The truest, grittiest gore of war is thankfully avoided, but the seemingly infinite numbers of onscreen bad guys spurt and splash plenty of red stuff nonetheless. Need another translation? Gamers spend all of their time ducking from the realistic carnage onscreen, dashing from checkpoint to checkpoint and giving their trigger finger the workout of a lifetime. Those expectations include buttery-smooth shooting and hand-to-hand battling mechanics, heroic world-saving combat and defenseless-prisoner rescues, a special-ops section with individual skill-building co-op missions, and about 10 hours of over-the-top adrenalized World War III-like story action. Translation? A single-player campaign mode that immerses gamers in pretty much exactly what they’ve gotten before, and expect to find again, in the virtual Call of Duty world. No center of civilization is safe from a maniac who’s willing to detonate nukes or unleash chemical weapons in the heart of a megacity. This power-hungry madman is hidden away somewhere in the world while he marshals a huge ultra-nationalist terrorist force that’s raining down pestilence on large populated areas from New York and London to Hamburg and Paris. And that means central heroes Soap and Price are still hunting for the Russian bad guy Vladimir Makarov. How did we end up with war on American shores? This latest campaign picks up where Modern Warfare 2 left off. Only this time the action all starts in the streets of … the Big Apple. Once again the Call of Duty franchise drops gamers into the body armor of a number of different seasoned warriors from around the world and sets them off on a heated, bullet-whizzing roller-coaster mission-fully equipped with the likes of M4 assault rifles, Claymore mines and Javelin missiles. These are just a few of the initial, adrenaline-laced assignments of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Joining a scuba suit-clad Navy SEAL team to scuttle a Russian submarine and use its missiles to bombard an armada of attack ships. Jumping onboard a Black Hawk helicopter to man its 50-caliber minigun in a cat-and-mouse air battle.

Storming up flight after flight of stairs to take out a skyscraper-mounted radio tower. Duck-and-cover blasting of enemy forces in rubble-strewn streets.

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