Call of Duty: MW3 PC Sales and review

Thats the scale we know CoD for..a Big Hollywood Apocalypse Movie kinda feels

Prelude: Well its has been a long journey, 4 years and 3 iterations and mega millions of dedicated fan base and around Rs 5000 crore worth of day 1 sales and more than 25000 crore worth total sales,a rabid following since the Genre changing Infinity Ward product Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.After the humongous MW2, IW is back with MW3 and this time with some reinforcements piped down by the Big Daddy Activision.So could the Company and workforce of newly formed Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software fill the void created by the Top brass of IW being fired including the mentors Jason West and Wince Zampella and the answer is "NO".

Story: If taken as a standalone FPS,it is cut above rest.I won't spoil the story but it picks form where MW2 left with our fav Hero Soap being brought to a safe house in Himachal Pradesh.The world is ravaged by a "Will of a Single man"..Makarov and its time we end this.The game encompasses half the Globe with mission in major cities of Europe, USA and Africa.The Airplane Mission stands out. At 5-6 hours Campaign length the game offers great value for time and money and the best climax one could have asked for.Hollywood must take a queue what a "Villain" shall be and how he must be put to his correct place i.e 6 feet underground or 6 feet above ground :D.

One of the most emotional moment of Game, this might lead to a mass fan protest.

But as an Iteration to MW2, it certainly dissapoints.The game seems rushed especially when it comes to attention to detail for which IW was famous for.Many levels are recycled form past two games even the sister concern one and you sometimes get the feeling of "Being there Done that".The Himachal Pradesh mission dissapoints as it dosen't look like India and there is no mention of IA or IAF or ven police while Price and Nikolai blow shit up but the European Cities are made to strike awe.The third act is pretty monotonous and you can predict before even you press your index finger.

1920X1080p full HD resolution, simply amazing.

Gameplay: IW has applied successfully and it can surely flaunt "Why fix that ain't broken".They have just modified and upgraded the last IW4 engine and thats a good news as it ain't so hungry as frostbite 2.The game runs smooth on High settings but the color palette is a bit quaint.Its a CoD game with all the fun and thrills a CoD has been serving us from late 2003.You get to man a UGV,Predator, Chopper machine gun controls and UAV..its fun though I don't think I might return back to revisit any of them.There are all kinda a missions, stealth to slam bam bang on your head spray bullets kinda mission but I remember none which I might love to recall. The Gunplay as as stasfying as a Formula 1 ferrari.

Verdict: So finally we can say that MW3 is an awesome game but just good sequel to the amazing MW2.

there goes the iron lady.

FINAL VERDICT= 4/5.

SOME AWESOME NEWS:

A reported 1.5 million people queued at midnight globally to get their hands on Modern Warfare 3, with a total of 9.3 million copies sold on the first day. The Xbox 360 version sees around a 54% share, meaning it's the first game on one platform to pass 5 million on its first day. The PlayStation 3 version held 42%, which is around the 4 million mark. Both day ones are only slightly behind Black Ops entire first week sales. The PC version and the Wii version held the remaining 4%, which is around 370,000 units.

As a whole, Modern Warfare 3 is up 33% over Black Ops' first day sales, and a whopping 55% up on the previous Modern Warfare. the US and the UK combined account for 7 million, which is just over 75%.

Early data suggests first week sales are on course for around 12 to 13.5 million. With just over 87 million Call of Duty games already sold on home consoles and PC this generation, by the end of this week the Call of Duty franchise will have sold over 100 million games this generation.

The Game holds a METACRITIC score of 90 currently.

Call of Duty comes to India.

kotaku came into possession of a gold pile that had revealing information on the highly anticipated but obvious sequel to mega million seller Call of Duty: Modern warfare 2.
IW along with Raven software(Wolfenstien,Singularity) and Sledgehammer Games are supposedly working on the game to meet the Nov 8 deadline.

Out of the many leaks the credible one include box art,story continuity,multiplayer levels and weapons,the most prominent was the "Levels" leak that included:

* Dharmasala, India

* New York, New York

* A plane transporting the president of Russia

* A town in Sierra Leone

* London, England

* Mogadishu, Somalia

* Hamburg, Germany

* Paris, France

* Prague, Czech Republic

* A castle in the Czech mountains

* Berlin, Germany

* The Kremlin in Moscow, Russia

* Dubai, United Arab Emirates

* Washington. D.C.



So Call of Duty for the second time features Asia and first time India.One can speculate a "Chinese angle" in that mission.The Indo-Tibet-Chinese conflict is quite serious now.

4 teasers are already online.
Waiting for Nov 8.

source:kotaku

Next Article:The Biggest mash up ever : MW3 vs BF3

Box office predictions 2011

I really don't know what the hollywood studios were thinking for putting up such a busy summer?

1.Pirates will be doing $100+ mill first weekend
2.but wait you have Panda 2 and Hangover 2 next week
3.Already 3 big movies in 2 weeks and we have X-men 4 which will be crushed and end up less than $40 mill first weekend but ww well.
4.next we have Super 8,already 4 big movies in 3 weeks,it will garner a pathetic $20 mill opening.
5.Now come June 17 we got GL..$60-70 opening
6.But before GL touches stratosphere,we have a PIXAR sureshot Car 2,kids dominate everytime so GL wings will be cut and end result it will end below $120 mill overall domestically.
7.Come July 1 you got Trans 3,the second $100 mill opening weekend of year and first $1 billionaire ww.
8.Come 15 you have a sureshot HP8..damn
9.Sorry to say,Cap will be crushed byt HP8,opening second with 35-40 mill mark
10.Come July 29 we get the 2nd biggest bomb of year after mars needs mom with the unintentional western cocktail Cowgals and Alihans!!!
11.come Aug 5 we have Rise of Apes
So in all,few good movies will end up 1/2 or 1/3rd money they deserved that Includes Cap America,Super8 and maybe X-men5.I didn't even mention the plethora of comedies coming this summer.

Thor making $400 is respectable and equivalent to $550 of Iron man as Iron man never faced a well set franchise like Fast Five.and Pirates,Panda 2 are way bigger than Indy 4.

So 2011 boxoffice ww shall be something like this.
1.HP8 over $1 bill
2.Trans 3 nearly $1 bill
3.Panda 2..over $850 mill ww
4.Tintin big very big.
5.Pirates 4 round $750 mill
6.Twishit 3/Sherlock Holmes 2 600-700 mill
7.car2 over $550 mill ww
8. Fast five over $550 mill
9.Chipmunks 3
10. MI4
11. Rio/Happy feet 2
12. GL around $450
13. Thor $430 mill
14.X-men 5 around $350 mill ww
15.hangover 2 $270 mill
16.Cap America $250 mill
17. Rise of Apes $240 mill

17.Cowgals and ALihans $230mill
18. Green Horner/Rango/Super8/
watch out for Hugo cabret and Anonymous.

Bombs:mars Needs Moms,Conan,Cowboys n Aliens,Real Steel,Spy kids 4,Three Musketeers,Puss in boots.

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FANBOYS: Episode 1 BlueRay Vs HD-DVD: The PS3 hack Case

Mr Fido: Blu-ray is not SD or HD Donferri. Its a storage medium. What the guy was pointing out is that the data stored on them is the same. Putting something in a bigger box doesn't make it bigger. You are paying more money for the same data except it has been re encoded with parameters to STRETCH it to a larger size mathematically so it will render at higher resolutions. You can do the same thing using an upscaler on the standard DVD version and you would get the same quality.
Also, blu ray disc are slow (this is why most things on the PS3 MUST install before you play them) and a lot of that data in the game is duplicate data use to increase load times. Go look at the size almost any ps3 game that has been uploaded to the internet. Most of them could fit on a regular dvd because all of the padding and dummy files have been removed. The only ones that can't are the ones that are loaded with uncompressed voice data and HD CG movies and FMVs.

Mr. Frudo: Seems like you don't know anything about storage size and resolutions. Ofcourse blue ray is a storage medium that it allows HD (1080p) resolution possible. Smaller medium forces compression which results in lower quality. Upscaling allows it to multiply the pixels into 1080p level but you don't get the same quality as HD video with uncompressed audio. Higher resolution doesn't automatically mean higher quality. Also, blue ray disc is not slow, its the medium of reading the disc is slow, read speeds are getting faster with new players. Anyone who thinks that 25gb (blue ray) is same as 5gb (DVD) is probably suffering from serious mental disorder.


Mr. Frido: No apparently you don't know anything HD. You can put an HD video on a CD. It just wouldn't be a very big one.
Just like the rest of the ignorant fanboys on here, you are confusing capability with what is being done or either you can't read. No one said that the movie "couldn't" be better quality on a blu-ray. We are saying that it "wasn't".
The point was that you are paying more for the same data. They could have made the videos higher quality but they didn't. Blu-Ray is just a bigger box. It doesn't alter the data held on it in anyway.
Anyone who says that someone said that bluray is the same is a dvd when they didn't is probably suffering from a "severe" mental disorder. Go back to school and learn how to read and conjugate vocabulary.



Mr. Frudo: have ya ever used a Blue-Ray?


Mr. Frido:Blu Ray itself does nothing amazing. It utilizes MPEG2 (which is supported by standard DVD) as well as H.264 (the current codec for "HD" content). As a previous poster already stated, the limitation of DVD is not which codec is used, but how much data can be stored. A really long movie using no compression, won't fit on most DVDs, even DS/DL DVDs. On the other hand, a short high definition video can easily fit.

Ultimately, what Blu Ray allows for, is the ability to store long videos without the need to use compression or multiple layers (currently, the largest DVD can hold ~18GB if it is double-sided and quadruple layered). However, all of that space is squandered because most (not all) Blu Ray movies are pressed using the same master file that is used to press a DVD. If you are going to watch upscaled DVD masters on a Blu Ray, you might as well watch a DVD itself and just upscale that.

Like I said, the information is out there, if you are willing to actually do some research. The phrase, "caveat emptor" exists for a reason. You must inform yourself. The provider of the good has no duty to disclose everything about the product. This is why they can get away with selling you the same file for more money on a different medium. But hey, ignorance is bliss. Sony loves your dollars.

Summer 2011 Preview

The First Avenger: Captain America

Directed by Joe Johnston
Produced by Kevin Feige
Screenplay by David Self
Christopher Markus
Joss Whedon

Starring Chris Evans
Hugo Weaving
Sebastian Stan
Hayley Atwell
Cinematography Shelly Johnson

Release date(s) July 22, 2011 (2011-07-22)



The Greatest Marvel hero gets his due.
Captain America enjoys the same stature in the marvel world that Batman enjoys in the DC universe.The able leader of Team of Avengers,Captain America is simply the "papa" of Iron Man and Spiderman with his Super Soldier Strength,agility,vibranium-admantium alloy induced shield and his intuitiveness.But with all the Anti-American air around us,the new world after 9/11 ,the war on terror aka War for Oil,will this symbol of American Strength be accepted by non-American audience? Though Marvel is trying to repaint a new Avatar as the "Symbol of Freedom and Democracy" rather than "Symbol of American heroism"..still the red and blue stripes may offend many.The case,we shall discover on July 22