Now this is going to be a hard one for me to write, because I do love both games. These are also games which you can find issues with, but they are usually so good it is easy to look past any of the flaws and see great games.
Note: That this is only my personal review, and I have games for the xbox 360, so that's what I'm going to be doing my view of them on (can't do any other system if this is the one I have them on, and don't want to steal somebody else's review or comparison and just slap it in here and say that it was my view of it)\
Graphics
As a note each of them is beautiful, but as I have said this is just my comparison
Battlefield 3
These are beautiful graphics, some of the most beautiful I have seen in any first person shooter at this time. The glare that you can get, the animations, the view, everything while at times can be a little overwhelming does make the game absolutely gorgeous and more realistic in my view
Modern Warfare 3
While these graphics are beautiful, they didn't impress me quite as much as Battlefield 3 graphics did. They were of course updated from Modern Warfare 2, but that's all they are is updated graphics, so a newer game running on a new engine is going to have better graphis, that's kind of a given
Winner: Battlefield 3
Gameplay
Now I'm going to do a rundown of a few different things, since you can say one plays in the other I want to view it on different perspectives
Single Player
Battlefield 3
Destruction - this is obviously a big play into the game, the destructible environment. This is something MW3 doesn't have, so I have to give it props to that (Good)
Enemy AI - one of the issues I did see with the game, because there were times I felt the enemies used absolutely no tactics. Numerous times when I am shooting an enemy from a distance, and then multiple enemies would follow just to die with my incoming rounds. (Bad)
Vehices - Another thing that MW3 is lacking, and it is nice to break up the shooting scenes through gameplay with the occassional levels with either a tank or a jet (which is the most memorable level of the single player campaign to me) (Good)
Partner AI - this proves to be something needed since you will pretty much always have a partner AI, except as many times as they would help me, I always felt like it would have been just as easy to be trying to fight the enemies on screen by myself. As much as they would help they would also get in my way and I would see the good old 'Friendly Fire Not Tolerated' across the bottom of the screen. So they can either help or stay the hell out of my way (Bad)
Modern Warfare 3
Warfare - as the name says that is what this is about, and through the destructed cities that have already been ravaged, it does make you feel like you are in the middle of world war 3, while as in Battlefield it's more of the destruction that gets done while you are fighting, this is the destruction that has been done in the storyline already. (Good)
Enemy AI - I didn't have the problem with enemies following eachother to their emminent deaths, but I had no issues waiting a few seconds for the enemy to pop their head out (which you could pretty much time in any first person shooter, so I can't really minus any points for that since they all do that) (Good)
Partner AI - I connect more General Shepard and John "Soap" MacTavish, but I didn't notice the partner AI near as much throgh the US military campaign. I guess having 3 games to build up the characters leaves an easier taste in my mouth with partners, so it may be a biased opinion on this one (Good)
Winner: Modern Warfare 3
And I'm saying that even though I didn't get into detail because of the stories. I don't want this to be an hour long read, and with explaining the stories that would take a long time with both games. I loved the story in both of them, but I just feel that Modern Warfare 3 story sticks with you longer after you turn it off than the Battlefield 3 story does
Multiplayer
Battlefield 3 Goods
- destructible environment makes multiplayer the best I have ever played
- bigger maps making for longer gameplay during a single game
- Premium accounts allowing early access and maps all year long
- Different classes (assault, support, recon, and engineer
- Points for different objectives throughout the game (not just killing)
- Renting you're own server to host you're own multiplayer game
Battlefield 3 Bads
- Base spawn killing, this shit pisses me off and I hate when people do this
- Knife kills only work if snuck up, consider yourself dead otherwise
- Renting server (if you can't get anybody to connect to it)
- Hard to communicate with people with teamwork that i needed
Modern Warfare 3 Goods
- Smaller maps make for easier single kills (harder for teamwork though)
- Elite accounts allowing early access and maps all year long
- Added kill confirmed, great addition to the multiplayer
- Different classes for assault, support and specialist
- No longer overpowered M203 grenade launchers
Modern Warfare 3 Bads
- Overpowered shotguns, these things shouldn't beat my assault rifle long range
- Quick scope, I have always hated this quick shot shit that doesn't require much
- Too much talking over chat, which would be fine except usually bitching
- Overpowered kill streaks
- Stop putting me on a damn team when I get on that loses 5 seconds later
Winner: Battlefield 3
Obviously these are only quick goods and bads I see in the games, and I'm not basing my decision solely on these, because there are so many more that I can't even think of rigth now, but it's just my feeling that I can find myself playing a lot more Battlefield 3 multiplayer than I can Modern Warfare 3
Conclusion
Now as I've said I own both games, and can play plenty of hours into either one of them I want, but as for the conclusion of which I think is better
Single Player Winner - Modern Warfare 3
Multiplayer Winner - Battlefield 3
That is just my perspective, but I am a fan and love both games and can't wait for more to be released. I hope one never beats the other out into submission. I honestly hope there will always be room for Battlefield and Modern Warfare
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