On Tuesday Nov. 8, Activision’s new and highly anticipated game “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” will hit stores.
Activision created buzz about the game during the last E3, which is an event for gamers and creators alike, when they announced that they were in progress of the new game.
The last “Call of Duty” created by Activision was “Modern Warfare 2,” which sold 4.7 million copies on the first day bringing in a total of $310 million and $550 million in the first week. Modern Warfare 2 has sold over $1 billion from the release date on November 2009 until January of 2010.
The last “Call of Duty” release “Black Ops” had sales over $650 million in the first week of sales.
“Black Ops” was created by Treyarch, along with “Call of Duty: World at War” were not received as well by the players then the games created by Activision.
“Call of Duty” will introduce new weapons as well as bringing back some of the older guns.
Besides the new weapons, Activision has created a new game mode called “Kill Confirmed,” which is basically a team deathmatch with a twist.
The play will be the same; you will go around trying to kill the players on the other team. Instead of just getting the kill when you shoot them, the enemy will drop dog tags that you have to capture.
If a teammate or an enemy player receives the dog tags before you do, then the kill does not count.
Not only is there new weapons and games, they also started a new kill streak system. The new system involves three separate types of core play. The first being assault, which is what kill streaks were known as in the older games, support is to aid you and your teammates and specialist which is all the perks.
The campaign in the game starts where “Modern Warfare 2” left off. It will also jump from country to country in places like Paris, Hamburg, London, New York, Berlin and Washington D.C.
Many Bucks students are looking forward for this game and have been for a while.
Jim Aguire, a 20-year-old a business management major from Warminster, is excited.
“I have been looking forward to this for a long time,” he said. “I took off work so I could go to the midnight release and play all night. It’s without a doubt the best game around.”
Sonia Figgens, a 25-year-old history major from Langhorne, said she’s been playing the “Call of Duty” franchise games for years now.
“It’s one of those rare things in life that never gets old,” she said. “I could play it for hours and not even realize I had been playing for so long.”
Steve Vitale, 19, a resident of Warminster studying to be a paralegal, predicted this would be the best version of the game yet.
‘’From reading the previews they’re going to have a lot more modern weapon enhancement, as great as the game is that was always the one flaw with the game in my opinion,” Vitale said. “I’m also looking forward to having a more modern setting because the game will be based in the year 2016.”
According to CNBC.com, Activision is expecting sales of the new game to reach near $800 million, with $200 million within the first of 24 hours of the game’s release alone.
Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing, said in an interview with the magazine, “Game Informer”, that he hopes this will be the best version of the series yet.
‘’We’re cautiously optimistic,” he said. “We are happy that there’s a lot of hype around the game. We’ll be looking not at the sales of the first week, but the sales around the upcoming holiday season.”  
Many stores are doing a midnight launch in honor of the release of the game. Stores like GameStop and Wal-Mart are partaking in these events where buyers can pick the game up at midnight on the day of the release.
Information from CNBC.com and Game informer contributed to this report.