Let’s talk about the recent gaming trend that likely has never completely sat right with myself or likely you, remastered games like the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. In the last few years we have had multiple of our favourite games from the last 10-15 years repackaged and resold to us for prices that are about the same as we originally paid for them in the first place.
Titles such as Alan Wake, the Arkham series, several GTA games (including GTA 5) and the upcoming Red Dead Redemption, have tapped into our nostalgia and made it just a bit shinier.
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Our hard earned or begged for money goes to games that were are favourite in the hopes that they still will be years later, a fun excuse for us to revisit and possibly collect the same trophies/achievements. The original Modern Warfare (Call of Duty 4, when they still had numbers) had record sales at the time.
So it is not surprising to have the popular series within a series make a comeback. Modern Warfare 3 returns to our systems this November, hopefully with as many tweaks and updates as were featured in the first Modern Warfare remaster. With Modern Warfare 2 making over a billion dollars in sales for Activision, do they even have to try though?
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A new trailer for Modern Warfare 3 is on YouTube now, and it does not take someone with eagle eye to recognize a few familiar warzone areas and assets. Warzone being a new multiplayer mode that was included on the Modern Warfare remaster.
It seems confounding to think that a studio would be so greedy it would try and sell you actual gameplay from the previous year, that you are probably still playing. It’s a little more insulting than seeing another new version of Nuke Town. When studios can be barely be bothered to do much more than simply a nice port (looking at you Red Dead Redemption), it brings the question ‘what’s the point?’.
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Hopefully we will see some real value in Modern Warfare 3‘s campaign, including maybe a twist to the narrative, or else it would seem pretty predictable to any fans who are older than 22. Many Call of Duty fans admittedly only play these games for multiplayer fun and rankings, so to be this lazy in a re-release is truly is farcical as it almost seems like a joke, and maybe the best way to demonstrate this to Activision is for players to dust of their ps3’s and Xbox 360’s and boot up Modern Warfare 3 from 2011 and play that instead of contributing to a fundraiser for the development of some other game they might not be interested in.
What do you make of all this? Are you one criticising the quick-turnaround of the Modern Warfare sequel? Let us know in the comments!
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