Dearest reader,

I'm really feeling festive with christmas coming along and everything that I can't wait for it. I feel epic in the air and epic is truly beautiful, especially after walking out in the cold. I be feelin' the groove of these cats in the theatre I work at and I be feelin' them on stage. I'm like partying 24/7 even when working my fingers off for the comfort of MAN.
I'm a true Link in Gamalon sent to die and I can't wait to save The King. I'm gonna buy army of twat one of these days, because the game seems really shiiiit and really laughable. I'm pitiful, I know, but it's great! Anyway, I really feelin' the feel of the feelin' groove, a hip cat m'man.

Yeah, that's right.. I'm feeling the epic in the air tonight and I'd like to share with all the hip youngsters over on the other side of the liquid crytstal displays a video. Now this video is just a wad jinga-da-dwidwat homosexual and I don't dig PINGAS, but this right here m'fellas is the epic video:



Now stay groovy mah babies for I'll be sailing now, I be sailing in the morning. MMMH.

(NOTICE: Before I say anything else about the game; I must mention I haven't played the original Modern Warfare. I will judge by my first impression of the game, without refering to the original for comparison. Also this is full of spoilers for those who care of plot in FPS games.)

I was late on the hype bus and saw the infamous "No Russian" video clip a day after the game was released. I wasn't planning on getting the game before I saw all those civilians being mowed down. I felt a deep sense of duty to buy the game and see for myself!

On first glance into the campaign mode I felt goosebumps for a reason or other, maybe I was expecting something spectacular or I was being tickled by the hypeasaurus. After a quick tutorial and run through a funny little obstacle course, I was told I should play on the easiest mode. HAH! I say and turn the difficulty to the max as if I needed more cowbell. Then I am sent to die on a jeep.

People are whiny and can't appreciate certain feels to games; as prime example Modern Warfare 2's campaign is meant to feel like a movie and people complain on shortness. Infact it was probably short in feel if you were a pussy and played it on an easier mode, but it took me a great amount of gaming to grind through the hardest mode. In the end I was satisfied with game length.

Now let's be critical on the story for a second. The story is shown from the eyes of many different people, as always this is typical for games that have a cod attached to them. Big difference is that most of the guys die. Imagine yourself in a B action movie, now imagine you as the great hero of the movie, and now imagine dying an anti-climatic death. Even the greatest hero who survives in the end is mortally wounded, but at least he got the bad guy. Now you are dying and you start to think of all that has occured during the 8 day period that the events of MW2 last. As a story it leaves you with a heroic feeling, but an empty heroic feeling. As if the whole world is a playground for madmen and victors, where the people who do the dirty work die a futile death. Think of Die Hard with Bruce Willis dying, but the bad guys slipping on banana peels and falling to their dooms off the building.

I have a few things to say particularly on the "No Russian" stage. It's not new in modern video games to see civilians being killed in the most ridiculous ways, but the sense of "realism" in MW2 is scary to some extent. As you see innocents scrambling or trying to help the wounded, but they end up dying. Of course all this is justified!
You are an undercover CIA agent and your pals are killing Russians, but who cares as you will be killing more russians soon enough. Yet the CIA agent ends up dying (surprise surprise) and America becomes the scape goat. Still looking back at this level and all the dread it caused were it to be good publicity or whatever. If you think you're going to think something is going to be offensive in your game, why not just be offensive with pride (a la GTA franchise).

The last thing I'm going to peck at on the MW2 story is the lack of politics. It's just a huge happy warfare skirmish and everyone seems to be working on their own. I kinda felt like Task Force 141 was its own nation at one point, maybe a small island between Scotland and Ireland. If happenings of MW2 were to happen, the amount of media and political strain would be massive and they play a huge role in modern states of war, but they were completely ignored. MW2's story is fun to follow, even though it ends up flat and one dimensional.

Enough about the story, let's look at how the game played. The game interface was typical for an FPS in my eyes; presentation was smooth and challenging at first as you didn't know who were the good guys and who were the meanies as everyone looked pretty much the same. The importance of your mates was very prominent and you weren't a one man army that could take everyone single handedly. At times the AI would meddle and allies would run into my fire and die, or the enemies would develop spider senses and see me through walls. The game doesn't fumble and it's passable, even when you take these problems into account.

The graphics were very well rendered and many situations were very cinematographic. The action and "cutscene situations" blended together beautifully and were very enjoyable to watch. The only bad thing was that you don't know behind which bush you can hide and which bush is see through. Many of the special effects gave a very vivid feel to the game and you could do all those heroic lunges through smoke into the enemy gun nest. City environments were made to look perfect, whilst the rural or mountaneous regions looked abit rushed.

There were two multiplayer modes in the game. The typical multiplayer offers a varied amount of fairly typical FPS multiplayer game modes and a nice bundle of maps, you gain levels and pimp your weapons with add-ons, and try to be the top dog. I couldn't really see anything too brilliant in the multiplayer that was supposed to be the greatest multiplayer experience according to hype. The feel is very typical and there's a nice amount of players online all the time and a few hours can be killed with the games multiplayer.
The other multiplayer mode is a co-op mode, where you can face evil hordes of impossible alone or with a friend. It's a bunch of missions after another and you gain stars to make yourself feel better after grinding through a level with tons of restarts. You can always blame your friend for dying or not healing you fast enough, but the only way to connect online is to invite a friend, you can't play with randoms and that really takes away from the co-op mode.

I'd just play it for the campaign mode if for anything, but if you're into multiplayer FPS games MW2 offers the standard experience with some nice little tidbits that will make you scratch your eyes out after you were killed once again by a level 67 with all the pimped out weapons.

WAR! HUAH! What is it good for?
Absoluteleh NUFFIN' UAGH!