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Im just going to have to say it... MW2 SUCKS BIG TIME!!! and this is coming from a guy with a kd of 1.42 in MW2. so you know im telling the truth when i say im not a n00b. so for all you fan boys of COD, get ready to have your most favored game slammed by one of the guys who switch too the unholy Battlefield franchise.
This review is going to consist of 6 different major points.
MW2's story is an epic adventure. it truely is worthy of a movie script. intense action, gripping story, and alot of HOLY CRAP moments. im not going to spoil the game for people who havent played it(but really who hasnt) but i can tell you that from the story mode aspect, the game is nearly perfect. nearly every level has a holy crap moment in it. especially the begining and ending levels of the game. reviewing the story, i still give it a 9.5. however, the story modes in games like call of duty is like the special feturers on a dvd, its an extra.
The main reason why people bought MW2 was to see the new and improved online play from COD4. Lets be honest, COD4 was such a huge hit cuz its online was well...... near perfect for the time period. just like HALO 2 before it.... simply astounding online play. however there was one problem with COD4's online play.... people just couldnt wait to see what new and improved stuff IW was going to put in the enevitable sequale. people wanted an already perfect game more perfect. well theres a reason why the saying dont fix what aint broke came around. because if you try to fix what aint borke... you can unintentionally break what wasnt broken. sadly IW did exactly that when it came to the online play. they tried to improve something so much that they change some key elements of what made COD4 one of the greatest games of all time.
Dont believe that trying to fix what aint broke can seriously back fire on a game manufaturing company. look at gears of war and gears of war 2. gears of war was so good it debunked HALO 2 from sitting on the throne of console gaming. and how did it debunk HALO from its throne? easy, just make gears of war arguably the bloodiest game in existance, have a WORKING taking cover by walls system, and have it have some of the best gunplay on the planet. and it did exactly that; a shotgun that make people explode into small peices, a RPG that makes people explode into even smaller pecies, and of course the infamous chainsaw that was loved and loathed by gears fans. and we thought t-bagging someone in HALO 2 was awsome. so how does EPIC GAMES destroy a game so perfect that other game developers built there games off of gears, well that too is easy. just try to fix what aint broke. remeber the gnasher shotgun in gears 2 guys? well if you dont remeber, let me refresh your memories. WE ALL STOPED PLAYING GEARS 2 CUZ THE SHOTGUN BECAME A PEICE OF ***! man how do you ruin a gun like the gnasher shotgun? it seemed like you had to shoot a guy at point blank with it like 5 times. remeber the lobbies... dear god, it took me once 12 min to get into a game the 4th week gears 2 was out. the boomshot, well when you shot it in gears 2 you had a 50% chance of the shell just blowing up right infront of your face killing you. the smoke grenade in gears 2... wow all people did was throw it and when you got knocked down they would just run up to you with the lancer and rev the cainsaw waiting for your character to get up and get cut in half.
WOW.................HOW DID THAT HAPPEN! how did a game like gears 2 suck, like i said before if you try to fix what aint broke.... well that can really backfire. yeah epic fix most of the problems with the game. now its fun to play gears 2... but sadly the damage was already done. most of the players went back to gears one or back to COD4. go to gamestop, i bet you will find 1 or 2 copies of gears of war and 6 or 7 copies of gears 2. and thats what happend to MW2.
Look at the perk system... some perks in MW2 are supireor to others. for instance if you have stoping power, extra ammo, and steady aim on, you stand a good chance in MW2 to just get knived by a guy with marathon, lightweight, commando. have you guys annalized how far you teleport(thats right teleport) when you knife attack someone with commando on? i did and you teleport about 8 feet. that might not seem like a big deal... but concidering the fact that most encouters in MW2 take place between 1 and 35 feet, yeah 8 feet is a big deal. you virtually become rambo and riddick. an other uneven perk combo was simply ninja and cold blooded. not only did a 190lbs man run without making a sound, he is also immune to the uav, helecopter, harrier, and minigun.
Not enough for ya... well look at the equipment and kill streaks in the game. yeah the throwing knive was cool, yeah the sticky bomb was cool.... but why equip that when you can go to a free for all with a buddy, put a silencer and wack ass heart rate sensor on the gun, put nija and cold blooded on and then have both guys equip the tactical insersion. what do you get with this combo.... A MOTHER *** NUKE!!!! i played free for all virtually every day on cod4. i played it so much out of my 30,000+ kills in COD4, i would estimate a good 26,000 were in free for all. in my opinion it was the easiest and hardest gamemode in COD4. yeah you can shoot anything that moves, but you have no backup what so ever. once MW2 came out i had to stop playing free for all the first month of the game. i was SICK of getting nuked by guys cheating with there freinds. and its not that i sucked cuz having a kd in free for all of 1.42 is like having a kd in team death match of 2. and how do you find out that you are being cheated... well all you need to do is go look at the score board...how does this guy have 22 kill with 1 death while an other guy has 2 kills 22 deaths in a free for all, one answer, cheaters.
thats why it is a noob fest in MW2. people are trying to be the best in really *** ways. "A guys i already have 6 nukes called in this month alone in MW2." o yeah..... you should be REAL proud of your self. cheating and then boastin about it. if you called in nuke by legitamently killing 25 people in a match then my hat is off to you my good kind sir cuz that *** must be ridiculously hard. but dont put yourself on a pedistal of awsomeness if you cheated. "man i have 500 javelin kill" well how many of those did you get while the javelin glitch was still happening... 428........o yeah your a real boss with the javelin. "man i have called in the 1000 care packages in a matter of 1 month" o really of those thosand were any of them called in by doing the stupid care package glitch.... o 24 of those packages were called in on the same team death match game.... yeah real cool.
Really the only good thing that came out of the MW2 online was the awsome invintory of fire arms. in my opinion the best ones were the AT4, attachment shotgun, removing the STG 44 as the vintage weapon and replacing it with the 1887, the ACR(witch i loved so much i did a ton resarch on it and plan to buy it in the future), making martydom a death streak instead of a major perk, and making the AC-130/chopper gunner a killstreak) and thats about all i have to say i liked about it. out of all of those my favorite was the ACR and AT4. but even with the introduction of the ACR they for some reason removed the G36.... what?!
they removed the most balanced gun in the game for a gun that has less recoil than the m4 but less damage per second than the m4 because of the slower fire rate. the G36 stats where if you combined the M4 with the AK-47. so IW removed the intermidiate weapon for something else that wasnt intermidiate? wow that was stupid... they could have at least made the ACR more powerfull becuase it had such a slower fire rate than the M4. they couldnt even get that right. i mean in the real world the ACR is alittle more effective than the G36c but in the game it wasnt. what a shame they couldnt even replace the most balanced weapon in the game with one that was as balanced.
Speaking of effectiveness and weapons that were removed... what about the power of the Barrett M107, the 44 mag, and1887. and the removal of arguble the greatest hand gun ever made; the m1911 colt .45. first off why in the hell doesnt the Barrett kill in one shot every time. the Barrett shots the .50BMG round. do you guys know how BIG that bullet is and how much "kill power" is behind that round? take out a ruler and go start from the 0cm mark and go all the way to the 14cm mark or if you have a ruler in inches start from the 0 inch mark and go all the way to the 5.5 inch mark. and if you have just done this then you know who big the .50BMG is. and it is about the width of your thumb. need a demenstration of how bad it is to get hit with this bullet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOwfoyszhb4 i suggest you watch the whole vid but it you just want to see what it can do skipp to 5 min and 30 sec and whatch from there. if for some reason you cant watch the vid, a marine sniper shoots 3 men from one mile away through a concret wall reenforced with rebar with his M107. you know what happend to those 3 guys behind the wall, THEY *** EXPLODE!!! and they explode because the got hit by something that deliveres 14,000 ftlbs of energy. to get an idea of how bad that is next time you are near a crane, lay down on the ground and have the operater pick up a 1 ton object and have him drop it on you from 7 feet up in the air.and it is confirmed by the army that he got them. with one bullet. but somehow people manage in MW2 to just run away from it time and time again. the .44 well that can blow a head off of a man, dirty harry showed us that. but for some reason it takes two shots to kill a man with it. uhhhh just to let you guys know it takes 1.5inchs of steel to stop the .44 and they dont make body armor with 1.5 inchs of steel. if they did and you wore it, expect to be about 30 to 40lbs heavier. and the 1887, the gun that got toned down because it was supposedly unrealistic, has an effective range of 50yards, thats 150 feet. and you all complained cuz it was killing you at 40 feet. but thats not the only shotgun that now sucks, they all do. go test it out in a private game. spawn with any shotgun and go to anywall start shoting at the wall while backing up, and with in 30 feet all the shotguns in the game for some reason have ther pellets disipear. you will notice that none of the pellets are hitting the wall anymore. yeah in real life pelets dont just dissipear after 30 ft. then you have the BRAINS at IW deciding to cut the .45 from the game. yeah probably greatest hand gun ever made, cut form MW2.
sadely, what could have been one of the(if not the) greatest console game in existance, was reduced to cheating your way to the top and people believing that real war is like call of duty. IW didnt even host a beta like they did with COD4. thats how confident they were that they had fixed an already perfect game. so alot of those cheats and glitches could have been fixed before the game came out. i hate to say it cuz i loved COD4, but all in all MW2 is just simply a broken online shooter that truely sucks. MW2 story mode: 9.5 online play:3.5
BFBC2 is a way more realistic shooter(but it is still unrealistic enough to be fun). it has tanks, cars, infantry fighting vehicles, uavs that have machine guns, both transport and attack helicopters, mini guns, rokets that lock on, rockest that are wire guided, gravity that affects bullet, boats, sniper rifles that kill in hardcore mode in one shot... period, defibulators so you can pick up a guy that just got shot, massive gun selection, massive gun costumization invantory, perks that arent way over powering, and of course massive maps that are extreamly destructable. so destructible that you can no longer hide in a corner cuz the wall that is covering you can explond from a 40mm pro pipe round and leave you to be a very dead man. plus the game feels more like a war simulator than MW2 does. MW2 is more of a rambo simulator than a war simulator.
yeah the first Bad company had some major flaws like 50 round assult rifle mags, but it takes 18 rounds to kill a guy so what was the point of huge amouts of ammo when it took huge amounts of ammo to kill one guy. but man did they fix all of that. battlefield was a game that wasnt perfect and thats why it was okay for them to fix it. and thats why its a huge hit among FPS gamers like myself. it is now nearly perfect. but man lets hope they dont try to fix the great stuff in BFBC2 for battlefield 3. cuz all they need to do is tune up the serves and moving mechanics and the game would be perfect. but trying to fix the driving, the shooting, the knives, the bullet drop, the sniping, the difibulators, the pro pipes, the hand guns when they already work really good.... well just like MW2 it can seriously back fire.
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