I know buczy has already posted up a review of the game, this is just my thoughts on my few hours of playing it so far:

Well....it is all about first impressions, and atm, I gota say they are good.

Started off with the single player mission...very disapointed that it gave you a side scrolling film reel to choose what you wanted to do (not much to set a mood). But once the single player missions hit off, was actually quite enjoyable, felt just like cod 4 (minus the left and right lean...which is good and bad) and it gave you a fair few new toys and mods of the old toys to play with.

Missions also mixed it up a fair ammount, the story line is a little more loose than the last, but still well put together, giving you all the fun of shooting stuff, blowing stuff up, loosing all your weapons to run onto a chopper while being shot but hundreds of guys, trying to identify civilians to the enemy, and more.

Something i did enjoy was the way you could shoot people in the leg and then they would crawl for safety (generally for no other point than to live). And yes...I played the airport mission, which was a bit weird doing, but it does help to make the game actually mean something....until i started finding so much fun shooting baggage...is awesome how the clothes go flying

OK....this leads me to multiplayer......

After playing the single player missions for a few hours, I thought it would be wise to see just how disapointed I was going to be with multiplayer. The first time i tried to load in, I got the message "server disconnected"......everything deserves a second chance I thought..... Loaded into a second game...this time I had a small wait in a lobby as host after host dropped from the room and it took a while to get a host that would stay, and then we started.

Now....I don't know about you but the leveling up system in COD was very overrated...I always just enjoyed playing Pro-mod with the set abilities to keep it all fair and even. YOU HAVE TO UNLOCK SnD!!!!!! Basically you are forced to start playing TDM or DM or some other crap....NOT HAPPY JAN!!!.....in the end it was a quick way to level up and when you come out of a pub match with 30 kills for 1 death you seem to get a fair few awards for doing so

Now...you might have noticed I said lobby. Yes, with the new COD system you find yourself in a lobby full of players waiting for a match to start (either pub lobby or the private lobby, and of course can't use the private yet and no one i know owns the game yet). Now this isn't actually a bad system (yes i said it), the only thing that is lacking is a chat box for the players to communicate with eachother, as in my opinion, using this new server system does reduce the communication between players, which does help cut the smack talk down, but it also means I feel like a stranger in a war (the lack of a warm dedicated server me thinks).

Another thing which is going to make compeditive games almost impossible is the lack of a lobby list. Now generally with HoN or DOTA (which runs of SIMILAR - not the same systems) you can make a title of your game, so people know who is hosting, and what you are hosting. In MW2 you have to connect to people directly....aka if a Clan A wanted to vs CLAN B they would need to have the captain of CLAN A on the Captain of CLAN B's steam friend list, as that is the only way you can connect to a game, through invite for a private game (which is just the invite system on steam). Making either massive friends lists to get compeditive games up and running, or IW pulling a patch out of their arse to change this to be user friends, and not just pub friendly.

A quick word about the maps you get to play....alot of them are pretty cool, close combat with the option for range, and most could be played in a compeditive scene (the ones i played at least)...and I was also please to see when i loaded into one of the maps that it is almost a direct copy of Brecourt (if you don't know what that is....then you probably should not be posting a responce).



All in all...game is very well built, plays nicely, developers have done a good job, and IW can shove their servers up their arse and fix it so we can use it for competitive play.


And a after thought: Yes...not being able to modify your own settings is a pain in the arse, and I want that power back, the game is still playable without it tho, just depends how far you want to expand your comfort zone.....on the bright side, if there is ever a compeditive game of this at LAN it wont takes weeks for players to setup their configs


A good multiplayer review can be found here:
http://timuraksu.net/2009/11/10/modern-warfare-2-%E2%80%93-multiplayer-review/

Edited twice, last edited 10/11/09 - 11:50pm.

I have to agree. The PS3 version is pretty much the same however leaning on a console is a little difficult compared to the PC. The single player ran really smoothly on the PS3 and the graphics are quite impressive. I haven't tried multiplayer yet because I can't be bothered downloading the patch for it , however I will get around to it and let you know.

Edited once, 10/11/09 - 11:59pm.

you said it chief

nice review

disappointing that this could have been good.... but lack of dedi servers/console/record killed it.

For the people asking me how close wastelands is to brecourt here is a screeny of it (with as many of the names as I can remember from V Cod)

loved brecourt on UO

After playing a couple more rounds of Multiplayer....I feel like loading up DOTA and playing with some mates......it is feeling more and more like a shallow experience.... I play multiplayer games to play with people I know and with a community I know...this removes it all, and makes me feel like I am just playing with Infiintiy Ward puppets.....and I do not want to be playing in the same sandpit at IW atm....they are the kid with chickenpox that they injected into themselves

The shoutcasting of COD 5 might start up again with the new mod that makes it feel like COD 4....that way we might actually have a compeditive COD game that isn't completely screwed up...and is only slightly screwed.

wow how could they steal bre from vcod

5000xp required to unlock use of your scroll wheel in game. Make it so Infinity Ward!

How is it with lean? Like if you played CoD4 without lean it would be disgusting as so much of your body would stick out.

Did they increase the view? Like if they can see your shoulder you can at least see a bit of the other player (kinda thing..) So the viewpoint is not just from the head but widened to the shoulders kinda thing?

I suppose it would be similar to CSS, since there is no lean in that either.

Hmm :V

when i tried to lean i threw a flash bang and knifed lol. Its actually really good with out lean. It doesnt feel weird at all with out it. Its kinda like css but fast like cod4. View point is same as cod4 i reckon. Graphics are mint and the game is fun but will have to test is a bit more.

agreed

for every1 who has played 1000s of hrs of cod and has only paid like 100 bucks, i think they should harden up and get the game because it is really quite good

COD4 is a really fast-paced game.