Modern Warfare 2

fancy men 10? is that a porno?

I think that's the UK title of MW2

25:9 you never lose it *blows on knuckles*

fm10 = football manager 2010, I spent the vast majority of Monday playing it.

I checked your stats earlier Coz, just before I bottled a bit of free for all and played spec ops instead (the sniper fi level is a hell of a lot of fun) level 8 within the hour? not bad at all.

25:9 you never lose it *blows on knuckles*

― coz (webinar), Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:37 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

enthusiasm for this game... waning, ha

i don't think my ratio in cod4 got above 1. cod5 i thought was lame and never got past level 15

this was all before my hueg tv tho.

tangos on your left

it's basically an expansion pack of cod4 but that's enough to refresh my enthusiasm for its MP: more new unlocks to gorge on

Just got this...

tangos on your left

― It's-a not so bad (jeff), Tuesday, November 10, 2009 2:15 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark

fuckin goddamit. son of a whore i just LOOKED over there what the FUCK.

50,000 people used to live here

must admit, when I was on front of the top deck of the bus this morning I was very busy staying frosty and checking my corners for Tangos.

cdn't hear ur voice message, dan m : /

Our leaders prostituted us to the West, destroyed our culture, our economies, our honor.

this is a message

damnit - it's sitting right here in my bag ready to go home and play - I should just leave work right? I have people trash talkin' me through IM and sms right now and I'm not even home playing - DAMMMMIT. When I got off the bus for work today, there were literally ten guys bee-lining for Hancock center Best Buy right along with me with the intent of grabbing it before work. One guy yelled - 'there's gonna be some killin' tonight' and everyone laughed. Someone just texted me and said there is no 'old school' mode in MP - W...T...F...?

So glad Russians are the go-to video game bad guys again.

what to say... it's brilliant. it's just as smooth and tight as the first one and the new stuff they've thrown in is both really cool and pretty well balanced. not played on search and destroy yet but will be interesting to see how the heart monitor plays out there... wasn't nuked once in the 3 and half hours I played tonight

then today was a GOOD DAY.

this game has the most pathetic manual

WILL TAKE ANY OF U FUCKERS ON IN A CAGE MATCH

all Activision manuals are like three pages long now.

does this game have magics?

maybe a little too America Fuck Yeah thus far

having never played any Call of Duty game ever, can you guys explain how these play?

Forks - have you ever played a first person shooter, where you walk & sprint around shooting stuff? Well, this plays exactly like that

watching some gameplay videos, this seems to be another one-man-army run & gun, despite attempts at realism.

C'mon Jeff, be serious! Actually, I've never played a CoD either.

watching some gameplay videos, this seems to be another one-man-army run & gun, despite attempts at realism.

― abanana, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 11:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no you're usually with a bunch of dudes... fwiw

wha - I was (pretty much) being serious. If you've played another FPS, they're all kind of similar. This is a very solid one, with high production values and a fantastic multiplayer suite.

The single player really is just like a light gun game (a shooting gallery) where you control the movement too - there's no puzzles or anything like that - just forward movement and shooting lots and lots of folks. Honestly, if this game was only single player, I wouldn't buy it. The way they design single player really turns me off (after playing an hour or two of it tonight, the hate came flooding back).

But the multi is pretty much just one crazy adrenaline rush. Maybe comparable to a more fully developed version of Countestrike (more modes, weapons and variety & better graphics)? It's like two different games in one (maybe three? I've yet to try coop).

the little of the co-op I actually tried was pretty neat

I really like what they've done with the custom kill streak rewards (so far). It gives the multiplayer the feeling of a lot more variety, even if they make the matches that much more frustrating at times. I guess eventually we'll learn how to avoid or deal with all this new stuff. It's a lot riskier to use them too, since you're vulnerable longer when you're using some of them, I think? I also really like when matches end showing a sweet final kill.

totally didn't expect that scene to be so gratuitous. it's set up with maybe two lines of dialogue.

Damn. It's been a long time since I beat a game in one sitting. Holy hangover. I think this is some of the best level design I've ever seen in a FPS. Events are really seamlessly integrated, and it's on rails to the extent that you always know where to go and what's happening but only once or twice did I get the "fuck why can't I jump over this fucking privet hedge" feeling. Also all the scenes in America are fucking WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN. Please tell me some of those maps are in MP.

Speaking of MP, did I always suck so bad at it? My five games can be best summed up as

http://www.fersht.com/chess/No8/BlackpawnsandfeltsLR.jpg

The n00b-assisting deathstreak features don't help much, either.

xp yeah, "No Russian!"

Lucky because presumably your character doesn't speak any!

pawn felt?

pwned

wha - I was (pretty much) being serious. If you've played another FPS, they're all kind of similar. This is a very solid one, with high production values and a fantastic multiplayer suite.

The single player really is just like a light gun game (a shooting gallery) where you control the movement too - there's no puzzles or anything like that - just forward movement and shooting lots and lots of folks. Honestly, if this game was only single player, I wouldn't buy it. The way they design single player really turns me off (after playing an hour or two of it tonight, the hate came flooding back).

But the multi is pretty much just one crazy adrenaline rush. Maybe comparable to a more fully developed version of Countestrike (more modes, weapons and variety & better graphics)? It's like two different games in one (maybe three? I've yet to try coop).
--Jeff LeVine

dude how bad would it be if they decided to pad it out with PUZZLES

Like portal with terrists to kill? Sign me up.

actually don't, just remembered how infuriating stupid wee jumping bits can be in FPS games.

s1ock - I wasn't saying there should be puzzles - that would indeed be awful

<3 u AC130

antexit - five multiplayer games isn't enough. You need to unlock some better perks and guns and you'll be able to do better. Game starts out pretty harsh if you're matched up with people who have considerably better stuff than you.

I just got to the Red Dawn part, so hopefully the single player will get better from here on out, maybe? I really hated the Favela level, as it did the typical Call of Duty thing I hate the most, where they just scatter an insane amount of enemies throughout the level to slow down your progress and to kill you over an over again in the same two feet, before you can move that extra foot forward to get to the next checkpoint. I guess you feel like you accomplish something when you get past the sections like that, but I just find them no fun to play.

It also kind of bummed me out in the snow level, when they introduce that great stealth-like mechanic and then only let you use it for a minute or so. Would have been happy doing that much longer! Also why introduce a climbing mechanic, then do nothing significant with it?

Picking up Intel is a hoot, huh? Working laptops in blizzard, subzero conditions - some days I want to live in COD world.

i dunno to me it's fun to figure out tactically how to advance in those sections—who you need to take out first and how etc etc

"Wasteland" multiplayer map is recycled from CoD... 2? It's kind of shameful that I know this.

xp Slocki

yeah, I love that! Especially now that you can actually clear a path tactically, rather than being forced into constant forward movement by respawning enemies.

One of the baddie skins in the favela level looks disturbingly young, did anyone else notice this?

xp Jeff, yeah I know. I'm L4 now, and not likely to improve until I figure out why my wireless router isn't working :( :( :(. But I don't see why I lose out 65% of the time when I clearly have the drop on a guy. The R1 L1 mechanic is just a way to spice up what's practically a cutscene, I'd think (it crops up again in a different context). It'd be functionally useless in something like MP, anyway.

bottled out of joining a free for all deathmatch again this afternoon. Need to rip the plaster off and go out there and get shot to bits. The thought of sucking so badly at online play is just so dispriting though. What with being insanely competetive and all.

that's kind of why i'm shying away from this