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| shikamaru317 said: Why is the only review so far for MW3 from IGN and it's a 4/10? Did they break embargo or something? Also, 4/10 seems shockingly low, I know it was an expansion that was turned into a full game and given just 2 years of dev time as a result, and it's also by Sledgehammer, the worst of the 3 main CoD studios, but it can't actually be 4/10 rough can it? I was thinking it would get like a low 70 something average, because it at least gives people the very popular MW2 (2009) maps remade with modern graphics. |
It's a review for the Campaign only so the overall review will likely be higher but I'm expecting a lot of 6's and 7's for this CoD. Doesn't really matter though, CoD is review proof, Lol. The Campaign is like 4 hours long and reusing older content. I'm fully convinced that there was never meant to be a COD released in 2023 but they changed their mind either because they wanted to get out of the Sony marketing agreement so they turned MWII DLC into a full game or they wanted a full game because skipping a year would tank their stock, or it's a combination of both factors.
Under Microsoft they won't have to worry about skipping a year tanking their "valuation" though as they aren't on the stock exchange now and Xbox isn't even a blip on Microsoft's valuation, Lol. They'd have to worry about competition eating their lunch though by growing thanks to there not being a mainline COD release, COD drowns out the competition by releasing every single year and financially MS Gaming will take a hit which isn't really something people want to see, investors want constant growth. So I'm honestly not sure if MS will skip a year or not.
I do think Sledgehammer should be taken off mainline COD though, expand Infinity Ward and Treyarch and go back to just alternating between those two because they are easily the best COD developers. Sledgehammer can assist and work on something else if they want to. Think Infinity Ward and Treyarch would need like two fully staffed teams each though to alternate on a yearly basis, may need like 800 employees each.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 04 November 2023
