Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 closes out its run with two new multiplayer modes

By Anthony John Agnello October 3, 2012

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Activision has one important rule: The Call of Duty well is never dry until the next game comes out. With just one month and change to go before Call of Duty: Black Ops II comes out and sells multiple millions of copies, Activision is squeezing a last bit of blood from the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 stone in the form of two new multiplayer modes.

Released on Tuesday, Activision put out 3v3 Hardcore Face Off, a self-explanatory competitive mode for Modern Warfare 3, and Money in the Denk, a variation on Sabotage created by Machinima director Denk. Denk’s version of the team work-oriented mode is actually also based on a specific type of WWE match called Money in the Bank, but instead of a briefcase on top of a ladder, you have Modern Warfare 3 teams vying for control of, and the opportunity to diffuse, a bomb.

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