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Does this make you want to pick this up now?

Yes 7 21.88%
 
No 12 37.50%
 
Still low, but its a DS g... 4 12.50%
 
other 1 3.13%
 
see resultz 8 25.00%
 
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oniyide on 09 November 2011
spurgeonryan said:

For a DS game, a 70 Percent is not that bad. So if you are looking for this game on the go this Christmas, it might be a good one to pick up.

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: Defiance DS review Whenever each new Call Of Duty game is released on home consoles it's inevitable that the DS version, released on the same day, is roundly ignored by most. It's a shame really because these handheld titles, developed by n-Space, are usually decent little games in their own right.

This year the game in question is Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3: Defiance, a shooter with a unique storyline set during the same time period as that of the console games.

As with the other DS Call Of Duty games it pushes the hardware to its limits with detailed environments and oodles of in-game speech. The limitations of the DS are made more apparent when you start playing however as the AI is fairly atrocious and enemies don't react very realistically when shot.

Air support areas - where you move around with the D-Pad and tap on the touch screen to tell ground units where to move - are sluggish and limited, but these niggles aside it's a half-decent DS shooter with some fun online multiplayer for up to six players.

It's just a shame n-Space wasn't ready to make the step up to the 3DS yet because the added power could have made this one truly special.

 

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  Not without its flaws but an impressive shooter given the limitations of the hardware   70%  

 

THis is wrong, N-space wanted to develop for 3DS, Activision told them no.  They were forced to stick with 3DS



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oniyide on 09 November 2011

http://ds.ign.com/articles/118/1186929p1.html

Thats a link to the article right there, so you know im not BSing.



Wagram on 09 November 2011

Score sounds about right.



oniyide on 09 November 2011
spurgeonryan said:
oniyide said:
http://ds.ign.com/articles/118/1186929p1.html

Thats a link to the article right there, so you know im not BSing.


I believe you. I did not write it. That is from the site I got the score from. I think it would do a lot better on the 3DS.


Between you and me, I believe it would do a hell of alot better on 3DS. It is a fairly new system, a popluar IP and not that much competition. It seems that the DS versions dont have a good rep as sales have actually gotten worse since the first release on DS, a new system could have been a new start.



oniyide on 10 November 2011
spurgeonryan said:
oniyide said:
spurgeonryan said:
oniyide said:
http://ds.ign.com/articles/118/1186929p1.html

Thats a link to the article right there, so you know im not BSing.


I believe you. I did not write it. That is from the site I got the score from. I think it would do a lot better on the 3DS.


Between you and me, I believe it would do a hell of alot better on 3DS. It is a fairly new system, a popluar IP and not that much competition. It seems that the DS versions dont have a good rep as sales have actually gotten worse since the first release on DS, a new system could have been a new start.

I dont see why it was not put on the 3DS. I think they just wanted to play it safe, or it was decided back when the 3DS was doing bad.


You just answered your own question, or a third option is that they were just to damn cheap to have them work on more powerful hardware, that might explain why there was only one PSP game in the series, despite it selling better than just about all DS iterations. Or hell it could be all of the above



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oniyide on 10 November 2011
spurgeonryan said:
People missed out then. I have a cod game for the ds it was fun and the graphics were not that bad.


I played it didnt like it, and judging from sales, i dont think most people did either.  I just dont think people are willing to settle for what they see as a weaker version of a game that they mostl likely already have.  No matter how good they can make it, it will always be perceived as a weaker version of the HD games. It is what it is.