Written By Dean Takahashi

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 launched to great fanfare on Tuesday as one of the biggest video games of the year, and we rated the single-player campaign as one of the best games of the year.

After a few days of  combat, I’m happy to say that the multiplayer version of the game isn’t a disappointment, bringing new kinds of variety and freshness for players who have played the prior games to death. This is a major reason why Activision Blizzard generates more than $1 billion in revenue from each Call of Duty game and why many players ignore other games and keep playing for months. It’s like a rollercoaster ride that you keep going back to at the amusement park.