Interest In Modern Warfare 3 Is Unlike Anything Activision Has Ever Seen

By Nick Baumfeld
Posted on August 5, 2011 AT 07:50am

Every year the Call of Duty series seems to go from strength to strength and this year appears to be no different.

Activision-Blizzard Boss Bobby Kotick has announced that pre-orders for Modern Warfare 3 are already ahead of Black Ops this time last year and now he has revealed that interest in Modern Warfare 3 is unlike anything the company has ever seen.

Its sort of surprising because you always go into the launch of a new
Call of Duty game with an expectation that its a hard number to beat,
but if you look at the player enthusiasm for Modern Warfare 3, I dont
know if weve really seen anything like it in our 21-year history, said Kotick.

So will Modern Warfare 3 live up to its expectations and take the series another step forward or will this be the year that it finally stumbles?

Bio: Nick Baumfeld has been involved in the video game industry for a good 12 years. He has seen the industry from all view points and has a background in websites, website integration and social media. Nick pioneered the online video game rental business back in the day, moved forward into online video game trading and then moved viral with the well received Video Games Application on Facebook. Today, he has joined up with EGM founder Steve Harris to create something truly unique and special; EGMNOW, a community dedicated to all manner of gamers.

Gaming MO: Nick is a first person shooter type of gamer and enjoys heated bouts of Halo with friends and family (even while being schooled by his children).

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