Modern Warfare 3 hasn't had the smoothest of entries. This latest entry has caught some major flak for being a 'glorified expansion' in the eyes of some fans, thanks to some confused initial messaging, carrying your guns over, and its speedy—some suggest rushed—development cycle. Now that it's out, the campaign's been panned for both its short length and an overreliance on "open combat" missions.
As Bloomberg reports, some of that same doubt came from inside the house during development, citing "more than a dozen current and former Call of Duty Developers" who reportedly felt that the plan was unclear. Some say they were directly told it was an expansion—"a smaller-scale Modern Warfare spinoff set in Mexico," according to the site—until a pivot later in development to a full-priced release.
