A Few Reasons NOT to Buy Modern Warfare 2

wardrox - 51 days 7 hours ago

"lots of people will read this" is hardly a bad thing. And the article has a fair amount of research. Also, as you know, commenting bumps up an article's temp on N4G, so if you don;t want people to read, don't comment :D

So, clearly you agree this article should be getting many readers.

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RAZORLAND - 51 days 5 hours ago

The guy cant even sell ad space on his site.

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jammy_70 - 51 days 5 hours ago

rip off!!
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i no its not that im joking.......

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ThanatosDMC - 51 days 4 hours ago

My brother's willing to pay $150 for the game. This is ridiculous.

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Raf1k1 - 51 days 4 hours ago

Asda will have it for about £27 on release.
I've said that a few times now lol.

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CaptainKratos - 51 days 4 hours ago

for 45 bucks. HA!!!!

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CaptainKratos - 51 days 3 hours ago

i am, when it comes out im getting it, but for 45 bucks from some guy who has 2.pretty cool deal.

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LUCKYXS7LEVEN - 51 days 1 hour ago

so you turn into a girl when cold water hits you .............................i nteresting

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benighted death - 50 days 21 hours ago

people are free to buy the game if they want to!

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wizzle52 - 50 days 14 hours ago

Confirmed in the papers for both 360/ps3

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edgeofblade - 50 days 12 hours ago

Oh no! Someone priced an in-demand item at a price higher than a less in-demand item. Oh, the heresy... we must inform the hippy commune's elders.

People... if you don't like it, don't buy it. It is ALWAYS as simple as that.

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Xgamerzus - 50 days 10 hours ago

Ill give you some reasons!!MF's
number one :it belongs on PC!!
number two :it's dumbed down(low def) on consoles with limited EDram.
Number three: short story???
Number 4 : online multiplayer is for losers with no life..
Number 5:SAME OLD REYCYLED ENGINE!!!

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Gothdom - 51 days 5 hours ago

Sadly, there are too many morons out there that will buy this game. It'll sell millions of copies, and then you'll start seeing more games that starts to sell at the same price, maybe more.

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OpenGL - 51 days 4 hours ago

Where were you guys when Left 4 Dead 2 or Halo 3: ODST were announced as full price retail games? Yeah, it's pretty bad that they increased the price of the PC version, but I think the game costing £55 in the UK is even worse. We are an unfortunate vocal minority, and this game will likely sell over 13 million copies between the 360 and PS3 alone.

Still, I'm with you guys and will not be buying this game for any of the 3 platforms I can play it on. It's still not even 720p on the PS3 or Xbox 360, and the PC version has been butchered. With that said, the campaign is looking pretty good from what I've seen, and I'm sure a ton of people will love the multi-player. I understand why CoD fans on the 360 and PS3 are excited for this title.

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pippoppow - 51 days 3 hours ago

There is no licensing fee associated with PC gaming so why the same cost as the console versions? Console games are at least $10 more due to the licensing fees payed. PC version also has it's ususal pluses taken out on top of that. Don't see this selling well on PC. Then again I'm sure it'll make more than enough on the consoles. Don't blame PC gamers for not supporting this game. There is no justifiable reason the game should cost $60. Unbelievable greed is disgusting.

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JeffGUNZ - 51 days 1 hour ago

In America, the price didn't raise. Also, who are you to call a "moron" to anyone that spends THEIR OWN hard earned money on what they want? Grow up.

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Gothdom - 50 days 23 hours ago

you have to be moronic to want a piece of crap. I mean, who plays 9 vs 9 on PC? Why should american gamers not support fellow UK gamers? Why should I get something rehashed with almost the same graphics as before? Why should people settle with a game that has no mods nor dedicated survers?

It's not my fault if people like to pay more for less.

I wish alot of people download the game via torrents.

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CaptainKratos - 50 days 22 hours ago

its COD HELLO!!! if you like FPS your going to like this game.im pretty sure if you got it as a gift you would play the hell out of it.its a good game and gamers love good games!!! no matter what!!!!Viva la GAmerlucion

-GAMERS WILL RULE THE EARTH!!!lol.

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benighted death - 50 days 21 hours ago

hey Gothdom,its funny that you call people morons because just buy saying that,you just proved you are a real moron! funny isn't?

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mastiffchild - 50 days 13 hours ago

Whoa there CaptainKraos! IF you were all about the gamers and any kind of revolution you NOT be buying this game under current circumstances but would stand beside your PC and EU brothers trying to stop further erosion of things we've come to expect in gaming wouldn't you?

Gamers rights will take a big nose dive as the unstaoppable success of MW2 and the horror tactics of it's dev and publisher come to fruition. Whether it's a great game is irrelevant and, yes, gamers love a good game but is it really worth the prices of games in future going through the roof? Features being cut all round on PC and console? Gamers being routibely treated like we're dim, easily led chattles of arrogant devs like IW who believe their own press far too much? Is it fine that they revealed a video appealing to the lowest common denomenator in their fanbase by parodying F.A.G.S? Id that part of your revolution for gamers?

See, it doesn't sound like any kind of revolution and all gamers will inherit, if we continue supporting crappy people like this, is a gaming world where things go backwards(like the killing off of dedicated servers)rather than forwards if it profits our "masters" at the likes of Activision. We'e being used and abused, imo, and I, at least, won't be party to that.

I find it incredible that so few of our number are upset by the arrogance of Kotick and Co-sadly he appears to know gamers better than I do. His bare faced comments dripping with greed should have got more people worried(and the double standards shown over the price of PS3 when his company routinely rip us in the EU off with the price of peripherals fo the Hero games)and when the unilateral EU hike was announced it should have become a deafening chorus of dissent in his direction but too many of us are too eager to buy MW2. Why? It won't go anywhere amd we could have made a stand to show them we gamers are a REAL community and not the fractured mess they take us for and easily conquer with their divide and rule tactic of playing console gamer off against PC gamer.

It's true, I've seen numerous console only gamers saying things like "PC amers deserve this" and "serves them right for pirating" and swallowing Acti/IW's bait wholesale. The erosion of PC gamers rights is about them making their own mods and doing their own thing with MW2-and IW not making anything from, it. NOT about a better service or matchmaking or any of their other lies and certaily not abut piracy as what they did will lead to more of that and not less!

So, yeah, while I agree the lure of laying a new MW wth your mates is very strong and a great many people will get huge amounts of pleasure from it I still think there was room for us to stick topgether over this one. Revolutions ONLY start when the majority of a community realise their similaities are greater than their differences. Only occur when people get together, stand firm and show they aren't a divided mess easy to be cajoled by the big corporations. They occur when we show some unity and, in this case, a little restraint. If a lot of us had stood up over the ills committed by IW and Acti here they'd have already sorted it al out and we would be looking forward to all playing this together with no rservations or pangs of guilt.

As it stands I won't be buing any ctivision or IW products until they change their terrivle attitude. That's my choice. I don't want to feel I did nothing when all the signs were there that we were being taken for a massive ride in the name of even greater profits(and the EU hike is the worst part of that-we already pay way over the odds and the recession is still taking jobs over here. It's a little sick in my eyes, ubh. Fact is, some say, that we aren't even paying the extra as the retailers(like Tesco at £32) are taking the hit for us. All that means is THEY pay Acti the extra and doesn't stop the hike looking like a success as they still get all the cash as if we DID pay £60!you think that will stop a worldwide "premium" price next time? Come on, it's a fait accompli and Acti played it SO well).

Look, I'm not perfect and I'm not without sin so won't throw any stones. If you are happy to buy the game and damn the conseguences then I'm noone to say you're in any way wrong or not entitled to do what you want with your money. All I'm saying is I wish more people would thinkmabout it before they do that to make sure they know what the score is-you may just think I'm wrong or may not care either way but, please, think about what you might be helping to make happen. It isn't pretty and makes any talk of gaming revolutions or even a real community a bit of a sick joke. Yes, they have a product most of us want(I do myself-I won't lie)but is that ALWAYS the most important concern? Do we take immediate gratification over the long term welfare of all gamers on all platforms?

Anyway, if you read thanks for the trouble and sorry if I bored you. Best wishes, also, to anyone buying the game-I might be totally wrong after all-as I don't harbour any ill will over this one at all-I just think we're being badly bent over and happily ask for more and in some cases we even defend these guys while berating those who they mistreat. So, whichever camp you're in mjust try to remember we'e all in at least one together and hopefully one day that will seem most important to us all. Maybe then the undustry won't take us so comically for granted like IW have by believing they're the second coming.

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JeffGUNZ - 50 days 12 hours ago

You're missing the point. Just because you don't see the value in something, doesn't mean that 15 million other people don't. Just because you decided you don't like this game, doesn't mean that anyone who purchases it is automatically a moron. You have a lot of growing up to do.

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CaptainKratos - 50 days 8 hours ago

@ mastiffchild you wanna come over and play or not? just ask mastiffchild just ask.

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Gothdom - 49 days 8 hours ago

Funny how you people tell me I need to grow up when I'm one of the few who's got the balls to say no when some company wants to stick his Kotick up my ass.

Believe what you want, the game's fun, but has been torn appart by regression. Like Mastiff said, that was one great occasion to stick together and say no, but most people prefer to close their eyes and endure the sore anus, with a smile nonetheless. If you want to play the game this bad, torrent it.

The free pass the reviewers give this game is another point I'd tackle, but it seems like I don't have any right to express my anger towards the gaming community.

This game will be forgotten in a couple of years, when people will play a 2vs2 game with the same graphics called MW3, costing 99,99$ in the US, no dedicated servers and a 40$ DLC containing one map and one gun, which will be available on release date. Maybe with a fee to play online too.

That, my friends, is the future of gaming you've just assured yourselves.

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dirthurts - 51 days 5 hours ago

second that notion.

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skagrerrrr - 51 days 5 hours ago

Bad Company 2 instead

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silvacrest - 51 days 5 hours ago

i dont like either that much but i'd gladly get LFD2 then MW2

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rawrockkillz - 51 days 5 hours ago

Oh i'll get BC2...but that comes out in March.

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karan8624 - 51 days 5 hours ago

On everything except the graphics. The graphics are greatly updated

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Ravage27 - 50 days 23 hours ago

that i didn't sell off my copy of COD4 a year ago just to pick up another MW game that is 99% more-of-the-same.

Unlike most people, i don't find mw gameplay all that great and fun, killstreak is a horrible and cheap way of adding 'depth'. Customization was the best thing the series has over its competitors, but that was years ago, now every FPS has adopted that formula.

I have not played the PS3 version, but i watched my buddy beat the campaign 2 nights ago(really short game)on PC. He has a pretty good rig and was playing it near max settings, let's not kid ourselves, the graphics DIDN'T improve much. They made things look a bit sharper than the 1st, but that's it. AI is still annoying, and you still get the feeling that your squadmates are useless since all the enemies will focus their attention on you. Grenades-spamming, enemies appearing from nowhere,level environment interaction remains unchanged(those civilians scenes add nothing to the gameplay), i still firmly believe that this is mw1.5

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ProperFunked - 50 days 15 hours ago

no actually they're not, its not even HD (600p i think) even tho the box says (720p,1080i,1080p) and the game is basically the exact same as 4, just minor updates to the perk system and gun models, thats is oh and killstreaks. the single campaign ends the same.......go figure

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bjornbear - 51 days 5 hours ago

Somehow that chart fits me perfectly.

My fav. COD is COD2 and to me COD will always be about WWII and / or at least battlefied warfare, not squad based shooting.

- I don't need any reasons, I just ain't that in to it really =( does that make me a bad gamer?! Really? Oh well I'll just go back to playing Oblivion...

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CaptainKratos - 50 days 22 hours ago

i hear ya!!! except for the L4D2. i dont own a 360.lol.good game i hear.

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mastiffchild - 50 days 13 hours ago

Hell, it's your choice dude but why be rude to those who stand up, not only for theirs,, but also your rights as a gamer?

Disagree, fair enough, but are you really so far up IW's butt that you prefer them to your fellow gamer? If so that's real sad. We would ALL have been [playing this together with all the wrongs righted and with no guilt if we'd all stood up to Kotick and Co over this-that's the shame of it all.

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Elvfam511 - 51 days 5 hours ago

and had all the stupid sh!t Activision and Iw have done it still be same

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" It's only a problem when a comment is made against the PS3 and you know it. Quit being sore over nonsense and just don't buy the game."

Huh? what are you talking about

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venomcarnage89 - 51 days 5 hours ago

it will win a few goty awards, and at least i will know that the sites to give it that award are sites to steer clear of, because they are either overly biased to generic fps games, or completely let hype warp their minds in which who would want to read anything from said site after that in the first place.

i also am willing to bet, at least 1 or 2 sites(albiet small random sites) will give halo odst goty.

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lowcarb - 51 days 4 hours ago

So the sites you talk of are only important when it comes to rating ps3 games highly lol.

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DonCorneo - 51 days 5 hours ago

http://www.bestbuy.com/site...

beta codes for BF from BestBuy

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the_peoples_champ - 50 days 10 hours ago

Too bad. Activision has their money, plus they are willing to accept more crap yet to come.

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borgome - 50 days 9 hours ago

I'm not a cheap @ss computer nerd like 90% of losers on this g@y @ss website.

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the_peoples_champ - 50 days 9 hours ago

IT DOESN'T MATTER

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MetalGearRising - 51 days 5 hours ago

Game-Pad: Brink Eurogamer Impressions

Straight away the games visuals blew me away. This is a shooter which genuinely looks close to Killzone 2 in its graphical standards (for reference Paul was playing the 360 version). Not only that but the sound work was absolutely phenomenal.

KillZone 2 got OWNED.

Any way only ps3 and pc fan boys have a problem with Modern Warfare 2 even though xbox360 will do the majority of sales so thinking about it pc and ps3 are irrelevant non existence when it comes to Modern Warfare 2 there not even gamers just sore losers.

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karan8624 - 51 days 5 hours ago

Shutup, your a xbot and everybody knows it any nobody likes you

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DonCorneo - 51 days 5 hours ago

where are the multiplatform games that look better than mgs4?

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kissmeimgreek - 51 days 3 hours ago

GTFO MGSR. all you do is finally give ps3fans (im to mature to say droid or bot) a reason to believe that we are all actually 12 years old WHICH WE'RE NOT

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MichaelJackson - 50 days 16 hours ago

MGR: Keep dreaming....MGR#turns off Night Light.

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Dread - 51 days 4 hours ago

lol

listen son, I played KZ 2 and COD 4 is way better, and i would not be surprised if COD modern combat 2 is better as well.

the graphics in KZ2 were better not doubt, but that is it.

only blind playstation fanboys pick great graphics over great gameplay.

the only reasons people at n4g are hating on this game is because (1) it is not a playstation exclusive and (2) it could be GOTY.

get over it and enjoy

i'll be picking this up tomorrow

peace

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BX81 - 50 days 20 hours ago

I have to agree. Yes KZ2 was better graphically but in terms of game play and story line and different mission sets, I have to say MW was better. Not to mention the online In MW was better as well.

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BX81 - 50 days 20 hours ago

I've not played MW2 yet but I've played MAG. You can't even hold MAG over COD4 so I doubt it'll be better than MW2. Bad Co. 2 does look pretty sweet!

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the_peoples_champ - 50 days 10 hours ago

Why I stopped playing Modern Noobfare 1. KILLZOWNED AGAIN???

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