Modern Warfans and gamers alike, you'll be pleased to know that the Call of Duty XP MW3 tournament has come to a close, and the winner is: Team OpTic! They beat out Infinity in a U.S.A. vs. U.K. match that ended in a 4-2 win for OpTic, who won 400,000$! That's disappointing for Infinity, but they still won 200,000$ and second-place title. The best part of the whole XP was that iJustine was there.
Now I have to decide if I should get Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's Regular Edition or Hardened Edition. Hardened Edition grants you some cool new stuff, but it's also 40$ more. It comes with (thanks to www.EBGames.com/www.GameStop.com for the list of included items):
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
- Founder Status
- One year of Call of Duty Elite membership
- Special "SteelBook" Case
- Special Ops Juggernaut Xbox Live Outfit
- Limited Edition Field Journal
I've never really bought many DLCs for the Call of Duty games, besides the Stimulus Package for Modern Warfare 2, which was gifted to me. I wanted to buy some of the Black Ops DLC, mainly Rezurrection, which just came out a few days ago and contains ALL zombie maps, which in my opinion is the best part about Black Ops. The thing that stopped me was the 15$ price-point, because if I'm paying 59.99$ to buy a game, and then to get the new stuff for it I have to pay the full cost of the game to get all four downloadable-content packages, I start to get a feeling that I've been ripped-off.
Apparently Modern Warfare 3 will also have four DLCs, valued at a total of 60$ (15$ each), and if you have Call of Duty Elite membership, you get them all for free. So what people are thinking is, "Technically, when you buy the Hardened Edition, you're getting a Call of Duty Elite membership which is valued at 50$, plus 60$ worth of maps that come with Call of Duty Elite! BONUS!" No, that's not really it. You do get Elite membership with your Hardened Edition, and with Elite status you will get all of the map packs, but there really isn't much else to Elite edition, so you're really just saving 10$ on maps. It's still worth it if you plan to buy all of the map packs anyways, though.
For 100$, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: Hardened Edition is actually quite a good deal. It's only 40$ more, for something that you'll probably pay 50$ for later to get 60$ worth of maps, plus a bunch of other cool trinkets and memorabilia. Hardened Edition for Modern Warfare 3 is as high as it gets in terms of price points, unless you want to buy the Modern Warfare 3 Xbox 360 console, which is a whole other story. There isn't a Prestige Edition for this game, unlike Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops, which is kind of disappointing, as I quite liked the Night-Vision Goggles and the RC-XD.
Whether it gets good or bad ratings (let's face it, it's probably going to get 9.0's), you're still going to play it, you're still going to bitch about it, you're still going to rage, you're still going to pay a lot of money for it, and you're still going to like it. If you have the extra money, go with Hardened Edition.
Check out the news article below for more coverage on the matter.
Call of Duty XP 2011: Team OpTic is in the money!
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