Battlefield 3 is better than MW3

I will. Both Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 look to be shaping up as amazing games this year. This whole MW3 vs. BF3 feud has been going on for quite a while now, and a deep rivalry has developed between the fans of these FPS giants. I expect this to be a fun debate. I would like to make a few clarifications before I begin my argument. - Firstly, it should be known that both games involved in this debate have not been released yet, so the goal therefore should be to prove what game WILL be better than the other. - Secondly, since neither my opponent or I has had the opportunity to play the finished versions of these games, our projections on this issue can be derived from sources such as demos, gameplay footage, known components of the game, and also the Battlefield 3 beta. - Thirdly, based on the certain context of my opponent's opening argument, I am under the impression (and I ask my opponent to please correct me if I am wrong) that this debate refers more extensively the multiplayer aspects of these games. I'll start off my rebuttal by mentioning your one and only contention for why Battlefield 3 is better than Modern Warfare 3: "Realism". First of all, realism does not always make a game superior to others, but I will come back to this point momentarily. Instead, I would like to go ahead and address your argument for how Battlefield 3 is, in fact, more realistic than MW3. You provide very meager support for this claim, insisting that MW3 is unrealistic because it is impossible to live through two 50cal bullets to the head. This does sound rather unrealistic, doesn't it? Perhaps it may have seemed unrealistic to you in the original Modern Warfare, when that player using Juggernaut (a perk that grants damage reduction) survived your two sniper shots to the face. Maybe it seemed equally unrealistic to you in Modern Warfare 2 when those two bullets to the dome didn't even seem to phase that noob with the Painkiller deathstreak (granting a temporary damage reduction to the player). Yes, I can see where you may have found it unreal, perhaps even infuriating that these players (who clearly don't have any heavy head protection to resist the bullets), would not die to your clean and lethally placed shots. However, your claim that it takes two headshots with the 50cal to kill another player ONLY APPLIES to Modern Warfare 1 and 2. The game we are disputing now is Modern Warfare 3. As I have explained, the only two instances where a player could survive two 50cal bullets to the head are when that player either had the Juggernaut perk or the Painkiller deathstreak. There were many others who were just as frustrated as you about these "unrealistic" annoyances. That's why Infinity Ward listened, and both Juggernaut AND Painkiller have both been confirmed to be OUT of MW3. Now, my opponent may argue that the addition of the Juggernaut Armor killstreak to MW3 would undermine my point. However, this killstreak gives the player who earns it a HEAVILY armored Juggernaut suit (contained in a care package dropped by a helicopter) that completely covers the wearer from head to toe. I ask the readers to look at the link given below: . http://www.mw2blog.com... Clearly, the idea of these ridiculously armored soldiers being able to survive two 50cal headshots is not nearly as unrealistic as the frustrating follies of damage mitigation found in the previous Modern Warfare installments. You hinged your entire argument on BF3 being the superior game due to it having higher realism than MW3, and supported this assertion only by saying it was unrealistic to survive two 50cal shots to the head. Since I have negated this point, I have negated the solitary claim you had for your entire argument. I would now like to return to the point I mentioned earlier. Even if I had not just negated this sole claim of yours, that BF3 is more "realistic" than MW3, you still have not provided any grounds for which realism equals superiority in the gaming industry. Is a hunting-simulation game better than other shooting games because it is technically more "realistic"? No, of course not. This logic is flawed, especially in the world of video games, where fantasy comes to life. We do things in games that we could never do in real life, and that's the fun of it. So, instead of the defining trait of a superior game being "realism" (which I have already refuted against BF3 having any advantage of), I contend that instead, the traits that should determine which is the superior game are: 1) Playability 2) Entertainment 3) Gameplay Variance 4) Online Community I assert that Modern Warfare 3 is superior to Battlefield 3 in all of these aspects and therefore the superior game overall. I will expand on my contentions in later rounds.