Don't BUY into the hype.
posted by Captiosus (NEWPORT NEWS, VA) Dec 14, 2009
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I outright purchased Modern Warfare 2 because I fondly remembered all the time and fun I had with COD4. Sadly, I wish I had just rented.
Campaign is short, about 4-5 hours long tops and the only challenge comes by playing on Veteran which is artificially difficult (by this I mean the enemies don't act realistic at all but rather all turn and unload at you and you alone).
Spec Ops is probably the best mode in the game right now. It's actually a lot of fun and worth playing again. At least until you manage to get all of the stars, then you're done.
Which brings us to multiplayer, the reason MOST people got this game. Simply put, it's completely and utterly broken. At risk of typing a novel, allow me to elaborate:
- The maps are horrible, have lots of texture hangups (where you can get stuck on a texture out in the open) and promote a gameplay style of camping.
- The spawn system is terrible and entirely too easy to be spawn camped.
- Glitching is out of control on all three platforms.
- Weapons range from "feels like a toy" to "god mode".
- Weapon attachments are, by and large, meh and the newly included Heartbeat Sensor further promotes camping.
- Lag and hit detection are some of the worst I've seen in any multiplayer game in 20 years of gaming across multiple systems.
- Many of the perks are redundant or have very little practical use.
- The killstreak rewards also promote and REWARD camping which makes the game wholly un-fun. Many of them require no user interaction at all to gain kills because the computer AI does all the work. Additionally, some killstreaks count towards others, so with the right combination anyone can repeatedly get choppers or harriers to camp players at their spawns or get a nuke and end the game.
- Deathstreaks are supposed to give players an extra boost if they find themselves being killed a lot, but they rarely help at all against the camping gameplay this game has become.
All in all, I'm sad I spent the money on this.
Rent first!
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