The wait is over: Modern Warfare 3 IS OUT!

Standing in line, surrounded by guys who haven't shaved, showered or possibly slept in 24 hours or more... some smoking, some drunk.
It was a great launch for MW3. I was 85 in a 190 person line. I was happy with that.
At 12:15, while on the way home, I opened the case for MW3 for PS3... and the disc had the lovely "new game" smell.

After playing for a short time(about 90 minutes), I found a few things I like and a few things I don't like about the game. If you didn't want to know my opinion, you wouldn't be reading this... so here it is:
I only got to play Death Match. But, from what I did get to try, here's what I've found.
Likes:
My favorite map so far: Resistance. It's war riddled and evacuated Paris. In the opening scene, you can see the Eifel Tower. You are running around the rocket pounded, rubble infested city, shooting people... and it's great.

All of the maps seem to be pretty big, most are multi-level. The smallest one I played seemed to be about the size of a medium map in Black Ops.

The basic guns you can use are pretty easy to handle and aim fairly well. The light machine guns jump around alot, but if you play with them to any extent you're used to that.

Of course my favorite tactical weapon, semtex is back.


Dislikes: The fact that maps are huge, I also see as a downfall. It's going to take forever to find good hiding... or rather "tactical waiting" and sniping areas.

With this game, the images don't seem as clear. They almost seem dull or dusty, even in maps where it's not in a "dusty" place.

Fewer gun choices. I'm kind of upset that there are fewer guns to choose from with this game. While variety is the spice of life... I generally find 2 or 3 guns and stick with them... it's going through all of them to try them each out that is both fun and tiresome.

New:
But now there's a new one, the "Bouncing Betty". When triggered, it "bounces" into the air and explodes. It can be avoided by going prone quickly.
There's Frag, C4 and throwing knives. (Which if you're one of the jerks that uses the throwing knives, hope I never run into you in a dark alley... you may not have any knees to walk with).

Kill streaks: There is a new item called IMS which stands for Intelligent munitions system. It's automatically triggered when an enemy gets near it. It has 4 grenades that explode in the air.

At 9 kills you can call in a strafe run, which includes 5 choppers to blaze the area you select.

There's an "assault drone" which is similar to the RC car in Black Ops.

Overall rating: so far... 3.5 out of 4.

I need to play more... but not right now. Maybe a follow up review is in order later... maybe.

For now, it's a girl gamer's world... we just let you play in it.