Since CoD released it's latest best selling entry into the franchise, I've been playing a lot of Spec Ops. This was my favourite part of MW2, but can it live up to the standard set 2 years ago?
SURVIVAL
The newest addition to the mode, survival focuses on sending waves of enemies at you, with progressively harder enemies each time.
Before playing this I was very sceptical, as it seemed as Infinity Ward/Sledgehammer/Raven were just trying to jump on the recent influx of wave-defense modes; but I was pleasantly surprised how well made some parts of it were. There is a lot of variety in the things that are able to be used, varying from simple things such as Body Armour and basics such as frags/flashbangs, to game changing things such as Delta Squad (3 AI teammates who help you kill ze evil people!) And air strikes. The difficulty system is pretty good, starting off with normal baddies with shotguns, and progressing to crack claymore teams and swathes of Juggernauts attacking you.
Even though all of the aspects I spoke about are done well, there are a few problems that sullied my experience with Survival. Firstly, the AI is ripped directly from the campaign, which works then with only one player, but falls apart when 2 or more players are playing.
But the thing that disappoints me the most is that all of the maps are just ripped from Muiltiplayer, with no special maps or features designed especially for this mode, as one of the best things of MW2's Spec Ops was the excellent map design.
All in all it's still fun, but I think I'll stick to Treyarchs undead masterpeice.
MISSIONS
The bit I was waiting for, my absolute favourite bit of MW2. I spent many hours dicking around with my mates on this, and I am sad to say MW3 does not fulfil my expectations.
In MW2 the missions were diverse missions mixing skill, stealth and balls out fun into every mission. In MW3 there are only a few good missions, with most now becoming dull and gimmicky. 3/4's of the missions are actually lifted from the single player, just withh a different weapon or "do it quickly" pasted on the HUD. There are 16 missions this time around, but all of them can be unlocked through levelling up in survival mode, losing any of MW2 way to make you try out all the missions but not have to do one you don't want to do to progress.
OVERVIEW
I am disappointed as Spec Ops was one of MW2's most underrated gems and MW3 does not live up to those standards. BUT, although this review has been slightly on the down side, I hope everyone that has MW3 gives this a shot, as it still is and will be the best part of MW3 for me.
6/10
(due to Blogger glitching out on my laptop I will add pictures and fancy thing later.)
