McGod

Modern Warfare 2 Wallpaper

I have Modern Warefare 2 on my x-box 360

The general view by most critics and the media is that this is one of the best games of the decade – how wrong could the critics be. Admittedly the online game-play is damn good, there are over ten different on-line modes so when you compare it to the benchmark of online first person shooters that is Counter-Strike there is quite a lot of bang for your buck. Unlike it’s rival MW2 doesn’t have that balance that CS posses. Admittedly everything looks amazing graphically but most new games do (I have Far Cry and that made me sit back and go wow) and tbh better graphics don’t make a game superb. Single player is waaay too short and the plot is pretty shit if you ask me but the level design is beautiful and easily makes up for this. I think this game has only shifted so many units because of the media hype (and media coverage owing partly to the infamous airport scene where you annihilate a departure-lounge chock-full of innocent and unarmed public with a fully automatic machine gun). Although these games are great because it’s nice when everyone has owned a particular game or at least played it:- Everyone loves making references to their favourite pop thing be it quoting Anchorman  jokes or making in-jokes about Star-Wars and I don’t think computer games should be any less referenced in popular culture. It’s also good that everyone knows how to play a game like that, e.g. I went over to my cousin Matthew’s house and we just jumped in to a co-op game on the PS3 together. Even Paula has got to grips with the game – her favourite level being the co-op level based on the snow level with sniper rifles and silencers – this in itself is a true testament towards the game if she wants to pick the game up again to repeat play. Ok, so maybe my mind’s been changed by the end of writing this. It’s still hardly a revolutionary game, it doesn’t bring anything new to the field of FPS so I’d give it a 9/10.