Modern Warfare 3: Spec Ops survival mode trailer

Since Modern Wafare 2's release on the 10th November 2009 it is still as popular now as it has ever been. Now a year and a half later Infinity Ward are realeasing trailers for the massively awaited sequel Modern Warfare 3


The latest trailer to be realeased is of gameplay of the SpecOps: Survival mode which is basically Infintiy Ward's version of Nazi Zombies.
I am here to analyse the trailer and give you my opinion on how it is shaping up to be.


The trailer starts off describing what Survivial mode is and how it will work and that it will have its own seperate leaderboard online:

 Something that caught my eye in the following gameplay was in the bottom left corner. There are these progress bars which say Kill streak and Headshot above them. I think that these are challenges that when you complete you get money and the amount of money that you get is to the right of the progress bars. These challenges seem to change as the trailer goes on to 'Quad Kill, Knife Kill, Assists, Rampage' which means that you will have different challenges throughout the game which will present challenges and keep you playing in many different ways.

A very important piece of information is said over the radio in the trailer in the video and this is that survival mode only has 2 players in it.
Personally I'm not sure about Infinity Ward's and Sledgehammer Games decision on this because while having 4 player co-op like in Nazi Zombies is fun and some fans will be unhappy about having only 2 player co-op, this means more action for the 2 players involved.
Let me know in the comments below what you think of this.


Also there is an indication of some of the perks you will be able to purchase and unlock with 3 perks - Extreme Conditioning, Sitrep and Steady Aim which gives an indication of some the perks in the multiplayer as well.


Now of course survival mode would be pretty difficult without thee player being able to get new weapons and weapons attachments. Infinity Ward and Sledgehmmer Games have red glowing outlines of 3 things - a pistol, a grenade and a jet. These 3 outlines are around care packages around the maps. This seems to be how a player will be able to purchase new weapons and equipment and air support like buying guns and equipment of the walls in Nazi Zombies. These packages will make the player have to think about their tactics because the player will need to be constantly upgrading weapons and getting re-supplies.  
































Also guns and equipment are confirmed to be returning by this video.
These are:



Guns: (pistol outline)


USAS 12
M16A4
AK-47
ACR6.8

Equipment:  (grenade outline)
Flashbangs
Frag grenades
C4
Auto turret (sentury gun)

Last Stand




One very interesting part of the trailer was when 'air drop support armoury' was shown.
 This seems to be where you can purchase things like Predator Missiles and Air strikes. 
You can also purchase a 'Delta squad which I reckon is a squad of men which help you survive the waves of enemies. However I am slightly sceptical of this because these Delta squads may just kill all the enemies during a wave and leave the player standing there with nothing to do.
However I shall  withhold my final judgement until the game comes out.
However one thing that I do like the look of is the riot shields squad. I think that this will be a very useful and that they will be a great tool for cover during the combat
Let me know in the comments below what you think of the ideas of the Delta squad and the riot shield squads

One very interesting concept showed in the trailer was attack dogs with explosives. I think that this will be awesome in Spec ops because it means that the attack dogs have even more power.
However I really hope that this is not a kill streak in the multiplayer because I think that it would be too overpowered.
Let me know your views below on this.






And right at the end of the trailer when you think it is all over there is an easter egg and this is a snippet of multiplayer gameplay!!


There are several important revels here.
The first is the Juggernaut POINT STREAK reward. Now this suggests that in Modern Warfare 3 players will gaining point streaks for playing objectives likes capping flags and planting bombs. I believe this is a great idea because some gamers out there are not able to build up good kill streaks but now with the introduction of point streaks people will be rewarded more for playing the objective.
The device used to gain this pint streak by the player seems to be a modern type of Bouncing Betty which we saw in World at War because you can see a small part of it fly up into the air and explode.
Let me know what you think of this new type of equipment in the comments below 


The next thing is the very detailed mini map in the top left corner of the screen. Now in previous Call Of Duty games the mini map has been outlines of buildings and areas. But now with the great detail on the mini map players will be able to move around more tactically and use the detail on the mini map.


The weapon that the player seems to be holding is a machine pistol so this seems to suggest that Infinity Ward is bringing back Shotguns and Machine pistols as secondary weapons which is different to Black Ops.