I've gotta say, I'm disappointed that Activision seem determined to run Call of Duty in to the ground and to a bitter early death of the franchise like they did Guitar Hero games.

I am not however disappointed to see the idea of blasting your way around the world in a MW game, lets face it. Infinity Ward so far have had the mixture right for the action, smurf the story they're meant to be outlandish, if I wanted a realistic war sim...I'd just join the smurfing army and get a sun tan and some pay for going out to Afghanistan. This however looks suitably epic scaled for an outlandish storyline such as the idea of a modern day world war 3. Gotta face it, even if you don't like Call of Duty games on principle the idea that:

A Russian terrorist, supposedly dead tries to initiate nuclear war with America but is foiled by an SAS - Delta Force joint op and killed at the end at the cost of the lives of everyone in the SAS squad bar one member, the newest member Soap. But not before he manages to successfully use a nuclear device in a war-torn middle eastern country to kill over 3000 US Soldiers who are launching a massive operation within the city to capture or kill an extremist terrorist who has endangered the population and threatened nuclear hell to America.

An american Soldier is later sent undercover with a Russian terrorist organization led by Makarov, the apprentice and some say, successor of the Russian behind the plot in the first game. He's sent by Taskforce 141, a force organized after the events of the first game intended to be the elite of the elite the best troops America and Britain can provide with the purpose of preventing an increasingly hostile Russia from commencing world war 3 and dealing with the greatest threats to global security. Led by General Shepherd of the US Military who lost over 3000 troops in a nuclear bomb blast and Soap the sole survivor of the British SAS squad responsible for the death of Zachaev the terrorist behind the attack. The terrorists figure out the guy is a spy and so commit a terrorist atrocity at an airport and leave the corpse of the American agent for the authorities to find, the Russian people assuming the team who committed the atrocity demand vengeance and so their government declares war (which if you look at it, is not so far fetched, it's what happened after 9/11) on America. Meanwhile Taskforce 141 is trying to bring an end to it by finding Makarov. Eventually they storm a Russian Gulag (political prison) and find that the top secret prisoner that Makarov badly wanted to get his hands on is in fact Captn Price, Soap's former squad commander presumed dead. Price launches an EMP attack on DC to save the city though at great cost to both American and Russian forces. Shepherd tries to kill the Taskforce 141 members because he wants revenge for the death of over 3000 of his troops on the Russians and this is the greatest sign up and excuse he has. However Soap and co must be silenced to hide the truth about the attacks on the USA by Russia and the terrorist plots. Shepherd half succeedes and so the surviving members of the taskforce 141 are out numbered and wanted terrorists. Actually gaining information from Makarov they track down Shepherd but they have to let Makarov escape to do so. At the end of the game the two, one half beaten to death the other suffering from a major stab wound to the chest escape with help from a Russian contact of theirs. Shepherd lies dead and they upload the information to the web (or so it seems)

Now it looks as if Makarov takes the escalation of violence between Russia and the world Global and actually causes WW3 whether it's his desired intentions or not.

Gotta give the above some credit, it sounds pretty smurfing awesome if a little outlandish. The top of the line technological weapons makes it even a little scary because if global conflict erupted today, it would probably be a little like this providing the worlds governments didn't go with the "we nuke you, you nuke us we all fall down" option.

I'm kinda looking forwards to this though I will equally be looking to try and play Battlefield 3. I like Call of Duty especially the MW games because of the fact that it's not trying to do historical like ww2 or sci-fi like halo if I want sci-fi I will play halo or mass effect because they're better than most other things. I like the modern day weaponry involved.