Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

i cant understand why the world is going mad over medal of honour 87

  On 11/11/2009 at 6:35 PM, Gary C said:

I knew you'd chime in, JR.

Well, he's got a PS3 (if his PSN handle is legit), and since his 360 died on him, it makes sense (financially) to just get the PS3 version, since they are virtually identical and save himself a lot of money.

  On 11/11/2009 at 6:44 PM, messiaen said:

i cant understand why the world is going mad over medal of honour 87

Medal of Hono(u)r is being revived as well, they say...

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Well, he's got a PS3 (if his PSN handle is legit), and since his 360 died on him, it makes sense (financially) to just get the PS3 version, since they are virtually identical and save himself a lot of money.

Yes, it's legit. I should be on your PSN list.

I'm picking up another 360 so I can finally play Mass Effect and whatever other exclusives I haven't played. Fuck, there are too many good games coming out over the next 6 months. I'm gonna be swamped. Most of my friends are on Xbox and I'd like to play MW2 with them. Otherwise fuck a 360 and its shitty reliability.

  On 11/11/2009 at 9:59 PM, Oscar said:

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Well, he's got a PS3 (if his PSN handle is legit), and since his 360 died on him, it makes sense (financially) to just get the PS3 version, since they are virtually identical and save himself a lot of money.

 

Yes, it's legit. I should be on your PSN list.

 

I'm picking up another 360 so I can finally play Mass Effect and whatever other exclusives I haven't played. Fuck, there are too many good games coming out over the next 6 months. I'm gonna be swamped. Most of my friends are on Xbox and I'd like to play MW2 with them. Otherwise fuck a 360 and its shitty reliability.

I can understand and appreciate that - if most of your friends are on 360, then getting it on 360 is the logical choice.

Yeah, you're on my friends list - I hadn't seen you online for some time, though.

i'm with joyrex here. i've owned three xwax 360s and they all rrod'd on me. i have a ps3 and it's shown, to me at least, that it's more reliable. inexcusable quality control issues.

  On 11/11/2009 at 5:24 PM, Joyrex said:

  On 11/10/2009 at 10:29 PM, Braintree said:

Does MW2 have split screen coop?I was disappointed that the first one didn't.

CoD 4: Modern Warfare has 4 player split screen, as has previous CoDs...

Err, the 360 version does not have split screen coop.

PS3 GT - ScandalousTouch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE-nOCy7FfE

GREAT JOB! you stuttering asshat.

lol what a fucking dolt

Quakelive anyone?

  On 11/12/2009 at 2:34 AM, uelogy said:

Quakelive anyone?

Oh shit, I just remembered I haven't tried this on a proper pc. I only play a little on my laptop @ school. What's your name on there and I'll friend you up and play!

  On 11/11/2009 at 11:15 PM, Braintree said:

  On 11/11/2009 at 5:24 PM, Joyrex said:

  On 11/10/2009 at 10:29 PM, Braintree said:

Does MW2 have split screen coop?I was disappointed that the first one didn't.

CoD 4: Modern Warfare has 4 player split screen, as has previous CoDs...

 

Err, the 360 version does not have split screen coop.

That's too bad.

Just got up to this part...

Picking it up after work today, and right on time - all the PS3 version bugs have been patched and everything seems to be running as it should.

  On 11/11/2009 at 5:24 PM, Joyrex said:

  On 11/10/2009 at 10:29 PM, Braintree said:

Does MW2 have split screen coop?

 

I was disappointed that the first one didn't.

 

CoD 4: Modern Warfare has 4 player split screen, as has previous CoDs...

 

  On 11/11/2009 at 1:10 AM, Awepittance said:

my friend works for activision and he says every time a new COD world war II game comes out there is always a group of developers who try to push a 'play as a nazi' mission but without fail they will not allow it.

i barely have played them so maybe this is now changed, but i find it interesting that it's still 'too soon' to let you play as anybody besides the russians, americans and british. I think it's only a recent development they let you play as a Russian, before that was even considered controversial

 

Well, in this one you are a CIA operative infiltrating a terrorist organization and you've gotta kill civilians under orders from the terrorists... that's just as bad as being a Nazi, I guess.

 

I don't know what's so bad about playing as Nazis - it was the upper ranks who ordered and in most cases committed the atrocities - the Germans who served as soldiers under the Third Reich were just doing their job - those who committed war crimes (under orders or not) are the real animals.

i agree with everything you are saying, Lol @ the terrorist mission thing. i mean yeah i personally think it's been long enough to represent normal german soldiers in a human light. One of the only movies i can think of besides Downfall that shows actual nazi/german young men not as pure characitures of evil is Das Boot. it's still very taboo to NOT represent a nazi character as one dimensional sociopath.

YOU CAN PLAY COOP SPLIT SCREEN BRAINTREE YOU NOOB

on the xbox 360

mine just got banned damnit.

picking up a new one tomorrow!

So I met Robert Bowling the other day, and he asked me about my opinion on the game.

I said it was quite good.

Just beat it. Wow was it

  On 11/12/2009 at 1:35 AM, data said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE-nOCy7FfE

 

 

GREAT JOB! you stuttering asshat.

Oh the joys of Fox news. I think I'll be glad when Murdoch starts charging for his site content and starts blocking his sites from being found in google, at least I won't have to listen, watch, and read it. His reasons for charging for content on the net? (Direct quote) "Quality journalism doesn't come for free.", simply stunning.

The newsreader's comment at around 3mins30 is by far the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a long time:

"You bring a game into a house there's nothing to stop an 8 year old kid becoming a terrorist and shooting people." Scaremongering anyone?

  On 11/13/2009 at 4:06 PM, chaproy said:

  On 11/12/2009 at 1:35 AM, data said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE-nOCy7FfE

 

 

GREAT JOB! you stuttering asshat.

 

Oh the joys of Fox news. I think I'll be glad when Murdoch starts charging for his site content and starts blocking his sites from being found in google, at least I won't have to listen, watch, and read it. His reasons for charging for content on the net? (Direct quote) "Quality journalism doesn't come for free.", simply stunning.

 

The newsreader's comment at around 3mins30 is by far the most ridiculous thing I've heard in a long time:

 

"You bring a game into a house there's nothing to stop an 8 year old kid becoming a terrorist and shooting people." Scaremongering anyone?

"Certain forms of video game violence can be correlated to aggression in the people who use them." - Where is the evidence for this outside of America??? How many millions of non-americans play FPSs and the gun crime rate of said country doesn't go up? Gun crime is very specific to the US. Fox news is such BS anyway...

and lol "you bring a game into a house and there's nothing to stop the kids" how about the fucking parents?? Doesn't that line of thinking go against the republican movement of less regulation/government?

  On 11/13/2009 at 3:25 PM, assegai said:

Just beat it. Wow was it

 

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Short. I know the reviews say you get around 7 hours of gameplay and they weren't kidding. Usually they're off a bit if you play casually, on normal, but I beat it in literally 7 hours on hard. Just 2 days of casually playing. Again, the reviews were spot on... the story was mishmosh and disjointed... you basically jump around from one set piece to another with no real flow or narrative...it's basically a 7 hour long gameplay tutorial. Kind of like a Michael Bay movie which is loud, action packed and fun but you wonder wtf did i just witness. multiplayer is clearly what cod:mw2 is about which i have yet to check out

 

 

We got it last night, and we're currently on the Favela level in Brasil - we played the "controversial" level:

Unlocking trophies like a madman, playing on Hardened difficulty. Should have the single player wrapped up tonight, and then it's off to multiplayer.

My biggest criticism with the game is the injured effect - the blood does not look realistic and really obscures your view of the game (yes, I know that's the point), but I think Killzone 2 did a better job.

  On 11/11/2009 at 6:44 PM, messiaen said:

i cant understand why the world is going mad over medal of honour 87

in retrospect this is so true

I broke under the peer pressure and got this last night.

Wow. I really enjoyed the first MW and this just ups the ante. I agree that it seems like you are jumping between these Bay-esque set pieces with little connection from a storyline perspective - but that's ok with me, because the set pieces themselves are ridiculously entertaining. And the fidelity is off the charts.

Regarding the controversial level, I think there's something wrong with me because

They fixed a lot of things that nagged me - one of the primary ones being a break from the feeling of immersion due to endlessly spawning enemies (something I can't STAND) and (so far)a really minimal amount of glitchy things. More routes to attack any particular scenario, and the "extra" stuff (like climbing up the mountain and riding on the snowmobile) are really well integrated and entertaining. At least thusfar in my playthrough.

One thing I found interesting was, at the base in the training level, watching the two dudes play basketball. I stuck around to watch about three plays and they were all different - seems like a lot of attention to detail went into this.

Multi-player is great as ever, though I'm still a little confused with some of the new stuff and not sure how I feel about some others. Like, now when you call in a UAV it will stay active after you re-spawn. Which means that you could have, like, easily half the players in the list at any one point in time with radar. Not sure if I like that or not. Patriot missiles are cool, as are the helicopter gun things, and I actually really like the multiple death perks you get. Seems like a reasonable equalizer (also like that if you use the last stand perk and survive the bleedout time, you stand up).

Welcome to end of sleep for the next two years.

  On 11/13/2009 at 8:36 PM, T35513R said:

I broke under the peer pressure and got this last night.

 

Wow. I really enjoyed the first MW and this just ups the ante. I agree that it seems like you are jumping between these Bay-esque set pieces with little connection from a storyline perspective - but that's ok with me, because the set pieces themselves are ridiculously entertaining. And the fidelity is off the charts.

 

Regarding the controversial level, I think there's something wrong with me because

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I really enjoyed mowing down civilians and causing absolute carnage. It was like playing GTA with much better production values in First Person. Am I evil? Or just immoral?

 

 

They fixed a lot of things that nagged me - one of the primary ones being a break from the feeling of immersion due to endlessly spawning enemies (something I can't STAND) and (so far)a really minimal amount of glitchy things. More routes to attack any particular scenario, and the "extra" stuff (like climbing up the mountain and riding on the snowmobile) are really well integrated and entertaining. At least thusfar in my playthrough.

 

One thing I found interesting was, at the base in the training level, watching the two dudes play basketball. I stuck around to watch about three plays and they were all different - seems like a lot of attention to detail went into this.

 

Multi-player is great as ever, though I'm still a little confused with some of the new stuff and not sure how I feel about some others. Like, now when you call in a UAV it will stay active after you re-spawn. Which means that you could have, like, easily half the players in the list at any one point in time with radar. Not sure if I like that or not. Patriot missiles are cool, as are the helicopter gun things, and I actually really like the multiple death perks you get. Seems like a reasonable equalizer (also like that if you use the last stand perk and survive the bleedout time, you stand up).

 

Welcome to end of sleep for the next two years.

Yeah I definitely appreciated the non-respawning enemies and the multiple attack angles.

edit: Also, for anyone just starting the game HARD isn't even that hard so I recommend playing on that or the hardest setting

i want to hang out and play videogames with the joyrex family