2011 video game
This article is about the Nintendo DS version of Modern Warfare 3. For the console versions of the🫦 game, see Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
2011 video game
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 – Defiance is a 2011🫦 first-person shooter video game in the Call of Duty franchise, developed by n-Space for the Nintendo DS. The game takes🫦 place in about the same setting as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and features many elements of gameplay typical🫦 to the series, including the usage of iron sights, vehicular missions, and online play.[2] It is the last Call of🫦 Duty game to be rated T for Teen by the ESRB. It is also the last Call of Duty game🫦 to be released on the Nintendo DS.
Gameplay [ edit ]
The game features the very similar first-person shooter gameplay found in🫦 its predecessors. However, the lower screen status display has been updated with new functions including the ability to draw a🫦 knife without first moving into melee range of an opponent.
The game offers three different single player modes, including Campaign, Quick🫦 Play, and Challenge Mode. Campaign mode features a storyline (found below). It has 14 different missions and 3 different game🫦 modes, Recruit, Regular, and Hardened. Quick Play is a mode where you can play each individual mission in any order🫦 you choose. You will have to complete the campaign to unlock all of the missions. Quick Play also features the🫦 same three difficulties. Challenge Mode consists of 10 missions and each have a goal, such as “Get 15 kills with🫦 75% accuracy,” as from Challenge 08. It does not have a difficulty selection as the challenges get harder as you🫦 progress.
The game also has two Multiplayer modes, Local MP and Online Multiplayer. Local MP is a mode where you can🫦 play against other people in your general area, and up to 6 people can join in one game. The modes🫦 are Death Match, Team Death Match, Sabotage, Gun Game, Sharpshooter, and One in the Chamber. You will play as either🫦 Russian Soldier or US Marine in any games with teams. In Online Multiplayer (which you can no longer play due🫦 to Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection shutting down) you can play any of the modes listed above. It was essentially the same🫦 thing as Local MP, except over internet connection.
In MP Barracks you can do two things, edit Macros or edit Loadouts.🫦 Macros are map setups that are saved to the cartridge which include the map, time limit, score limit, etc. that🫦 you can use in Local MP. Loadouts, which would use in Local MP and Online Multiplayer, consist of your primary🫦 weapon, secondary weapon, grenade, perk 1, perk 2, and your title.
Plot [ edit ]
Defiance does not follow the same storyline🫦 as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Like the previous Nintendo DS Call of Duty games, the storyline serves as🫦 a "companion narrative" to the console and PC versions.
The game opens with the U.S. National Guard force training in Alaska🫦 at the time of the Russians invasion that takes place halfway through Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The National🫦 Guard works in conjunction with the British SFSG cross-training in the United States to resist the Russians, including holding the🫦 town of Wilton against the Russians, and securing the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System from capture.
The action then shifts to the Arizona/Nevada🫦 border, and the fighting at the Hoover Dam and surrounding Henderson, Nevada. A British force assaults the dam via helicopter,🫦 and manage to save generators powering the Nevada side, but are killed when the generators on the Arizona side are🫦 destroyed, leaving Arizona's power supply crippled.
The final part of the game takes place in Baltimore, where the National Guard and🫦 SFSG reclaim Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport taken by the Russian forces, and fight through the Baltimore seaport and learn🫦 that the Russians have moved a WMD into the U.S., and are moving the weapon to a combat zone. The🫦 teams race through the port, fighting their way aboard a cargo ship where the Russians are offloading the weapon. The🫦 National Guard team makes it to the deck of the cargo vessel just as a Russian Hind helicopter carrying the🫦 weapon takes off. The teams manage to bring down the helicopter with an RPG, and the game ends as the🫦 player's C.O. states, "Now the real fight begins", referring to World War III in Modern Warfare 3.
Multiplayer [ edit ]
Defiance🫦 features a multiplayer mode that has been significantly improved over its predecessors, featuring the ability for players to create and🫦 save weapon loadouts, grenade options, titles and perks. Weapons are unlocked when the player had made a specified number of🫦 kills with a similar weapon, in a functionality similar to the earlier handheld Call of Duty games. Additionally, players may🫦 change loadouts whenever they respawn. Similarly, players may preset map options, and run them instantly when host.
Since Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection🫦 was shut down, Online cannot be accessed by players unless local can be accessed.
Reception [ edit ]
Reception Aggregate score Aggregator🫦 Score Metacritic 57/100[3] Review scores Publication Score Nintendo World Report 6/10[5] Official Nintendo Magazine 70%[4]
The game received mixed reviews. Official🫦 Nintendo Magazine's Chris Scullion states that the game was "Not without its flaws but an impressive shooter given the limitations🫦 of the hardware."[4] James Dawson of Nintendo World Report wrote that "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: Defiance isn't going🫦 to win any awards, but as a DS port of a popular franchise, it does a decent job making the🫦 experience portable".[5]
