Modern Warfare 3 Launch Trailer

Just days after the Battlefield 3 launch trailer, Activision's workhorse series comes out with its own single player launch trailer to get its fans drooling. With everything seen in the video, it looks like the hunt for Makarov will bring a dynamic closure for the Modern Warfare 3 trilogy. The primary speaking character is Captain Price, but the endearing "Soap" MacTavish is nowhere to be seen. He might be the player character, who has always been a silent character in the Call of Duty series. Or has Shepherd's knife gotten the better of the resilient protagonist? The answers to these mysteries will be answered on the game's release date: November 8, 2011.

It's worth pointing out that there is a point in the trailer where Captain Price gives the player character a solid pummeling that sends him sprawling down the stairs. Whatever this throttling means, it is an interesting glimpse at the hopefully unpredictable story in Modern Warfare 3.

Infinity Ward interesting in allowing fan made MW3 mods

In a recent Q&A interview with GameSpy, Infinity Ward PR rep Robert Bowling detailed some of the upcoming changes for Modern Warfare 3 on the PC.

When asked about potentially reintroducing custom mod support, Bowling responded, "It's something that we want to do." A popular feature of the original Modern Warfare, mod support was not included in Modern Warfare 2.

"It's something that I loved in Call of Duty 4, especially the total conversion mods that people did."

Despite his enthusiasm, Bowling made it clear that this is not a guarantee as, "it requires a lot of work on our end to create the tools [needed to make such mods]" and "it's work that doesn't get a huge priority." He explains that mod support is "one of those things that we can't start working on until the full game's finished...but it's something that we want to do."

Throughout the interview, several references were made to the most prominent COD4 PC mod, Star Wars: Galactic Warfare. The mod, which saw its finalized release in July after two years of development, reports that it has sported over 75,000 downloads and has seen more than 900,000 visitors to their YouTube channels to date.

While it remains to be seen if the PC version of Modern Warfare 3 will support fan-made mods, the Galactic Warfare community is apparently thriving still. I strongly recommend checking this out if you have a PC copy of COD4 - you might even run into Robert Bowling and make him your bantha!