Your first thoughts on MW2

[French]

So... I'm installing tonight. What are you guys' opinions on it so far? It's been a few days since release now and I'm sure you've all been hard at work discovering it....

[Origin]

Here's my opinion on the whole thing... think of it as a review if you will.

Singleplayer

As with the other games in the CoD franchise, MW2 has a great cinematic/engaging singleplayer experience. While a bit on the short side (I got through it in 6.5 hours on Veteran), it's one of those hard-to-forget thrill rides that - if you like this sort of thing - you'll not regret having played through.

Also, I suggest choosing "no" on the content censor box that will come up when you first run the game. Granted, the level it removes/skips is a bit like Frankie Boyle's humour - one of those things you might feel slightly guilty enjoying - but the level is quite well done with a slightly unexpected ending. It's sort of like a deleted scene on a movie DVD. There's not much story to be found in that particular level, but it does give you that little extra insight as to what's going on.

Multiplayer

Okay, this is why you're reading this far down.

As many people, places and petitions have said thousands of times in the past month, the MW2 MP is missing a lot of obvious things that CoD4 possesses. If your enjoyment stems mainly from the competitive aspect of FPS games, you'll find the MP side of the game sorely lacking, though that'd mostly be from the lack of team-switching/balancing and a level playing field in the form of ProMod. However, if you're open to playing a game for the sake of doing just that, there's some fun to be had.

As for the lag issue, I haven't really noticed much difference between playing MW2 and CoD4. Servers on CoD4 sometimes have issues, just as you might get lumbered with a crappy host on MW2. The only real thing that lags more than is desirable (in an optimal situation when all goes well) would be the throwing of grenades; there's quite a noticeable delay between the animation ending and the actual grenade beginning to fly.

[French]

My views?

Here I'll only address the multiplayer. I like a lot of other people have only bought the game for that aspect.

Infinity ward treat their customers like children.

You may be expecting me to launch into a whole host of reasons for saying that, like the obvious dedicated server issues, the lack of console, the simplification of their games by removing the lean function, and the blatant ignoring the community's outcry when it heard how IW had "massacred" their game's playability for them.

To me though, the above is done and dusted. On those levels the game scores a fat 0/10, but people buying the PC game these days know that, so shouldn't be buying it expecting mods and competition any more - they should be looking for fun. Unfortunately, Modern Warfare 2 sourly disappoints on that front for me too, by treating you like a child.

Lets say we want to find a nice multiplayer game shall we? I'm living in France, which obviously is a big mistake. My belief is to quickly find a multiplayer game with IWNET currently, you must fit all of the following criteria:
1. UK / .nl / .de resident.
2. Must have other cod6 players searching for games, within a very close radius to your house.
3. Must have an internet of 10mb/s+
Unfortunately I only fit that last criteria. Result? I spent 10 minutes finding a server yesterday, because IW thought they could do it better than i could.

Lets imagine us foreigners craftily manage to find our way into a server (yes, i managed once xD). I was expecting a great time. What i got, was my ass ring kissed by IW's points systems. Wanna know how many rewards, and congratulations points and rewards i got for one kill last night? Consecutively, after one kill, i had on my screen:

You killed so and so!
You killed someone whilst flash banged!
You got 100 kills whilst prone!
You got 25 kills with your assault weapon!
You stopped someone's streak!

Lick my ass ring more, IW? Seriously, quit cramming my screen full of praise and mail me a cookie instead.

Have you taken a glance at your challenges in the barracks lately? I have. There are so many challenges I don't even know where to start. Challenges have categories, sub-categories, and sub-sub-categories.

Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer, is cod4 multiplayer, with enhanced graphics, and even more bollocks. Hell, they couldn't even be arsed to change the phone box styles from cod4=>cod6.

On a positive side, some of the maps are funsies.

overall? 3/10. Patch me some dedicated servers, and let me block the IW spam that permanently occupies the centre of my screen. Please.

[Brambles]

Dedicated servers are up and running and lean funtion has been re-enabled on them.

[French]

where?

[Brambles]

Linky.

Seeing as that's just over a week after release, I'm looking forward to what's coming in the next couple of months.

Also, lolsome.

[ML_916]

I'm so happy I actually went through with boycotting this game. IWNet seems to the kind of bullshit that belongs on a console. PC has higher standards for their FPS-games.

Too bad so many people still bought this game for pc anyways, shows to Activision and other companies that we accept this kind of crap

I gotta say the single player looks really interesting though...