- Epic single-player campaign picks up immediately following the thrilling events from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- The definitive multiplayer experience returns, with a host of new perks and enhancements
- New cooperative SpecOps mode, the perfect combination of Modern Warfare's single player intensity and the addictive replayability of its multiplayer
- Special Ops Mode allows two players, either alone or with a friend, to engage in unique mission play and features split-screen functionality.
- Modern Warfare 2 contains new and updated weapons, new weapons attachments, and a variant of the multiplayer weapons customization system
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Short Story…An Eternity of Gaming!,
Just like its most recent predecessors, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: World at War, the campaign portion of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is a really fun game with extremely intense battle sequences. The downfall is that it’s very very short. So let me start by saying that if you’re not set up to, or you just don’t intend to, play the online co-op or multiplayer modes, you really want to think twice before paying full price for this game. Single players either need to rent this or wait for an inexpensive used copy to go on sale.
So you get three game options: Special Ops (online isn’t necessary, but at least two players are required for some of the missions), Multiplayer (designed to be played online; this is no fun split-screen with a max of 4 players), and the single player Campaign that took me less than 6 hours to finish.
In single player Campaign mode, you’re a first person shooter (soldier) on the frontlines, and this time the frontlines aren’t limited to overseas territories. Primarily you’re playing separate, interlacing missions all over the world as two different characters. The story takes place several years after CoD 4 ended. And just as in CoD 4 you’re with a team of characters that are truly your band of Artificial Intelligence brothers. On easier settings the AI soldiers can do practically all of the work for you on some missions; the help you might get from your team is based on the difficulty setting you’ve chosen. So unless you want to just glide through the game, definitely don’t pick the Recruit difficulty (the other difficulty options are Regular, Hardened and Vet).
I could take away a star from the overall score of this game for how short the single player mode is, but I won’t….All of a sudden it’s not so short when you go back and try to play on the Vet setting and spend the time looking for all of the Intel items.
You arrive in single player boot camp just like in all of the previous CoDs, and you get a brief tutorial on how to maneuver around, shoot your weapons & throw grenades. After boot camp you get to choose the difficulty setting, then you’re immediately strewn into various battles. (Once you’ve completed the game on any setting you can go back to various chapters to clean up any items or trophies missed, and at the start of each chapter you can choose to attempt on the higher difficulties.)
You fight your way through some intense chapters….really intense. In fact, when you first start off, there’s even a warning that you’ll be in for some VERY disturbing sequences, and you have the option to tell the game to skip “offensive material”. Ummm…no thanks. I think that this is the first game that I’ve played that offers the option to censor itself if you choose the option. The story is a bit choppy at times, but the battles are wild. The graphics are out of this world, and some of the “familiar territory” scenes will just blow you away with how much it really looks like your own back yard.
The weapons are plentiful and sophisticated. You’re shooting whichever modern-day weapon you happen to have picked up along your objective route. Objectives that guide you along are updated regularly as you complete each task throughout each chapter. And some of those tasks are brutal. There are frequent checkpoints (I think I remember even reaching new checkpoints without firing a single shot) in the campaign, so no need to worry about respawning back before what seemed to take an eternity to complete. On the other hand….
….There is the Special Ops portion of the game. I think that there are 23 different missions for you here, and you can play each one by trying to earn 1, 2 or 3 stars in each mission. Some of these are darn hard, especially the final 3-star unlocks. You will be frustrated by playing some of these a few times before you beat the levels to earn your stars. And there are no checkpoints in these missions, so if you fail in the final moments of a mission, you start over from the beginning of that mission.
Special Ops is most fun with a partner. It’s best online so that you get to play full screen, but if you have a guest over you can play split screen offline. For all you World at War players looking for Zombies, you’re out of luck here. You get Special Ops instead. There was a silly rumor that MW2 would have an “Alien Invaders” mode that would rival the Zombie mode of WaW, but that indeed was just a silly rumor.
Online Multiplayer is where you’ll get addicted. No AI brothers here…just your fellow gamers. You’d better have your FPS…
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|Ok, so no one plays the campaign mode… except me.,
My Experience:
Being I am an OG, from the 70′s my reaction times are slowing down and I know it. I actually enjoy the campaign modes in these games. Which is why I am giving it a 2 star. I am sure people will blast me because the MULTIPLAYER IS WHERE ITS AT MAN!!! OMGWTROXXORZ.!11. I agree that the multiplayer can be fun, but this is a review of the game as it stands.
Campaign Mode: ***** 5 star
First off the campaign mode. The graphics and scenes are so absolutely beautiful I would give this a 5 star hands down, it is what brought this title up from a 1 star. From the basic places like the airport in the mountains. The snow, the weather, it all seems to be so very real and inviting. When you have to take back the White House it is breathtaking from the color of the sky to the helicopters crashing all around you. Wonderful, epic and left me wanting more. Which, leads us to the reason I want to give this a 1 star.
Campaign Story: 0000* 1 star
The campaign mode is ridiculously short. I wanted to take my time taking it all in and several missions push you the whole time to GO GO GO!!! which is expected due to the insane pace of the enemies. It really sucks you in and makes you feel part of it, however, it falls horribly short due to the anemic plot and, well…shortness… The major issue with the campaign is the incredibly weak story. They never explain why anything has happened, the dialogue between the characters is full of hyperbole and patriotic fluff. I realize the world thinks Americans are a bunch of yahoo cowboys, but come on with the brainless pointless dialogue.
Sub campaign:
The Spec Ops are so-so fun, but its just a rehash of the campaign you just finished.
Now lets discuss the 10,000 pound gorilla in the room.
Multiplayer 0000* 1 star
I understand its my lack of skillzorz that makes the multiplayer frustrating. That does not mean that I have to give a game I do not enjoy anything more than I have. The new titles and other 1337 embellishments they have thrown into the multiplayer has done nothing but polish what I perceive as a pile of excrement. Playing with a friend can make multiplayer a bit more fun. Going into a game where only 2 out of 18 have a mic, where most are young kids, and some have voice modifiers so we dont know they are kids,(yea right Darth), is nothing short of pure hell. Its not fun, nor is it the reason I got this game.
After playing such epics as Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune & Uncharted 2: Among Thieves this game pales in comparison for the depth of characters, re-playability, and overall scope. I am not a glutton for punishment so games like Demon’s Souls have little appeal to me. I have a family, job and other things taking up my time, (like Amazon reviews), so a 2-3 hour frag fest where I am repeatedly killed over and over holds no appeal to me either.
For the -Not Helpful- voters:
I am sure this review will garner a fair share of negative votes. Just remember you too are entitled to your opinion and you too can write a review on any product and YOUR experience with that product. My experience with this product, while amazing, was brief and ultimately very frustrating. If this was a review of a new electric toothbrush and that toothbrush shocked you every time you used it, you too could come here and write about it was a pain to use. Reviews are not meant as an -I am a fan or I hate it-, instead it is meant as a way to let customers hear a varied and alternative view of a product. I think overall Activision did a pretty good job with this game. The soundtrack was spot on and sounded great. But making the game as a single player and a multiplayer means its not excellent at either one. Sure your Honda Civic can go off-road but eh, do you think it will hold up well?
Pros:
>> Beautiful animations
>> Epic scenes
>> Motion capture is fantastic
>> Fantastic soundtrack
Cons:
<< Story is disjointed and weak
<< Campaign is very short
<< Relying on this game to be 100% multiplayer experience means that it never works well as a single player game.
Summary:
This game was made as a multiplayer game with a campaign thrown in as a disjointed storyline that never fully grabs hold and engages, partly because it is too short. If the campaign were only 20-30 more hours long, this would be an epic worth…
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|good; but should have been great,
Before I begin, I must note that I have rented both the PS3 and 360 versions of this game and played them extensively. While I am still up in the air on which version I will end up buying, the only reason I am reviewing the PS3 version versus the 360 version is because this is the version I am leaning towards buying. However my reasons have nothing to do with differences with the game between the two systems. For all practical purposes, the two versions are identical and there is no need to review the 360 version as well. See my comments for a quick comparison between the two systems concerning this game.
My review:
Modern Warfare 2 was one of the most anticipated games in recent history. After the HUGE success of COD: Modern Warfare, MW2 looked to continue the success. While the game visually looks better than the first, there are issues (mainly in single player) that have hurt this game. If it weren’t for the extremely fun and improved Multi-player, this game could have been one of the biggest disappointments this year.
Single Player
This game takes place 5 years after the original Modern Warfare and after a quick training course you are immediately thrown into action. While the first few levels were extremely fun and creative, most of the levels really lacked any innovation or offered anything new. In single player, every aspect of the game from visuals to audio is improved except for the main thing; game play. IW seems to have fallen prey to the Hollywood mentality that all we want is action all the time without much thought put into the actual story line or doing a good job of explaining what’s going on. Attention to the actual story is something they did VERY well in COD4. However levels on MW2 just turn into nothing but mindless shoot fests. Its very obvious single player was just thrown together without much thought and it makes completing most of the campaign more of a frustrating chore than a fun and challenging experience. Things move along so fast with many jumps and holes in the story line, it’s very difficult to follow the plot about what’s going on. Even the cut screens during levels are hard to follow because there is so much going on onscreen with separate audio that does nothing but drown each other out. After a while you more than likely will just give up trying to follow along and just kill everything that moves. With this game, you will have ample opportunity to do just that; while there is no endless spawning as in the previous title, because there are so many enemies it might as well be. After the first couple of levels, enemies will just pop out of everywhere on every single level with no break in the action.
Each level may look different, but the concept is the exact same; kill hundreds of enemies before they kill you before you make the next checkpoint. Which brings me to my next complaint; IW still has done nothing about the annoying check point system. While I admit the checkpoint system in COD4 wasn’t as bad as other games I have played, the checkpoint system in MW2 is absolutely terrible. Because you have to kill so many people before you can even advance you will find yourself having to start ALL over again if you die. What makes this even worse is that even when you DO reach a checkpoint, sometime the game does not recognize that you made it, so when you die you have to start over TWO checkpoints back frustrating the crap out of you. Part of my frustration could be the fact that I played on Hardened Difficulty, but even still, the checkpoint system is a big problem.
There is a little more variety in the latter levels, but the concept is pretty much the same. In addition the final levels will more than likely having you wanting to throw your controller in the floor due to all the random deaths and seemingly luck based objectives due to the plethora of enemies. Once you get through it however, you are rewarded with a pretty good ending and credits.
It’s a shame single player was such a disappointment. The levels themselves are gorgeous and the in-game sound and ally chatter is amazing. Some parts are extremely fun as well. It’s just too bad there isn’t a comprehensible story line to go along with it and game play that is for the most part extremely top-heavy with action.
Single Player rating: 3.5/3.75
Multi-player
As much as I am disappointed with the single player campaign, the Multi-player makes up for it. There are some new perks/kill streak rewards that are sure to make online play a little more interesting. Modern Warfare features new kill streak rewards like Predator Missiles, Harrier Strike and Care Packages. There is also a tactical Nuke strike which will end the game immediately killing every one on the map and giving you the win; however you need a 25 kill streak to do this so it’s not something…
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