By Jonathan Jones | Observer Contributor
As a longtime supporter of the Call of Duty franchise, I was very anxious to get my hands on the latest installment, Modern Warfare 3. So anxious in fact that I reserved a copy months in advance and stood in line at midnight to secure the game. When I finally returned home around 1 a.m. and popped the disc into the drive, I was instantly blown away.
MW3 is by no means the greatest game ever made, nor is it the “perfect” first-person shooter. However, with a revamped graphics engine and more emphasis placed on different playing styles, it is the best game in the Call of Duty franchise. In the past when a multiplayer map took place in an arctic environment with snow, the snow was in fact limited to covering the ground and that was it. In one particular map in MW3, the player is thrust into a blinding snowstorm that affects visibility in ways not seen in previous installments. This small detail may be lost on the average gamer but it just goes to show the extent to which programmers and developers wanted to improve the look of this game compared to previous versions.