a Mw2.5 But you can debate me considering the fact that WaW is Basicly COD4 WWII Mod.

CG Guapo I like it but think in 2011 it was bad. It felt like mw2 just worse

@@StarXsu90 >WaW >Cod 4 WW2 mod. Are you fucking serious?

@@anthonykay1580 they did do a pretty shit job with it

@@busterbackster1 no, not at all. You haven't even played the game. And it can be literally seen on your face.

Yeah, that caught my attention immediately it makes you go "Oh, shit." it was perfect.

Yup.

Loveshank imagine if it wasn’t in slo mo.

Yeah, I personally thought that seeing the words "Objective Failed." objectively was the biggest middle finger I had ever seen in my life. To do what you think would be right, actually ends up being wrong. Have to say though, opening that door and then being punched in the face by Price was a little bit of a shock after knowing that Soap knew that Yuri was tied to Makarov one way or another.

OBJECTIVE FAILED. We'll Get em' next time.

No it’s set on 2016 so it’s in the past.

With that logic, all the MWs are the best futuristic CoDs because they came out before the events of the game take place. Lol

Exactly The whole MW series is better than games with ass boosters and Ebola

That near future cod was the best.

best amv no the game takes place in 2016 It's only shortly after the last MW Watch the video

me too man, me too

fr ! great game

I grinded the hell out of spec ops with a couple buddies and my brother. I still remember they'd always give my $5000 in game so I could buy them Slight of Hand since you had to be level 50 in order to buy it. I had no idea MW3 was divisive

cool dad bro, cool dad

Same

And now COD devs make it easier for shit players by punishing the actual good players with heavy Skill Based Matchmaking. They had the formula for success right in their hands but the franchise became an inconsistent mess 2013 and beyond

@@Mr.Murphy2802 SBMM has been in CoD for over a decade and still one of the top franchises. Imagine being stupid enough to think that SBMM makes or breaks a game

@@NakedSpaceMan it can exist in COD but the level of SBMM in recent games is just borderline cancerous. You can go one game absolutely shit stomping noobs but then be put in a lobby with low kd players against real sweats. It also doesn't help the fact that the system is mostly like this due to warzone and its matchmaking

@@Mr.Murphy2802 So...it's completely random based on your skill range. Like CBMM would be. Sounds to me like you're just bad sometimes like everyone else and can't take losing every now and then. Oh no, the horror.

@@NakedSpaceMan nah I know people have good games and bad games, its natural. But what I dont understand is the fact that SBMM is so rampant in the most recent titles. In older cods the teams would be balanced to have all types of skill ranges because it prioritised connection above skill. I can hop on to mw2 and find a lobby with a couple actually good players and some shit players on both teams. In recent years its like they throw all the sweats on to one team and have a mixed bag on the other

mw2 was more fun if u didn't get spawn trapped by nade launcher OMA or you were the one spawn trapping with nade launcher OMA

what is your fav COD?

Arex Xer BO2

@Sébastien Levesque mw3 had OP deathstreaks, dual fmg9 still gives me nightmares.

Respect your opinion, but it DEFINITELY was mediocre almost borderline sub-par(C-/D+) and my least favorite even below advanced warfare.

Did he love the game? I only know of the Mw3 quad feed video but that’s it.

Nikolai Rashad did something happen?

Lol no, he just really loved the game back in the day and Nikolai made the joke that M3rk would bumrush Act Man with his thoughts on it. (Unless he decides to milk it, then that'd be interesting to see.)

am i the only one who had mw3 as my fav cod game? except for maybe mw2

@@iceangelx22 yeah I love the two good weapons acr and mp7

I have the pass now

@@TheActMan are you going to say it

@private pickle ur echo can

@private pickle That's correct, sir. However, the people in your house must say it when they are in your room.

Those god damn nigerians!

Graphic colors

The lesson MW3 was trying to teach was that war is not pretty wether that be on the campaign or the MP or the spec ops it just says DONT THINK WAR IS COOL

@@SaintTheNightstalker Which is cool and all but its still an arcade video game at the end of the day lol. the MP maps couldve been a lot better and then leave the campaign darker. I enjoyed the game regardless though

@@trevorjohnson4015 Rust in MW2 had to many Brown and oranges XD

@@SaintTheNightstalker Now that you mention it, Afghan had to much dirt and sand everywhere too😂

Survival is my favorite thing about it

@@gjeckttv if you have unlocked acr 6.8 that's pretty good and lmgs are good you can camp in the underground tunnel and on top of a bus but first you have to throw a grenade at it so that it wont explode later when enemies shoot at it

Btw underground is my favorite map

@@gjeckttv also when juggernauts come you have to camp on top of the bus or spend thousands of dollars on predator missiles or sentries if you camp on the bus go to the middle left of it if you go to the back they will climb up on top of the bus and refill on ammo before camping

Personally I don't think it's underrated at all. I would play it for hours on end with friends back in the day

Brian Hafey Night he makes the Best VIDEOS on the internet

@@Laserjet-po3rc that's subjective

etruscan boar vessel No it’s a fact.

I can't

I would but I can't cuz you're right

I truly can't believe people didn't like it. It's the best COD along with MW2.

Thought I was the only one. It was the first COD game I bought and I had so much fun on it

mw3 felt like the pinnacle of cod multiplayer. basically took all the positive aspects of mw2 and improved on them. still my favorite to this day.

For sure. Loved MW2 and MW3, felt like they made slight touch ups, without fucking up the game everybody loved. Wasn't sure why everyone hated it, the game was fun and did have differences from the prior, but followed the model.

@@tywilliams7013 after watching some of these mw2/mw3 videos I realized how much better mw3 actually was. They fixed a lot of the OP weapons and perks. Mw2 was kinda crazy with the shotguns and noob tubes.

well because it was. It had better multiplayer than MW2, better spec ops and it had survival on top of that.

@@badass6300 this is Debatable But for some reason I find both mw2 and 3 are Equally fun.

@@badass6300 i respect your opinion but i agree with the guy below your comment its a debatable topic i personally love mw2 alot more

@@name-yk3de I think mw3 edges put mw2 because the campaign was so good. And it felt like there was more guns and modes

@@name-yk3de if they removed all the bullshit from MW2 and balanced the weapons, then I'd enjoy it as much as MW3, I'd even tolerate the 5-6 campers per lobby.

Bruh this should have wayy more likes

XD "Soap trusted you"

good one

Yuri has taken over with his Mind Dominator machines.

*tearing up* "That was a good one... Soap..." "Th-Thanks..." *dies*

OOF

Soap had little... accident..

Off

He's on break (I'm not in denial damn it)

he made a mistake! disliked and unsubscribed! lol

For me 2007-2013. Ghosts I didn’t like at the time it came out, but looking back at it I actually quite enjoyed it. AW was the first game that didn’t interest me in the slighest (because of the exo mechanics which apparently reappeared in every single game since, except for wwii which was just bad anyway).

For me it was 2005-2009. COD2, MW1, WaW (well, i don't like that much WaW, but i get why many people do) and MW2. With another small period when Black Ops 2 was around (MP was great, and the campaign did a bit more than just recycle the mw formula like the first BOps). I wish i could say COD1 too but i didn't play it at the time (the game is great tho). From there i don't really think the franchise was ever as good. Enjoyable?, yeah sure, but not great like those days when the OG Infinity Ward was around (and Treyarch atleast tried to do interesting stuff like zombies or the bo2 campaign).

Ghost still better than every cod after it

901_gamer You're not wrong. Ghosts isn't the best by far but it outclasses every subsequent CoD. It gets too much hate.

Whats the shittiest Cod...

Exactly. Look at BO3 and BO4 haha literally the same game still had BO3 killstreak names show up! They broke the fuck out of ui!

Thank you 🙏

Preach.. Like i dont get why that's a problem.

He is biased against the game, he even admitted it.

@@DraxixDude He also praised aspects of it. So what?

He must've bent over to get the soap when Captain Price quickly came up from behind...

Smart man

Good joke you can have a cookie

I see wat u did there. #clevershit

He also scared the ghost and squashed the roach 🤷‍♂️

ravey23 me to man! When I'm bored play survival on MW3.

Survival on that one train station map was the fucking best

Survival was just amazing. Shame it never made a comeback. *ExoSurvivaldoesntcountpleasegoawayandnevermentionitagainthanks*

@@sean270wn3 same, but we always ran outta points to get missiles lol

@@sean270wn3 was the only reasonable way to do it lol

Agreed!

Yep I feel the same way

literally me word for word

I loved all the menu's being the same, they were damn near perfect In mw2, so why fix what ain't broke? I will admit new reload animations would have been cool tho.

I never minded the similarities either.

Fr, I get why people disliked it but still, it was an awesome experience

tbh i don't understand the hate that game got it just took out all the stuff from MW2 people complained about then people complained even harder 😂 the chaos is what i enjoyed about MW2 ...MW3's main problem imo was following Black Ops which was such a good game.

It was..... That is all

Damn right!! those 5000 reviews from MetaCritic knows 0!!! About COD, i bet that they dint review properly, just because of the old excuse, ``It is Similar´´ but no, it has so much content that they dint check

I thought it was good but I didn’t think it was the best cod

Exactly!!! My favorite cod and one of my favorite games ever. Had the best muliplayer, slightly over bo1

You have a joker profile pic..... *Bing bong, you’re opinion is wrong*

Hold my air filter

Hold my Granulated Grip and Tac laser

30 scopes*

70 on the m4

You mean 30 scopes?

Same

And kill confirmed. A staple game mode in all COD games since.

@@PP7Silenced true. Team defender is my favorite game mode . I had so much fun finding new set ups to defend and keep the flag . Riot shields. Exposives. I remember it got crazy af !!

ll 1stPlace ll face off

Yeah this act man is just a fucking nerd! I bet he's got iron man posters in his bedroom

I can see that infected wasn't really an original mode,but your arguement stands for the other modes. I guess the issue is that though it provided some new modes that weren't really creative...Rather just few changes to existing ones (which includes infected)