The (belated) MW2 review

[Stone Wera]

Frankly, I'm disappointed and disgusted at the way good games end up prostituting their sequels. MW2 is no exception. Like the favorite son of the royal family who's given the throne (game of the year and or other awards) over the good games that really deserve it, it's credited, not for how fun it is, but because it's the sequel of a game that actually was fun. All ranting aside, I'm focusing on multiplayer here. The single player, (besides it's multi-million dollar action movie-esque plot and micro-sized capaign time) is much better than the whore-house multiplayer mode. (which I'm getting to by the way) What other game lets you fly a snow-mobile off a cliff while blind-firing an automatic weapon into the star trek convention, while being humped in the face by a swedish bikini model!? (ignore the last 15 words of that if you want, that's just my fantasies) However, let me demonstrate multiplayer killstreaks using a metaphor if you so graciously will. Each team has poured themselves half a glass of vodka (advantage pretaining to killstreaks) A normal game would have added a bit more vodka to one team's glass, MW2's higher streaks will snatch the other teams glass and either dump it out completely, or add all the poor innocent team's vodka to their own glass... The team pairing is pretty uneven and games ending in team's having only one third of their opponents points are more common than I care to see. Plus all the additions to create-a-class only open more doors for pathetic noob-combos to slither into. But I'd be lying if I didn't say that I didn't find multiplay just a teensy bit... Fun. there, I said it. My work is done.
I GUARENTEE THAT THIS REVEIW IS 100% TRUTHFUL AND IN NO WAY, NOT EVEN SLIGHTLY, A FABRICATION OF MY OWN OPINONS... MOSTLY.

 

[MattRooney06]

wow....block of text lol

try paragraphing your reveiws...that makes them easier to read

plus try and add a little more to them.....a single block of text isnt really enough

also your just repeating every negative review on MW2....at least find somthing differenty to complain about

 

[The Real Sandman]

also your just repeating every negative review on MW2....at least find somthing differenty to complain about

Well what else is there?

It's 6 hours long, the story is bat-shit insane (in a bad way) and filled with holes, the multiplayer is extremely one sided, and there is no dedicated servers for PC.

Until MW2 has been proven to give you small pox, there's pretty much nothing else to criticize.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Damn you Modern Warfare 2 for not having a single positive thing about you!

I mean, it's not like you have really good gameplay or anything! It's not like everyone with half a brain knew that the plot was going to be mostly excuses for epic explosions! It's not like a ton of people were biased against the game before it even came out!

All this sarcasm aside, why didn't you point out the good things? Why did you have to focus on the multi-player only, and why did you have to use allegories that didn't make a lick of sense? I mean, how are killstreaks insta-guaranteeing a victory? The only thing that does that is the Tactical Nuke, and it's not like you get it every match.

 

[Stranger of Sorts]

Do you know what makes this game so frustrating? It's that this game is so SO good but there are some little things that prevent it from being perfect. You're reviewing a game months after it came out so I am assuming you're still playing it?

I'm very tempted to do a review of MW2 to denounce the flood of negative reviews that are posted almost weekly.

 

[Sieni]

I don't get why everyone hates MW2, it's actually a damn good game IMO. And killstreaks don't even guarantee a victory, it takes 10 seconds to shoot down a chopper gunner with a stinger, and a few seconds longer to destroy an AC-130.

 

[Liberaliter]

Bit short, bad layout, yet strangely appealing...

 

[SonicKoala]

Like other people here, I don't understand why people hate MW2 so much - I can understand PC gamers disliking it for the frequent hacking and lack of dedicated servers, but console gamers don't really have much to complain about; yeah, the story is a bit over-the-top, but literally every single mission in the campaign is so freaking epic that it's short length can easily be forgiven.

Personally, I really like the multiplayer - I often get my ass kicked because I just started playing and I lack all the cheap perks and weapons that people get as they level up, but it's still a lot of fun. The Spec Ops were fantastic too.

 

[Sassafrass]

I'm very tempted to do a review of MW2 to denounce the flood of negative reviews that are posted almost weekly.

I'd advise you to go for it.
I'm thinking of doing one myself but I'd probably get a ton of comments asking where the MP part of my review is. I only focus on SP and local MP in my reviews and aim to keep it that way as for me good games need to stand on their own legs and keep me entertained.

Amyway, to the review.
A bit short, a bit too much Yahtzee in it and a bit too wall of text.
At least the punctuation was good, though. Kudos on that, I guess.

 

[Stone Wera]

This is my opinion in a nutshell. I didn't have a very large window of time to write this... I know nothing about paragraphing... I did point out the positives (actually just a few. I really like the SP action) and these are just my opinions, I'm not saying yours are wrong. Who's Amy? I'm not like a lot of my friends. I'm not a hypocrite constantly bashing it while playing it 24/7.

 

[MattRooney06]

also your just repeating every negative review on MW2....at least find somthing differenty to complain about

Well what else is there?

It's 6 hours long, the story is bat-shit insane (in a bad way) and filled with holes, the multiplayer is extremely one sided, and there is no dedicated servers for PC.

Until MW2 has been proven to give you small pox, there's pretty much nothing else to criticize.

Unbalenced weapons, lack of dedicated servers

ocasional glitches


theres loads of other things wrong with it


and also throw some posetives in there.....even yahtzee does that

 

[Cody211282]

also your just repeating every negative review on MW2....at least find somthing differenty to complain about

Well what else is there?

It's 6 hours long, the story is bat-shit insane (in a bad way) and filled with holes, the multiplayer is extremely one sided, and there is no dedicated servers for PC.

Until MW2 has been proven to give you small pox, there's pretty much nothing else to criticize.

Unbalenced weapons, lack of dedicated servers

ocasional glitches


theres loads of other things wrong with it


and also throw some posetives in there.....even yahtzee does that

Only positive I can think of is it keeps most morons busy with that and off other online shooters. (not that everyone who plays it is a moron but I haven't run into a group of people who could match or beat the Halo 3 crowd in terms of just being an ass before playing that game)

 

[MattRooney06]

also your just repeating every negative review on MW2....at least find somthing differenty to complain about

Well what else is there?

It's 6 hours long, the story is bat-shit insane (in a bad way) and filled with holes, the multiplayer is extremely one sided, and there is no dedicated servers for PC.

Until MW2 has been proven to give you small pox, there's pretty much nothing else to criticize.

Unbalenced weapons, lack of dedicated servers

ocasional glitches


theres loads of other things wrong with it


and also throw some posetives in there.....even yahtzee does that

Only positive I can think of is it keeps most morons busy with that and off other online shooters. (not that everyone who plays it is a moron but I haven't run into a group of people who could match or beat the Halo 3 crowd in terms of just being an ass before playing that game)

yeah but thats like saying i saw a moron on the bus today

there's morons in every online game.....even little big planet (the most kiddie game i can think of) is full of moron's

 

[Pimppeter2]

This is my opinion in a nutshell. I didn't have a very large window of time to write this... I know nothing about paragraphing... I did point out the positives (actually just a few. I really like the SP action) and these are just my opinions, I'm not saying yours are wrong.

Then flesh them out a bit. A good length for a review is 800-3000 words. If you don't have time to create it, just do little bits of it at a time. Take a look at some other reviews on the site, and learn from them.

 

[Cody211282]

also your just repeating every negative review on MW2....at least find somthing differenty to complain about

Well what else is there?

It's 6 hours long, the story is bat-shit insane (in a bad way) and filled with holes, the multiplayer is extremely one sided, and there is no dedicated servers for PC.

Until MW2 has been proven to give you small pox, there's pretty much nothing else to criticize.

Unbalenced weapons, lack of dedicated servers

ocasional glitches


theres loads of other things wrong with it


and also throw some posetives in there.....even yahtzee does that

Only positive I can think of is it keeps most morons busy with that and off other online shooters. (not that everyone who plays it is a moron but I haven't run into a group of people who could match or beat the Halo 3 crowd in terms of just being an ass before playing that game)

yeah but thats like saying i saw a moron on the bus today

there's morons in every online game.....even little big planet (the most kiddie game i can think of) is full of moron's

True, I'm just saying I notice them more/they talk more on those 2 games, mind you in most other games they don't talk at all and that sorta hurts the teamwork side of the game.

 

[MattRooney06]

also your just repeating every negative review on MW2....at least find somthing differenty to complain about

Well what else is there?

It's 6 hours long, the story is bat-shit insane (in a bad way) and filled with holes, the multiplayer is extremely one sided, and there is no dedicated servers for PC.

Until MW2 has been proven to give you small pox, there's pretty much nothing else to criticize.

Unbalenced weapons, lack of dedicated servers

ocasional glitches


theres loads of other things wrong with it


and also throw some posetives in there.....even yahtzee does that

Only positive I can think of is it keeps most morons busy with that and off other online shooters. (not that everyone who plays it is a moron but I haven't run into a group of people who could match or beat the Halo 3 crowd in terms of just being an ass before playing that game)

yeah but thats like saying i saw a moron on the bus today

there's morons in every online game.....even little big planet (the most kiddie game i can think of) is full of moron's

True, I'm just saying I notice them more/they talk more on those 2 games, mind you in most other games they don't talk at all and that sorta hurts the teamwork side of the game.

Dont even get me started on "teamwork"

yesterday i had a tdm where it was me and an entire clan on one team vs just some random group of people, by playing as a team and following the more rational orders we completley mezzed the other team

although normally im on a team that runs around like headless chickens....no one other than me bothers to shoot down air support and then i get flamed when we die....urghg

 

[Antiparticle]

You forgot to mention the incessant camping. That's what made the game unbearable to play for me after two or three weeks. "bestest game evar", indeed.

 

[Timotei]

I am quite disappoint. Very short review, very little substance, and you pass off your opinions as facts with a Billy Mays disclaimer. Reviewers don't state what they think of something as a matter of fact. It's highly unprofessional.