PS3's CoD3 has Online Multiplayer

After Tony Hawk's Project 8 (PS3) was said to be multi-player-less our brow raised towards other game developers - is this going to be a standard on early PS3 titles? No.

Call of Duty 3, for the PlayStation 3, will indeed be multi-player networked from day one. Of course, the Xbox 360 release will also support full multi-player but that console has been out for a year (and CoD2 had multiplayer).

Treyarch, the group developing Call of Duty 3, says "yes" to multi-player on all platforms CoD3 will be released on. Good news for Sony because it proves that not all developers are "rushed" to get a product out the door without multiplayer.

Now you must be asking yourself "Call of Duty 2 had basic level functionality for networking at product launch, will part-3 be the same?" - No, that's the word on the street. The next release of this WWII FPS simulator will support, out of the box, 24-player online gaming across many game modes which includes the classic deathmatch and capture the flag.

No worries gamers, this product should launch without a massive network patch.