24th November, 2023
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: haunted writers, roller skates and Skeletor.
If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, here’s our archive.
Modern Warfare 3, PS5
I have a new nemesis, and his name is Skeletor. This bright purple cartoon villain has been hunting me relentlessly in Modern Warfare 3, and it has turned into a vendetta. Call of Duty still pretends to be a serious military game, but wading into the quick play rotation I have been gunned down by several variations of Spawn – Todd MacFarlane’s Batman with guns antihero – as well as a glowing twig monster called Gaia and, occasionally, Nicki Minaj.
This is excellent. It has been a while since I put hours into a new CoD game, and it’s still largely a game about circling maps being shot in the back, or getting the drop on others. Modern Warfare 3 is a slim offering, too, as Chris mentions in the Eurogamer Modern Warfare 3 review. It is sometimes delightfully absurd however, and almost hallucinatory. I can play as a decorated Navy Seal veteran related to Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and face off against a Sardaukar from Dune.
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Removed from the artful fog and colour correction of Denis Villeneuve’s film, the Sardaukar is simply some guy in bright white pyjamas, instantly visible to snipers from the other side of a map. The Spawn operators have a bright green glow as well, but none are as silly as Skeletor – my most hated foe.