Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 for the Wii is not the same beast as its next-gen counterparts. That's an easy observation to make even if you've only spent five minutes with the game, but it sticks throughout the entire experience.

*Editor's Note: Due to a lack of available screenshots for the Wii version of Modern Warfare 3, this review will use HD screens as placeholders.

Modern Warfare 3 isn't just about killing people. With the built-in Call of Duty: Elite network, it's about making friends, winning prizes and improving your online skills too. Oh, and yeah, killing people too actually. But do we really need a Facebook for fragging?

MW3 WIIIIIIIIIIIIII is a GREAT game. I got this for Christmas and it can get addictive. The CAMPAIGN is brilliant. Great storyline, very fun but graphics are not as good as the online and survival. I'd rate it 17+. MULTIPLAYER is very exciting and great fun.

Here it is: the Wii version of Activision's annual, best-selling, running forwards simulator. Do you own another games console? Well get it on that one instead, Nintendo won't be offended.

The boys are back in town! It's hard to believe that it has been 2 years since Modern Warfare 2 was released. Here we are once again joining Soap MacTavish and Captain John Price in their hunt for ultranationalist terrorist leader Vladimir Makarov.

In the midst of what's purportedly the largest entertainment launch in history yet again-the Call of Duty series has set and shattered the climbing record for three consecutive years-Activision and Treyarch have quietly released a Wii version of the modern military juggernaut for those who,...

Ceaseless action; Formula is still entertaining; Multiple; effective control options; Solid online multiplayer

Excessive lag during Spec Ops; Lack of new multiplayer/Spec Ops modes; Occasional framerate dips; Premise is showing its age

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is rated M for "Blood and Gore; Drug Reference; Intense Violence; Strong Language".

Call of Duty is a peculiar series. Each year it shifts millions of copies and is greeted with near unanimous critical praise, yet it also attracts a special kind of hatred from a vocal segment of the gaming community that consider it a microcosm of everything that is wrong with modern gaming.

Not many developers have truly mastered the Wii. One of the few developers that have is Treyarch. For the past three years they have delivered incredible ports of the Call of Duty games to the Wii, each one being a marked improvement on the previous entry.

Great Presentation; Fantastic CoOp Mode; Still the best online system on the Wii; Huge amount of content

Frustrating multiplayer design choices