
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Where I stand.
14-Nov-09 - 09:22
By Corruption
A lot of people have been discussing the controversial mission on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 over the internet, and I along with others think that it is time to say something about the latest installment of the CoD series.
First of all, I'll just say that I'm impartial to Call of Duty - It's a good game, but I don't love it, nor do I hate it. I respect that people like it as much as I enjoy to play Halo 3, but it's just not something I'd play long-term.
I was one of many people watching the live streams of the E3 gaming convention, where Modern Warfare 2 was shown, along with some gameplay and it looked decent, though I could not see where the improvements have been made. I also think that it is stealing ideas from other popular games such as the regenerating health (granted, it is used everywhere now) and now the motion sensor radar from Halo 3, and the snow setting from Battlefield Bad Company 2, which was shown but a few months after the first was out. It appeared to me that Infinity Ward were running out of ideas, and when the newest installment out, I found that I was correct. It's a continuation of Modern Warfare 1, but doesn't really expand massively on it. Halo 3 made a huge difference to Halo 2, firstly because it was on 360 as opposed to XBox, but it removed online modders for the most part, included new weapons, customisable armour and best of all, Forge. I see none of those kinds of expansions in MW2 and the campaign apparently is very short. Not something that is worth 55 quid then, which Activision valued it at. It could easily have been released as a cut-price expansion, or had another fantastic feature (spec ops = co-op campaign, doesn't count, should always be standard.) But the people over at Activision have to ruin every game they get their hands on. Guitar Hero. Tony Hawk. Now Call of Duty?