I hope my Amazon prime same day delivery of the Hardened edition I pre-ordered doesn't fail me
No way I'm willing to wait in lines for pretty much anything I'm paying good money for with release day delivery, free shipping and no tax from Amazon.
This is the first year that I haven't done a midnight release for CoD, mostly because I had $100 credit on Amazon and I didn't want to take off this week. And no, I don't take off FOR the game, it just happens to be I generally take a week off around this time.
Yeah, the reality is that many of the people you will run into have put a good amount of hours into the game (like me) and it does have a learning curve. It does take practice to do well competitively.Cheating, not really.
As far as everyone being good .. yeah these games you pretty much are forced to play tons of hours if you want to be even moderately competitive (less so if you've already got tons of competitive MP hours with very similar games).
Also, in MW2 the killstreaks basically made the good players better in terms of stats. You can get easy kills when you get to five in a row, drop a missile strike down for two kills, then drop a harrier for even more easy kills if the other team doesn't have shoulder rockets, then from there chopper gunner. The old setup I had was either Missile to Harrier to Chopper Gunner, Harrier to Pavelow to Chopper Gunner, or Harrier to Chopper Gunner to Nuke.
Supposedly the kill streaks aren't such major kill hogs this time and it's more about personal skill.
Do all Gamestops change their hours for these releases? I thought they were open until ~9 pm.
Not all do, so you need to check. They close sales at 9pm but allow people to either purchase (if available) or close out their pre-order. Then, at midnight, they allow people to go in to the store and show their receipt to receive their copy of the game.
BTW, someone mentioned on AVS that the K-Mart deal will not work with the point cards or XBL time. I'm not sure of the details but supposedly if you buy $110 worth of game software you get a $50 coupon, so everyone was planning on nabbing MW3 + 4000 points + 12 months of XBL, but it looks like you have to get two games.
Might wanna check it out.
Anyone have some reviews of the game? How's it playing?
Gamerankings has it as 91% based off of 25 reviews so far. Lowest was an 8/10 out of those 25 reviews. IGN had it at 9/10 and Gamespot 8.5.
All those sites are blocked at work so I am sorry I cant link.
Give Kabob a few minutes, I think he's playing right now, LOL.
I might get a little time in it later today, it's being delivered by Amazon later...
Reading all of this makes me think of how much hard copies suck. Online preloads are so much better. I hope the next gen of consoles give that option.
Yeah, I saw Kabob on for a while last night. Lucky bastard! I should have thought about joining him for the midnight launch. He lives fairly close to me. Hopefully Amazon delivers it early today. I didn't receive my last game from them until late the next day (Gears3).
iAtticus, I'll send you an invite. my gamertag = pLmpjuice