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How does infinity wards answer to zombie mode hold up? Find out right here in my first impressions. 

So I’ll start by saying we were only allowed 10 minutes hands on time with the demo and in that time I only played one match on one map. Despite all this I think I have a good impression of how the mode will pan out. So basically you are thrown into a map and you have to fight of wave after wave of enemies with increasing difficulty. You earn money for kills which you spend on guns, perks, specials, ect. For that particular match. For the most part I don’t really have any problems with this but personally I would have preferred the perks to be permanent and part of a load out, but thats the only problem I have. The enemy AI is really good, they’ll hunt you down, take cover and try and flank you. It really does provide a decent challenge. As I mentioned earlier the enemies get harder each round, which forces you to buy stronger guns and such. There was one problem with this. We reached a point where the only enemies were choppers and we had no money for guns and only had ammo on a pistol. It was so frustrating just having to let the enemies kill you because there was no way to progress. I’m sure this could be easily fixed in balancing so I’m not too worried about it.

A big feature of this mode is that it can be played co-operatively with a friend. the demo we played was a LAN set up so I don’t know if it has split screen like the zombie mode, but I hope so. Co-op was great and your partner can revive you if your downed by an enemy. I think you can also revive a partner even if you yourself are in a downed state. 

So overall the spec-ops survival mode seems like a really cool addition to modern warfare 3. It a very clever way of including the zombie mode but with a modern warfare feel.