CoD's biggest strong point is its tightness and responsiveness of controls, and it's pretty much one of the few multiplatform games that actually handles well on consoles, whereas you'll see in the Frostbite engine for example, the controls are extremely sluggish and the game simply isn't worth playing at all on consoles, but on PC the weak controls can be compensated for with a keyboard + mouse, albeit it is still noticable for any serious, and especially, competetive gamer. MW3 will have larger maps this time around since IW 5.0 can handle(inb4 BF fanboy snark) it while BF players have enjoyed this from the early days.
While BF3's engine may be inherently incapable of allowing the smoothness of controls/handling MW3 has, it offers vehicles, massive maps, larger scale battles, and of course destructibility, although it's unsure to what extent the destructibility is a necessary feature, although IW 5.0 supposedly introduces a smaller scale version of Frostbite style destructibility but I suppose we'll see all that on Sep 3rd in the CoD XP videos, but it can be said BF3 is certainly creeping up on MW3 in terms of marketshare and the fact it is being downloaded most on digital distribution platforms means much more profit per sale going to the developers than if we bought physical copies. It would be nice if MW3 at least added some small extras for PC gamers, I mean sure their primary platform is X360 where they will sell at least 75% more than they did previously according to consistent trends in the CoD series(which is approx 13M) so we can expect at least 23 million sales on X360 alone, but that will be for physical copies.
Anyway, MW3's IW 5.0 sounds like it could be packing some major heat, especially if the rumors regarding destructibility are true. All I can say is, BF3 alpha was awesome, and I can't wait to play a new BF3 build during beta since the alpha version is supposedly really old and was only for server stress testing purposes. Most people that play CoD games on mid-level PCs get like 120-200+ FPS, all I'm asking for is some slightly better visuals on the PC version, I want max settings to drop me to 40-50 FPS.
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