On the roof of the stock exchange, our demonstrator uses a Reaper drone to clear the rooftops around of enemies before leaping onto a fast-departing extraction helicopter. It’s all narrow street combat, as befits New York’s close, vertiginous streets and grid-like layout. This, along with the dirtied American flags drooping over the wreckage and the blown-out cop cars littering the streets, is powerful imagery, designed (rather like Homefront’s) to get right at the heart of America’s power complex. Enemies take cover behind boardroom couches, jewelery store counters shatter under gunfire as he sprints out into the street from a department store, and a copter, broken blades still spinning, is lodged in the side of a skyscraper. Modern Warfare 3 picks up immediately after the end of MW2, with the world in a state of all-out war.Īs our demonstrator fights his way through the streets and buildings of New York, recognisable landmarks like the Crown building and the stock exchange itself stand out a mile. Our first glimpse of the city is a vertical view up to the sky, the sun blooming between skyscrapers as the helicopter door is forced open – then we’re chucked some ammunition and told to make our way to the stock exchange. The level opens as the player pulls himself out of a crashed helicopter on a New York street amid the familiar, cacophonous noise of gunfire and explosions, as a nearby sergeant screams at him to get out of the wreckage. Modern Warfare 3 picks up immediately after the end of MW2, with the world in a state of all-out war. We saw what looks to be the opening level, set in the Big Apple, before being transported to Canary Wharf for a second mission. As the latest trailer shows, Modern Warfare takes place in cities all over the world, from Paris to New York, London and, from the looks of it, Berlin. What we saw was heavily, heavily scripted, all-action setpiecing – but good lord, these are some impressive setpieces.
On the evidence of this reveal demonstration, we’re definitely looking at the former.
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What direction will these two studios take the series in? Are we going further down the setpiece-heavy action movie Modern Warfare 2 route, or will this new title reclaim the tension and relative seriousness of the original Modern Warfare? Then there’s the collaboration with Sledgehammer Games, which also raises an eyebrow. Of course, Modern Warfare is particularly interesting this year because of the ex-Infinity Ward execs versus Activision wrangling that’s been plastered all over this and every other website since the middle of last year. In a North London studio on Monday, Infinity Ward’s Robert Bowling and Sledgehammer Games’ Glen Schofield took to the stage together to demonstrate
Rather than waiting for E3, which by the looks of it is hardly going to be short on fucking HUGE announcements, Activision has decided to show the next instalment in the unstoppable Call of Duty franchise a few weeks ahead of time. Kept closely under wraps since West and Zampella’s controversial sacking from Infinity Ward Joint development between Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games.įollow-up to Modern Warfare 2, UK's best-selling game of all time. Activision officially pulls the curtain back on what will almost inevitably be the biggest game of the year.
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