Modern Warfare 3 Spec Ops Survival Mode – USA Today Go Hands-On
Modern Warfare 3′s Special Ops Mode (Spec Ops) will offer a number of improvements over its predecessor. Leaderboards, matchmaking, rank progression and weapon unlocks, an in-game currency system, and most importantly, a survival-based mode will all be added to what the developers are calling “the third game mode”. Fans of Treyarch’s Zombie mode, GoW’s Horde mode, Halo’s Firefight or any round-based, survival FPS game, rejoice.
USA Today got to spend some time at Infinity Ward with Modern Warfare 3′s Spec Ops Survival Mode recently, and revealed some interesting details on what the new mode is all about.
“As we dispatched ever-increasing waves of enemies, I discarded my pistol for a shotgun. Rubin passed me some in-game currency and I bought and installed a turret to keep the evildoers at bay, while I watched for attack dogs.” said USA Todays Mike Snider. He continues to reveal how exploding kamikazi soldiers will feature in Spec Ops’ Survival Mode: “After a few waves, the attack dogs became suicide bomber dogs that exploded a few seconds after you shot them. The next wave brought the kamikaze soldiers who exploded similarly.”
Robert Bowling went on to explain some of the different types of enemy you’ll come across in Spec Ops’ Survival Mode.
“You definitely have to change up your strategy as the enemy changes up. Obviously how you fight the kamikaze dudes is different from how you fight the normal dudes and how you fight a dog is different from a dude and how you fight juggernauts, they are not only big and armored, so they will just brute force come at you. But they each have their own way of being taken out effectively.”
Vehicles – or choppers at least – were confirmed for the survival mode by the enthusiastic participant.
“I took heed from Rubin on how to counterattack choppers raining fire from overhead.”
“We have all been challenged. There’s such hard-core players out there in the online community and you hear all the stories about (youngsters) swearing and ruining the experience,” Condrey adds. “With Spec Ops, you can really get in there and hone your skills in a more confined environment. I think it’s a little more of an easy entry. I don’t have as much time as I did when I was 20 to be honing my twitch skills, but this certainly gives me a venue to experiment.”
Infinity Ward are calling the new, improved Special Ops Mode the “third game mode” for Modern Warfare 3 and “a stronger leg of the tripod”. What are your thoughts on what we have learned about Spec Ops so far- specifically the Survival Mode? Excited?
[via USA Today]
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sounds amazing and fun…sounds alot better than nazi zombies for sure
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When i first played nazi zombies i didnt sleep for days, then the map packs… i almost died from no sleep!
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@keenan definately not close to even be better than nazi zombies not even close!!
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Sounds heaps better! Zombies was fun at first but gets a bit repetitive hey
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there should be a perk or killstrek that respawns your dead teammates like in ctf or SnD
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wait… wrong article
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That would be bad then every one will use it in those game modes
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i really hope they dont put currency back in online multiplayer..its so much better actually having to work for you stuff like in the older ones
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Respectfully disagree…I think it’s much better to get to buy what you want instead of having to wait for everything. Even in Black Ops you’ve got to wait to unlock plenty of things, it’s the options you get to purchase if you want them or not.
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No i hate currency, ew. So stupid.
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i think the only things you could use currency on should be the hard to get attachments like the extended mag for smgs and assault rifles
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the currency would have been better if u didnt have to unlock the gun then buy it
and it was more fun to unlock the attachments by getting kills with the gun
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i just hope it requires more skill then zombies, some thing where you cant just run in circles for hours and get to the top of the leaderboards
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exactly
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i hope mw3 is good as mw2 i really want to do the campain tho
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in mw3 how do u unlock the attachments in survival mode. it says by ranking up and then buying it but i got to the rank and it says i cant with a N/A their what do i do please help.
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