It's been quite a long time since we've done a review, I believe. And that has mostly been because there honestly has not been any movie or game recently worth a crap. Well, I think I may feel up to doing a review on this game. So here it goes...
CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE 2 / for the X-box 360
We had bought and played the first Call of Duty: Modern warfare when it came out... But was ultimately unsatisfied with it for reasons that would take to long to get into. Therefore, we ended up giving it away to our young cousin for Christmas. Without regret I might add. This was quite some time before we got X-box live so there really was no reason to play it any longer. I'm not saying we would have kept it if we had X-box live, because the sequel is almost the same... Ok, I'm getting ahead of myself. I'll just talk about the new game.
Alrighty... First off we played the campaign. Solo of-course. (and I'll level the first criticism on the game right off) You can't play the campaign co-operative! Yeah, with me and Joey that is unexceptable. Especially since you couldn't in the first COD: MW. So, unfortunately, we had to trade off controllers now and then and complete it that way. The game was impressive at first, as you might expect, but eventually our excitement wore off and we realized the game really is nothing new. We beat it in I think six hours. This allowed us to play Spec-Ops and were finally able to play together. I'll go ahead and say that Spec-Ops is the best part of the game... but that's only because the rest is so regular.
We took a break for an hour or so, and moved on to online. This we found pretty fun but just so chaotic. There are quite a few game modes but blank out the titles and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. They are all brainless. We would have loved to have seen a more campaign-like online, and challenging game modes that test your brain along with the rest. We played online, off and on, for a couple of weeks. We unlocked most of the weapons, perks, and challenges we cared for until it just got useless to do it any longer. It just becomes "same old, same old". We haven't played online for probably a week now. And don't intend to pick it back up any time soon. It's just not worth our time.
So I'll summarize. And cover a few things I haven't discussed yet.
Solo only campaign, no split-screen co-op, no online co-op.
Spec-Ops is good for two player co-op. But once you beat most of all of the missions, you don't want to play them much anymore. Also, you have to have and invite a friend to play it online with anyone.
Online is semi-fun, but repetitive and no brain power required. Which we despise.
Oh, and here is the worst criticism of all... You can't cut off the constantly playing music. Which we loathe in any game indescribably.
Oh well. It's still a pretty good game. Just not great.
Ruling: 7.0 out of 10
Replay Value: Decent
- Stefan
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