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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 |OT|
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BravoSuperStar
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Cataferal said:
I can pretty much assure you it's already planned as DLC.
blame space
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Cataferal said:
I will make grumpy SMASHES!
TheCardPlayer
Likes to have "friends" around to "play cards" with
Kind of a stupid question, but the shitty French version won't keep me from playing in games with english copy people, right? I can't verify right now.
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
I wish it said what you did to earn the titles and icons.
So I just completed the campaign. I won't offer any commentary on any themes employed in the game, the writing, "the scene," and that lot except to say I found most of it embarrassing.
I'm a pretty big hater of MW1's campaign, but I actually thought this was pretty enjoyable. I even liked the favela. It felt extremely hectic and crazy, but I only died a few times-- I felt like I knew where I was going and I knew what to do. Overall, I died way fewer times than I did in CoD4, and I chalk that up either to my getting better at "playing" CoD or the game being easier overall. I just don't think there was anything even close to as ridiculously unfair and stupid as No Fighting in the War Room in this game.
There's a fair helping of variety despite the game being so linear, and I felt there was a nice smattering of non-linearity in the levels themselves. There were often more than one path to take to get to the designated choke point. I think this represented a fair attempt by Infinity Ward to mix it up a little. There is also a lot more level variety I think in this one than the last one, particularly because they don't reuse a level or two like they did in CoD4. There's also no obvious respawning enemies if they do exist. I appreciated this a lot.
I think the gameplay is really very mature at this point. There are a few scenarios where the game design just feels lazy-- situations where you have to do exactly what the designers wanted you to do or you die. There's one level in front of the
where you pretty much have to take an exact path or you get mauled. Other than that, pretty inoffensive. So they delivered on their promise there.
And, as a parting shot, let me lol at the title "creative strategist." Also, Zimmer is not credited as the composer but the producer.
My distaste for how Infinity Ward has handled their community has not simmered, but they made a quality product-- one I think is much better than MW1 and one of the better shooter experiences this year.
What is up with short shooter campaigns though?
I'm a pretty big hater of MW1's campaign, but I actually thought this was pretty enjoyable. I even liked the favela. It felt extremely hectic and crazy, but I only died a few times-- I felt like I knew where I was going and I knew what to do. Overall, I died way fewer times than I did in CoD4, and I chalk that up either to my getting better at "playing" CoD or the game being easier overall. I just don't think there was anything even close to as ridiculously unfair and stupid as No Fighting in the War Room in this game.
There's a fair helping of variety despite the game being so linear, and I felt there was a nice smattering of non-linearity in the levels themselves. There were often more than one path to take to get to the designated choke point. I think this represented a fair attempt by Infinity Ward to mix it up a little. There is also a lot more level variety I think in this one than the last one, particularly because they don't reuse a level or two like they did in CoD4. There's also no obvious respawning enemies if they do exist. I appreciated this a lot.
I think the gameplay is really very mature at this point. There are a few scenarios where the game design just feels lazy-- situations where you have to do exactly what the designers wanted you to do or you die. There's one level in front of the
White House
And, as a parting shot, let me lol at the title "creative strategist." Also, Zimmer is not credited as the composer but the producer.
My distaste for how Infinity Ward has handled their community has not simmered, but they made a quality product-- one I think is much better than MW1 and one of the better shooter experiences this year.
What is up with short shooter campaigns though?
brandonh83
Banned
Y2Kev said:
The money they're making and the reviews tells them that they don't need longer ones.
Stoney Mason
Banned
Very early in but enjoying myself quite a bit. And suprisingly I've decided to play the campaign and not wait a year to do it like I did in COD 4. Enjoying that too.
Corran Horn
May the Schwartz be with you
Yep it does.belvedere said:
ToyMachine228
Member
Not too far into the Campaign yet, but me and a buddy got 54 Special Ops stars today. We've three-starred every one so far. Have five more missions to go.
GodfatherX
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anyone else notice how cheap the actual plastic case feels? just seems extremely light and cheaper then most of the 360 games I have
the game itself...so fucking good
the game itself...so fucking good
Brian Fellows
Pete Carroll Owns Me
Cataferal said:
Not really. There were only a couple of maps on the first one I liked. Is it common for online FPS sequels to bring back old maps?
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
The one time it's happened for me the game timed out. =\Wickerman said:I had two people quit halfway through a round but host migration worked like a charm
NYR
Member
Agreed. The blood is overkill and the enemies seem to be all over the place. Moreover, they are really hard to spot.lunlunqq said:just finished the SP. did not like it as much as MW1.
templeusox
Banned
IIRC, COD4 had a beta on 360? Am I correct?
Len Dontree
Animator. Respect knuckles.
I haven't had a chance to try out the game yet, but good lord, this has to be the most pathetic, half-assed, 2 page game manual I've ever seen. It's not really a big deal, but it's a part of the overall presentation, and for a game that's going to rake in so much moolah it seems like a snub. Ah well, looking forward to gameytime!
Creating a 10-hour-long campaign isn't a priority when they know people will spend hundreds of hours playing multiplayer afterwards. I wish they would've done something more withY2Kev said:
Makarov, though. He starts this entire war yet at the end he begrudgingly supplies you coordinates and that's it? Would've been a valid excuse to extend the single player's length too, 4.5 hours isn't enough.
hypostatic
Member
GodofWine said:
Send invite. Have invitee sign out of PSN at game title screen, then sign back in. Accept invite. Play. Profit.
I, too, was really surprised that there wasn't a single map that returned. I hope we get a couple - particularly Wetworks and Crash.
In other news, I'm surprised as to how much fun CTF is.
So I have someone on my FL at 2.22 million on the leaderboards. So 2 million+ pretty much in 24 hours on the 360 multiplayer boards and that's not even counting the folks just doing single so far. That's insane. Should beat GTA IV launch hands down. Oh yea, is there an easy way to check the overall leaderboard and currently online? Still haven't figured that out.
VidKid3454
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GodfatherX said:
Yeah, the case has a circular cutout on both the front and back. I noticed a similar round recycling pattern cut into the case of a blu-ray I recently purchased. This must the case manufacturing industry's attempt to "go green". It is fine by me as long as dust does not get into my games.
Oh and MW rocks.
hypostatic
Member
ZROCOOL said:
I just had that happen. I guess we have to be more careful about where we drop our loads.
:lol
grap3fruitman
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:lolhypostatic said:
Bearillusion
Banned
Jtyettis said:
I was ranked in the low 200000 yesterday and today I've dropped to 700000 something. PS3 here.
Hah, I dunno. I enjoyed going down the alley, saying HOLY SHIT when I have incoming fire, getting out my shotgun, and taking out anyone in the house I'm jumping into. Then I wait for a sec until things get a bit better. Then it's back to killin.'Sean said:
I can't believe people don't like that kind of stuff. Way better than the tag-along missions where you snipe with a buddy.
Revolutionary
Member
The lowest rated person on my friends list (PS3 as well) is at 1.2 million so yeah... crazy sales.Bearillusion said:
KilgoreTrout
Banned
Act II has been a lot better than Act I so far.
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