MR T3D said:
In the end, I suppose if you're the kind of guy that just skips all cutscenes, and doesn't like getting "stuck" on a hard part, MW2 can be seen as better than COD4. Coming to that conclusion, my face does resemble my profile picture, however.
And that is the wrongest conclusion you could possibly make. I NEVER skipped the cutscenes in any CoD game and I played all of them since number 1. I'm probably the most frequent surfer of the CoD wiki on the site. I breathe with that franchise.
Yeah, CoD 4 had a better overall story. Yeah, it was more Black Hawk Down to Modern Warfare 2's The Rock / Red Dawn.
Boo-hoo. I don't play CoD games for the story. I play them for the moments. You could take out any individual mission in Modern Warfare 2 and have it be one hell of an experience.
-The rooftop chase on Favela
-The shower shootout in the Gulag level
-The snowmobile chase thing
-The stealth part in the beginning of the last level
-Arguably the best mission in the history of the franchise, "The Enemy of My Enemy".
Every mission has something about it. I can't say that about CoD 4 - great overarching story, sure, characters that are much more memorable, eh, disputable, more subtlety, yeah.
So? For every annoying sequence in CoD 4, Modern Warfare 2 responded with pumping, jaw-dropping action with Infinity Ward throwing everything at you. If that's too much for people, fine by me, but don't criticize a CoD title for being too exciting.