Really hammers home how much better BF3 will be.

Eh, still got me totally pumped up. You're probably right about lack of wow, and they've recycled a couple of bits like the boat (although that was one of my favourite parts), I guess because of time constraints this time around. But it already has nicer visuals than Black Ops, at least, and IW's engine is just better I think.

You gotta remember what the MW series means to me haha. I picked up the first one on a whim, I didn't really like shooters at all, I saw it had a couple of good reviews and so I jumped on it. And it blew my mind - singleplayer and multiplayer. They were both pretty new things. MW2 I still thought was a strong game, and they improved a lot of things on the technical side. I've always found Treyarch's games to be so-so in comparison. Interesting that Sledgehammer worked on this, if I remember Activision originally brought them in to make a third person action CoD? Obviously with IW being torn up, they had to help out on this.

Just a note, I'm also totally pumped up for BF3. Looks awesome, but they're different enough to co-exist.

Gonna fail hard, crash and burn even, IMO.

Must say I'm rather shocked to hear of this so early, I thought Activision/IW founders were still waiting for thier court date, let alone finished with the legal matters.

Perhaps Activision is counting their chickens on the ownership to the MW franchise a little soon?

Either way, EA is sinkin big money into Respawn - If they can get a trailer out before Nov, I won't even bother lookin at reviews for MW3.