Modern Warfare 3 Trailer Shows Spec Ops Co-Op Survival Mode

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Richard Walker

It seems to be a little on the inappropriate side to release a trailer featuring a shootout in the middle of a London street - complete with iconic red Routemaster bus - given the events of the past few days, but Activision has gone ahead and put out a new video for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 anyway, showing the Spec Ops survival mode as well as a very brief glimpse at the London-based section.

Featuring loads of shooty action and a few of the support items you'll be able to call in to aid you in the all-new survival mode in the co-operative Spec Ops, making a triumphant return in Modern Warfare 3, the video is wall-to-wall action in true CoD tradition. Spec Ops was one of our biggest time sinks in MW2 too, so more can definitely be looked upon as a good thing in our book.

Check out the new Modern Warfare 3 Spec Ops video below, then look forward to getting your gun off when Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 launches on November 8th, 2011.

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  • Looks good. Spec Ops was the best thing about MW2.
  • Thoughts and prayers that no innocent Londoners are hurt with the recent events. Unfortunately, if you waited to relese these vids people will be bitching and complaining that this site makes new news seem old by putting it up after other sites have. OT still cannot wait for this games release! I am hoping they wrap up the story in grand fasion.
  • I think it looks good.. but im there is plenty of hate to read in the foreseeable comments.
  • That looks pretty cool!
  • *Yaaaaaaaaaaaaawn* -.- zzZzzZzzZz
  • To be honest im looking more forward to the spec ops mode than the multiplayer itself
  • Looks sick, and im not even the biggest COD fan!! :D
  • This looks relli good, i hope it'll show the haterz that COD still got sum innovations left in the old warhorse. I hope that made sense =P
  • i see epcot??
  • Cannot wait for MW3! November 8th is going to be an awesome day!
  • awesome!!
  • Gears of War 3 horde is going to be way better
  • and honestly, i was not looking forward to another bleah COD game but this looks.. good. quite good actually!
  • Looks quite fun, I've already pre-ordered but still doesn't look as good as BF3 :P
  • Was a bit worried that they haddent changed the graphics enought but this has changed my mind.
  • Explosive attack dogs? I wasn't going to get this... but now I'll buy it used.
  • I would perhaps be more excited if it didn't look exactally like MW2 (graphics)
  • Looks like an awesome alternative to zombies. People will clearly hate because it's CoD though.
  • Spec Ops will save this game. Will wait for a price drop though...
  • Nice...really only looking forward to two things with this game. What this video shows and the rest of the Spec Op challenges.
  • oh, m60's back, day one buy
  • #16 I was worried too, and still am. Can't really see significant change. Anyway, at least they added something "new" to the CoD Franchise ;)
  • This is pretty damn good :)
  • I'm surprised there haven't been more little bitches whining about another cod game coming out... Anyway, this looks awesome, day 1 buy for sure along with bf3 and gow3
  • I love the MP ending :), and i see that they removed the emblems and titles :/ but the game is still the same without them so its still going to be awsome!!!
  • riot shields!!!!
  • jugs!!!!
  • Anybody notice the 5 second competitive multiplayer teaser right at the end, much like the original MP trailer for MW2.. Infinity Ward said whilst Treyarch made small changes to the killstreak system, they've gone ahead and totally revamped it. As you can see at 2:04, it appears it is now a 'points streak' rather than a bog-standard kill streak system. 14 'points'. Medal of Honor's scorechain system anybody? Not saying they're copying, but that is a much better way to handle things, consecutive points rather than kills. I have no idea what weapon killed that guy because the icon in the killfeed appears to be from an AC-130. I guess we'll have to stay tuned to find out more about the MP. Shame that we're in August and we've seen/know next to nothing new about the MW3 MP. As long as the hit detection is up to MW2 standards and not down to BO standards, I shall be purchasing this game!
  • at the end it said juggernaut when he got his 14th kill, this worries me as it could be that a 14 kill streak makes you a Juggernaut on it could be the halo thing when the guy says "untouchable" in a really cool voice
  • @26 I dont thnik they did remove them. It still shows the juggernaut emblem that was used in MW2.
  • After not really caring about COD for a while, this actually looks good.
  • @31 i think its a streak award, but it is in fact the juggernaut emblem from mw2.
  • Wtf, I didn't want to get this game, but after seeing this trailer I think I was convinced. Either way Skyrim comes first, the BF3, then this, sucks that there all released in a matter of 2-3 weeks.
  • Gears of War 2 had Horde mode. Then Halo ODST had Firefight. Halo Reach came along with its Firefight also. This is nothing special. I'd love to see any Cock of Duty fanboy try to defend how original this game's survival mode is. Remember: All COD=Dog Shit
  • Looks way better then zombies in my opinion.
  • first battlefield comment (i think) i don't like battlefields style but i like cods, most of the haters will buy cod anyway so shut the hell up, why even is there a rivalry its the same genre of game big deal, there isn't a rivalry in other genres
  • MW3, Battlefield 3. who will win? me.
  • Actually looks pretty good. But I'm more interested in multiplayer details. Hopefully we'll get some soon.
  • @35 cod 5 had zombies (survival mode) bitch i m commenting so much because im bored and cant think of anything to to cause its almost midnaght
  • I hope these damn riots stop soon, all of the game shops around where I live have been looted and if it keeps up it looks like I wont be getting this xD
  • sorry midnight
  • I dont understand whats going on at the end (the MP KS part) It shows the guy being killed by an AC 130.. and you can even slightly see something come down from the sky.. Are KS not controllable in MP anymore? Maybe what ever that guy walked into triggerd the AC 130 to fire on him? hard to figure out..
  • G36-C at 0:41 = sold.
  • @38 Agreed
  • Looks amazing. The graphics are improved and that multiplayer reveal at the end with a Juggernaut as a "Point Streak" looks intense. Plus if points replace kills in killstreaks then that would be awesome as it would be something new and fresh to the series.
  • @40 totally owned him
  • Modern Warfare 2's Spec Ops mode offered so much more than yet another dull horde mode. What a gigantic step backward for MW 3.
  • To all the Battlefield fan boys... FUCK OFF! Get over yourselves. BF is a great game, no doubt, but guess what... so is COD! Oh, same goes for the COD fan boys that jump into a BF posting and bash it... everyone needs to chill the fuck out. Don't like it, then fuck off and don't buy it. Most pathetic thing is, most bashing fan boys of one game, will still buy the other one anyway. If you love shooters, why wouldn't you want diversity? That said... attack dogs packing explosives = awesome sauce!
  • OH...MY....GOD!!! GOTY!!!
  • looks cool! to bad ill be playing BF3 ;)
  • ATTACK DOGS!!!! quick somebody call PETA!!!!
  • Not impressed, doesnt look very different from anything MW2 had to offer. I wont buy this game but it doesnt mean I wont borrow it from a friend and play it someday, to many great games coming out to waste money on this. @49 The thing is Battlefield improves its games by leaps and bounds with each new installment. COD developers like to use the copy and paste method which seems pretty effortless to me. The first Modern Warfare was the best and its all gone down hill from there. Im not saying CODs are bad games, I just like a little more time and thought put in the game before I shell out $60 for it.
  • #48 you know that this is survival mode and that the spec ops mode that was in MW2 is in MW3?
  • At least the hit markers are going to be legit in this game, hope Black Ops learns its lesson soon
  • I agree with #13, but this shit looks great. May have to get this day one.
  • They've been doing a good job of winning me back over the past few weeks... :)
  • MW3 is going to be amazing. And to anyone saying BF3 is better, no just no. I prefer a fast pace shooter filled with many guns, doesn't feel too realistic and a game that doesn't have tanks and helicopters to drive/pilot. A shooting game should be a game where you use guns mainly, BF looks like way too many vehicles and the scopes look horrible. I'm not trying to start a fanboy war here, I just wanted to state my honest opinion, and if you don't like CoD and prefer BF, keep it to the BF forum posts. All I see in CoD posts (apart from this) are people bitching about it all the time, it's really irritating to those who love CoD. Anyway, the trailer looks very promising, loving how Spec Ops is going to be improved along with an amazing looking survival mode, from playing Horde on Gears Of War I am hyped up for this, plus I am loving the look of the campaign too and of course the multiplayer will be great!
  • UGH, as much as I wanna say COD is the same every year...This looks fun, and i'll be suckered in once again lol
  • Midnight launch for me
  • Four Words: Looks-Exactly-The-Same
  • I don't really care what anyone else has to say about the matter, MW3 and BF3 are both going to be great fun this holiday season. They're not mutually exclusive multiplayer experiences, and the new SpecOps looks like a vast improvement over MW2's SpecOps (even though it too was a lot of fun). Looking forward to vastly more titles this holiday season than I have time to play video games.
  • Will this be a SP mode or MP mode (or both)? For some reason, I was thinking MW2's Spec Ops was co-op only. Is that right or am I remembering incorrectly?
  • This will be just like MW2 Spec Ops mode where ou can have a friend along. So yes this mode is both Solo, and MP with 1 friend.
  • It will be SP and MP.. You can play this alone or with another partner online or split screen.
  • I'm really excited for this mainly because I'm not into zombies and don't like the over the top stuff of the weapons, etc. in zombies...
  • You*
  • Looks and sounds just like MW2 for the most part, so I guess IW are sticking with what works. I'll still probably ending up buying it ahah. I can see survival mode being much more fun simply due to the longevity of it. Anyone else think the part at the end where they flip out the FMG-9 was hilarious? They sure like going for style above anything.
  • man it's going to be tough not to buy this on release....this looks awesome. Although I see they will have a credit system like Black Ops.
  • Nice
  • it's sad to what ACT$VISION has done to cod. gears of war 3 and Battlefield 3 topple over this easily.
  • after not enjoyin black ops THAT much compared to MW1 and MW2 i daresay i wont be getting treyarch's next game. even though this looks bloody identical to mw2 and im kinda gettin fed up of fps's im more than likely gna get this just to add to the cod collection.
  • I don't always sign in to comment, but when I do, it's to downvote people like #71. That has to be the first advertisement I've ever seen on this site. They must do a good job of cleaning them up.
  • @70 The black ops credit system in NOT returning in MW3.. that is in game money to buy things in Spec Ops Survival.. like killstreak rewards and more. There is a unique unlock and ranking system in MW3.
  • anyone excited for the actual campaign? because that's pretty good too....imo imo
  • @ 54 Well I'd love to be mistaken about this then. If there's more than just the horde mode I wouldn't be complaining at all.
  • As soon as I saw the 1st Juggernaut coming down my thoughts were "OH SNAP THEM AGAIN!". Nice Trailer looking forward to it.
  • @73 dude if you dont like the game don't post, nobody is forcing you to buy the game or something.
  • I am so excited for this game! This just put me over the top with anticipation.
  • I like how anything dissing MW3 is disliked, and anything praising it is liked. Not everyone likes the same thing. Looks a lot like MW2, but I know I'll buy it: always preferred IW over Treyach.
  • they always make it look more fun than it actually is in the trailers. I can imagine this being extremely frustrating
  • You guys have to remember that these are based off of the multiplayer maps so we are actually seeing some of the multiplayer maps.Not the biggest COD fan but this looks pretty good so far.Also I saw the perk Last Stand in there.Please dont let that be in online.
  • @48 They still will have the Spec ops from MW2.They just also added this into it.
  • well this game looks pretty awesome :D i wasnt really looking forward to this game much but now... well...
  • oh wow the new mine at the end of the video :DD
  • Wow i think im gonna like this better then all the other call of dutys ( except for cod 4) obv. gonna have to pre order sometime soon... why do soo many good games have to be coming out this year... ive got bf3 and gow3 and now this... my oh my oh my. My wallet is going to be emptied by the end of this year :P
  • the only down side to the call of duty series i think is the fact theyre using the same engine. I mean of course the formula for fast paced action works but no offence the graphics look quite bad compared to manmy other games on the market
  • Sorry for double post (well now it s a triple) Sorry again!
  • another call of duty rent
  • Is it bad when you only read the CoD videos to see if BlueProtoss has started posting yet? Dude is like muh hero.
  • They've actually managed to copy some things from Killing Floor. Well done Infinity Ward/Sledgehammer games/Raven Software... Seriously come up with your own ideas for a change :(
  • Looks the same as mw2.....
  • I was looking forward to the guns in MP, but they look and fire just like in MW2. Lame :(
  • WOW this looks amazing the guns look nice and seems to play differently, @95 i dont know what you're talking about it looks a lot better, graphics, and the way the guns are
  • by the looks of things...juggernaut is basically a 14 kill streak...think about it (700 points = 14 kills in free for all)
  • This isn't GOTY, however good this game is shaping up to be, Skyrim is going to wipe the floor when it comes to GOTY. Although that being said, you can't compare the two due to them being two different types of games.
  • @96 and you are the fool who cant see that "oh look..m16,acr,m60,ak47,mp5,etc. ALL THE SAME" seriously? sure, they may look a little different but not as much as you think. unless you saw a different video...
  • Juggernaut sounds really fair as Killstreak. I also wonder if Deathstreaks are back.
  • i liked the game i will buy it day 1
  • I like BF but I will buy MW3 over BF3 just for the splitscreen coop mode, I prefer less beautiful graphics and enjoy the game with another person in splitscreen than crazy graphics and only the possibility to play alone in front of my tv. I would like but i hardly doubt that BF3 will have splitscreen. Maybe it's the fact that i don't enjoy playing online anymore.
  • Anyone knows if splitscreen (local as with the misses) xbl will be in it like in blops???
  • @92 No, I only read them to see if fools like you post.
  • Might pick it up at some point because of this..was gonna pass but this spec ops sounds too good to not try..
  • You do realize that just because we have to debate about whether or not there were any gameplay or visual changes indicates that it's clearly not the same change as we have seen in other shooters? I'm truly not a COD hater, I would just really like to see IW or Treyarch take a chance of sorts and really redo the franchise, like from gears 1-2 or 2-3 (I assume) or from battlefield 2 to the new frostbite engine which worked wonders. I really hope that mw3 hits the pinnacle of fun that mw1 had started us out on. MW1 really changed the system, and I believe they can do it again. I have my faith but I also know of the tendency to stick to old patterns to try and "play it safe". Here's hoping!!!
  • @35 You do know that horde wasn't the first survival mode, don't you?
  • So do we know for a fact that this is how the game is going to look on the 360 and not the PC? I wouldn't be surprised if this was PC footage.
  • I can't wait for this game to come out i am definetly getting it.
  • Lol, did that video say the attack dogs have explosives on them? That's messed up. Can't wait to see PETA condemn the cruel treatment of virtual animals.
  • gonna rent this one
  • @110 Lol, that's what I thought too. If you pay attention the dog explodes after it was shot and downs his teammate, lol.
  • Point Streak???? Hmmm
  • Co-op COD is awesome and this looks like a nice little addition :D
  • Wow, I was spectacle about another CoD, but this really does look amazing. Honestly I'm fed up of multiplayer, but Spec-Ops mode looks really quite good. I might get this, after Skyrim of course. :P
  • I can't wait for MW3! I think survival mode will be way better than zombies. This just gives way more options to choose from making this a lot more fun. Multiplayer will be just the thing I've been waiting for this year. This game needs to out, oh I don't know, NOW!
  • RIOT SHIELD BITCHES
  • I CAN'T WAIT!
  • Leave it to Activision to be dumb enough to put out this trailer. If you look at some of their choices, you would expect no less from them. They haven't had a good game since the 80's. And let the thumbs down begin... Oh and this looks like prior games, where you run around, shoot at some blobs of pixels, your opponents act like a kid when someone does better than them, and then leave, go to another server, and start the process all over again. Yay activision! MW 2 is the reason I don't play multiplayer any longer.
  • Wow their guns sound like crap. And I'm hoping this time they let more than 2 people play spec ops. I mean it could be so much more epic with 4 players. Why Robert Bowling? Why?
  • @50 .........Have you completely lost your mind? With all the amazing games coming out this holiday, you think this is gonna be game of the year? I'm not saying this game is gonna be bad, but it has as much of a chance of getting game of the year as I have of being unplugged from the Matrix.
  • I love how every Call of duty article always has the most thumbs down out of every article. Even if the comment is positive.
  • I played Spec Ops the most by far in MW2 and this makes me think I will be playing 5x as much come November in between the 5 other games and 9 blurays i got preordered between Sept 9th and Nov 15th. Time to unleash hell !
  • The dogs are carrying explosives ? or did the intend to have the narrator take a pause before two sentences
  • Sorry, but even with Killstreaks and different enemy types, I still think this will be REALLY dull. To put it bluntly, CoD AI is utter shit. It's all dumb, and the higher difficulties are vamped up in unfair ways, making it frustrating rather than entertaining. For that reason, I don't see how making Spec Ops into a survival-only mode was a good idea. I had good fun with the objectives of MW2, especially since some of them took place on unique maps. But playing against dull AI on the same maps I'll be playing for MP? That seems a bit redundant to me. Also quite boring, if CoD-standard AI holds true. I see this as an attempt to outdo Zombies. That's my personal take. Thing is, Zombies has much more atmosphere, and the dumb AI is made up for by making the enemies melee-only and come in huge numbers, making it fun and atmospheric and compelling to play. I just don't want to shoot up stupid gun-wielding AI for hours... I'd rather have the missions back.
  • Only thing that makes this video win is that they said that survival and shit is on mp maps
  • I can't wait to buy the used $20 edition of this game. Oh wait, I can.
  • Never ever again. This should go directly into the bin. Funny as it is, the game will most likely get an M rating. But then, when hit on line, you'll be shot in the face repeatedly by some swearing ultra-skilled twelve-year-olds who play the game everyday for eight hours!
  • look's like the guy at the end was killed by an AC-130...
  • @at 125 there will still b spec ops from mw2.they just added this too.
  • This looks way to good to miss...It's cod's version of gears of wars horde mode! Only with money and the sick weapons that makes all the modern warefares the best cod games ever! So excited!
  • Oof. Yes that is bad timing regarding the events in London, however, London only features in the first 20 seconds of a 2 minute 10 second video. Would it have been so bad to edit out the first 20 seconds before releasing it?
  • seems really good and funny. I enjoyed MW2's Spec Ops
  • Looking good. Really excited. Made me giggle at the en also. Poor fourzerotwo.
  • Looks fun, like... you know....Horde. Already have pre-ordered. So is this the only Spec Ops? Or do they have other missions? The variety of different mission types in MW2 was the best part.
  • SICK
  • Wow Spec Ops is fun but they need to get with the times. NOBODY DOES 2 PLAYER ANYMORE LOSERS!
  • This looks like fun.
  • I wish they finally put int full online co-op campaign with in game cut scenes and shit. Seeing as there is always so many AI running rampant, I can't understand why it was not done until this day.... Looking good:-)
  • This looks like an interesting game mode, but as always I'll pick this up for Christmas. CoD is fun with friends, but I'll stick to Skyrim.
  • The thing at the end...was that a super bouncing betty? That thing went so damn high! haha
  • Looks awesome. I often want to play CoD, kill lots of people but not on multiplayer and while I love Spec-Ops the missions get a bit boring after a while, and zombies is, well, shit. This should hopefully provide hours of fun.
  • Hey, another trailer for the shitty COD franchise. blah blah blah, boring. Nothing new or original. Death to COD and BF.
  • epic
  • same shit different year.
  • http://cheezcomixed.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/koma-comic-strip-buy-all-the-games.jpg Why cant we buy both?
  • @ 145: That's pretty much the approach I took.
  • Aweeeesomeeeeeeeeee
  • :35 seconds ohh they painted the model shotgun black I bet they call that a new gun still looks decent though will buy if metro2, saints row3, bf 3, skyrim, gears 3, AC rev, dont have anything to say about it (which they do)
  • @ no its still the model 1887.. It can be prooven by watching the Spec Ops gameplay with conan o brian? think that was the correct talk show host..
  • Again those of you who are being negative are pathetic wankers. If you're going to have your own opinion that's fine but at least be original rather than your obvious trolling to hate on the CoD series. Yes this mode isn't anything new to games but it has its own twist for CoD so for the franchise its new. It should be really fun right up there with CoD Zombies. Btw, I'm far from a CoD fanboy I'm just sick and tired of some pathetic wankers who have nothing else to do but bash every single article posted on x360.
  • @ thumbs up for you mister :D
  • @146 ^
  • So my brother told me after watching this trailer, that it's like gears of war horde, unfortunately gears 3 is in no way comparable to MW3, just in my opinion, and destroyed my brother in the argument that Gears3>MW3. Still looks cool but will still be playing gears for long after Mw3 comes out lols
  • They need to make a call of duty future warfare. spice it up a little lol lazers ploix
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.5. :/
  • I really hope it is more then just hoard for COD. I liked spec ops cause you had missions to complete, certain tasks. This looks like just complete as many waves as you can. So I hope it is more then just waves and waves of enemies. Man do I hate those juggernauts!
  • Ok, so for everyone that is saying that Spec Ops will have both survival mode and the original Spec Ops stuff, could you please provide proof?...Because all I have been seeing is that this is the NEW Spec Ops mode. Please do not just say "oh, it will have it"....provide proof. From what I have seen, and from what I have heard, Spec Ops is now SURVIVAL.....which is such a lame way to revamp it, considering how cool some of the Spec Ops missions were. And yeah, graphics look exactly the same, plus the timeline of the game is, like a few hours after the end of MW2. If you expect new guns, don't. If you really expect innovation, don't. I'm still interested in finding out all the details about this game, but I have sadly lost all hope for it. RIP COD
  • @ 94 Is there more then one way to fire a gun?
  • This actually got me stoked and i wasnt planning on purchasing right off release...I like all the gadgets and killstreaks!!!
  • Pumped me up enough to make me pull out my old copies of MW 1 and 2 and try to completion them on a seperate account
  • i like the look of this and BF3 dont understand why people moan its just a game enjoy it i know i will :)
  • @157 It will have the original mode and the survival mode, there is proof of it in Kotaku, and fouzerotwo said it too on twitter, im not sure how many missions there are going to be in the original but it is OFFICIALY COMFIRMED that it will be making a return. If i wasnt telling the truth or 100% sure about this information i wouldnt be posting this.
  • ^If you google it, at other pages you will see that survival mode is an add-on to spec-ops, so its not the only mode that you will have as an option, and as i previously said in kotaku.com they have some of the names of some spec-ops missions.
  • I want my "A4 IW5" with the following attachments: "granade launcher, silencer and dual scope", ;).
  • this survival mode is nice, al the special unlocks are a great upgrade in spec ops
  • i hope IW/ sledgehammer/raven can restore cod to its formal glory
  • looks good, a lot better than BO zombies, worth checking out 4 sho.
  • first of all YAY the ACR is back second : if this is only survival then what will campaign be??? but im a huge fan of the third mode of COD games this just looks fantastic i will try my best to be the best on survival! and thirdy : the moment someone knows the name of the map plz message me the name of it! (when it comes out)
  • Treyach,If you dont add zombie mode.Than fuck off.
  • i gotta preorder this like NOW.
  • Man cant wait for this to come out. Gunna be sweet
  • @13 by a long shot
  • this just looks the same as mw2,I get annoyed when the same game engine is overused .C'mon IW you get loads of cash and you should spend it to make our gaming experience a bit more enjoyable ,but i still like MW3,especially the Spec-Ops Survival Mode which will make MW3 a badass game
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