Just going to respond to the title. Yes I remember it. It wasn't very good.

I kind of liked COD3. A huge let down from COD2 but the vehicles made it interesting. I was in college when that came out. God, could you imagine people whining on forums about the BAR or the 30 cal these days?!?! Holy S#%*. I think the servers would melt! Those were the best guns for sure. Anyway, back to your point and away from memory lane, yes, people are complaining way more but this should be expected with tech's evolution. Everybody has a mic to voice there gripe. I think a lot of it has to do with the "everybody is a winner" mentality. I'm 27. I never had this pansy crap when I was growing up. It was kill or be killed. BUT that's the way it is and nothing is going change unfortunately. All you can do is ignore the idiots and enjoy what you can with friends.

-The end.

Was OK at the time not great....

i used to play it now and again on the run up to mw3 i agree it wasnt the best cod game but it managed one thing that no other cod game has managed since and thats 24 players without hardlys any lag i havent been able to play groundwar in mw3 or black ops much because of the terrible lag and that was only 18 players

The first CoD I played was CoD4 and I didn't start playing it until just before MW2 came out. So I can't really say a lot about CoD3 but what I can say is that even though MW3's problems might be far less significant than that, the standards are also a lot higher.

They put deathstreaks in MW2 and it broke sales records. They took them out in Black Ops and broke sales records. They returned in MW3 and still broke records. Bottom line is deathstreaks aren't going to be somebodies determining factor in a purchase. I was pretty bad at CoD 4 but at no point in time did I ever want help because I had died 4+ times in a row.

I played CoD because it was fun. MW3 is the first game in the series where that fun has ever come into question and it's mainly because of fundamental flaws that they made in developement that they should have easily learned or already knew weren't good ideas.

Ya COD3 was terrible.

- It had the biggest maps to date.

- It had the best price for map packs 800 MSP.

- The map packs where great and huge (Ironclad is still my fav out of ALL CODs).

- Evenly powered weapons (M1 was semi auto but the KAR98 was stronger though it was bolt action, MP40 vs Thompson was = matchup...).

- Ranked matches for serious players

- Unranked matches for split screeners and for fun only games

- The community was much more mature than any COD since

- Team work was needed to win any objective game

- No useless zombies or infected to please the kiddies (again, it was a more mature community unlike today's games that are littered with "tweens").

- No hacking

- I played COD3 from release to today and I still dont hear Justin Bieber audtitions or random screaming in teh mics

- COD3 was the last COD to offer a free DLC map "Champs"

- No perks

- No deathstreaks

- No K/D

- The community policed itself with team killing. If you TK me, I had the option to punish or forgive. If you got 3 punishes in a ranked game you got booted. Imagine that. COD leaving it up to the players to decide if a TK was accidental or not. Wild concept.

- No lag comp

- 24 man lobbies

Looking back, ya that game was horrible.