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Modern Warfare 2 - Single Player Campaign Review - AllAboutTheGames

AATG writes:

"From beginning to end the action in Modern Warfare 2 never lets up. And Infinity Ward has yet again shown itself to be a master story-teller, has raised the metaphorical bar and once again delivered a masterful single-player experience with supremely skilful pacing that guarantees a high level of tension and excitement throughout.

With a whole variety of different locations, set-pieces, and gameplay styles, the game constantly reinvents itself and even though the core mechanics and gameplay experience are identical to its predecessors, it never once feels old, stale or formulaic. With a dramatic 24-inspired storyline with plenty of twists of turns, at over 9 hours total time on hardened it never outstays its welcome and with the punishing veteran difficulty levels there's always plenty of reason to revisit it."
5 / 5
HairyArse - contributor
Published: 51 days 6 hours ago | Review | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360 | PC
 
 

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skv007 - 51 days 6 hours ago
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Not really excited about the campaign. Although the ending was epic as the first (MW1). I have never grown fond of a COD campaign.
After reading the perks list and everything for Mw2 (ala host migration etc), I'm pretty excited about Mw2's online component.
Lets be serious here. Mw2's multiplayer is where its at... that would alone sell the game..
For most games the multiplayer feels tacked on.. here its vice versa! GJ IW. Cant wait to try Mw2
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Sarcasm099 - 51 days 6 hours ago
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Mw2's MP is gonna be the sh!t! :)
See ya peeps online
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My Floppy - 51 days 5 hours ago
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Modern Warfare 2 just might be the best game ever made by anyone ever known on any planet what has been discovered in any galaxy that has been looked at through a telescope by a scientist who was slowly dipping his fingers into a bowl of melted butter and saying "MODURN WURFUR TOW!"
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crck - 51 days 4 hours ago
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"Infinity Ward has yet again shown itself to be a master story-teller".

Say what? I don't remember a damn story point in COD 4(or any COD game for that matter) besides one of the character's dying or something. COD is about action, period. You can almost find more story in a Mario game...
1.4 Trebius | 51 days 4 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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The real killer - 51 days 5 hours ago
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Lets get all the HYPE again.
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neonlight45 - 51 days 5 hours ago
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Well, even though the money is at online, this single player looks pretty good.
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DJ Pillz 317 - 51 days 5 hours ago
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Can't wait, IW has really put together an even better campaign than CoD4 and is giving us Spec-Ops on top of that. Online will entertain for hours after I'm done w/ that, we need more games with this kind of value!
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tatotiburon - 51 days 5 hours ago
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good review, this game looks amazing
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The Kingslayer - 51 days 5 hours ago
6 - Only morons
Hate on MW2. Honestly I have a couple of friends who have the game since some spots have broken the street date. All I'm hearing from them is greatness. I mean sheer all out fun. I was watching someone play on Ustream the other night, and got upset. I am so not listening to not near one fanboy/girl bash MW2. I mean you seriously have to question a persons intelligence, integrity, and over gaming sensibility when they bash MW2. Both without playing the game, and in the same sentence praise a game like Uncharted 2. If a game is good, it's good period. Picking and choosing out of hate makes you look not only like a hater, but someone with no credibility. Freaking sad honestly.

Be a gamer...Not a hater
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Chnswdchldrn - 51 days 5 hours ago
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I hate on MW2 because after 2 years of development time...it is the same $hit from 2007. Only real additions to the game are things to make it easier to noobs (Death streaks and such).

Oh and btw Reviewer, why should the single player without a lick of cooperative support, and a short 5 hour campaign on normal (don't bs us with that hardened difficulty=9 hour crap) deserve a perfect score?
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skv007 - 51 days 4 hours ago
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as much as i love MW2.
only morons think that only morons can hate on Mw2.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Some people have legit reasons why others.. less.. reasonable.
but still, you cant downplay their opinion like that.

COD4 didnt sell the with 1:1 ratio on consoles. So obviously there were people that didnt fall for its charm.

Some people are co-op fans, while other are multiplayer and others are SP.
So it very possible that Mw2 doesnt appeal to a person.
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gman7722 - 51 days 5 hours ago
7 - Spot on Review
Very good review. I got the game early for my PS3 and I could not agree more with this review. A couple of weeks ago I could have sworn it would be a while till another single player game came out that was better than Uncharted 2.... and a couple of weeks later I was proved wrong. MW2 is one of the best single player experiences I have ever played, then you have the amazing multiplayer which deserves its own review. It's my game of the year.
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HairyArse - 51 days 5 hours ago
8 - Thanks for your kind words
Thanks for your kind words guys. It's actually really difficult to review a game like this without giving anything away and I was worried that by not giving anything away I wasn't actually saying much - it's a delicate balance for sure.

I heartily recommend it to anyone though. It really is quite an achivement by IW.
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jmmurillo86 - 51 days 5 hours ago
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I've just bought MW2 and graphics remind me those of F.E.A.R. It looks like Monolith's old engine.
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beavis4play - 51 days 4 hours ago
10 - i've played other COD games - including COD4 single player campaign............
when did IW become a "master storyteller"???

and "game of the decade"? lol ...........i think the author came into this "review" already in love with IW; and, with all of the gushing, (especially how he falls over backward to make excuses for graphics being similar to COD4) i don't think it's possible to tell if he's giving anything close to an honest opinion of the game. i'll rent it and play the SP.......if i find it's this ungodly good, i'll certainly admit it.
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HairyArse - 51 days 4 hours ago
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Did you read the whole review? Have you actually played the game to completion?

Not exactly in the position to comment there are you really?

I'm not some Infinity Ward fanboy.

And I've certainly got better things in my life to do than rabidly favour one developer over an other.

A good game is a good game is a good game. I would have had no problem saying the game was rubbish, if it was.
10.2 Trebius | 51 days 3 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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beavis4play - 51 days ago
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1.no, i haven't played the game, but that WASN'T a review - it was a fanboy lovefest. there isn't any way for anyone to get anything from what you wrote other than you'd approve of ANYTHING infinity ward does.

2. yes, i DID read the whole article......every sticky, sugar-coated sentence. an embarrassing fanboy lovefest.....and since i DID read it all, lets go to point 3........

3. there are so many issues i have with what you wrote; but, here is THE #1 crazy excerpt from the article:
" But then for as hard-hitting an event as it undoubtedly is, it's delivered in such a way that it's never offensive, un-necessary or gratuitous. There's an almost tangible sense of respect and dignity in how it's presented too."
WHAT IN THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!you believe that part of the game WASN'T offensive, unnecessary, (that's one word) or gratuitous???!!! you believe there's a level of respect and dignity in how it's presented???????!!!!!!!! come on!
again......no, i haven't played it; but, i know of what you speak of. and you sir, are either INSANE or a SADIST. (what's next for IW?.... baby killing? or maybe the "necessary", "non-gratuitous", and "perfectly respectful" raping of women....LOL.......where do you draw the line?
i have no problem with MW2 being a good game.....or a fantastic one. i just don't think what you wrote was a review. it was a pro-IW advertisement.

i certainly hope you aren't paid to write that stuff.
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jmmurillo86 - 51 days 4 hours ago
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I've just bought it and graphics remind me those of F.E.A.R. It looks like Monolith's old engine.
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HairyArse - 49 days 8 hours ago
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I don't really get the comparison to FEAR.
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