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I completed Modern Warfare 2 in 4 Hours 44 Minutes and 23 seconds – Is that a record?

After Lazygamer posted up their review of Modern Warfare 2 this little article popped up stating

"Thankfully I didn't need to check the clocks as the game stores the time for you and accordingly I was informed that I completed the game in 4:44:23 which is not very long for a full priced game."

Is it really fair to charge full price for a game that clocks in at under 5 hours?
LazySAGamer - contributor
Published: 44 days ago | News | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360 | PC
 
 

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tehk1w1 - 43 days 23 hours ago
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The game could not even have a campaign and it would still score a 9.5
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The_Zeitgeist - 43 days 23 hours ago
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Yeah and there is something wrong with that. It might as well have no campaign mode. We could all save 20 bucks if they'd just release it online. Or they'd go the Halo route and just charge you full price for a update. (no matter how good it was full price is lame)
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thereapersson - 43 days 23 hours ago
1.2 - @ Zeitgeist
You know, I stated that same thing on another website. Why we are getting milked out of 60 dollars for a game that most people will buy solely for the multiplayer is beyond me.

Granted, if you liked Call of Duty 4's good multiplayer action, you will enjoy this one. However, why did they even bother with the single-player portion if they're not going to provide any substance behind it? Hell, even Killzone 2's SP campaign was longer than this, and that game still managed to have great multiplayer. What's Infinity Ward's deal?
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Halo3 MLG Pro - 43 days 23 hours ago
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Play veteran.
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kraze07 - 43 days 23 hours ago
2.1 -
Wow. You got disagrees for saying play on veteran. I'm guessing this game is too hard for some people. imo playing FPS games on the default setting these days is like playing other games on easy. It's just not that much of a challenge.
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wicked - 43 days 22 hours ago
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I did on Hardened in just over 7 hours, doing veteran next.
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xLordOblivionx - 43 days 12 hours ago
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Play whatever mode is more enjoyable.

Screw all you elitist who think playing a game on the hardest setting is a requirement. Just because someone CAN beat the game on the hardest difficulty doesn't mean they should, or want to for that matter, select it for the first play through.
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iistuii - 43 days 23 hours ago
3 - I'd give it
9.5 for the Multiplayer alone.
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dalibor - 43 days 23 hours ago
3.1 -
You don't really mean that do you? You would pay full price for an online game only? I would not but that is my own view.
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Milo Garret - 43 days 22 hours ago
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And yet no one complains about single player-only games which are 15 hours long. I'll gladly pay full price for this game seeing as I will be playing it online regularly for a long time.

It's no secret that the focus of MW2 is multiplayer, which IS deep and allows for long term replayability.

Think of it this way, would you have scored Street Fighter 4 lower because the arcade mode is short and shallow? No, because it's a game which is meant to be played with others. Just like MW2.

BTW: Dalibor? As in Dalibor Doder? Haha..
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dalibor - 43 days 21 hours ago
3.3 - Milo Garret
You got the wrong Dalibor lol. That is my first name though. I am Serbian by the way. Ya sam serbski. By the way you should check out Uncharted 2, fun game online or offline. I am also planning on getting Demon's Souls myself.
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Milo Garret - 43 days 19 hours ago
3.4 - ^
Yeah I supposed you were serbian, my friend Dalibor is serbian, lives in Sweden though. I'm not Serbian so I didn't quite get what you said there lol, I'm guessing it means "I am Serbian"...? Based on similarities with latin-based languages:

Ya - io (ital), yo (span), je (fran)
Sam - sem (por), sono (ital), soy (span), sui (fran)

Am I on to something? are there similarities between the latin languages and serbian, or am I just seing things? I was very surprised when I spoke to a man from Romania a few days ago and noticed that Romanian shares the latin origin of italian, french, spanish and portuguese.

I've got UC2, yes great game, only been able to play through it once though since I've been traveling a lot with work lately. A week from now I'll have time for video games again, untill then I just troll n4g. Demon's Souls is the next game I plan to buy, I've been looking forward to it for a long time but never gotten around to actually importing it, ever since I played Enclave a loooong time ago I've been waiting for a proper third person dungeoun crawler with a mideavil-ish theme.

I was going to end this message with an insult my friend taught me once in serbian, but I can't remember it! Dammit!
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dalibor - 43 days 23 hours ago
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5hrs is pretty short but MW2 is going to be scored more towards it's online abilities than the single player campaign in my opinion.
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Limited_Vertigo - 43 days 23 hours ago
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I take it you're not aware of how handicapped the multiplayer experience is going to be in MW2?
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theEnemy - 43 days 23 hours ago
4.2 - I agree.
Spec-Ops and Competitive MP can give you 100+ of hours.
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dalibor - 43 days 23 hours ago
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Actually I do, I have COD4. I have found issues myself but I have learned to be able to game on & just do your best. Killzone 2 was critized for being to "hard" to control but guess what, I did not bother me what so ever. When I got K2 there was no update for the controls & I actually preferred it that way b/c it was harder to not only frag but kill the opposing enemy. If I do get MW2 I am heading straight to hardcore when I play online, it's going to be a fragfest just like COD4 was I figure. People always throw their grenades, kinda ironic b/c in real warfare you do not do that right away.
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Halo3 MLG Pro - 43 days 23 hours ago
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IGN gave Warhawk an 88. And Warhawk is a fraction of a game compared to MW2. So please stop complaining kids.
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CrippleH - 43 days 23 hours ago
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Warhawk launched at 40 dollars and 88 is not a 9.5
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The_Zeitgeist - 43 days 23 hours ago
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Wicked burn dude. Nice.
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Halo3 MLG Pro - 43 days 23 hours ago
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Again, Warhawk is a FRACTION of a game compared to MW2.
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lokiroo420 - 43 days 23 hours ago
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Another minor league comment from the major, lol, league, lmao, gamer, rofl.
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thereapersson - 43 days 23 hours ago
5.5 - MLG Pro
Your spinning skills are horrible
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Limited_Vertigo - 43 days 23 hours ago
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Fraction of a game, eh?

Is that why I'm still playing Warhawk even though I purchased it on day one and will blast through MW2 by tomorrow (slow torrent) and be done with it FOREVER.
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SprSynJn - 43 days 23 hours ago
5.7 - I think he meant to say...
Modern Warfare 2 is a fraction of a game compared to Warhawk. That would have made more sense.
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dchalfont - 43 days 23 hours ago
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you'll have to forgive Halo3 MLG Pro, from his username we can gather that sequels with the re-used graphics and weak single player are highly respected
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CrippleH - 43 days 23 hours ago
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When I read comments from MLG I think of this.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Could be either Masterchief or that MLG guy take it or leave it.
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dalibor - 43 days 23 hours ago
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Warhawk is a great online game in reality. I loved how the servers are stable & had up to 32 players for some carnage, that is one thing I hated most about COD4, lag, not the greatest stable connection, than you end up with the host leaving. I hated whenever the host left, especially if you were trying to get your win ratio up.
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thor - 43 days 22 hours ago
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Warhawk supports dedicated servers...
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thereapersson - 43 days 22 hours ago
5.12 - @ Thor
End of argument right there.

Can't forget, Incognito actually cares about the gamers that play their games. Can't say the same about Infinity Ward or Activision, really, especially after the way IW is treating the PC community.
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bjornbear - 43 days 17 hours ago
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excuse me but...what does this have to do with warhawk? Other than the fact that you have to include a PS3 multiplayer exclusive in to this fan boy gangbang mess of a community?
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ReviewsArePolitics - 43 days 12 hours ago
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Warhawk came out in 2007, not 2009 child. It's expected that you should deliver a better package. Also, warhawk was cheaper. Furthermore, Warhawk is not a generic "modern shooter", and it's actually *fun*.
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Subzero200x - 43 days 23 hours ago
6 - I completed Modern Warfare 2 in 4 Hours 44 Minutes and 23 seconds
lol so what you only proved yo have no life.
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dchalfont - 43 days 23 hours ago
6.1 - lolololol rofl rofl rofl lololololololol... /s
and you just proved how immature you are by blindly defending any criticism of a game regardless of how justified it is. Now we have game and developer fanboys as well as console fanboys, we are all going to hell...especially you little boy
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Qui-Gon Jim - 43 days 17 hours ago
6.2 - wait, what?
Spending only a small amount of time playing through a game means you have no life? I don't get your thinking here.
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MajestieBeast - 43 days 23 hours ago
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Ye cause 4 hours is like days thank you for you brilliant logic there.
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DaTruth19 - 43 days 23 hours ago
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wah wah wah! I'm a crybaby because the PC version doesn't have dedicated servers, so I'm going to spend every minute of my life making stupid articles to put down call of duty

How pathetic, I bet your parents are proud lol
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Dutch Boogie - 43 days 23 hours ago
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lol i see why you have only three bubbles.
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Halo3 MLG Pro - 43 days 23 hours ago
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And that's what it comes down too. Just the normal haters. People complaining because it's getting rated higher than Killzone 2 and because MW2 is getting exclusive content for the 360. Same thing happen with GTA4. Just jealousy.
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kraze07 - 43 days 23 hours ago
8.3 - @ MLG
I agree that most of these guys wining are haters, but I think you have the reasons why they're mad kind of mixed up. Most of em just don't like games with this huge amount of hype behind them. Others are still pissed with IW and Act.
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peeps - 43 days 22 hours ago
8.4 - @MLG
prob true however "MW2 is getting exclusive content for the 360"

it's only timed exclusive for the first 2 map packs. the ps3 version will get them eventually
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TheDeadMetalhead - 43 days 21 hours ago
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wah wah wah! I'm a crybaby because people are actually bashing IW even though they can do no wrong ever, so I'm going to spend every minute of my life making stupid comments to defend IW because they're perfect

See what I did thar?
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Feral Gamer - 43 days 23 hours ago
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I thought MW's main appeal was it's online? If you play for under 3 hours, running through it without collecting all the trophies/achievements, you still have countless hours of online gameplay.
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kraze07 - 43 days 23 hours ago
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What difficulty did this guy play on? The campiagn probably isn't too long, but I'm guessing he just rushed through it just so he could tell people he finished it and get started on his review. I know he said he didn't race through it, but I'm not sure I believe him considering the fact that he usually doesn't play games for more than 2 hours in 1 sitting. Did anyone else find that odd?
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MajestieBeast - 43 days 23 hours ago
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Okay so having multiplayer justifies a 4 hour campaign? Great new trend in this gen add multiplayer and you can have a short single player.
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kraze07 - 43 days 23 hours ago
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You do know there are games out with no single player at all right?
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retrofly - 43 days 23 hours ago
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Nobody cares about SP, it needs to go away and die :)
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retrofly - 43 days 23 hours ago
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You can't judge a game's length by its single player anymore. Multiplayer/Co op are now (IMO) the best parts of games. I'm not overly impressed by MW2's single player (Uncharted 2/borderlands/Fallout 3 were all better), but I bought this game for the MP and co op, and in that aspect of the game it's brilliant.

This game is 20% SP, 30% Co-op and 50% MP. If your complaining about the SP campaign then your only judging a small fraction.
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ico92 - 43 days 16 hours ago
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to be honest man any game developer can make a great multiplayer with the time and care provided but a talented developer can make a long ,rememberable, single player with a deep story and characters and superb level design with the absence of multiplayer and still provide a game that will consume hours of you're time. i mean i've put more hours into a game like legend of zelda twilight princess a game with no multiplayer than a game like cod4 a game with multiplayer same with uncharted 2 i've spent more time on the single player than i have on the multiplayer not because the MP is bad in any way
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MajestieBeast - 43 days 22 hours ago
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Ye but the games without single player cost 40 bucks and not 60. So you think single player games should die. Maybe you should quit gaming better for you and those braincells you have left.
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kraze07 - 43 days 22 hours ago
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Was that aimed at me or the other guy? I was just stating a fact. Personally I prefer playing single player games more than multiplayer games. If this game was multiplayer only then the $60 price tag wouldn't be right, but it's not. I still haven't played the game myself, but friends have told me the sp story is pretty cool even though it's not as long as other games tend to be.
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