Cod MW3 VS Battlefield 3

Battlefield 3 is better

I give this thread an "Original/10"

SP MW3...MP Battlefield 3

correct me if I'm wrong

This is like crips and bloods man, this topic will NOT end well....

That being said, COD>>>>>>BF, COD 4 LIFE DAWG!

bf43 was better than both of them.

too bad it never got a map pack.

Multiplayer and on PC = Battlefield 3

Single player, co-op and on consoles = Modern Warfare 3

MW3.

halo>both

MW3.

landofcookies

Id say it depends WAY more on the person who plays those games, then the games themselves.

gameplaywise in MP they are very different, and a matter of taste.

In SP MW3 has an edge (altho its not saying much, its not really like it is a good SP campaign, it just sucks less then the BF3 one). And CO-OP feels a bit similar to me (well the BF3 CO-OP has more of a mp feel to it I suppose).

If you take the PC version, I would say that BF3 wins in my oppinion, on Console, I suspect I would give it to MW3 tho. (Despite me not being the biggest CoD fan in the world)

For me, Modern Warfare 3 is the better game, and a much much better package.

Modern Warfare 3 for one thing, wraps up the trilogy nicely with an excellent campaign that nearly reaches the highs of COD4, and even exceeds it in some ways. The level "Blood Brothers" is absolutly amazing. Cod's scripting and setpieces proves unmatched by any other developer who often over scripts to compensate for lackluster gameplay. COD constantly changes what you're doing, sometimes takes control away, but gives you something fun to do, then switches you back before you get bored.

Then theres spec ops, a fantasic third pillar of gameplay. First off, the missions are fabolous, and get more challenging later on. They still include the spectacle of the campaign, and even reverse the perspective, like being the hijackers on the plane. Then survival mode is easily one of the better horde modes, with a seperate leveling up system, shops to buy weapons, perks, air support etc. And several maps shipped in with the game (to be fair, they are just MP maps)

Then the multiplayer, same as always, but better. It has more this and that, but also subtle refinements. The new maps are good, Resistance being an early favourite. The support package now also means that even the less talented of players can get awesome killstreaks. Also, several differnent modes that cater to just about anyone, custom matches and COD's awesome new elite (that is surprisngly good for the stuff you get for free) aswell as splitscreen support onlne make the MP a fantastic improvement over MW2.

And all of this here, is coming from a Battlefield fan who's been with the series since 1942 (the game not the year lol)

bf43 was better than both of them.

too bad it never got a map pack.

Riverwolf007

Ah yes, it really deserved more. It, in my opinion, is better than any Battlefield game of recent times

BF3. Can't say more than that.

For me, Modern Warfare 3 is the better game, and a much much better package.

Modern Warfare 3 for one thing, wraps up the trilogy nicely with an excellent campaign that nearly reaches the highs of COD4, and even exceeds it in some ways. The level "Blood Brothers" is absolutly amazing. Cod's scripting and setpieces proves unmatched by any other developer who often over scripts to compensate for lackluster gameplay. COD constantly changes what you're doing, sometimes takes control away, but gives you something fun to do, then switches you back before you get bored.

Then theres spec ops, a fantasic third pillar of gameplay. First off, the missions are fabolous, and get more challenging later on. They still include the spectacle of the campaign, and even reverse the perspective, like being the hijackers on the plane. Then survival mode is easily one of the better horde modes, with a seperate leveling up system, shops to buy weapons, perks, air support etc. And several maps shipped in with the game (to be fair, they are just MP maps)

Then the multiplayer, same as always, but better. It has more this and that, but also subtle refinements. The new maps are good, Resistance being an early favourite. The support package now also means that even the less talented of players can get awesome killstreaks. Also, several differnent modes that cater to just about anyone, custom matches and COD's awesome new elite (that is surprisngly good for the stuff you get for free) aswell as splitscreen support onlne make the MP a fantastic improvement over MW2.

And all of this here, is coming from a Battlefield fan who's been with the series since 1942 (the game not the year lol)

OB-47

Like the Battlefield games before it, I enjoy Battlefield 3, but I agree. I play games to be entertained... and Modern Warfare 3 is thoroughy entertaining.

It depends. I'll probably end up spending more time on Battlefield 3's multiplayer. As far as competitive multiplayer Battlefiled 3 is fantastic. However, i really enjoyed MW3's campaign, and spec ops is great.

Basically, Battlefield 3 is the better for competitive multiplayer, while MW3 is better for co-op and campaign.

Also, a lot of people complain about Bf3's campaign. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it is a fun diversion and is not nearly as bad as most people say that it is.

BF3 heads and shoulders... as far MP is concerned which is why , lets be reaL, ANYONE PLAYS EITHER GAME

They are similar in more ways people are willing to admit. While older installations of BF were clearly a lot different.

It depends. I'll probably end up spending more time on Battlefield 3's multiplayer. As far as competitive multiplayer Battlefiled 3 is fantastic. However, i really enjoyed MW3's campaign, and spec ops is great.

Basically, Battlefield 3 is the better for competitive multiplayer, while MW3 is better for co-op and campaign.

Also, a lot of people complain about Bf3's campaign. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it is a fun diversion and is not nearly as bad as most people say that it is.

webhead921

People complain because it completes misses the mark of what makes COD's campaign so successful, and also feels like a cheap rip off of COD's campaign. sure it's somewhat enjoyable to some people, but DICE really has alot of catching up to do with IW/Sledge if they want their next sp to be something special. They should probably try to make it unique, because competing with the masters of cinematic FPS is suicide

Played both and they are both mediocre. BF3 has huge balancing issues(IRNV, F2000, A-91, Mortars list goes on.) and the maps are extremely disappointing. You have the huge maps with at the flags right next to each other, so really you're only using like 50% of the map the entire game. MW3 has graphical glitches and the same ole gameplay from COD4 with these extremly tight and cramped maps. It comes down to what you like in a FPS. If you enjoy pure infantry get COD, if not get BF3. Personally I'm sticking with TF2, a game that requires actual team work and has pretty much no balancing issues.

Both games suck imo. And really as far as shooting mechanics go they play extacly the same.

OB-47, The battlefield campaign does suffer from trying to hard to be like COD, and is ultimately less satisfying, but it is still enjoyable. However, the superior audio/visual presentation, the feel of the guns, and being a lot less frantic/crazy than COD might make some people favor it over COD.

Still, the BF3 campaign has nothing on Bad Company and Bad Company 2. I really enjoyed those.

There is no doubt that MW3 destroys the CoD wannabe BattleFail 3 in terms of quality. EOD.

There is no doubt that MW3 destroys the CoD wannabe BattleFail 3 in terms of quality. EOD.

landofcookies

"BattleFail 3"

Wow man, that's a good insult. You come up with that all by yourself? I remember coming up for names for things I didn't like when I was back in 2nd grade. It was a lot of fun. To bad I've grown out of it.

[QUOTE="webhead921"]

It depends. I'll probably end up spending more time on Battlefield 3's multiplayer. As far as competitive multiplayer Battlefiled 3 is fantastic. However, i really enjoyed MW3's campaign, and spec ops is great.

Basically, Battlefield 3 is the better for competitive multiplayer, while MW3 is better for co-op and campaign.

Also, a lot of people complain about Bf3's campaign. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it is a fun diversion and is not nearly as bad as most people say that it is.

OB-47

People complain because it completes misses the mark of what makes COD's campaign so successful, and also feels like a cheap rip off of COD's campaign. sure it's somewhat enjoyable to some people, but DICE really has alot of catching up to do with IW/Sledge if they want their next sp to be something special. They should probably try to make it unique, because competing with the masters of cinematic FPS is suicide

I feel like I would have enjoyed the single player more if gave me more freedom and at least tried to be original. Everyone forgets how open Crysis and Bad Company were in the single player, and heck, Call of Duty 4 only had like two missions where you HAD to follow a guy to the next set piece (including All Ghillied up). Every other mission basically gave you a gun, a bunch of allie and said "go from here to here, I don't care how you do it, there are a bunch of rooftops and alleyways GO!"

BF3 was the most linear campaign I've ever played outside of a bona fide rail shooter. It also doesn't help that I've seen EVERY SINGLE SET PIECE reskinned from another game. MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD, DON'T READ IF YOU ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT BF3'S STORY:

- The part where you have rubble fall on you after the earthquake and lose your allies while watching a couple get dragged off was just like the beginning of Rainbow Six Vegas, where you get covered in rubble after an explosion and lose your allies while watching them get dragged off. Bonus points since the entire level after is sneaking and shooting in the dark on the way to a chopper escape.

- The Going Hunting missions was just a big rail shooter level at the start, and somehoe reminded me of the level in Black Ops where you control the chopper. Unlike Black Ops, you don't actually control the plane, just kill a few guys with a lock on rocket and go on your way.

- The second part was just the AC-130 mission from Call of Duty 4, without any sense of danger. They force you to switch at predetermined points, and if you try to switch to another weapon the game slaps your hand and tells you to use what they want you to. Bonus points since all the enemies on the ground don't actually show up at once, they just take turns so your hand can be held the whole way.

- The whole plot (trying to stop a nuclear war between Russia and the US started by a madman while also being interrogated as a traitor) is basically Call of Duty 4 + Black Ops.

- The sniper mission where you have to capture whatshisface dictator is just like a mix of All Ghillied Up and World at War's sniper mission.

- The sequence where Miller gets executed is basically the same as the intro credits sequence of CoD4, except without seeing the war torn town and the price of war, and missing the audience and sunlight, plus they use a knife instead of a Desert Eagle.

- The part where you have to take down the jet with a stinger while avoiding gunfire from it and taking cover was admittedly cool, but it was like a shorter, less cool verion of "Hunted" from Call of Duty 4, where you have to take down a chopper with a stinger while avoiding gunfire from it and taking cover.

I'll say the last few missions (Kaffarov and the end) were more unique, but they were both bogged down by terrible design choices. Both were linear, Kaffarov ended with a terrible QTE (that didn't even pop up), and the final mission just destroyed any sense of logic in how little sense it made. Blackburn manages to get on the EXACT train? At the EXACT right time? EXACTLY as it passes 5 feet from the building he was in? Then the final mission has a driving sequence kind of like Game Over from CoD4, but oh wait you don't actually use your gun. You get tossed out and go into another QTE.

Honestly, BF3's campaign was a big joke and I feel like remembering it makes me hate it more then I remember hating it. They should have stuck to single player or at least hired some competent single player devs.

Still, better then Medal of Honor's single player.

[QUOTE="landofcookies"]

There is no doubt that MW3 destroys the CoD wannabe BattleFail 3 in terms of quality. EOD.

Wasdie

"BattleFail 3"

Wow man, that's a good insult. You come up with that all by yourself? I remember coming up for names for things I didn't like when I was back in 2nd grade. It was a lot of fun. To bad I've grown out of it.

You must not have heard its sister variant: Battleflop 3

Its a great game, I feel like people here are too quick to jump on a .5 difference in expectations when its still fantastic.

[QUOTE="landofcookies"]

There is no doubt that MW3 destroys the CoD wannabe BattleFail 3 in terms of quality. EOD.

Wasdie

"BattleFail 3"

Wow man, that's a good insult. You come up with that all by yourself? I remember coming up for names for things I didn't like when I was back in 2nd grade. It was a lot of fun. To bad I've grown out of it.

Here's a few

Battle of fail 3

Fail of battle 3

Failfield 3

Best I could do haha :P

[QUOTE="Wasdie"]

[QUOTE="landofcookies"]

There is no doubt that MW3 destroys the CoD wannabe BattleFail 3 in terms of quality. EOD.

SPYDER0416

"BattleFail 3"

Wow man, that's a good insult. You come up with that all by yourself? I remember coming up for names for things I didn't like when I was back in 2nd grade. It was a lot of fun. To bad I've grown out of it.

You must not have heard its sister variant: Battleflop 3

Its a great game, I feel like people here are too quick to jump on a .5 difference in expectations when its still fantastic.

You mad BF3 flopped while MW3 met hype. You mad MW3 destroyed BF3 in sales and online activity.

[QUOTE="SPYDER0416"]

[QUOTE="Wasdie"]

"BattleFail 3"

Wow man, that's a good insult. You come up with that all by yourself? I remember coming up for names for things I didn't like when I was back in 2nd grade. It was a lot of fun. To bad I've grown out of it.

landofcookies

You must not have heard its sister variant: Battleflop 3

Its a great game, I feel like people here are too quick to jump on a .5 difference in expectations when its still fantastic.

You mad BF3 flopped while MW3 met hype. You mad MW3 destroyed BF3 in sales and online activity.

Of course not! I love both games, and to be honest I was expecting BF3 to get a similar score since I never expected the single player and campaign to ever live up to MW3's (which would have accounted for the score I'd say)

And honestly, I don't think anyone in the world expected sales to match up, but I don't care about what other people play. I care about what I play, and I play Battlefield 3 AND MW3, not caring who plays it unless they're my buddies and have a nice online player count for me to find matches with (which both have).

Both games are great, for different reasons. I'm burned out on MW multiplayer, but BF3 is something I have a blast with as long as I have buddies. At the same time, I can only stomach BF3's co-op to get the gun unlocks, but MW3 definitely has co-op down to a science with survival and spec ops.

Most original thread of the year confirmed? :o

I like BF3 better. I opted for this game over Mw3 because I just wanted something new. Pretty damn fun game.. stupid **** tactical lights though.

You mad BF3 flopped while MW3 met hype. You mad MW3 destroyed BF3 in sales and online activity.

landofcookies

But I'm not, I'm just pointing out your childish stupidity. I don't give a rat's ass about what other games people play.

stupid **** tactical lights though.

MLBknights58

They really are the worst, though personally I have them third on my list of things that frustrate me on BF3.

USAS 12 FRAG rounds and unskilled jet pilots that hover over the enemy jet spawn point to be the only jet in the air are my two worst concerns (seriously, on Rush there is NO defense, at least Conquest jet spawn points are protected with an invincible AA turret).

halo>both

almasdeathchild

Which one is better?Tony-Baxter

Now I too have a horsebitingmaninshoulder image. What do you have to say to that?

There is no doubt that MW3 destroys the CoD wannabe BattleFail 3 in terms of quality. EOD.

landofcookies

[QUOTE="landofcookies"]

There is no doubt that MW3 destroys the CoD wannabe BattleFail 3 in terms of quality. EOD.

cainetao11

Plus the metacritic scores for their lead platforms are exactly the same as well.

Modern Warfare 3 on Xbox 360 = 89

Battlefield 3 on PC = 89

[QUOTE="landofcookies"]

There is no doubt that MW3 destroys the CoD wannabe BattleFail 3 in terms of quality. EOD.

cainetao11

Nobody cares about BF3 in the real world, let's be realistic lmfao.

MW3 for SP

BF3 for MP

halo>both

almasdeathchild

[QUOTE="webhead921"]

It depends. I'll probably end up spending more time on Battlefield 3's multiplayer. As far as competitive multiplayer Battlefiled 3 is fantastic. However, i really enjoyed MW3's campaign, and spec ops is great.

Basically, Battlefield 3 is the better for competitive multiplayer, while MW3 is better for co-op and campaign.

Also, a lot of people complain about Bf3's campaign. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it is a fun diversion and is not nearly as bad as most people say that it is.

OB-47

People complain because it completes misses the mark of what makes COD's campaign so successful, and also feels like a cheap rip off of COD's campaign. sure it's somewhat enjoyable to some people, but DICE really has alot of catching up to do with IW/Sledge if they want their next sp to be something special. They should probably try to make it unique, because competing with the masters of cinematic FPS is suicide

the thing is people complain its to much like a cod rip off SP wise,but I remember MOH being nothing like cod in SP and it still got bashed by some reviewers for not having explosions 24/7 like cod. I honestly enjoy MOH sp more then MW2 and BO sp.

[QUOTE="OB-47"]

[QUOTE="webhead921"]

It depends. I'll probably end up spending more time on Battlefield 3's multiplayer. As far as competitive multiplayer Battlefiled 3 is fantastic. However, i really enjoyed MW3's campaign, and spec ops is great.

Basically, Battlefield 3 is the better for competitive multiplayer, while MW3 is better for co-op and campaign.

Also, a lot of people complain about Bf3's campaign. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it is a fun diversion and is not nearly as bad as most people say that it is.

finalfantasy94

People complain because it completes misses the mark of what makes COD's campaign so successful, and also feels like a cheap rip off of COD's campaign. sure it's somewhat enjoyable to some people, but DICE really has alot of catching up to do with IW/Sledge if they want their next sp to be something special. They should probably try to make it unique, because competing with the masters of cinematic FPS is suicide

the thing is people complain its to much like a cod rip off SP wise,but I remember MOH being nothing like cod in SP and it still got bashed by some reviewers for not having explosions 24/7 like cod. I honestly enjoy MOH sp more then MW2 and BO sp.

Yeah, I somewhat enjoyed MOH's Sp, but it was pretty deriative, and heaviy handedly linear. Whether you like MOH's sp better is up to you, but MW2 had much better level design. BO was crap though

Multiplayer and on PC = Battlefield 3

Single player, co-op and on consoles = Modern Warfare 3

SPYDER0416

I don't really get why so many people bash MW3's campaign. It was a lot of fun. But Battlefield 3's competitive mutliplayer is so much better

[QUOTE="cainetao11"][QUOTE="landofcookies"]

There is no doubt that MW3 destroys the CoD wannabe BattleFail 3 in terms of quality. EOD.

landofcookies

Nobody cares about BF3 in the real world, let's be realistic lmfao.

[QUOTE="OB-47"]

[QUOTE="webhead921"]

It depends. I'll probably end up spending more time on Battlefield 3's multiplayer. As far as competitive multiplayer Battlefiled 3 is fantastic. However, i really enjoyed MW3's campaign, and spec ops is great.

Basically, Battlefield 3 is the better for competitive multiplayer, while MW3 is better for co-op and campaign.

Also, a lot of people complain about Bf3's campaign. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it is a fun diversion and is not nearly as bad as most people say that it is.

finalfantasy94

People complain because it completes misses the mark of what makes COD's campaign so successful, and also feels like a cheap rip off of COD's campaign. sure it's somewhat enjoyable to some people, but DICE really has alot of catching up to do with IW/Sledge if they want their next sp to be something special. They should probably try to make it unique, because competing with the masters of cinematic FPS is suicide

the thing is people complain its to much like a cod rip off SP wise,but I remember MOH being nothing like cod in SP and it still got bashed by some reviewers for not having explosions 24/7 like cod. I honestly enjoy MOH sp more then MW2 and BO sp.

Medal of Honor actually took more then a few cues from Call of Duty in its gameplay and set pieces (the whole "follow me", along with some levels and set pieces being the same), and even if it didn't the game as a whole wasn't that great. AI was buggy and terrible (twice I had to restart a level because an ally that opened doors for me got stuck on a wall), the game was somehow even shorter then the FPS standard, and it lacked content (with very few guns and no changes in setting or gameplay). Plus just because they decided to make it in a real world setting, doesn't mean it won't evoke memories of the mid east levels in CoD4 and MW2.

[QUOTE="cainetao11"][QUOTE="landofcookies"]

There is no doubt that MW3 destroys the CoD wannabe BattleFail 3 in terms of quality. EOD.

landofcookies

Nobody cares about BF3 in the real world, let's be realistic lmfao.

BF3 kicks the **** out of MW3. It's multiplayer is literally better in every imaginable way.

I dunno about consoles but 64 player conquest and 32 player rush are awesome on PC, way better than anything in MW3.

Although I will say that you really need to be playing with people you know to get the most out of a BF game.