9am launch day, Megarom piled a bunch of journalists and industry players into Modern Warfare 3-branded Jeeps, and took us on a road trip to our “top secret” location – Gerotek Test Facilities in West Pretoria.<\/p>\n
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After a quick introduction by Megarom’s Devon Stanton, we were split into three teams – Alpha, Bravo and Charlie – and briefed on our mission for the day:<\/p>\n
Each team would start the day at designated points – each point having a different task relating in some way to Modern Warfare 3.<\/p>\n
I was put into Alpha team – and our starting point was the game room.<\/p>\n
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What an awesome start to the day – to get your hands on Modern Warfare 3’s multiplayer, playing on 37-inch Samsung LED screens with headsets.<\/p>\n
To my surprise – being a complete MW3-n00b of the nth degree – I didn’t totally suck at the game; with a slow start (and being frag-bait of note) – I eventually got into the swing of things, and managed to get a few kills in.<\/p>\n
We played several different multiplayer modes, including team deathmatch (we won!), capture the flag (we won again!) and free for all (I placed 7th…out of 8).<\/p>\n
We’d barely gotten to grips with the game, when we were whisked off to designated point 2 – the shooting range.<\/p>\n
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Given a paintball gun and a mask, we were told to pair up and prepare to run a small target course – each guy was given 2 shots to hit 5 different targets in the quickest time possible.<\/p>\n
Poor Alex over at eGamer had the misfortune of being teamed up with me.<\/p>\n
Despite my running like a girl, and shooting a few misses, we managed to complete the course in 3 minutes – which wasn’t enough to beat the best time of 1.41 accomplished by Charlie Team.<\/p>\n
Of course, no one beat Alpha team at point 3 of the course, which saw Monster Energy drink tasking us to guide our blind-folded teammates through a “minefield” – and then figure out a way to get rid of a “toxic substance” through the clever use of ropes.<\/p>\n
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Truth be told, I just hung back and let the experts do their thing – after all, someone had to document the event, just in case something went awry.<\/p>\n
Done with objective 3, we were once again transported back to home base – but not before taking the detour through the bundus – which put the Jeeps through their paces on steep inclines and tough terrain – which is exactly what Gerotek is for.<\/p>\n
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The day rounded off with a suprise prize-giving (I never won anything – if only we had known…), a free lunch (perks of the job) and some MW3 swag – just to top off a great day in that outdoors thingy.<\/p>\n
While the aim of the day and each objective was to teach us about technical co-ordination, gun skills and team communication, respectively – the most important lesson I learned was this:<\/p>\n
Wear sunscreen.<\/p>\n
Seriously – that outdoors thing is a hot place!<\/p>\n
Check out our Modern Warfare 3 launch super gallery right here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n![](\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/MW3_launch_pic_0028_779453024.jpg\")
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