Here's eight rounds of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's Spec Ops Survival mode

by Mike Schramm on Oct 4th 2011 6:08AM

Video of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's Spec Ops Survival mode (first played way back at E3) has appeared on the Interwebs, and you can watch it in action above. This segment is on the Paris map, and as you can see, players are tasked with killing incoming waves of terrorists, attack dogs and even Juggernauts, while being rewarded with funds used for extra ammo, weapons, and accessories.

In other words, it's Horde mode, done Call of Duty style. Part 2 of the video shows more of the same, including a helicopter wave, and some missile-from-above action. Spec Ops is of course all part of the game, along with singleplayer and multiplayer, when it comes out on November 8.

Via: CVG
Source: YouTube

Tags: activision, call-of-duty-modern-warfare-3, infinity-ward, microsoft, modern-warfare-3, pc, playstation, ps3, sledgehammer-games, spec-ops, spec-ops-survival, xbox

Reader Comments (66)

Cool horde 2.0 rip off Activision. (Yes I know horde took from original avp games swarm mode)

people are probably gonna hate on this because its a horde mode kinda thing but i enjoy them so im happy.

@Kibbles XIII

To be honest, I'm not really a CoD fan, but I really wish more games would try and shove more stuff into it from other popular franchises. They may be copies, but why is that such a bad thing? I wish there was a horde mode I could play with my friends in Killzone 3. Difficult co-op survival is lots of fun, and needs to be in any popular shooter in my opinion.

@Kibbles XIII
No, I'm going to hate on it solely because it is Call of Duty.

Same old huge knife lunge. :(

@Silent Killer01 knife lunge? i saw no problem with that knife lunge. i never had problems killing people with commando all you need is a shotgun and you will never get "knife lunge"

Had a chance to play this at Eurogamer and got to round 10, felt like MW2.5.

@seven786 all of the mw3 stuff i've seen has looked like mw2.5 to me. i've thoroughly enjoyed the modern warfare games, but i don't plan on picking this one up. i'll have to wait and see if the multiplayer has been revamped enough. the new mode is a nice addition though.

sounds like killing floor, in a way.

@Aguiluz

Really, cause till now (7:37 AM EST) There is not ONE comment mention BF3 v MW3, stop being a damned troll.

cod4 already has this on pc... but with zombies... Now mw3 took the idea and made it into a new thing... >.> Cool imagination activision... it looks like the exact same shit from cod4.

@Kilizon32 I understand what you're trying to say, bot you're a little bit off. COD4 is MW, without zombies or horde-mode. Zombies first appered in COD 5 (World at War) and COD 6 ( Black Ops). You might be right because I haven't played the PC version.

@(Unverified)

isn't MW2 COD6 and Black Ops COD7?

looks like fun

So this is like Zombie Mode without the zombies?

I see they took the Arcadiness and cranked it up to 100. What authenticity the franchise once had went out the window after CoD4. The shotgun might as well be fully automatic. It's operated by the worlds fastest reloader and shooter. A big cup of lame.

Stay classy Joystiq...keeping pimping the Modern Warfare.

@HaVoK308

I don't understand do you want every military shooter to be exactly the same? CoD is arcade-y. that's the appeal.

@HaVoK308

Ohh, you want a panicked soldier who sometimes drops shells (ammo) while reloading in a fire fight... Just like I mentioned below about gaming gun physics, what do YOU want. /rollseyes

@Negatron

Yeh the reloading isn't an issue at all. The real problem is when you can pull the matrix and completely move out of the way of a shotgun blast at near point blank range @0:26-0:36

@HaVoK308

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Just an opinion, but I think this mode could be a hell of a lot better if treyarch were developing it, with all the experience they got from the zombies mode and all...

Thanks Activision. I had my heart and soul set on Battlefield 3, but then you come along with another CoD that is like a damn magnet to my hands!

I don't know how you can look at that and say that is fun.
I loved Zombies. I love Horde. But I don't love shotguns that can insta-kill from 50 feet away.

@PapaPost
You are probably one of those guys that sit in your basement all day and you've never gone outside and shot a real gun. Shoutguns can tear a large metal can up from 50 feet away, and the guy in the video was killing people from 10-15 feet away. It might just be me but this sounds like a reasonable distance for a military grade shotgun.

a shotgun could easily kill someone from 50 feet away.

@Will96 not quite. i guess more or less i'm tired of the CoD train. Runnin and gunnin w/out reserve for no purpose other than to kill people. But why change a formula that creates such succe$$.

@PapaPost you go stand 50 feet away...

@eat it
Maybe a dude without armor. Mil spec armor is actually pretty darn good around the torso

@eat it

But he doesn't like that they do, and there's nothing wrong with that. Realism in games is just a preference and has nothing to do with good game design.

What is wrong is wondering why its okay for people to like different things. Now, wondering the reason why someone likes something, that's different of course.

@RageOverdose

except, you know, shotgun buck does go like past 50 feet right in real life. People hunt ducks/geese with shotguns if you don't know, it is realistic to have them have a long range.

@ComedyInK He probably meant the youtube comments.

Cool.

@b4dmash comment updates ...
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Here we go again.....a ridiculous and upsetting range with a shotgun. :( I guess I should look forward to people jumping down a flight of stairs and shooting me with a shotgun from 20 feet!

@trunas

do you honestly think a shot gun wouldn't kill someone from 20 feet away?

@trunas

Gotta agree with @eat it on this one... Put it to the test. I have a shotty, you stand 20 feet away from me, I'll load my 12-gauge with some 1325fps shells, and we'll see who's standing after I pull the trigger.

*disclaimer* I would never shoot you. I love you.

@trunas
the weapons in zombies had different specs from their multiplayer counterparts. I'd say it is just for this mode.

@eat it

Yes, but you are playing a game with smaller maps, where is the Balance in that when a shotgun can kill you in one shot for a further distance/

Realism =/= Fun, I though we were clear on that.

@ComedyInK
Tell that to the people who play Arma.

Yeah...this looks fun but they need to just make one disc and keep making DLC. The entire MW3 could be DLC for like $19.99. I dont see how people get so hype to pay for a slight change!??

@(Unverified)
Disagreed. Many things have been tweaked and adjusted. The term slight is is your opinion. Keep in mind I'm no COD fanatic but your terms are just that, yours.

So its call of duty zombies without zombies?

@Aguiluz
Yeah, I wish people would stop having arguments on which game is better. In the end both games are probably gonna end up being great

Why can't we all get along? Gamers should be rejoicing that EA/Activision are in competition with each other since we win in the end with better games.

anyone else concerned about the crazy-good range on that shotgun?

@LENSconcept

and i know about shotguns in real life and what they can do, i'm talking about in-game stuff and how this seems a bit overpowered, but who knows, maybe that is the best shotgun in the game and maybe the damage is different in spec ops as opposed to TDM.

@LENSconcept

Maybe they're shooting only slugs in vital points? And I don't know... a 12-gauge shotty from 10 yards would rip most of your torso up.... with a kevlar vest, maybe not, but you'd probably not want to move much, none the less.

Plus, all game guns are overpowered and over accurate - it's a fact of life. If I pull the left trigger, bam - sight stays perfectly still... just like my hands do when I hold a gun to my face for 10 minutes. No movement.

@mynameisflip

Slugs=one large projectile, whereas regular shot would spread, which is what the animation is showing in the vid, which I am sure you understand. The 100ft away damage is probably just because maybe the lower level waves have less health?

The gaming world has guns and gun physics completely in the shitter. From people thinking shotguns are only lethal at "close" range, to suppressors making bullets hit as hard as a roll of toilet paper.

@Negatron

what exists in real life usually doesn't work very well in video games. the game companies are more concerned (thankfully) with making a good, balanced game, instead of making the weapons work exactly the same as their real-life counterparts.

@LENSconcept

I'm definitely not "thankful" for that. (balancing that is)

Personally I'd rather see 5.56 rounds and 7.62 rounds, etc do the same damage. But according to developers, different guns, firing the same round, do different damage. In my opinion the only stats that should change between firearms of the same caliber should be recoil and firing rates. Otherwise the whole "balancing" visage is a sham.

Developers want a realistic game, going the distance with sound mechanics and animation, but lack the actuality that firearms are many in the same in "damage".

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