In the race to the bottom of the well of dimishing returns, two competitors run neck and neck this fall: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3. While the MW franchise stems from a decade long tradition of Call of Duty games that initially featured robust and thrilling single player campaigns, BF has arguable never had a compelling single player experience outside of the Bad Company spin-offs. With the annualization of the COD series, MW3 follows the formula laid out by its's predecessor's and dials everything to 11. Set-pieces, sound design, and narrative are more incomprehensible and bombastic than ever and all within a bite-sized shell. BF3 clamps onto that formula like a lamprey, without ever understanding what originally made it interesting but again serves it up in a bite-sized format.
Friday, December 2, 2011
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