Funny, because it's easily one of the most over-hype, unoriginal and mundane games I've played in awhile.
$60 for a 4 hour single player campaign and a botched multiplayer, no thanks. The SP would've have exceptional, had it been released a few years ago. It's just recycled Cod4, nothing new here. The visuals are pretty good, but nothing amazing or ground breaking. I do love the sound track.
MP is a botched piece of trash. Why us PC players have to use some broken console match making system is beyond me. My ping is pretty decent, but the lag is very noticeable. Hackers are rampant, and with no kick/ban option, you're only choice is to leave the match and find a new one.
And they want $60 for this? haha
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I would have bought this for the PC, but after the removal of dedicated servers I've been boycotting. MY roommate bought it for the PS3 (he's boycotting just the PC version, but his b-day was the same as the release day and the money was burning a hole in his pocket) so I've seen and played quite a bit of this game.
As I almost never play console games online I didn't realize how truly awful matchmaking is. It seriously takes out about half of the fun of playing online. Playing with random people, having to deal with the same maps right in a row sometimes, lack of customization, 12 people on one map sucks, server problems from time to time, the long wait in between matched. I seriously can't say a single good thing about matchmaking except maybe the ease of access.
So right off the bat my online experience is killed (yeah, single player, I know, that's not what I want the game for), but maybe if the rest of the game is killer it will make up for it right? They missed the mark on that one, mainly because there are so many terrible maps. The only one I really like is the airport one and the quarry, the rest are pretty bland. Now lets look at the other aspects of the game, I think we all agree that the original MW was great so I won't bother touching the controls since they are pretty much the same.
Kill streaks: This was something I wasn't very fond of in the old game, but yeah, I understand why you have it there, but now it just feels over loaded, so many of them it's ridiculous.
Death streaks: Great idea, just poorly implemented. Yeah, sometimes I die a lot, but I don't really feel like any of these are rewarding at all, they will almost never help the poor player. I guess they arn't too bad because they arn't overly cheap though.
Guns: Why did you ditch so many of the old guns? I don't understand why game companies always have to throw away some of the tried as true stuff, I know some people would complain that they are in there, but people want options and why not give them some of the stuff that they loved in MW1? That said I haven't unlocked too many of the guns yet, but I'm not enjoying any of them yet like I enjoyed the MP5, M16, or M4 Carbine in MW1. one huge up though is that the **** guns feel so much nicer in this game.
Perks: not really any complaints here.
Bleed out screen: OMG, this is terrible, the blood splatters that layer up on your screen make it nearly impossible to see sometimes and is extremely annoying. While I wasn't overly found of the one in MW1, this is a huge step backwards.
All in all, is it a huge step forward from MW1 to MW2, no, not really. And when it is package with such a terrible multiplayer system (sorry console players, but matchmaking really does suck) and mixed with crappy maps, those two things alone are enough to turn what was a great game (MW1) to a mediocre one (MW2). Yeah, MW2 doesn't suck, it is hardly a terrible game and can be quite fun, it's just that it doesn't touch what we got with MW1, which was very disappointing for me as I was expecting a lot from this game.
And lolz, my roommate is back to playing MW1 on his PC, I think I will join him
