Considering how many people buy the game a lot of which get it for its multiplayer portion. What do you think? How does it stack up to the competition?(Strictly multiplayer no spec ops or survival)

My take personaly im pretty disappointed with it. Having played all since cod4 its probably the tied with Mw2 for the worst multiplayer.

  GENERAL MULTIPLAYER- Like i said its right about even with Mw2 even though it was terribly unbalanced. They fixed the unbalanced issues and did well there but they cut the health down. Guns handle just about the same recoil is still there if you get the kick proficiency does reduce this nothing terrible. Gun sway, i dont feel you'll get the kill before it really has any effect to me (if it even exists). The perks i havent gotten to much time with a lot of them are the same from past games. Guns mostly the same some wierd ones tossed in. Only played about 3-4 hours so i havent gotten to far in and unlocked all the guns or perks but like i said a lot are the same. 

  MAPS- This is the biggest problem to me. They have far to much clutter, so many flank points that its impossible to cover your ass, maps are all pretty small so in a couple of seconds your in the other teams bases. Where are all the classic/good maps like Ambush, Bog, Overgrown, Strike, Pipeline, Underpass, Terminal, Afgan, Derail, Estate, Invasion, Highrise, Rundown, Skidrow, Array, Cracked, Firing Range, Grid, Havana, Jungle, Nuketown, and WMD. All these maps give a view of a large portion of the map with minimal clutter around. In my time i played i ran into so much stuff it crazy. In Bf3 you can simply jump over stuff the way not here you have to run into it just right till it allows you to hop up, its just silly. Since they are so small it leads to  some  spawn kills because its not to hard to occupy a decent chunk of the map. I think it has the worst maps in the series so far.

  HIT DETECTION AND LAG- some will say it has less but i am still seeing the same crap going on, cant say im not surprised. This is Black ops' worst area was alright at the start but these days its pretty bad in both areas. 

  SOUND- explosions and guns sound like they are under water when they go off. Nothing great.

  GRAPHICS- Pretty bad to me. Worse than black ops.

  MENU- Virtually identical to Mw2, unfortunately. I really like what black ops did with the playercard/videos. I love when your in a game how you can check out the stats of people you are about to face. Now you can only check the amount of kills, plants, score per minute, couple others. Now i am sure going into Cod Elite and get more info and im sure that its the cats meow but i think its silly you need to leave the game to do all that. Its just a step back in my eyes. 

  KILLSTREAKS- Not to overpowered. Im guessing they made all the maps have a lot of indoor areas because of them. Basicly Mw2 with a couple of different ones tossed in and nuke out.

  To me Black Ops is much better than it. Its not the worst multiplayer ever its just not as good as past games in the series. The game feels alot like a map pack, lol.

 Also going from best to worst its like this in my eyes Cod4, Black Ops, Mw2=Mw3. Bf3 is definitely better in my eyes. 

I havent played it enough to give a proper opinion on it, but so far i like the Survival Mode i acually prefer it to the Zombies (i think i got tired of zombies though) as for the online i dont think its as good as Black Ops which is probably the best one ive played.

They took out alot of stuff, things like playercards, the Wager Matchs, i personally enjoyed One in the Chmaber, Sticks and Stones etc, i dont see why they took them out. Kill Confirmed isnt that good either just a poor mans TDM.

The maps are way to small and cluttered. Blops had small maps but they worked great, kinda like cod4 maps. The lag is much worse then any past CoDs, i just jumped on and had some matches in MW2 it was great, still 23k playing it on PS3.

Regarding sound its worse then MW2, much harder to sound whore people in MW3. Tried with 3 different devices to hear the footsteps and can barely make them out. MW2 with sitrep pro cross map hearing footsteps is amazing :D MW3 guns also sound so simliar, each gun in past cods i could tell them apart by the sound from across map. I've also noticed the surround sound is worse then before, some guys shooting off right next to me and i don't hear it.

Its way to easy to get destroyed when playing aswell. Countless games so far everyone on one side has gone positive, only seen that once in blops. The UAVs are also much harder to shoot down due to all the buildings and they fly lower and blend in with the sky. In MW2 they flew high and really stood out.

I wonder if they made all the maps horrible on purpose to force all players to buy the DLC. They need the map packs out right now. Just toss up MW2 maps on the store and call it a day until the normal DLC is complete. Toss up the cod4 ones aswell and just get rid of the MW3 ones.

So far fine except for one thing. In Domination it didn't tell me how many captures I made. Black Ops had this, how hard is it to add that, really? Only played 3 maps, already level 5 from those games, they really need to make it harder to level up in these games.

I don't have any problems with lag.. I'm on the PS3 version.. is NAT open? Do you live somewhere in the middle of nowhere? it perfectly finds the nearest players to me with ping less the 50ms..

yeah the maps are too small, getting shot around every corner bumping into someone.. but still it has a nice fast pace feel to it.. like Quake 3

I've been playing on the 360 with NAT open, the games i join are all at 50ms ping and 90% of the time i have a 4bar.  The lag seems to get worse if they give me host.  I have 15mb down .5 up with fast ping times. 

Maps are too small, I will still play it occasionally with friends but for the moment Gears has the better multiplayer.
Spec ops is fun though, they did well on that.

The biggest problems with MW3 is a graphics letdown and maps being to small.

Suprisingly the campaign is pretty solid and spec ops is great.

MP is still crazy and fun.

However I would not trust your guys reviews, as many said MW2 multiplayer sucked and yet millions played it. Black Ops multi sucks yet millions played it. Lets see what happens..

if the maps were bigger it'd be better.

Best MP IMO. Much better than Black Ops.