Modern Warfare 3 DLC on the horizon
There is good news for gamers according to Joystiq.com, the news coming from Activision and concerning Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
Care to hazard a guess? I'll wait...
Yes! It's a DLC announcement to the great joy of throngs of COD fans!
In a nutshell, starting January 24th for the Xbox is the first of 20 planned DLC releases for Call of Duty MW3 on the Xbox console. What that means for PC gamers is unclear but we're likely to see a few DLC packs available between now and the September cutoff.
Of course most of the first DLC packs will be aimed at multiplayer but there are other treats in store according to this quote...
"The first pack is traditional multiplayer maps, but we want to do Spec Ops missions, missions, Spec-Ops Survival, new game types, new game modes, and really look at adding things that we've never done before,"
Extending the playability of a good game is generally a positive but it seems that lately we've ended up with either an attempt to milk a franchise or paying for content that should have been in the original release.
Don't get me wrong, MW3 was a great single player experience and the cooperative (SPEC OPS) play mode at least as good as Modern Warfare 2. So good that I'm of the opinion that it forced EA to include a cooperative mode in Battlefield 3.
Multiplayer, well, it's entertaining and it looks very good considering the age of the engine it runs on. New locales to chase your online buddies around is fun but it's still the run and gun type of experience. With little choice in your online play choices thanks to limited options, you can end up in a dissatisfying multiplayer experience a bit too often.
I can get that same experience for free with Team Fortress 2. If you haven't guessed it yet, this is where my enthusiasm sours a bit.
Modern Warfare 3 seemed a bit shorter than Modern Warfare 2 in both Single Player and Spec Ops. Now Activision announces plans to offer additional missions for spec ops and what I can only interpret as single player as well. I don't know how that would work unless COD has finally turned into a full fledged RPG with side quests (objectives) unrelated to the main storyline.
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