CoD is the Michael Bay moment of gaming’s winter months, and just like Michael Bay, you’re either gonna love it or hate it. That’s pretty nutty no matter how you cut it, but is it worth the hype? We’ll give Battlefield 3 its own in-depth spotlight another time, but for now let’s take a look at how the latest video game blockbuster from developers Infinity Ward and Sledgehammer Games turned out.īlockbuster is certainly a term that applies to this franchise in every way. Looking back on Modern Warfare 3’s release, opening day sales were to the tune of about 6.5 million. Also, as if that wasn’t enough, a second truck was robbed later by three more threatening thieves! If it wasn’t such a grim incident, it would pretty much sound exactly like a level in a Call of Duty game. The criminals blocked the road with a car and attacked the drivers with tear gas as they exited the truck, absconding with their ill-gained goodies. In one particularly intense instance, armed robbers in France hijacked two trucks loaded with thousands of copies of Modern Warfare 3. I appreciate the tenacious campaigns of both, but folks weren’t holding your average Joe up at gunpoint (seriously) for copies of Battlefield 3. Regardless of which side you fall on, if any, it’s clear now that the dust has somewhat settled that Call of Duty remains a powerful, formidable franchise. There are those who love and play both and, more vocally, those who stay firmly in one camp or the other. One of the biggest of the year came back to the thankfully strong-as-ever subgenre of war games, pitting EA’s Battlefield 3 in a tooth-and-claw battle against Activision’s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Sure, it’s easy to sit in the future and reflect calmly on what was yet another ridiculously packed time of year as far as entertainment goes, but those of us living in the present (past?) are still making life’s tough decisions. The 2011 holiday season has been brutal, and as of this writing it’s really only just begun.
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