Modern Warfare 2: Single Player Campaign
Posted On Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 By Jay
*There are slight spoilers below*
I got my copy of MW2 yesterday and the game continues to impress. I wasn’t under the impression that Infinity Ward was a continuing series based in their MW universe. Although I don’t think IW delivered MW2 to the same level of critical reception as MW, the game does impress.
The main players of the first installation, if you will, of MW make a come back appearance in MW2 in addition to some new characters. The russian level, that everyone made such a fuss about, does leave an impact and introduces the call to action. That pivotal part of every Hero’s Journey where the main character/characters are spurred into action to right the wrongs of the world.
The resolution leaves something to be desired in the same way that the Matrix Reloaded leaves the audience feeling. You can tell that the events of the presented story are complete but there is much yet to be resolved.
A couple points if you will:
- The characters still have a level of bad assery about them. By the third time I saw that ridiculous mohawk on Soap’s head I was over it *snicker*
- The environments are expansive, This is in stark contrast to MW. The levels are bigger and have more in them this time around.
- Grenade spam was lessened. The annoyance this time around was the use of flash bangs by the AI
- Increased variety of guns. ++ for multiplayer
The campaign is only 4-6 hours long. Which isn’t bad considering the effort put into the multiplayer aspects of the game. Perhaps for the first time, you can complete cooperative campaigns in the MW setting. I’m looking forward to investigating the Special Ops mode.
I was seriously hoping for a airplane special level after the campaign, instead I settled for a museum(huh?) setting showcasing the actors and the settings as the credits scrolled by. Which confused me since I believe there were credits at the beginning of the game too. Puzzling.
Other then the above, there isn’t much else to say. IW delivered a super high quality CoD experience and I look forward to the next installment. What I would like is that the next time around I am wow’d way more. There were only three moments that really stood out to me.
- The snowmobile section.
- The submarine entrance.
- The final russian army versus american army with Soap in the middle.
If you haven’t checked it out, go pick it up. It’s worth the while. If you don’t remember what happened in MW 1, go ahead and play through it to get back into the story. You’ll thank me later.
