ONM: Call of Duty Modern Warfare: Reflex Review

red2tango - 48 days 11 hours ago

ummm it's made by Treyarch...

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Elven6 - 48 days 9 hours ago

So what if Treyarch made it? Can't they make good games?

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Quadrix - 48 days 11 hours ago

Yeah, it's only good if you only own a Wii. Both the Wii and PS3 are better off with exclusives, and don't typically get the greatest versions of multi-platform games.

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EvilTwin - 48 days 11 hours ago

That's what I expected. Conduit was a ground-up offering. This is a port (of a port, really, as the original HD versions couldn't stand up to the PC version, either). Of COURSE a port won't look as good as a game built just for one system. This statement from the review makes no sense:

"Given the extra two years Treyarch had to squeeze every last drop of polish from the Wii, this is underwhelming visually. It looks okay for a Wii game - that's the dreaded caveat - but it's not even up there with Metroid Prime: Corruption."

No, there's no way this game was going to stack up to Corruption. Or Conduit's graphics tech, even.
It's a port utilizing code originally optimized for different and more powerful hardware. Treyarch would have had to rebuild the game from scratch to max out every bit of the Wii's potential.

And since W@W was released in 2008, that means Treyarch had less than a year to port this game, while at the same time shoe-horning a new control scheme in.

I was a relentless tweaker on Conduit, so this game sounds right up my alley. More action, better multiplayer maps and fully customizable controls trump graphics for me.

(Another added bonus is a better art style than Conduit.)

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SpoonyRedMage - 48 days 11 hours ago

Yer, they did a good job, especially given the time constraints. I think it would be great if they could implement some of the technique's from HVS' engine into their engine though, just for the extra touches.

I think it's funny that The Conduit was criticised by a lot of people for looking like a PS2 game and this is being praised for it's graphics though. I guess if HVS would have kept quiet it would have bene a lot better recieved on that front.

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EvilTwin - 48 days 10 hours ago

You're absolutely right with Conduit...if IGN hadn't hyped that game to high hell, people probably would've been blown away by the tech in it. Instead, they saw a game that didn't look like a 360 launch title and were disappointed. The drab art style didn't help, but the character/enemy models looked great, the guns were fantastic and the shooting effects were very sharp on the Trust/Drudge weapons.

MW has a better art style, the enemy AI looks to be much better and the online maps are superior to what HVS came up with. That said...

http://wii.ign.com/articles...

Not everyone is sold on the controls. I'm not sure how much credence I pay to IGN, since OMN didn't mention any control problems at all, I didn't have any real trouble with W@W's controls, and IGN is pretty fanboyish with Conduit (heck, I own the game and like it, but they pushed it way too far). But now I may wait for another review or two to gauge this one.

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