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1. BLD says:

   November 1, 2010 at 1:26 pm

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   For those of you who thinks first person shooters are a thing of the past; think again! Infinity Ward has revamped a simple idea of a first person shooter into something that is both elegant and exciting. This is supported by a dynamite story and emotional screen-plays. The amount of detail; everything from the fabric to a Soldier’s face, depicts realism at its best. I could go on and on about this game, however, it’s better to experience it yourself. So stop reading reviews about this game and go on and get it. Just be sure to allot yourself plenty of time to play. The story is compelling enough to not upset (only if you have no choice but to stop). Whenever a game is fun enough to leave your heart racing after being “killed” and you aren’t throwing your controller across the house (while shouting colorful words), you can pretty much say that this game is worth every cent.

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2. Sky says:

   November 2, 2010 at 2:06 am

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   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 skills honed if you think that you’ll score better than some of the MW2 online players. A very high percentage of the online players have been honing their skills online for years now with CoD4 and World at War.

   The concept with Multiplayer is certainly not new. The more you play, the higher you rank allowing you to unlock more (fine tuned) weapons. The game sets you up in matches with people at your level and rank, but that ain’t gonna help you if you’re new (you will be fondly referred to as a noob by your swell fellow online players) and you’re up against the CoD4 or WaW vets.

   What makes MW2 Multiplayer more than just a new map pack for CoD4 is that the Multiplayer weapons and perk system are vastly improved. And so is connectivity (so it seems in the initial week of play after a few day one and two glitches). You get 10 times the amount of points for the kills and captures that you’re used to getting only 5 or 10 points for in CoD4 and WaW. You also now get points for not just killing and capturing, but for taking out enemy air support, coming back from deathstreaks, killing your nemesis, breaking an enemy’s streak and other stuff. Yeah, Multiplayer is good fun, habitual and bad for a marriage.

   So all in all Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is major fun. The only drawbacks to this awesome game are that the campaign is really short and the multiplayer action is a bit familiar. But the MW2 Multiplayer improvements over its predecessors far out weigh the familiarity.

   Modern Warfare 2 is a must for FPS fans. Add it to your cart, soldier!
   

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3. J. Singer says:

   November 2, 2010 at 9:14 am

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   First, let me start by saying I do not have any of the other games in the line of CoD. I do, however, have Resistance 2 as well as the full line of Battlefield games for PC. In addition, I would consider myself a casual gamer. I do enjoy a good game, but I won’t let it consume my life and I could really care less if I may happen to have the lowest level out of all members on my team. =)

   Now, for my simple review.

   I gave this 5 stars across the board.

   Likes:
   
   - Single player mission:
   
   (NOTE: As I am one to take my time on single player stuff, I have only completed about 1/3 of this)
   
   Pretty damn sweet. Awesome graphics, chilling sound and pretty good storyline.

   - Special-Ops co-op:
   
   One of the main things I look for in a game is the ability to play online with my friends in other parts of the country. Co-op is a muge plus for doing this. Thus far, co-op has been a lot of fun. Although MW2 appears to not have quite as much co-op missions stuff as Resistance 2, it is still a nice addition to the game.

   - Multiplayer on-line:
   
   Simply, amazing. Lot’s of extravagant maps with a bunch of different options on how you can play them. This will be the lasting power to the game with the endless action and enjoyment it brings to gamers from all corners.

   Dislikes:
   
   Nada

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4. Charles H. Vietzke says:

   November 3, 2010 at 8:23 am

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   The Single player game is great. Im not even going to get into that. The multiplayer is fantastic after you play the game a few hours. You start off only being able to play Team DeathMatch and Deathmatch. Its awful. I hate TDM. Its just nubs running around shooting you in the back. its awful and no fun. I was starting to get sad that this was how the whole game was going to be. I was wrong. Once you rank up a bit, you can play in other gametypes such as Search and Destroy, Headquarters, and of course…Capture the flag. This is the meat and potatoes of online gaming. This is a ton of fun. For all the hours i get to play this game, and on the FREE PSN Network….I couldnt be happier.

   One thing I will agree with from other reviewers, its a bit arcade-like. Its a great game and a tone of fun, but has LOTS AND LOTS of Bells and Whistles. Either way, good game….definately worth the money. Considering its 60 bucks, you can play this for hundreds of hours online, versus buying movie tickets for 10 bucks each and getting 2 hours of entertainment. This is a fiscally responsible purchase!!!

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5. Daniel Johnson says:

   November 5, 2010 at 3:13 am

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   This game is the best online multiplayer HANDS DOWN! Nothing else Available today is even in the same league. If you have the game and haven’t played online, slap yourself and do whatever it takes to get on line.

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6. Ugur Galatali says:

   November 6, 2010 at 8:02 am

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   I’m married so I’ve limited time to play games and right now this game takes all of my playtime, between 12.01 AM to 4.00 AM. Yes I get little sleep because of this game.

   Initially I played the Campaign Mode to get used to the weaponry and aiming. Previously I played FPS games only on PC but I got used to it after a few hours. Like many other people said, campaign mode was rather short yet I found it satisfying. I don’t understand people complaining about the story because this is no Drakes Fortune, you just need basic storyline to get through the game. There are bad guys and there are good guys, you have some twists towards the end of the game and a great ending sequance, that my friends I think is enough for a game like this.

   Then there is the Multiplayer Mode, wow. I must confess, before this game I have only played Burnout online for couple of sessions and I decided I wasn’t into online gaming. Not more than a month ago, a real close friend of mine convinced me to buy and play this game online with him. Not only it was a FPS but also playing online, I resisted a lot of course. After a few hours of online gametime, I was unlocking stuff like crazy, never satisfying with what I got, I had to get more, I needed the Thermal scope, the Heart sensor, Akimbo, not in that particular order. Next thing I know the sun was shining, hitting my eye through the curtains, saying that I stayed up all night playing the game. I played one more game to unlock Commando Pro and went to work.

   Playing against real people is so much better than single player mode. You don’t look for a story, you live it. Every kill, every death is a story in itself, that we tell each other with my friend. I got into MW2 world late a bit but I enjoy it very much and can’t recommend it enough.

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7. Matthew B. Leslie says:

   November 6, 2010 at 10:46 pm

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   This has to be one of the most popular PS3 games to date. I know my review will get lost in a sea of opinions, but it’s time for my two cents.

   The game is fantastically beautiful to play. The land and city-scapes are picturesque. The movement is silky smooth at what appears to be 60fps. And even in multiplayer mode the controls are tight and responsive. That’s what makes the whole experience so rewarding.

   One negative note: I feel that long killstreaks (20+) are too prevalent. I’ve been nuked a few times now and I don’t enjoy the game ending so abruptly. The real problem is that once you get 11 kills you can get the ridiculously overpowered AC gunship. At that point getting to a massive killstreak gets so much easier. This could be fixed with simple adjustments to the required number of kills to obtain these rewards. I hope it does.

   I think this is the cutting-edge, state-of-the art FPS for 2009. It’s not innovative, it’s not groundbreaking. In fact, it’s pretty formulaic save for the fact it’s not WW2-based. But it pulls the whole package off with such polish that you can’t help but play on.

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8. PS3 player says:

   November 7, 2010 at 2:45 am

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   Not being a teenage gamer, but someone who appreciates a game like this after a day of dealing with stupid people at work, it is an excellent stress reliever. Best 50 bucks of therapy money can buy. The online gaming is vastly improved over the original modern warfare, and even though I am still much slower than most of the gaming freaks out there, it is still fun. Private games with a couple buddies from around the world really make it an enjoyable way to spend time with some friends you don’t get to talk to or see all the time.

   From some friends around that have played on Xbox, and PS3, say the PS3(full 1080) is much better graphically.

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9. Connor says:

   November 7, 2010 at 7:13 pm

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   As everyone has said, the single player is short and the multiplayer is amazing. The sheer amount of unlockable perks, weapon upgrades, titles and challenges means virtually limitless content. Referring back to the single-player, the story is hard to keep track of and doesn’t make the most sense. However, there were quite a few moments when I found myself holding my breath in suspense. There are some parts that were moving and others that fell flat. There is indeed a scene which you can choose to skip for disturbing content which I most certainly did not. I will say it was interesting and leave it at that. I find the PS3 analog sticks and controls much more fluid and easy to use than the 360, just a personal preference. In conclusion, the minor drawbacks do not take away from the overall fun factor and dramatic nature of this game. I would highly recommend purchasing it if you haven’t already.

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10. J. W. Mullins says:

    November 8, 2010 at 1:06 am

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    I have been waiting since the first Modern Warfare game for this game. Was it worth they wait? I would have to say yes, does it break the Call of Duty mold? Not really.

    The fist issue I have is with the difficulty settings, most everyone should be able to enjoy and play through the game on the easiest setting, but from there up the difficulty ramps up for faster than it should The Regular setting on WM2 feel much more like the Veteran setting on MW. This is a hard game for all but the best FPS players. You will die while fighting off wave and waves of bad guys that never stop spawning. That is part of the COD recipe for sure but it makes it particularly frustrating on levels like the Rio slums level. Where you have guys spawning from every direction, none stop and all of whom are master marksman. You will die constantly. I think they could have done better with upping the difficulty a little better at each level. The difference between the easiest setting and the next on up is extreme. The entire game feels more like the plane level on MW on any setting.

    The weapon selection for everything but pistols is great. You can’t pick you load out but you will come across so many weapons that finding one you like isn’t an issue. Many of the weapons are kitted out with optics and whatnot similar to the multiplayer mode in MW. There is also a huge assortment of weapons in the game. Where I find them lacking is in the pistol department, there are plenty of M9s, USPs, G18s and Desert Eagles, but it doesn’t come anywhere close to the selection avilable for long arms. As hard as they worked to focus on accuracy I don’t know why they felt it fit to are the US Army Rangers with Desert Eagle pistols. Their incorporation of the UAV is very well done but it doesn’t take you out of the fight the same way the AC130 level did in the first one.

    The story is well told and the voice acting is good. But the story is way out there, more James Bond super villain than modern military action like the first one way. There are plenty of twists and turns in the story but I think they could have done it better. The ending in particular is poor for a military style FPS. While you really felt like a military man or SOF operators in the first on the story for the second doesn’t do it quite as well. I wish they would have stuck more with the Tom Clancy style of plausible story than what they came up with. The campaign is also painfully short, even more so than Modern Warfare. To be fair many player will pick up MW2 almost exclusively for the online play, but they showed in Modern Warfare that it was possible to craft an amazing and accurate campaign and muliplayer in one package.

    The online play is great and I have had no issues with maps or the network yet. The ladders to unlock weapons and attachment is nothing new to MW vets and is done fairly well. I have issue with the heartbeat sensor, but that might just be me. The Special Forces mode is a good addition for people who prefer to play with their friends against the computer than to play against other players online. Though the SF mission are insanely hard, even on the lowest setting. They also don’t have the same ‘feel’ of the campaign which is good I guess, but it makes it feel more arcade like than COD usually does. People who are prone to throw controllers might want to have some extras on hand for the veteran level setting.

    The only thing about this game that disappoints me is the lack of coop campaign play. There is no point in the campaign where you find yourself all alone or where it would be odd to have a human controlled squad mate. I am glad they made the Special Ops mode and it is a lot of fun. But playing through the huge world changing campaign would only be made better if you could live it out with your best buddy online. If they could make it work in COD:WaW I know that they could have been done even better in Modern Warfare 2.

    All said Modern Warfare 2 is a great game, good multiplayer, good campaign and well polished controls. Does it live up to the hype surronding the game? I don’t think so, its a great game, but I don’t think it stood a chance with as much as it was hyped. Is it a great new addition to the COD series? absolutely. Will it the best shooter of 2009, I don’t know but it will be hard to beat. It is definietly one of the best shooter of the year, if not one of the betters ones ever made. If you are a COD fan already you’ve probably already got the game in your console. If you are sitting the fence and your a fan of the FPS you shouldn’t miss this game.

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